Sentences with phrase «about the flawed church»

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This is frankly not the time to be defensive about the church and blind to its many flaws; people in important positions in the church have hurt a great many people and the church itself with their hypocrisies and crimes.

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.

Using fictional stories about my attempt to become the world's greatest fisherman, I reveal some of the flaws in the church's attempts at world evangelism.

Sometimes I think the biggest challenge in talking about the church is telling ourselves the truth about it — acknowledging the scars, staring down the ugly bits, marveling at its resiliency, and believing that this flawed and magnificent body is enough, for now, to carry us through the world and into the arms of Christ.

They would rat me out for spending the better part of three years venting about 2,196 flaws I found in the church and life in general.