Sentences with phrase «such good church»

Such good Church in the «you, too?»

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Well, here I am writing about it again because it not only takes place in the church but in Christian movements such as Emergent.

Such a well thought and love inspired article, thank you Professor Osler, your church sounds lovely!

But I am game to hear how you defend such a position of being anti-gay rights in the church (and it seems in society as well — ie: marriage).

Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

Such an affirmation, though it might well elicit and sustain «saving faith» in any individual, might not be adequate for the church's public teaching of «the faith.»

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

An ex-friend went online and ranted about me yesterday saying that i need JESUS in my life and she is a better person then me cause she attends church, but this article truly states that God can not be found in churches but within our families and this is such a beautiful article.

His son has taken steps away from his daddy dearest and raised up a good number of churches to yes fleece his sheep by introducing state of the art issues such as holographic imaging and stage lights and props made to «impress» his emotionally dysfunctional masses all seeking a little societal excitement!

«What it means» is that there's one more guy they can prop up in a dress and funny hat to draw news for a while and draw attention away from RC problems such as that church's now well docu - mented hiding of child molesters and the decline in young folk amongst the RC sheep set.

Such ill - defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that culture).

It is far past the time that modernists such as yourself exit the doors and go find a good protestant Church to hang out with your girlfriends at, and leave the pious and devout followers of the faith to represent it.

My understanding, as well as from what I've read about my church, is that God is the guiding force behind such phenomenons we learn about when we practice and study science to understand the natural world.

Well he can expect to be compleatly immune from any questions about church child molestation, he will fade into the background free of responsibility and prosecution from such matters... well done catholics, i am sure jesus would be very pWell he can expect to be compleatly immune from any questions about church child molestation, he will fade into the background free of responsibility and prosecution from such matters... well done catholics, i am sure jesus would be very pwell done catholics, i am sure jesus would be very proud

It has been done and maybe my trying to put it into a church was not such a good idea because it never seemed to work there like it does here.

Pressed by organizations such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, as well as by the emphatic teaching of the Catholic Church, millions of Americans have been caught up in the effort to restore «the traditional family.»

So good that someone like Richard is writing history with such a huge amount of knowledge about the Catholic Church and its tradition.

Many people who follow abusive church movements are well aware that such abusive organizations will release stories that get picked up by Christian media that are purportedly impartial but are really just paid ads for the ministry.

CNN: After Anne Frank baptism, Mormons vow to discipline members Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch policy.

(CNN)- Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch policy.

And I think this whole legal / spiritual wife thing is such a good idea I want you to keep on being the theologian - in - residence at my church, and I'll help you convince other people that your legal wife is crazy so you should have a spiritual wife instead.»

A good piece of Evidence just out of the blue, that such church / religion a la Americana, a la beer - belly, a la carte, a la Cartel, a la hillbilly or a la redneck is 999.99 % stupidity.

But one might well wonder whether these things would have happened, or would have happened with such pervasive consequences, if so many Catholics had not been persuaded that the «post-Vatican II Church» had liberated them from what Lenski, and almost everyone else at the time, thought was Catholicism.

The First Letter of Peter perhaps best exemplifies such an exilic ecclesiology, although certainly Paul's letters and Jesus» life point to similar visions of the church's mission.

Finally, all agreed that the best forms of ecumenism, for the foreseeable future at least, should be local and ad hoc, involving such small but powerful gestures as learning to pray with and for local Catholic and Orthodox churches.

It would be better to meet simply in homes and refrain from trying to appoint officers and call ourselves Such and Such Church

Such a balance of distaste might well hint at the coherence and integrity of sectarian Christianity in the U.S., at least as it concerns such churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existeSuch a balance of distaste might well hint at the coherence and integrity of sectarian Christianity in the U.S., at least as it concerns such churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existesuch churches» ability to incorporate socially marginal groups into a community that provides the basis and the tools for purposeful and materially sufficient existence.

Ah, but the church might say, «oh but he's such a good man» if he is only beating his wife (at least so that no one can really see the marks) as long as he is not sexually abusing his daughters.

Such as that you think you are too good for church.

In the name of this theology (which is in part that of the World Council of Churches), Christians are induced to participate unreservedly and with a good conscience in political or scientific action; for, they are told, whatever evil there might be in such action will necessarily be overruled by the good.

From Heidi: Because Rachel is such a voice for women in the blogosphere, I would love for you to address gender inequality in the church and bring a better reading to the passages that have been used as weapons on women for generations.

Buttressed by such a phalanx of support Leo XIII ended his encyclical with a ringing exhortation, «We exhort you, Venerable Brethren, in all earnestness to restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and to spread it far and wide for the defence and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of all the sciences» [6] It was an exhortation that was welcomed and followed by many in the Church so that it has been written «We are accustomed to consider Saint Thomas, Thomism, and Aristotelianism as the predominant points of orientation and the most favourable to the Church.»

Some of the churches I've visited were so hip and so full of well - dressed hipsters that I felt like such an uncool outsider.

This lack of an as it were «mobile» clergy may well be damaging for the living presence of the Church in a pluralist society, for such a clergy might be aware of new tasks, and make use of special gifts and contacts due to their former professional and general experience.

But for this Christianity in the world itself, the decisive task of the Church is definitely not a facile preparation of concrete patterns for such a Christian life, of such a kind that it would only be necessary to copy them obediently, conscientiously and comfortably for one to be ipso facto a good Christian.

If, therefore, we discuss future human structures and institutions of the Church which would make possible a more active participation of the laity in the decisions of ecclesiastical authorities, such efforts should not be discredited in advance by saying that they would remain in any case subject to the good pleasure of the hierarchy.

I had such a good time working with Travis Reed from Work of the People on a series of videos about faith, doubt, the sacraments, and church.

At its 1983 Vancouver Assembly the World Council of Churches adopted a report that announces: We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological groundsChurches adopted a report that announces: We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological groundschurches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.»

This fundamental function of general civil religion could be carried out by churches that remained indifferent to the special civil religion embodied in such documents as the Declaration of Independence and bound up with the history of the American nation, but most American religious groups have been able to affirm both general and special civil religion as well as their own doctrinal peculiarities.

Right wing Christians have better things to worry about, such as the dilapidation of their churches and their charity work and their families.

This is another consideration which might help to overcome the shortage of priests; for there might well be priests who would be suitable for such a Church of faith and have authority, even though they would be received into the clergy as mature men after a quite differently conceived training.

I honestly have never met a single Christian who believes themselves to be «good» and not sinful / evil, such as yourself, in my years working with Churches and even in theological circles.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

The Protestant churches would do well to encourage the use of some such series of questions for self - examination before God; but the questions need genuinely to be asked by and about the individual for himself.

If the very nature and limitation of such authoritative noninfallible teaching were better understood, the fact of erroneous church teaching would not be as great a problem as it sometimes seems.

We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.

In such a summoned, gathered, confessional community «not only is Christ present among them, but a Christian church is there as well.»

In matters of some significance, such as congressional «representation» of religious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 1980s.

My comment about redemption, which you quoted, was basically to show that the church has done such a good job adopting culture that nobody even remembers that these things haven't always been «Christian.»

He was well situated in the established church, but didn't feel quite at peace with himself, or with God, in such a position.