Sentences with phrase «abandoned church on»

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Therefore, we abandoned our customary stance of opposing much of what the church does in order to support it on this narrow point.

«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.»

He is also frustrated with the church's is left wing, which he thinks has been engrossed in personal issues such as the ordination of gays and lesbians, and has abandoned its former emphasis on economic issues.

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 communChurch 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 communChurch 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 communchurch, 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 communchurch, 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 communchurch members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

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 discchurch, 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 discChurch, 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.

Lets just tax the church and teach our children Science, imagine the possibilities the future holds if we could just abandon this nonsense and push our children into becoming free thinkers instead of this ridiculous hive mindset that has far to much blood and ignorance on his hands.

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 communChurch 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 communChurch 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 communchurch, 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 communchurch or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communchurch and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communities.

In the midst of the us - versus - them, with God on our side, the church membership grows... until everyone tires of the war, and the next generation abandons the church system in droves... saying «what does this have to do with Jesus?»

They seem to think that people like me, who no longer make «church» attendance as part of their weekly routine, have fallen away from God, abandoned the faith, or have given up on following Jesus.

Dear Synod fathers: please know you have the prayers of the ordinary faithful as you speak in faithfulness to the Word, whose bond with his Church is unbreakable and who has never abandoned us, never given up on us.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

It is time for Christian seminaries to abandon the model pressed on us by the university and risk a model more suited to the needs of today's church.

A prince of the Church with the courage to abandon the shell of the institution and fight on principle, I thought, would have done better than Pius XII.

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.

(John Henry Newman argued more than a century ago that the churches that had maintained strong doctrines on Mary are those that had not abandoned strong christological ones.)

Early signs have been troubling, as when a Moscow Patriarchate priest tried to take possession of a Kyivan Patriarchate church on a naval base that the Ukrainians abandoned.

The church has taken on the world's methods, and in so doing has, I think, abandoned some of Jesus's teachings — the first shall be last being just one example.

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.

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 imperialisOn 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 imperialison the other hand, disinherited classes and races protest against it as the ally of capitalist, racial or nationalist imperialism.

According to a leading Roman Catholic theologian, Charles Curran, ever since Vatican II the emphasis in his church has been on the use of unction for illness, though the last desperate remedy of unction in extremis has not been abandoned.

Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.

When there was a spirited move on the part of some to cut Christianity off from its Israelite origins completely, and abandon the Old Testament as Jewish scriptures, the church resolutely rejected it.

Karl Rahner, in his «Meditations on St. Ignatius» Exercises,» states: «The crucified Lord is betrayed and abandoned by his friends, rejected by his people, repudiated by the Church of the Old Testament» (cited in AJCT).

More likely is that these articles are reporting similar observation on the growing tribe of those who have left the institutional church, but who have not abandoned their faith.

The need for space prompted a move to an abandoned Methodist church on Azusa Street.

, even if they had usually given up on their own churches» ability to abandon their mutual hostilities and predatory instincts, and increasingly worked apart from their ecclesial traditions.

It is on account of this zeal that many American Jews late in the nineteenth century abandoned their longstanding commitment to equal footing and forged a new alliance with advocates of strict church - state separation.

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.

BADIA POZZEVERI CHURCHYARD, ALTOPASCIO, ITALY — On a hot afternoon in July 2012, Giuseppe Vercellotti was digging up bones near the wall of an abandoned medieval church here, thinking about getting a cold drink, when he heard his students call his name.

A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.

The townspeople pile wood on a bonfire in the center of an abandoned church, and tie an alleged witch to a ladder which is then lowered over the flames until the victim's skin gets extra crispy.

Realizing that a string of ritualistic family murders are tied to the places where they happen, the erstwhile former flatfoot plans to burn down an abandoned church to sever Bughuul's influence over the place, only to discover the house next to it is occupied by Courtney Collins (Shannyn Sossamon), a mother of two young sons who's living there on the downlow to escape her abusive husband (Lea Coco.)

We will abandon the Establishment Clause, and continue to challenge voucher and choice programs under state constitutions on whatever grounds are available to us from lofty principles such as church / state separation, to Mickey Mouse procedural issues like the single - subject rule.»

Under the shadow of the West Virginia hills on the Ohio side of the river lies Steubenville, a hodge - podge of solidly built, well - maintained churches and other buildings; burnt - out brick husks with gaping holes where windows and doors once were; sagging single - family houses and tired public housing projects; warehouses; abandoned businesses; and trash - strewn empty lots — all crammed together in one compact area.

As we continued south, we blasted up full - sized sand dunes, through a massive Brussel sprout farm, over nearly impassable silt hills, and past small cities, abandoned churches, dead cattle, and palatial estates to end up close to where we started on the first day.

After thirteen years in prison, a good cop walks free as deep in the forest, on the altar of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen... This is a town on the brink.

Curious, he follows a stray dog to its home in an abandoned church cellar on the city's outskirts.

Tippy Tail and Squirt are two siblings from a litter of five baby kittens abandoned on the front steps of a church about three months ago.

While it can be argued that there isn't a whole lot going on — which is by design — the game's environments never fail to amaze, whether it's admiring the lake through the trees as they gently blow with the breeze, or exploring an abandoned church graveyard that looks so realistic it could easily send chills down your spine.

You go through shops, an old abandoned church and cemetary, some creepy forests and fields on the outskirts, a farm, the town hall... you name it.

From forgotten castles, churches and schools to old, crumbling theatres and former factories — Jonk loves to travel the length and breadth of Europe to discover some of the most abandoned places on Earth.

Physical reality — the discomfort and difficulty of abandoning one's normal life — put a natural break on the formation of cults, separatist colonies, underground groups, apocalyptic churches, and extreme political parties.