Sentences with phrase «about the church because»

He doesn't want to be questioned about his church because once he is in the White House he does not want anyone to know that his church elder will be running the country.

Yes Sabio... I talk about the church because that is my home.

I must admit, I do find it a bit difficult to listen to complaints about the church because all too often I find it is from people who are not committed to it.

Not exact matches

So nah, let's demonize people today because that is what black church is about.

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.

Shamgar, is your claim that, if the church was under greater persecution, we would all agree about these things because the people holding to one side of each of these debates aren't true believers, and so they would leave under persecution?

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

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

MacIntyre is not naive about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»

Both me and my girlfriend are adamant about what we believe, but we do not attend church because we disagree with what the modern Roman Catholic church is.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

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

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.

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.

«Oh Fred, let's go to church, they're really edgy and hip now because they talk about S * E * X openly!

Finally, statistics about the Church in the pre-Conciliar years are misleading, because there were many trends afoot» in theology, morality, politics, science, and exegesis» that were already having an unsettling impact on the internal life of Catholics.

I'm curious to see what you have to say because you almost seem like a cath defending computer bot that randomly logs in here just to say nice things about the gay peds running your church.

But because in the midst of a fun yet challenging year, God has taught me a ton about managing His money in His church.

Thus the Church has long been the great «listening - post» of Europe because these information channels provided reliable information about volatile matters like famine and insurrection.

«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.»

If it wasn't for women who were defying the Church (in fact, just about all of them), there would be NO ONE in the churches, because women are the ones who bring in their families.

* 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.

It is an international church, but oftentimes people aren't as expposed to that information in the US because there is stigma about it being a «white» church here.

Considering it was a Mormon missionary who befriended my Grandfather and talked him into to joining the church at 70 years old, and than stole a million dollars worth of real estate from him, something the family knew nothing about until he was on his death bed, because he was too ashamed to tell anybody that he lost the family property.

Your not one of those former mormons that are really bitter about life because of the way the church treated you are you?

A few people back in the 1890's or something made some dubious statements about race that frequently get thrown in our faces, and it is very hurtful to us because they are not representative of what nearly all Mormons believe — or teach in church.

He was probably right, but I couldn't help thinking that perhaps he also only felt so strongly about the issue because of the kind of church he grew up in.

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.

Thinking about cancelling the church service is terrifying to most church leaders because we depend on the people to fill the pews and pay the bills, one of which is our own salary.

Local Republicans complained about a local church feeding the homeless because the homeless were filthy.

It was the only way they could get the masses on board because the people were not about to give up their celebrations so the Church slapped Jesus on them and called them Christian holidays.

But the bottom line is that I'm nervous about saying that mutual edification is the purpose for the gathering of the church because this is not a far step away from saying that mutual edification is the purpose of the church, which it most definitely is not.

Which must mean they are wrong to treat me in such manner because if I haven't done anything to bring about church discipline, yet they treat me like I've been brought all the way through the process, then they are wrong.

The ones that are really understand this don't worry about church membership because - surprise - when thy are faithful to do as God wants, they always find that God pays the bills whether people are faithful to give or not.

There is no way of reporting to headquarters that Mrs. Jones came back to church after a year's absence because she was worried about her sick son, or that Bob Thomson suddenly upped his pledge because he was thankful for the success of his surgery.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

We joined this church about 4 years ago because we felt we needed a good base and spiritual learning for our son.

I could care less about the tithes and offerings coming in because I know God will provide for what my church needs.

Because the church was congregationally concerned, it was also active in the neighborhood, and that meant that, it cared about what was happening in city politics.

Ms Evans, you make a good point about us not wanting to go to church because we want equality for our gay and lesbian friends but you missed the point.

Now i understand why because before i joined the church God is asking me to leave i had spent about 5 years without attending any church but grew daily in fellowship and intimacy with God, which later i lost when i got a church.

This is splitting up the church, not because people don't get their way but because the pastor doesn't appear to care about his flock.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

She told the Tribute, «I feel so conflicted about the whole situation because I'm so protective of the reputation of the church, not just here but globally... But I have confidence that the truth matters.

At our church so many people are confused and worried about loosing their salvation because of wrong teaching about sin and salvation.

Does God cry with a boy in Africa, because His children in the church aren't about living the Sermon on the Mount, but are about mounting our own Comfortable Kingdoms?

After I had worked near her for about a year, I heard from a member of her church that she told the church folks that she was «persecuted» at work because she was a Christian.

It is identical to racial issues: civil and church laws need to protect the truth about the equal dignity of all races because that truth allows us to treat others as persons.

Civil laws and church laws need to protect, respectively, the natural and revealed truths about our sexuality, precisely because those truths allow us to treat others as persons.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»