Sentences with phrase «about church buildings»

You could print off and laminate the photos to make an interesting, eye - catching display about Church buildings from around the world.

To see what I mean, check out this post about church buildings.

I have written a LOT about church buildings on this blog, so won't try to repeat any of it here.

(What I say here about church buildings is true of the Church at all levels.

It is not about a church building or churches but about the church of God — Gods adopted people through faith in Christ.

There is nothing holy or sanctified about the church building, any more than there is anything holy or sanctified about the school gymnasium or hotel conference room.

When I am urged to pray about a church building project, or when I'm told that God has intervened and made funds available for a vacation or an exotic mission trip, I think about the little boy in India who begged me to pray for his mother, who died of AIDS a few days later.

Not exact matches

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

He's on one side of a long - standing debate in the church about how to build a decent society.

I would have thought it was obvious this is not about mixing religion with public schooling, simply using school building's for holding church services when the buildings are closed for normal schooling.

I don't see anyone complaining about churches being built near any of the victims or families of victims of these guys.

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.

As First Church Estates Commissioner, I will be able to build on all my experience both in financial services and at Christian Aid and that's part of what is exciting about it.

White pastors and white evangelical leaders must speak prophetically about racism and help intentionally build church communities that more closely resemble the kingdom of God of Revelation 5 and 7.

I've heard some pretty terrible things about where the original money came from to build this church in the first place.

@SeanNJ, I would think the meetings would primarily be about educating the public on the separation of church and state and opposing religious encroachment on the public / government arena, e.g. creationism / ID in the science classroom, ten commandments displays in government buildings, school sanctioned prayer or religious activities.

I shudder to think at what Jesus would have to say about our multi-million dollar church buildings while poor people are living in cardboard boxes all over our cities and selling their bodies to get food.

A church of 50, with a building and one pastor, costs about $ 85,000 per year to operate.

In this chapter, he writes about how he left the church in order to find the church — not in a building with clergy and a congregation, but in life lived together with other people.

No, it is not about meeting in a theater instead of a church building.

Michael shares eight of the reservations he had about institutional church and how grappling with these issues led him to see that church is not found in a building, but in all people who are saved by grace and follow Jesus in their day - to - day lives by loving and serving others.

There have been some who have already explained very well about Jesus Christ building His Church on Peter and giving him the keys so I won't dwell on it here.

and as I know how your type is infamous for taking things out of context, I need more information about this allocation of funds to Church building.

The female sexuality stands for and brings about the Church (which has always been called our «Mother»), nurturing and building that communion in the family of God's children.

It's easy to make assumptions about other pilgrims on the journey, especially when they say their broken prayers from the pews of a different church building.

A church member told the Mirror about the moment 80 members of the choir at All Saints Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.church member told the Mirror about the moment 80 members of the choir at All Saints Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.20 pm.

That right there will make churches think twice about spending their money on a new building they may not actually need.

We sat in two comfy armchairs in the foyer of his beautiful, brand - new church building, and for over an hour talked about Reformed theology.

It isn't about who has the biggest church building or best pastor or what not.

It is estimated that the total value of church buildings and property in the United States is about $ 500 billion.

I wonder if First Baptist Church in Dallas could have built their building for about $ 10 million less, and sent the extra $ 10 million overseas to plant about 2000 churches (It costs around $ 6000 to build a church in AfChurch in Dallas could have built their building for about $ 10 million less, and sent the extra $ 10 million overseas to plant about 2000 churches (It costs around $ 6000 to build a church in Afchurch in Africa).

Another test for the church is how far it can build an accepting fellowship where people can articulate their own experience of God in Christ This again raises questions about the future organization of the institutional church and whether it can or should maintain its present hierarchical structure where authority seems to come down from on high.

Professor MacCulloch was, indeed, soon to be observed putting himself about in the liberal media; and in an article in The Times he began an unusually spiteful piece by laboriously comparing the Church, in the wake of Pope Benedict's abdication, to the sandcastles he used to build as a boy at Clacton: «Quite suddenly there came a point where the waters» onrush became irresistible.

The problem «emergers» may run into is that, while deconstructing is a valuable and important part of bringing about reform and making the Church better, tearing down is always easier than building up.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

I just want to build up the church from zero and that's all my vision is all about.

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Luxmoore may be too harsh on the enthusiasm of the liberated Polish church for large buildings and statues, but it is hard to argue with his demand that the bishops «ask searching questions about how exhaustively and insistently it [the Church] has championed the criteria of the common good...&rchurch for large buildings and statues, but it is hard to argue with his demand that the bishops «ask searching questions about how exhaustively and insistently it [the Church] has championed the criteria of the common good...&rChurch] has championed the criteria of the common good...».

I am excited about the possibilities of building community outside the walls of a church building.

We must be — and the church that I'm talking about is not a building but the collection of the people who are trying their best to walk with Jesus.

This last sentence especially, I believe, helps to contextualize Newman's opposition to building a Catholic church in Oxford, or at least it allows us to cast light on his reasons for diffidence about the idea.

I am not about to equate visiting a church building with idol worship, but I do think it is important to recognize that people can worship and follow God just as well outside of the four walls of a church building than they can inside the walls — and maybe even better.

So in the vast majority of churches, about one - half of the tithe goes to pay the pastor's salary, and the other half goes to pay for the church building and programs.

Jesus probably isn't so concerned with the wealth the rich young ruler had, and He probably isn't overly concerned about the buildings that churches own.

My friend who was on the church board of a local church told me about their deliberations to borrow over a million dollars to build a gymnasium for their teens and young men «to give them something to do».

Faith builds churches, that is about it.

The undermining of the church building reveals more about reality than does the official «concordat» between the Colombian government and the Vatican.

A new church building required to seat more than about 700 people will almost inevitably be situated in a parking lot rather then amid a walkable neighborhood — and that's a problem for urbanism.