Sentences with phrase «about the church as»

However, this has been my observation about the church as well.

But the same old mantra about the church as a whole, defective, substandard, and behaving badly gets old.

Obviously, such groups can be less - than - helpful when they divide everyone up by age group and marital status, but I've also seen them represent what is most powerful about church as members become deeply invested in one another's lives.

I have a lot of weirdness about the Church as a whole, too: questions and accusations or frustrations, perhaps.

«Thinking Catholics, who knew what had happened in Rome before the encyclical, who had absorbed all that Vatican II had to say about the Church as the People of God, had assumed that their concerns would be listened to and change in the Church's stance on birth control was inevitable.»

Obviously, such groups can be problematic when they divide everyone up by age group and marital status, but I've also seen them represent what is most powerful about church as members become deeply invested in one another's lives.

What might a woman say about the church as body and bride?

The best evidence for this point is Wuthnow's study of the difference between the rhetoric of pastors about the church as compared to social realities.

This is about as nice a comment about the Church as one can expect from an Evangelical, but it still makes me facepalm.

Not exact matches

As for revenue, Augustine estimates that the church collects annual receipts of about $ 200 million, which he bases on conversations with former Scientology officials who have since left the organization.

«As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets.

He continued: «As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets.

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a cChurch of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a churchchurch.

though you have your objections (as I have mine) to transubstantiation, it supposedly tells a Church member the truth about who God is and who you are as a person.

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.

Allen follows up about these newer, more unexpected enthusiasts, and Chaput suggests that maybe some of them «would prefer a church that wouldn't have strict norms and ideas about the moral life and about doctrine, and they somehow interpret the pope's openness and friendliness as being less concerned about those things.

Family Research Council is about as tolerant as the Westboro Baptist Church (the Phelp's who picket soldiers funerals, and Dio!).

The CCCU's terms about theology, as I understand them, were designed to set a boundary against theologically liberal colleges and seminaries and against church - and denomination - based schools.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

Advocates for victims saw the posts as a sign of favour for Law by church officials unrepentant about abused children.

Long story, short, I studied with him for about 5 weeks, went to his church and found myself accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior.

Well, here I am writing about it again because it not only takes place in the church but in Christian movements such as Emergent.

«The Christian Church has started to realize that we're sexual, too, and we are just as visually stimulated as men and we look at porn,» said Crystal Renaud, author of the recent book «Dirty Girls Come Clean,» a memoir about her own addiction to porn.

I am a Christian who attends a Pentecostal church, but I'm pretty liberal in my views as well and don't always agree with my fellow Christians about certain heavier topics.

I care about the church — so I hope to attend some of these meetings, as they come up!

They founded themselves as the successors of peter, and say they are following the church, the one true church that Jesus talked about!

David's talking about feeling the need to go to church as habit — a meaningless exercise we still do because it's ingrained.

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

Seeing as the last time Malachy's supposed prophesies was correct was in 1590, I don't think Pope Francis or the church have much to worry about.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

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?

Everything for me as a pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the church.

Wail away all you like, about the const - itution and how it is being mis - read, the true meaning of the separation of / from church and state, but it all does not matter — the law as currently interpreted and enforced says events of this nature are not legal!

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.

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

The western church, as a whole, is so very agenda - ized that it may never have to worry about becoming HARMFULLY unplanned, but people should realize that the error opposite of being agenda - ized is out there somewhere too.

My one fear about coming out as a pastor with gay leaders is that folks will assume I have an agenda to make all churches like mine.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

It's about time the Catholic Church have a man like this as its head.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

The percentage of people attending church in the United States has dropped from the 40s to about 16 percent — experts tell us we're following the same path as many European countries where the percentage of people in church is now 2 - 5 percent.

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

The question of women's ordination is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected at all.»

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

I also do not care about church history as I am not religious.

Over the next several months, I'm going to end my posts with introspective questions about us as individuals as well as our church communities.

«And I think we would've seen the report from the Methodist Church as well, about two or three weeks ago, which took a very honest and hard look at itself and the abuse over a 50 or 60 year period.

It's about common decency and respect for all the victims, not just the ones who went to the same church as you.