People seemed to find it interesting to learn
about other churches and their practices.
I found myself thinking competitively
about the other churches in town; about how I could beat them at the numbers game.
I don't know
about other churches.
Idk
about other churches but my church is like this, all white some black people come to visit and people say hello but they kinda ignore them and i think thats extremly wrong.
There is a scripture in the new testament that says «God is the same yesterday, today, and forever» Mormons do nt spread lies
about other churchs they say is you want to know if the church is true the only person you should ask is God himself and he will answer that question for you...
Not exact matches
I have already emailed Steve and a few
others that I saw on Stupid
church about this stuff that we are going through.
I don't think
about it in our congregation, although I do in any
other church.
Recently, I was talking to a few friends — really faithful folks who attend
church regularly and who, above all
other things, self - identify as Christians —
about the subject of unemployment.
Certainly we can tell
others at the water cooler and in our
churches what we believe
about issues like this, but it's important that we talk and listen and trust God to help us wrestle through the seeming contradictory pros and cons involved.
You on the
other hand Angela couldn't be more wrong
about Joseph Smith and the early members of the
church.
I guess I am going to close with this and it goes a bit with the part I wrote
about the
churches across from each
other.
Of course the mormon
church is as internally inconsistant as any
other religious group and has had just
about every position on just
about every issue over time.
But when those who care
about the community gathered together last night, all those phantom rumors evaporated in our mutual love for God, each
other and the
church.
The archbishop of Brussels and
other church officials briefed reporters
about the resignation on Friday.
Pull up a bean bag, grab a coffee and chat with us for a while
about Emerging
Church, Blogging, Faith and
other General Silliness from South of the Equator.»
On the
other hand, the islamic world lacks a single voice to answer with a single and credible voice to the concerns of the secular american society (which is very concerned
about the lack of the concept of separation between
church and state in large part of the islamic world).
I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote
about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow
other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the
church.
«But on the
other hand, I worry
about LGBT people... because the
church teaches you that you can not reach your full potential and have full acceptance in the
church unless you marry someone of the opposite sex.»
Mr. Kurtz, as is usual in these discussions, makes no complaint
about black
churches that are much more overtly political, nor
about other religious organizations on the left that frequently come much closer to «electioneering.»
If they really cared
about sticking to the letter of their religion we wouldn't see them overlooking so many
other obvious practices that run contrary to the
Church's teachings.
During this time, he has not said a word
about the heavy political engagement of the
churches on the
other side of the conflict.
I myself am Mormon I have always been a mormon ever since I was born, most of you don't even know what you are talking
about, you just listen to what
other people say
about us but don't even visit he
church.
First, who really cares what the
Church, or any
other religious organization thinks
about policy?
It's not
about the nonexistent love of some «God» as atheists understand the term, but
about the very real love of people in a
church who help each
other get through life.
I hope the Mormon
church is serious
about this... with Anne Frank and all the
other Jews who were holocaust victims, they have gone too far!
The reason why I (and potentially many
other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the
church are from the claims it makes
about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.
You will find in books or on the internet for «The Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints», including «YouTube» and many
others websites, the truth
about the LDS
church.
But this is what is special
about church, as opposed to
other counselling or charity which can be done without the
church.
As to whether the television guide is a good guide to the Times, the ten pounds of newsprint that Sunday had no
other reference to religion
other than a business story
about selling palms to
churches and an article in the Sunday magazine
about a Catholic who has decided to become a Jew.
Yet «faithful Catholics» do in fact disagree
about church teaching regarding contraception, the ordination of women, and the nature of the papacy, among
other things.
If you want to know more
about The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, please visit http://www.lds.org Find out for yourself and not just based on what
others said who also might be listening from
others.
They post
about the lack of «religious freedom» in these
other countries, but what they are really referring to is THEIR
churches not being allowed into do THEIR «witnessing».
The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and
other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion
about the
Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.
Knowing his religion raises a red flag that make most cringe once they learn the truth
about this
church, they believe in overpowering
others and controlling the community.
They forgot the part
about space ships coming to earth and many many many
other weird things they believe in... oh, did I mention that they didn't allow blacks in their
church until a salamander told them to do so?
I would never expect a nonmember of this
church to understand enough
about its doctrine to make an honest assessment of anything
other than superficial, publicized topics.
Interestingly enough, nor in that book, nor in any
other books I have read
about the period, is it mentioned the fact that in the say 10 - 20 years following that moment, did this «evil
church cult of the dammed rubble rubble rubble» engage in anything except spread the Word.
If it is evident that Christians are not held to fulfilling the most momentous vow they will ever make to another person, young people and
others may be forgiven for thinking that the
churches are not entirely serious in their moral teaching
about other matters, especially those related to sexuality.
I'm so torn because I don't want to leave the people I care
about at the
other churches, but yet I feel lonely, worthless, and completely broken at the current
church I'm at because of the drama.
Second,
church bullies almost always like feeling important and knowledgeable, be it
about how the
church should be run, what God and the Bible say, and how
other people should think, live and vote.
(You sound very defensive and hostile to
others who have an opposing view
about your
church.)
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.
I am a real Christian not a
church on Sunday forget
about God the rest of the week Christian.You and the
others here have insulted a friend a Father to me.
Here's an idea, why don't you strip down the vatican and all those
churches that are filled with gold items, artwork, marble, and
other precious metals and sell the items to feed the poor if you are that concerned
about them.
I always felt it was a pity that
church folk were so intent on disparaging
others, they missed what's great
about Christianity.
Always needing to be right, always needing to be in charge and control, always too busy and self - centered for
others and always trying to figure out ways that you can profit from God, the Bible,
church and religion tells me who you are, in which case I care not what you think
about what the Bible says, whether or not it is without error and so on.
This particular instance feels similar to many of the
other great «Christian Controversies» of the past 15 years — Rob Bell with Love Wins, John McCarthur with his comments on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement, Don Miller's blog
about church.
«Our test to see if a similar story would be written
about others» religion is to substitute «Jew» or «Jewish,»» Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul wrote in objection to a Washington Post article last fall
about the candidate's role as a
church leader in Boston.
Read through Jeremy's many posts
about church, tithing and the
other topics you mention, and read his excellent new book «Bodies, Bucks and Bricks» for more information.
If there was a
church whose goal was to persuade, and who has, thus far, persuaded over 13 million people to lie
about what they blieve in order to fit in with
others, nobody would join that
church, they would just join the «
others» they are trying to fit in with.