Sentences with phrase «abandoned the church because»

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.