Sentences with phrase «are in church pews»

But the observant will notice that the prisoners are in church pews singing a Christian...

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wow, just peaked at this blog to find this gem, as a church raised kiddy I only have to be within range of a hymn book or pew to start to feel that creeping guilt, once infected it stays in the system like a STD, it's also deadly.

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

Church attendance rates by Christians in the United States have stayed largely steady since the 1970s, but there have been some significant changes in the makeup of the congregations in the pews during that time, a recently released study says.

The man also sat in another church, if you recall, for OVER TWENTY YEARS, listening to Pastor Jeremiah Wright... but one afternoon in a fresh pew, and he's reborn??? This is responsible journalism?

I'd be willing to bet that plenty who called themselves christian in the last pew survey spend even less time in church.

What Thom Rainer doesn't seem to understand or recognize is that just because someone stops sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon, this does not mean that they have left church.

I fear that by trying to guilt people into keeping their butts in the pew, pastors will be fighting against what God is doing in the church.

And it's also rare to hear in church — because there aren't enough working class men in our pews.

Don't name names or anything, but tell stories so that people in the pews can be alerted to the spiritual abuse that happens in some churches, and so that spiritual abusers can be put on notice that we aren't going to take it any more.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

Look, being a church member has nothing to do with sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, listening to a sermon and praying for your pastor, giving your money to support a local church budget, and making commitments to serve on a church ministry program.

I first felt the keen edge of the feminist critique many years ago at the hands of two exceedingly able and determined women who often shared a pew and a hymnbook in services at the church where I was pastor.

I want people to follow Jesus so that they can be the church, even if that means not sitting in a pew on Sunday morning.

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sChurch (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a schurch in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

The Enneagram explains the differences in those who have filled the pews in the churches we were appointed to serve.

I know this may not reflect national trends, but the Episcopal Church Dan and I attend — St. Luke's in Cleveland, Tennessee — is incredibly diverse as far as the ages of people sitting in the pews.

«Just as there are many closeted atheists in the church pews, I am extremely confident that there are many closeted atheists in the ranks of conservatives,» said David Silverman, president of American Atheists.

@Mark: I'm not a church goer, though I suspect that the pews in Heaven have to be vinyl or something that washes easily.

And in the ancient churches it's easy to construct a vision of the medieval man or woman who once sat in the same hard pew — a person who understood, as we never can, his or her place in the universe.

They firmly believe they are followers of Jesus and are still part of the Church, even though they no longer sit in a pew on Sunday morning.

This does not mean, as many pastors preach, that the people in the pews are more blessed when they give to the church than when they receive from the church.

They are often seen in the back pew, if they come to church at all, wearing black.

The Vatican selects readings, psalms, songs, prayers, etc for each day of the year and they are bound in a Missal which you will find in every pew in every Catholic Church in the world.

U didn't seem to be very interested in what Obama's rev. Wright had to say in church during all the years that Obama sat in the pews.

For some, it is the «mission of the church,» whether they consider that to be helping people, reaching people for Christ, showing love, or even more mercenary goals like building a bigger building or increasing bodies in pews.

It wasn't a miraculous healing that some encounter in church pews.

But while Tanya is a church deacon and a board member at the new Kentucky Baptist Seminary in Lexington, Berry's relationship to the church may be more like that of his fictional character Jayber Crow, who attends church but sits in the back pew.

Be ready for the church people to continue to condemn and criticize you, saying that you can't truly follow Jesus unless you sit in a pew on Sunday morning.

What an ironic stmt to hear from someone that represents the side that too often equates the character of a person with the kind of church they attend and how often they are in the pew.

But this is only true when we think of the church as a building that people enter and sit in a pew to sing and listen to a sermon.

Regarding having guns in the pews of Churches, what is the government thinking?

Many churches teach that saving others is the responsibility of the people in the pews, so we should get involved in personal evangelism.

But what must be admitted is that there is quite a gap between the list of «Christians» on church rolls or in church pews and the much smaller list of Christians in whom the Spirit of God is working.

Male spirituality is often characterized as more comfortable with a hammer on the church roof than a prayer book in the pews.

There are, I understand from what I read in cheery features in the Catholic press, parishes that are «alive» and «vibrant,» mythic places where the pews are spilling over with youthful joyous faces of the Future of the Church.

It is to get followers of Jesus off the warm, padded pews in church, and out onto the cold, hard, concrete of the world where the people are.

As a believer in and follower of Christ I wish more people sitting in the pews of so many churches in America were more like you....

People in the pew deserve more spiritual protein than is offered by some church - growth dream.

This process, this working tendency toward the coalescence of Yahweh and Baal, can be observed in almost any church in this country, in almost any pulpit, in almost any pew.

I prefer the must more traditional sit - in - the - pews feel to the animated, get - up - and - clap - and - sway feel that is found in many black churches.

I can hardly bring my - self even to attend church any more, partly because of the all - male language and symbolism of the services, partly because women are expected to stay in the kitchen and the church school classroom and the pew, and partly because even the Bible seems to make women inferior.

It seems to be a Church hierarchy further distancing itself from people in the pews.»

On a Sunday morning, I sat in a pew of the church Pastor Charles planted at Africa New Life, and this anointed man of God, this refugee who was welcomed Home, he preached it like a man tapping the very centre of Being and what he said has gathered and collected me for weeks:

I was aware of a crisis of teaching in the Church which seemed to me was sapping the spiritual lives of the people in the pews.

It pains me so much to know that there are churches out there like this who misuse and abuse the people in the pew in this way.

If the church does not foster that and allows for people in the pews to wander into areas of belief that do foster faith in Jesus then the church is not being faithful to the Master.

There are many people sitting in church pews that believe that by attending to church their salvation is secured.

And although the market crash was more a symptom than a cause of the crisis, the church had been complicit in the speculative frenzy that precipitated the crash: «The people who were gambling most recklessly sat in its pews, and never felt the slightest incongruity between their presence at worship on Sunday and their luck in the profit - chase during the rest of the week» (November 25, 1931).

Deeply religious people, and they are a small minority in every congregation, have a personal relationship with a God they feel is as present in the church as the next person in the pew.