Sentences with phrase «as different churches»

Yet there are fewer and fewer distinctions between them as different churches publish new versions.

Not exact matches

As a pastor, Young's income «was all over the place,» he says, and so were the gigs — he was constantly moving his family to a different town or state with every new church.

My parents are of different Christian denominations and when they wanted to get married, neither of the churches would perform the ceremony as inter-denominational marriages were considered to be «doomed to failure» — especially as neither of them would agree to raise their children in one or the other's church.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

I was lucky enough to find the church that accepted me and my beliefs as different from the mainstream but valid and no more right or wrong than anyone else's beliefs.

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.

Yet almost five decades after Vatican II, many Catholic writers, as Ripatrazone documents, want a Church far different from the one we currently have.

When I was 25, I was in my third job in as many years — all in the same area at a church, but the responsibilities were different each time.

If you think the bible is enough, just look at the hundreds of traditional - Christian churches that read from one bible, yet teach hundreds of different doctrines, which confuses us as to which interpretation is the truth.

The Mormon Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24).

But the election of Israel and the election of the Gentiles who answer the call to the Church of Jesus Christ take radically different forms: Jews are called as a nation, while Gentiles are called away from their nations, as individuals.

Christianity as a whole, is very confusing, because so many different churches claim to beleive in Jesus... we have the baptists differing with the catholics, and the catholics differing with the escopalitans, and then we have the lutherans differing from the methodists, and then we have the born - agains differing from everybody else on this earth.

Understanding this new perspective on church is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual matchurch is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual matChurch, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual maturity.

That's when I realize I have nothing to say and little to learn from somebody who thinks of evangelicalism as a church you can join, a megadenomination that comes in different flavors.

As has been said, if we are one Church, then people may move freely within it, and there will come a point where each member needs a different leader for further growth.

The Orthodox Church has another view as they followed different early church fathers than AuguChurch has another view as they followed different early church fathers than Auguchurch fathers than Augustine.

It's different with the priest, he mirrors Jesus Christ, in Our Lord's office as Head and Bridegroom of the Church, and that is a much deeper identification.

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

Different though their status was — Protestantism as the historical religion of state in Prussia and elsewhere, Catholicism as anxious protector of its endangered milieu — both churches were prisoners of the desire, above all, to preserve a threatened status quo.

As the curtain rises on Election Year 2012, the Catholic Church in the United States finds itself undergoing historic changes that indicate that the future face of the Church on these shores will be much different from what it has been historically.

As Imbruglia notes, the utopian vision of the Paraguayan missions was created by the Jesuits themselves: In widely circulated accounts, Jesuit authors described how once - «savage» Indios «became different men» through their conversion and joined a «perfect society» resembling the early Church.

* * * * * As the church, we know we must be different from the world.

But that is quite different from saying that Christianity as such faces extinction in the region, or that the church might cease to exist.

When the Church acts as an employer and hires people of all different beliefs, it is no different than any other empolyer.

We distinguish between our existence during the work week and our existence in the church as if we could compartmentalize ourselves in two different persons, time - dependent.

If a church doesn't recognize people of different races as equal, can they refuse to admit or hire someone in their «non-religious» activities?

I might choose to attend a different local church, but as has been pointed out there are many churches that aren't like that.

It's as if the Church cleans out its attack, gets rid of a few things, dusts off and polishes some others, and becomes something new, but not entirely different.

So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «white» but did not fully resonate with us.

I once read a thesis that quite correctly shows that the Dulles of the»40s, who was head of the Federal Council of Churches» Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, was different from the Dulles of the»50s as U.S. secretary of state.

It's all good, but sometimes I feel as if I'm at church every day of the week listening to a different sermon and having to digest it all so rapidly I can barely keep up.

I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «When Easter is Hard.»

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

Different parts of the biblical record take on relevance and importance as the church faces different siDifferent parts of the biblical record take on relevance and importance as the church faces different sidifferent situations.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

Hence he can, for example, be of the opinion that the Church could give up the indissolubility of sacramental marriage just as well as the ecclesial form of contracting a marriage, or that she could change the very principles of sexual morality because formerly she took a different authoritative, though not definitive, view of their application, which will perhaps have to be revised.

Hauerwas insists that the first task of the church is not to make the world more just, but to make the world the world — by which he means that the best favor the church can do for the world is to live as a different sort of people, and thereby at least offer the world something interesting in which not to believe,

It would be clearly inappropriate for the Church, as a spiritual society, to execute criminals, but the State is a different type of society.

These changes also place the church as an institution in a different power relationship to the culture than it has previously held since Constantinian times.

Protestantism accepted the idea that uniformity of belief is a necessary factor in a church, so that as new formulations of belief have arisen new churches have been founded to represent them, until in the United States we have over two hundred different kinds of Protestant Christians.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

And it should at once be noted also that as long as such a Church law is in existence, the character of its obligation, the possibility of being excused or dispensed from it, the possibility of discussing its expediency or the need to change it, the possibility of knowing oneself not bound by it in a particular concrete case etc., are of quite a different kind from any case in which an immutable divine commandment is involved.

My prayer is that out of a multitude of different voices we will find harmony... and hope for moving forward as a unified church.

We watch twitter fights between pastors from different denominations like tennis matches, as the unity of the Church dissolves.

As a «someone» with a very public view that is contrary to the «official» party line, and who has ministered in so many different churches — evangelical and otherwise — what has your experience been in this area?

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

But it seems almost certain that that is because New Age and its variations have so successfully infiltrated the churches that many who identify themselves as Christian do not realize they have bought into a quite different religion.

But as church history and personal experience reveal, no church can completely guard the minds and hearts of the people who attend that church from different theology and dangerous ideas.

While different from the role practiced in the local church, it is essentially a recognition of spiritual authority based on relational and proven experience as opposed to positional leadership.

Those are different questions, questions whose importance some church leaders minimize or even fail to recognize — as I did earlier in my theological life.