Sentences with phrase «abandon their churches at»

Plus, without thick denominational loyalties, Christians abandon their churches at the first shimmy of trouble.

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The machinery that pulled up to the church to do the re-roofing was a sign to the neighbors that they were not to be abandoned, at least not by this church.

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.

The Bishop of Burnley caused a stir at New Wine this summer when he accused the Church of abandoning the poor.

Liturgical innovation and church school curricula have often abandoned biblical language and instruction in counterproductive attempts at relevancy.

Especially sticky is the fact that over the last six months I've been working to reform the way that our church interacts with folks in the neighbourhood (or at least the intentionality and sharing of that interaction) to focus more on love rather than proselytizing, so I feel like to abandon now would leave even more than the usual mess behind...

That historical dimension should not be abandoned at graduation but should be brought to bear on the sermon, church school teaching and pastoral counseling.

To this growing debate on «fulfillment theology» I would add a contribution from a Reformed theological perspective: the thesis that New Testament messianic claims can be abandoned only at the cost of sacrificing crucial aspects of the church's witness to the gospel of the Kingdom, but that Christians do need to abandon a good deal of «fulfillment theology» that finds its source in ecclesiastical triumphalism.

I am a Christian, and a pastor for that matter, and agree 100 % that any church who abandons one in the depths of their sin is no church at all.

Oh, and btw, he abandoned his church here for the one he currently preaches at in Dallas so that he could get a bigger paycheck and more exposure.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

Shaken and disillusioned, my parents abandoned the charismatic church, and during my later elementary school years we shuttled between Lutheran and Methodist churches, finally settling for prayer at home as schedules grew busier and church worship less fulfilling.

With only one option provided, no questions asked and no help provided, frightened young moms are giving birth on their own and then doing the best they know how for their newborn sons and daughters by abandoning them at fire stations, churches, hospitals.

I set up the meet - up at an abandoned church in the Haight.

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.

Abandoned by the French king she had served, this «warrior for God» was excommunicated from the Catholic Church and burned at the stake at the age of 19.

Abandoned houses, churches, and bridges viewed at a distance appear like fading memories through the misty filter he creates.

The artist photographed much of the material for his new series in the countryside of Scandinavia and Austria; in abandoned homes, churches and buildings that he found while driving cross-country through the United States; and at a recent residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.

Daphne was found abandoned at a church, and was brought to the police, who then brought her Haitian Social Services (IBESR).