On the one hand, the intellectuals
abandon the church because of its traditionalism or romanticism; on the other hand, disinherited classes and races protest against it as the ally of capitalist, racial or nationalist imperialism.
People in my generation
abandon church because of how cold and unloving it is.
Ironically to the extent that Christian ethicists and theologians have
abandoned the church because of its suburban captivity» they too have had little that is interesting to say to our society.
Not exact matches
«many people may be leaving the institutional
church, not
because they have given up on
church, are
abandoning Jesus, or are bad
church members, but
because they are good
church members and they want to be the
church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.»
I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega
Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and commun
Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a
Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and commun
Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional
church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and commun
church, not
because they have given up on
church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and commun
church, are
abandoning Jesus, or are bad
church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and commun
church members, but
because they are good
church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and commun
church members and they want to be the
church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and commun
church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.
Every year, millions of people
abandon the institutional way of doing
church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disc
church, not
because they are
abandoning God, Jesus, or the
Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disc
Church, but
because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.
I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega
Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and commun
Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a
Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and commun
Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional
church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and commun
church, not
because they have given up on
church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and commun
church or are
abandoning Jesus, but
because they want to be the
church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and commun
church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communities.
The Pastor was trying to get someone to join the
church and this person wouldn't join
because he said The most so called religious or Christian people will
abandon you when you are at lowest.
That Francis and his first companions made a fuss over the restoration of
abandoned churches and the cleaning of ill - kept
churches was not simply
because the Poverello had dreams in which he was told to rebuild
churches; those dreams and that work had a deeper meaning.
Although biographically Kierkegaard's choice of a negative dialectic was hardened by his second conversion or «metamorphosis,» a conversion which led to his resolve to attack the established
church, and hence to
abandon philosophy, it is also true that he could limit faith to a negative dialectical movement
because he could identify faith and «subjectivity.»
The
church, she insists, is not a voluntary arrangement that we can
abandon just
because we do not happen to like some of the other people in the group.
Jesus» actions, then, are symbolic of adoption;
abandoned children are to be brought into the
church and raised by Christian parents, not in order to exploit their labor potential but
because the biblical God is one with a special concern for the poor, the homeless, the weak and the
abandoned.
Because it is not so much that the community has
abandoned the
church, but that the
church has not kept up with the community.
But it is an equal poverty of spirit to remove oneself from the
Church community
because it calls one to
abandon, for example, a life of serial heterosexual adultery through divorce and remarriage, and then to claim that one is excluded — and that happens too.
Edith suffered
because her loving mother could not understand why her daughter was
abandoning her Jewish heritage, even as Edith believed she was deepening it by entering the
Church.
This is such a heresy that the Spirit has
abandoned these
churches and they mock God by infant baptism (warning: nevertheless every infant baptism is valid,
because God is the invisible Baptist; even the Catholic infant baptism is valid, although the RCC has completely turned apostate from the real faith).
But
because the
church must learn to be the community of faith, we must
abandon the idea of the
church as an institution of power.
So, we ought not
abandon such an idea
because some have taken it to its illogical conclusion — and we should be very careful of saying that uses of the word «missional» today are endorsing the ideas that led to such deep missiological problems in the World Council of
Churches.
His confession at Eli's
church is so memorable
because Day - Lewis, in close - up, signifies his total disinterest, even mocking attitude, toward Eli for every accusation outside of
abandoning his child.
From
abandoned houses to desolate
churches, empty and decaying places catch our attention
because of the eerie mystery surrounding them.
He attacks the Bishops and suggests that the Catholic
Church be
abandoned because it is not really Catholic.