Sentences with phrase «abandoned the church as»

During your time in Trumball Valley you'll find yourself holding up in an abandoned church as start along with a handful of other survivors.

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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.

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.

(Snow cautiously alludes to the genocide of the millions of Armenians who once lived in eastern Turkey; their abandoned churches, theaters, and hospitals, now used for appliance warehouses and torture chambers, stand in the novel as reminders of that crime and of the degradation of Turkish culture that followed.)

As a result, many today have abandoned their ties to organized Christian churches and replaced them with more personal forms of religious beliefs.1

The Catholic church is not necessary, as such they are more akin to any other organization that can be abandoned and suffer extinction.

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.

This simple fact of human life as well as of the Church is often overlooked by the progressive, when he screams that developments are too slow, that antiquated habits and customs are not abandoned fast enough, especially with regard to canon law.

Due to problems with allegedly excessive emotionalism as well as difficulties in transmitting charisma to a second generation, the Assemblies of God faced some of the same problems that caused the early church of the first centuries to abandon «signs and wonders.»

Such a feminist strategy needs to abandon both the dualistic conceptualization of women as mere victims of patriarchal religion and the submissive collaboration of women in patriarchal religion and church.

Being persuaded that Barth abandoned the Bible by surrendering to the authority of the church, he is determined to realize the meaning of the Bible apart from the church and its tradition, and under the impact of what he would like to identify as the radical Christian tradition.

It has more than a little bit to do with keeping the pews full of faithful Latinos too, as non-Latino Catholics abandon the church don't you think?

Frederick I of Brandenburg established the university initially as a center of Lutheran culture, but this church relationship was soon abandoned.

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 most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

In the absence of state funding, Aid to the Church in Need is again helping the Church in Iraq to provide shelter for those who had to abandon their homes as Isis advanced.

You are right, things have not always gone as they should; people sin; but Jesus Christ has not abandoned His Church.

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.

Western Churches have for the most part abandoned the mission given us by the Lord as we have become nothing more than superficial, feel good type organizations.

but then (like others that I know), I abandoned the Republican Party as I tired of the hate - based logic that caused me to also leave the churches my family once enjoyed.

Holistic life connections is not about starting or tweaking any church program or ministry, but rather abandoning the whole sinking ship, and joining with community groups that already exist, not as a way to support and prop up «the church,» but for the purpose of being the church.

Instead the church is experiencing a «crisis» in which «the Catholic academy bears the stamp of marginality... [which] has encouraged some Catholics to abandon philosophy as a central component of the church's discourse.»

Some churches, such as the Church of England, retained the traditional three-fold pattern of ministry, but this was abandoned by the Lutheran church in Germany and by CalviChurch of England, retained the traditional three-fold pattern of ministry, but this was abandoned by the Lutheran church in Germany and by Calvichurch in Germany and by Calvinists.

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.

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.

Some individuals find it necessary to modify or discard the ancient confessions of belief, while the Church as a whole continues to be able to assert them in their original form and in the sense in which they were first drawn up; or, the majority may gradually abandon them while certain individuals continue to find them useful and to cherish them.

I'm still not comfortable with the idea that the Church as a whole must abandon the whole vision concept / lingo / process.

Another study showed that young Catholic dropouts did not see themselves as abandoning religion when they left the church (Dean R. Hoge, Converts.

As far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before theAs far as the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before theas the Catholic Faith goes there have always been those in the Church who have done wrong, and more serious wrong than you are reading about here - namely the first Pope denying he even knew Jesus and all of the rest of the apostles abandoning God to that shameful horrifying death - when they could have stood by Him, defending Him against the authorities and even proving to them that He indeed was God - their Messiah before them!

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.

However, in other contexts these associations, together with notions of purity and impurity, are abandoned, as for example when the bier is taken into the church building for the funeral service / mass.

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.

She speaks of the message of the gospel as a sort of «rapture in reverse,» in which God refuses distance and comes to be present, as opposed to a world left bereft of God and church, abandoned to punishment.

However, as the barbarians became Christian and either through their conversion or by abandoning Arianism became members of the Catholic Church, they looked to Rome as the geographic center of their faith, made pilgrimages to its shrines, and regarded the Popes as the successors of Peter and as possessing the authority which, they were taught, had been entrusted by Christ, as His representative, to Peter.

When more emphasis was given by preachers to the gaining of indulgences — for instance, by the good work of making a cash contribution to the building of a church — than to the sacraments, the liturgy and ordinary acts of charity, then it was made to appear as though the values of the Gospel were being abandoned.

I'll not judge another's servant, but as someone who loves the Church, I am concerned that the biblical norm and model not be abandoned.

The void left by abandoning the Church contributes to what scholars refer to as seeker spirituality wherein people shop for religion and are open to finding spirituality in otherwise secular spaces.

But of course, as much as she is hoping that I will become a believer and then be content to spend every Sunday sitting in church with her, I am hoping she will abandon her faith, (as I did after 25 years) and then she will be content to spend her Sundays with me, the man who loves her, and we could actually go off and do things together... or, we could compromise and I would be content with having one Sunday a month with her.

As is well known, the Eastern Church requires the clergy to assume either monastic or marital vows before ordination, and does not allow the remarriage of a clerical widower unless he abandons the exercise of his priesthood.

Huge swathes of populations abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and wars of religion erupted within and between nations, as political leaders made calculations about where their religious loyalties should lie.

Justice Rehnquist today suggests that we abandon Lemon entirely, and in the process limit the reach of the Establishment Clause to state discrimination between sects and government designation of a particular church as a «state» or «national» one.

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.»

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.

There are enough sights, activities and Cappadocia tours to keep you busy for a week or two as least, from hiking through valleys to shopping in local markets and exploring abandoned Christian churches.

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.

The Rumsey Street Church originally functioned as a Catholic church, but was abandoned by its congregation when they outgrew the struChurch originally functioned as a Catholic church, but was abandoned by its congregation when they outgrew the struchurch, but was abandoned by its congregation when they outgrew the structure.

Trivia: What year did the main Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints officially abandon founder Joseph Smith's polygamy teachings as a matter of doctrine?