None of the homeowners
actually runs a church, but it gets them from paying much if anything in taxes.
Then ask yourself, who is
actually running the church?
Not exact matches
The local
church was often
actually run by women members, but indirectly, and hence without either accountability or credit.
These guys may have points I
actually agree with, but no
church is in any way qualified to
run a country.
Instead of being ignorant and believing everything you read, maybe
actually find out what the LDS
church is about before you people
run your mouth.
The center is
actually a «prayer tower» hotline
run by Living Rock
Church, whose seven volunteers take about 300 calls per day.
We are
actually talking about the little discussed fissure
running through many
churches: Education.»
Actually, many of the public shelters are
run by a
church group or a council of
churches on contract to the city.
An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might
run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might
actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the
churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the
church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).
Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that
actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the
church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but
run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....
Actually America was founded by refugees
running away from two giant god - corporations, the Catholic
Church and the
Church of England.
I
actually took the time to
run the numbers on my
church's last disclosure and found the following:
Actually a large number of
churches would
run you out the door if you were not a paid up member, cash talks.
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.