Sentences with phrase «sometimes other churches»

Sometimes other churches might let you use their facilities for free, though often not at times you want.

Not exact matches

And what local churches do sometimes when they treat each other like businesses competing for tithing customers.

Moreover, accusing other members of the Catholic church of heresy, sometimes subtly, sometimes openly, is serious business that can have serious consequences for those so accused.

Nativists and other theological liberals allowed their fear of ecclesiastical institutions to lead them into theological warfare against the Catholic Church and sometimes against all ecclesiastical bodies, and the legal results are ugly.

Accusing other members of the Catholic church of heresy, sometimes subtly, sometimes openly, is serious business that can have serious consequences for those so accused.

Your bitterness causes you to identify, and sometimes take ownership, of other people's pain from the church.

Whereas in contexts other than the church, interest in the environment has sometimes been separated from concern for justice, this has not happened in the church.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Churches are usually pretty good about valuing motherhood, but I think that sometimes the intense focus on that aspect of what Christian womanhood means can lead to us devaluing a lot of other amazing things that women can (and do) do for God.

In the second part of the talk, I described a church that sometimes in the past has led in dealing with public issues and sometimes responsibly followed other leaders, but is now ineffective even when it makes occasional pronouncements that are good.

I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.

I can't believe how many young people I know now, friends of my own children, kids who hang out at our own house, who's hearts have been crushed beyond recognition and sometimes I wonder beyond repair... some by their parents, some by other authorities, and some by the church.

And he attends other Christian churches sometimes, again so what.

I would not accuse him of «complicity in the explicit slander»» his words about Obama's view of America» of the Church for saying things other Catholics, including me sometimes, find wrong.

Through it, she saw the hypocrisy of Christians, but also saw that only Jesus is perfectly reliable, and that sometimes, loving others is more important than going to church.

People in the church came to realize — some quicker than others — that asking the state to do justice is sometimes a futile exercise.

Whatever balance may be struck in these areas of mixed secular and religious services funded by tax money, the mixture is inherently unstable and will tend to move in one direction or the other, usually toward increased responsiveness to broader interests than those of the sponsoring church (which is often called «secularization»)-- a process seen in church - related colleges and hospitals even without tax funding, which merely makes it happen quicker and sometimes with the force of law.

Many other modern interpreters of marriage have made the same mistake, and so have many people in American churches, who are tempted to join with Coontz and insist that couples get married for reasons of love alone, Economic, kinship and network issues and even the desire to have children are sometimes seen as contaminations of the purity of marital love.

The metaphorical wall of separation of church and state (which is only a metaphor, although we sometimes pretend is a part of our constitutional law) seeks to capture this idea: there is the sphere of religion and the sphere of the state, and a mighty wall protecting each from the other.

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

«Church» and «state» refer to institutions, of course, whereas «religion» refers more broadly to the habits and actions of individuals, sometimes acting singly, sometimes acting together with others.

Sometimes we think the elders in the church, pious Christians, pastors or other brave souls who make sacrifices for their faith are the real Christians, the real children of God.

Temples, churches, mosques, monasteries, and cemeteries were closed down and sometimes converted to other uses, looted, and destroyed.

Even if you didn't, I wonder if, after these last few years, your path has broaden (especially after leaving the church), from being reactive to the church to now also discussing non-church paths, other faiths and sometimes to even doing illustrations about the human condition without referral to religion.

He does not mean the feigned affection that sometimes passes for love in the church, but the genuine article — the kind of love Jesus has always shown for his disciples, the kind of love that a mother normally shows for her children, the kind of love that stands ready to lay down one's life for the other.

Churches also sometimes utilize other approaches as well.

Why is it that God will punish his own people, sometimes for doing minute things like not going to church or reading their Bible, yet others can do things like commit murder and get off scot - free?

Sometimes I think the church (read: the institution, «Christianity Incorporated») is afraid of what everyone else would think if they stripped themselves of the artificial crap, if they stopped — for all practical purposes — encouraging other to lie about their emotional state (which, by extension, means they're encouraging others to SIN).

The teaching of church history is sometimes made the occasion for developing a sense of alienation from other groups rather than for developing a sense of unity.

Such ministries stem sometimes from the national denominational offices; more often they have come out of diocesan or synodical responses, which then have spread to other areas of the church.

It is the proper time now for Korean churches to deliberate their role in the world church, in managing God's abundant blessings and entrusted financial resources, to help other members of the familia Dei to implement God's given tasks in their respective contexts, which are sometimes quite different from the Korean context.

On the other hand, the literature was used and transmitted because it manifested its ability to contribute to the life of the Church in the first place, was declared to be Scripture in recognition of this in the second place, and continues to exercise its influence (sometimes even against the Church) in the third place.

Sometimes, we went to Luby's, and stood in the snaking cafeteria line with all the other church folk who raced over to «beat the crowd.»

We further observe that sometimes parts of our churches have subjugated the spirit, mind, will and voice of our people, particularly when Christian media initiatives invade other countries and cultures without an understanding of the life, realities and involvement of the local churches and Christian councils in a particular nation.

Sometimes I felt some pressure from others to be more available for the «daytime ladies activities» because many churches like to schedule their ladies» Bible studies for Tuesday mornings but overall, I didn't feel much pressure or inclination to change the way things were for us.

NP: I think it's interesting that sometimes people worry that you aren't concerned enough with building up the church, because you don't provide positive models of what the church should be, and then other people insist that you contradict yourself in criticizing vision because you do have a vision of what the church should be.

Besides the wealth of choral music, there is an enormous repertoire of church organ music, although quartets used to be more common, and today the guitar and other instruments are sometimes used in worship.

In other words, my negative and sometimes traumatic experience with the church as tarnished my perspective.

There were other interpretations of the person of Jesus which were never caught up in the main stream of Christian development, and later died out, but the fact that this amount of diversity of thought was eventually included in the New Testament shows the willingness of the church to hold in suspension varying and sometimes conflicting viewpoints.

Sometimes these churches get so busy loving and helping people that they never get around to telling others the truth about God, sin, Jesus Christ, and eternal life.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

Sometimes we need a Church built on sharp, gothic lines, and at other moments we seek the calm harmony of the classical.

I sometimes challenge the people of my church to go visit other churches just so that they can see that «our way» is not the only way.

Sometimes we listen to Jeremy's podcasts and a couple of others while we sort clothes for the homeless, but we too try to «be» the church rather than «go» to church.

Helping such churches thrive in a market - driven society is the project being undertaken by postliberal mainliners (as described by Diana Butler Bass in her recent study of vital mainline congregations, Christianity for the Rest of Us) as well as by postevangelical congregations, sometimes dubbed «emerging» churches, that are associated with the work of Brian McLaren and others.

In response, many faithful Episcopalians have jumped ship to become Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, or Evangelicals, or formed breakaway churches within the Anglican communion, sometimes under the authority of bishops in Africa and other places where traditional Christian moral beliefs remain intact.

The church has, over the years, produced communities other than congregations that are sometimes able to embody the counter-cultural values more effectively than most congregations.

And the reason we are sometimes not so nice to you religious lunatics is because you are not satisfied with practicing your faith quietly in your own home or church — you must spread your dirty faith by force, attempting to change the laws of this country and force others to act and think like you.

At the same time the political priorities of the papacy seem to have inhibited in recent centuries the intellectual and devotional creativity the church has sometimes shown in other countries.

It would seem that sometimes when folks have experienced difficulties with this, it's because of individuals or churches being unloving or not representing God well in some other way.