Sentences with phrase «about the church right»

But you stated:::: Something I'm finding frustrating about the church right now is that it doesn't allow for change

Something I'm finding frustrating about the church right now is that it doesn't allow for change... neither institutional or personal.

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Hello, you're entirely right to be very critical of harmful things going on in churches, this is what love is all about.

You are right of course about things not being apparent until one gets more involved in the church.

But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

Fishon, you are probably right about the numbers of churches that specifically ban gay people.

Nor was it true of the Church's accommodation of Renaissance opulence or early modern ideologies about the divine right of kings.

This woman is 100 % right about the hypocrisy of the church, and the fact that birth control and condoms actually support life in healthy sustainable ways.

Are you serious this is the last thing we should be concerned about when it comes to Catholic church what about priest (I use that word loosely they are sleeping with the choir boys and when they get caught they move them to another church so they can start again to me that is what they need to change in the church in the name of JESUS I pray for that right now!!!

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

I believe the candidate (Mitt Romney) is right is suggesting that if you want to know more about the Mormon Church, see the Church itself — at http://www.mormon.org.

sorry to have used the term «common»... you're so right, there is nothing common about pedophiles especially when they use their delusions to cover it up and hide it behind a church

You're right about one thing — there are worthy and the unworthy in the Christian churches.

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.

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

If «believers» aligned their right beliefs with right practice, fewer church members would look elsewhere for critically important discussions about caring, inclusiveness, open dialogue, ethical decision - making, and shared doubts in the context of a disturbing contemporary polarized culture.

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.

It did not change what I was thinking about the definition of church, but only confirmed it, proving (at least to me) that I was on the right track.

One of the ways we do this is by saying that the black church was all about civil rights when the reality is that it wasn't.

I clearly stated that I knew it was David's right to moderate how he wanted, and I noted that I believe it is fair to talk about silencing in church systems, but I asked him to consider the damage and misinformation that a free - for - all like this can have when it takes a huge left turn into picking apart people's personal darkness from a far.

Come back when you CARE about getting ONE MILLION DOLLARS for your church AND can PROVE that God exists AND save BILLIONS of souls which you COULD do if you are right.

In the early church there also arose a theory about just who Jesus Christ is: it was the notion of recapitulation — that somehow in Christ the church, the people of God, got right - headed.

He said when he asked Obama about how he became a Christian, the president said he joined a church in Chicago after becoming a community organizer, leaving Graham to speculate whether he became a Christian for the right motives.

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

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

what I appreciate about David's cartoons, is that he'll go on for awhile exposing the flaws in some of our churches, right up to the point where I almost don't want to hear any more and then * KABOOM * he hits us with the love and grace of God.

Just 37 years having a saving faith in Christ... reading a lot about church history... reading books by spiritual giants such as Tozer, Ravenhill, Finney, Spurgeon, Chambers, etc... reading and listening to such teachers as Winkie Pratney, Ravi Zacharias, etc... and just trying to read the scriptures and asking God to guide me on a right path.

When they struggled with the church for power, the debate was about the right way to organize a Christian society.

Strictly speaking, I have no right to feel anything at all about the way the Church is going, and no right either to remember as much ecclesiastical history as I do or to buy and read paperbacks on theology.

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.

You are so right about church often serving as a substitute for following and submitting to Jesus.

Conservative Christians are right about one thing: public opinion has shifted on same - sex marriage (particularly within the Church), and this means they are more likely to encounter pushback when they insist same - sex marriage ought to be illegal.

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.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

I was thinking today about how people are hoping and hopping... in constant search for the right church... (pretty much the way they also look for the perfect life partner).

It is still possible to remain divided in opinion, for example, about the right age for Confirmation or first Confession, even if the Church has laid down some definite practice with greater or less binding force.

We get to talking about all the ways in which we've been disappointed and ostracized, and the next thing you know, we've slipped right into a contagiously cynical church - bashing session, the kind that can leave those who have had beautiful, affirming, and life - giving experiences in church feeling like the odd ones out.

Why, just out in my home state of California... the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (Mormons) and... the Catholics, decided to get together and pour millions of dollars into California to defeat, proposition 8, which is... about 2 people of the same gender being able to marry and have the same civil rights under the law as hetero - married couples.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rChurch's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

How about finding a church that IS N'T abusive, and then focusing on what they are doing RIGHT?

Right wing Christians have better things to worry about, such as the dilapidation of their churches and their charity work and their families.

But if we could unite, if we could love one another, if we could agree that love for others was more important than being right about the rapture, then maybe the church would stop dividing over doctrine, and start showing the world what the love of God really looks like.

The liberal voices in the churches have long been reluctant to say anything too critical about fundamentalists, on the grounds that they have every right to live by the beliefs they feel most comfortable with.

In other words we could reduce our discussion about proselytism to those who have the right or not of approaching others with the purpose of winning them for their own church.

Hey Jeremy, before you even mentioned this was a parabole, I knew right off, I guess for a couple of reasons, one I have a daughter, and two, a lot of reasons you mentioned and experiences you talked about reminded me of Church.

There is a current of uneasiness, especially among Mormon academics, about what will happen if and when Ezra Taft Benson becomes church president and carries his right - wing political views into office with him.

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!!!

i find it interesting that CNN has this article right by the one about Arkansas allowing guns in churches

One prominent Presbyterian church in Chicago offers a theologically grounded discourse that critiques the Religious Right's «family values» by talking about Jesus Christ's ministry of inclusion.