Sentences with phrase «as church people»

The year 1984, as church people will often hear, is the 200th anniversary of organized Methodism in the United States.

We are self - indulgent as church people.

Second, each casts doubt on whether we as church people have anything fundamental to say.

The question, simply put, is this: do we have a fundamental rock on which to stand when we attempt, as church people, to address social and political questions?

Not exact matches

Last year, the HBO documentary Going Clear drew in millions of viewers as it went in - depth into controversial claims from former members and people associated with the church, while also investigating the religion's tax - exempt status.

In Altman's view, people who have criticized those ideas for businesses have cast the entrepreneurs behind them as «heretics,» like how the Catholic Church sentenced Galileo to house arrest for (correctly) saying the Earth revolves around the sun.

The event, a first in the history of Mexico, where 82 % of the population is Catholic, was only announced by the church after it took place as officials feared people might misinterpret the ritual.

While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

though you have your objections (as I have mine) to transubstantiation, it supposedly tells a Church member the truth about who God is and who you are as a person.

It has gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.

When church leaders sought to correct such false accusations by bringing evidence before the people, they were usually thrown into prison or hunted down as traitors to their country.

Our job as a church is to invite as many people as we can, as quickly as we can.

Religion News Service: Poll: Queen should remain head of the Church of England Nearly three - quarters of people in England believe Queen Elizabeth II should retain her position as titular head of the Church of England, according to an opinion poll commissioned by Britain's largest television and radio broadcaster.

Yet I STILL would treat people better then this priest did (and as discussed below, I actually blame him mor ethan the church).

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

It's not as easy as it used to be to compel people to come to church!

In other words, I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ, can do the work for the person who has died by being baptized for him.

My elect are not the people, the church in America; but my elect are the people of the world that are called by my name and do my will on earth as it is done in heaven.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it, like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.

What the Evangelical church needs is a fresh outpouring of the Holy Ghost, just like in the book of Acts, where daily, thousands recognized their need for Jesus Christ as the only person who could save them from a Christ-less eternity.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

I don't often hear any of George Carlin's favorite words in church, but I sure as hell * do * hear a lot of cursing of people, often in the name of Christ — exactly the kind of cursing shown by the men on the left and right in your cartoon.

Much as I would like to think otherwise, it would probably have been harder on people if she initially came to our church in a same - sex relationship.

As long as he wasn't abducting people and confining them in the basement of his church..As long as he wasn't abducting people and confining them in the basement of his church..as he wasn't abducting people and confining them in the basement of his church....

The Holy Spirit does not prepare people to accept a hypocritical Christianity and so, as long as the Church refuses to be Christlike, people like Gandhi (a Hindu) will continue to not be Christians.

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

We can, however, judge a person as not being in communion with the Church when they are publicly advocating abortions or involved in an continuing openly gay relationship.

As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

I just think as Christians we should have a higher standard than what we are portraying in the media concerning this issue... I can not find the reason why gay people can not be our equals in our churches — if they can be my neighbors then they can also be my friends — and if friends — then they shoud have all the access to whatever it is I do.

Again, let me stress that we are not counting people who are baptised for the dead as members of our church.

Everything for me as a pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the church.

The fact is that the issues you speak of are not because the people are members of the LDS church but in fact this is what happens in any society of humans living as close together as we do in large cities.

The problem is fred the xbox playing person doesn't create their own church, try to dictate social policies, use it as a way to spread intolerance and hatred of those that are different than them, no.

«The Hispanic community, however, is not immune from the nation's growing secularism, which concerns all religions, as church attendance seems less important to people,» Walsh continued, «and people move from religion to religion and declare themselves spiritual rather than religiously affiliated.»

The Catholic Church in Spain allowed the dictator Franco to forbid the common people to own a bible because there was so much fear (not unfounded, as proven by fundamentalism) that apart from ecclesiastical it would be misinterpreted.

The western church, as a whole, is so very agenda - ized that it may never have to worry about becoming HARMFULLY unplanned, but people should realize that the error opposite of being agenda - ized is out there somewhere too.

My point, is that no matter what the church says, he should have done the right thing as a PERSON, allowed her to take communion, and provided her with comfort.

As more people see these religious con - artists for what they truly are, more churches will go bankrupt.

The question is whether churches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs ichurches abroad, such as in the United States, Western Europe, and Australasia — comprised of Orthodox immigrants and converts long established in their new homelands, miles away and cultures apart from the «mother Churches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs iChurches, where they originated — have reached the maturity or acquired the single - mindedness and commitment to minister to their people and manage their affairs in unity.

As for the second, well, many LBGT people have made that very choice, to not belong to a church.

Why when it's a pastor, people always take that as a reason to insult Faith and the church.

Now the Church is viewed, particularly by people who are of age to remember, as the supporters of corruption.

The point is that if more people are admitting that they are Atheist then it is cool but, does that herald the end of the church... no and as we have been arguing a few threads up... the Faithful have continued to grow.

Homosexual people will be accepted as equal, full human beings, who have a legitimate claim on every right that both church and society have to offer any of us.

I feel sorry for this woman, the Mormon church see's black people as dogs, that God want's them to take care of, she is a token,

Therefore, the Christian Church shall invite people to «Believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Personal Savior» and WITHOUT JUDGEMENT!

Vattimo's advice to the Catholic Church contains a diabolical temptation that promises a success that is but apparent: If you want to reach out to people and be loved by all, do as Pilate did, leave truth aside and avoid the Cross!

The percentage of people attending church in the United States has dropped from the 40s to about 16 percent — experts tell us we're following the same path as many European countries where the percentage of people in church is now 2 - 5 percent.

But what happens when one of two things occurs: when the LBGT person wants to be in ministry (and therefore their conduct becomes an issue) or they bring their partner along to church and want to be accepted as a couple?