Sentences with phrase «about the church group»

What were some of the statistics about church groups and community that really stuck out to you as we worked on Transformational Groups?

I really don't want to talk about church groups that empower women and young girls in this, my seeming multi-faceted rant.

I'm not just talking about the church group or the condo board — these can be huge time sinks — but rather your community of professionals.

Not exact matches

A few weeks ago, my buddy and former HBS classmate, Allan, asked me if I'd like to give a talk about my debt pay - off to the youth group that he leads at his church.

People ask me about what's happening at church or in our youth group in the same way they ask another person who's into motorcycles about his bike.

Use this guide in your small group, house church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth about how we should live now in light of the future reality.

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.

At a church we once attended, we were assigned a new pastor, a middle aged man who had not pastored before, but felt his experience in leading home bible study groups well - qualified him to lead our church, a congregation of about 80.

A church is supposed to be the combined efforts of EVERYONE in it to serve their communities, not an exclusive group that sits around talking about their own needs.

In the third group, women went to church about 10 times more a year than men in 1972.

I was at a church retreat where one guy suddenly said in response to my asking a legitimate question about how they were interpreting scripture that Satan was in me and got the whole group to pray that Satan leave.

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.

Everyone knows Francis's statement that the Church can't be «obsessed» about abortion, Terry Mattingly notes, but pretty much no one — no one who reads The New York Times, say — knows about a statement he made a few days later to a group of Catholic gynaecologists.

You also speak as though you are certain no gay people are present and that «we evengelical Christians» are talking amonst ourself about what an entire group of people deserve in terms of full inclusion and acceptance in society and the church.

But — nobody in that church leadership group said anything at all after the comment about men being more reasonable than women and women being emotional and not rational.»

The Waldensian group was one of several springing up about that time as an intuitive answer to the specific needs for reform in the church.

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.

Significant changes are also occurring on the liturgical left (Quakers, Pentecostals and, especially, the free - church tradition), but it is difficult to generalize about such disparate groups.

Indeed, those who belong to the same religious group can be fierce in their disagreements, even though they have a great deal in common, as has been shown by the recent arguments in the churches about whether women should be ordained.

Here is a book you should read, when it comes to making absolutes about a group who offend you or you think you need to fix.It involves the Lutheran Church.

I enjoy it better when church institutions talk about the open arms of Jesus, and the narrow doors of their church group.

About 230 people, «some of who were taken from a church,» were kidnapped or detained by ISIS when the terrorist group captured the Syrian town of Qaryatain on Friday.

(Note: I realize that inequity in the Church extends to many groups besides women, and that's important to talk about as well, but for efficiency and clarity, next week's focus will be on women in the Church.

After a number of pastoral contacts of this type, he received a phone call from Mrs. L. saying that she would like to talk with him about a problem connected with the women's group in the church.

society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIRabout gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIRABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIRABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.

(Ibid., p. 239) Theology does not consist of the describing of beliefs held about God by a designated group of persons but of the affirming about God and creatures in their relation to God of that which it has been given to the church to know.

You support a church full of pedophiles - that doesn't say a tremendous amount about you or anyone within the group!

It was fairly easy - and rather fun - to ridicule these last, and I had a very enjoyable time in the 1990s when a group called the «Catholic Women's Network» fell for a spoof which I wrote about a group of well - to - do ladies sitting round a swimming pool with wine and salads bemoaning their lot and denouncing the Church's teachingson marriage and sexual morality.

As part of our research for Transformational Groups, we surveyed regular group attenders and non-group attenders about their daily spiritual lives — specifically, the time they spend outside of church and church - related activities.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

I found Heather's chapters about her twelve - step group inspiring and challenging, a little picture of what the church is meant to be.

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.

Sure, I love to throw bait out, like «What do you think about a church allowing a small group Bible study to meet in a pub?»

From our core group of six families we grew to about 60 adults and launched our church.

The Roundtable project got its start with a meeting at Yale in March 2003 and a follow - up meeting the next July, to which Geoffrey Boisi invited a group of mainly liberal usual suspects to think and plan about the future of the Church in America.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

This church at Colossae, a hundred miles east of Ephesus, was never visited by Paul, but he was concerned about the Christian groups everywhere.

(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was wonderful) I was in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The» church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called church in my city.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

From what I know about Mormons they are family oriented, God loving, charity giving (actually one of the biggest charity donation churches in the world), hard working, honest, read the bible and modest dressing group of individuals.

To launch this new church, the core group talked about a 20,000 - piece mailing campaign, a typical move for starter churches.

Questions about Christology, for example, are ones that estranged groups in the church could profitably work on together.

Last month my wife — the social creature with a big heart that she is — met a couple through a woman's prayer group at the church we attend who was pouring out her heart about their impending homelessness.

The church has developed the bad habit of talking about this group as if it is a problem for the denomination.

Earlier, nothing was known about it except the fact that it was used by several heretical groups such as the Naassenes; some church writers denounced it but did not describe it.

What can I possibly say about the church in the presence of these two groups?

Should one talk at all about great men among Christian groups, in that most of the time and in most places churches have been chiefly populated — and chiefly kept functioning — by women?

And when someone inquires about renting the building for a wedding, a funeral, or a support group, we tell them they need to come to church on Sunday, sign release forms, pay a deposit and rental fee, and if they get approved, refrain from drinking, smoking, or swearing on the premises.

That is, all the wrong ways people have of thinking about church center on something other than Jesus (buildings, times, groups).

However, the error of doctrinal uniformity continues to plague the church as some groups are more concerned about articulating the errors of one group or another than in rejoicing with others that they share a belief in the same Lord and Savior.