Sentences with phrase «actually come to church»

«Some people will actually come to church and worship and go and sin because they have determined they must sin.

Not exact matches

(Many people who «leave» the church don't actually request their names be removed from the rolls; they just stop coming to meetings and try to «fall off the grid.»)

Steve, actually Matt 16:28 which you are referring to does not mean his second coming but the establishment of his kingdom which was the church.

Having come to the conclusion several years ago (after a lot of abuse from the first church I was part of) that doubt is far from being a threat to our faith — if we enter it with questions for God — I realised it is actually the yeast in our faith, and in the discourse with God we grow (much like your cartoon).

And a pastor of a Baptist church in Colorado actually kicked me out of his car (and I'm a disabled woman veteran in a powerchair) after inviting me to Easter dinner with his family, because I refused to deny that Jesus came to me in that dream.

This book, in my opinion, is to actually minimize the great apostasy taking place in our churches; especially among those who were never taught the real meaning of being «last instead of first», to help those who come into the church who may bring with them societal norms of entitlement and «whats in it for me» attitudes and behaviors.

When it comes to feelings about the Bible and actually reading and applying its teachings, there is a major cognitive dissonance in the modern Church.

«By refusing to sign marriage certificates, Jones «penalizes heterosexual couples who are coming to the church without actually winning anything for same - sex couples,» [Stephanie] Coontz says.»

But from where I'm standing, it looks like the Church in America is actually doing pretty well when it comes to individual relationships of love and care.

Only that last doctrine comes from the Methodist Church to which he actually belongs (though with which he does not now commune — the Episcopalians down the street have drawn him in with weekly celebration of the Eucharist).

Through a series of attending numerous churches over the span of several years, Shannon came to recognize that change in churches comes slow, but often the change we want to see in our church may actually be the change God wants to accomplish in our own life instead.

The church is holding meetings to figure out what to do next, since no members will actually come forward and admit that they were the ones who complained about it which is too bad, since there are so many questions worth asking them.

Novelist Mary Gordon, a perceptive interpreter of Catholic women's experience, affirms that Mary's submissive obedience has become «a stick to beat smart girls» («Coming to Terms with Mary,» Commonweal, January 15, 1982) Warner painfully recalls her own adolescent realization that the symbol of Mary as a model of chastity actually denigrates women and humanity, an understanding that transformed her perception of the church.

The best way I have come to understand this is to actually be a part of a «centered set» church.

His church apparently was mad at him for ACTUALLY following the Golden Rule when it comes to gays.

We did not, the priest actually asked all people that raised their hands to leave and not to come back, Yes this is a fact and my wife and I were so discussed in the Catholic Churches way of thinking we have converted.

However, the Catholic Church is pretty much alone in the modern world when it comes to a large (HUGE) insti.tution actually covering up wide - scale child abuse in its ranks for its own selfish purposes.

I couldnt wait to get back to the barracks and I never have been inside a church since, well actually I did try a bible study at the on base chapel later that week and came to the same result, I did NOT fit in at all, I did nt think like any of the other guys and I couldnt pretend like the others were doing.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

When it comes to church, this can be magnified: Borysenko actually says people who are passionate about changing the world and making a difference are the most likely to burn out.

This sort of gets back to the question of what biblical illiteracy actually is, but when I listen to the pastors and professors who are decrying the lack of biblical literacy in the church, I am often amazed to hear what comes out of their very own mouths, and it makes me wonder how biblically literate they themselves are.

I am blown away by the change I hear in the way she talks, and she actually invited me to come to her church?

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

The term «church» actually is derived from the German Kirche, which in turn comes from the Greek adjective kuriakos, «belonging to the Lord» (cf. 1 Cor 11:20) or possibly the Latin circus.

Despite the number of people who expressed frustration with our church's being all talk and no action when it came to the homeless, actually moving from talk to action proved scary.

Actually, says the church, «You must be perfect» is not a command at all but a promise to be fulfilled in the life to come.

«Actually the strength of goodness is so much greater and that's what we are going to be proclaiming today as people come into church, and we'll be continuing to do that as we rebuild this community together.»

And even if it were the case that in the past we spent less time defending and discussing specific dogmas, there seems to me to be a much more plausible explanation than «no one really used to care about dogma», which is this: it's not that we didn't care about dogma, but rather that the truths of faith have come under unprecedented scrutiny and attack in the modern period, not least fromdissenters within the Church, so it has become essential that we do talk about what we actually believe.

The confusion begins when the leadership of the church assumes that the collection of people is homogenous, that they actually all do share beliefs one hundred percent of the time, that they really do want to evangelize and bring in new members, and that they all always want to come to church, enjoy its style, volunteer, and support it financially in the way it hopes and even expects.

You can only imagine the way it must have haunted them for the rest of their lives as they looked back on how they had actually sat there with him, eating and drinking and talking; and through their various accounts of it, including the above passage from John, and through all the paintings of it, like the great, half - mined da Vinci fresco in Milan, and through 2,000 years of the church's reenactment of it in the Eucharist, it has come to haunt us too.

With the advent of the professional youthworker, there also came the danger that the church as a whole and parents of teens in particular would feel that they couldn't do the discipling job, that we needed people who watched the same films, wore the same clothes, could bear to listen to the same music, and could actually get as far as Level 2 on a computer game.

Avoiding commitment as to any specific attitude which the church and Christian men ought to adopt toward war when war comes, the conference report contented itself with exhibiting the various views which Christians actually hold on that subject and with saying that while the church could neither affirm that any one of these was right and the others wrong nor acquiesce in the permanent continuance of these differences, it should promote the study of the problem with a view to a better understanding of the purpose of God.

Kabel I am a mulish and I live in US, I actually had church people knock on our door and asking us that Jesus, peace be upon him, love you and give us booklet to study and read, they even brought bible in my language to read... we had to tell them we have our own believes but they kept insisting... the came several times within months in our house and each time my mom would invite them and serve them tea...

A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.

I'd say that if Jesus actually formed a church or had the church form the way he would have wanted, it would have been full of Jews sworn to poverty as they expected the coming of the son of man and Yahweh's justice.

You're at your in - laws» house for dinner on Christmas Eve with your young children, then you go to church and keep your kids from acting up while everyone else's children are running wild, then you come home and wrangle your overexcited kids into bed, and wait until they're actually asleep.

Luther was actually late to the party when it came to seeing the wantonness and venality of the upper hierarchy of the church.

I sing in my church's praise band and we actually changed some of our song line - up to sing songs that beg God to come and cover the entire earth and bring peace.