Sentences with phrase «as unchurched»

In terms of intimacy, I find my closet friends come as much churched as unchurched; but above all that I need to worship to receive and give thanks, in good times and in bad.

Not exact matches

However I find it invaluable as a place to take my pagan unchurched friends and have them taught the word by people more knowledgeable and grace - filled than I. Also as a place to be encouraged to hold the course and not revert to the old me which prefers kicking a ** and taking names over compassion, concern and giving my time / resources to the benefit of other.

An unchurched inquirer stated meekly, «I have no idea what you'd expect me to say to you... or even to serve you as a snack!»

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

I personally do not see being SBNR as lazy, uncommitted or simply «unchurched».

Analysis of every level of community, from hometown to global village, targets the unchurched and vaguely churched with as much intention to remedy their deprivation and oppression as do strategies of relief and liberation.

Christians were «so judgemental» however the people that «embraced me» were the «unchurched» through introducing me to therapy with a personal counselor as well a providing emotinal support through checking on me daily or taking care of my home and child when I couldn't.

Roof believes the «habits of the heart» generation is not so much an unchurched generation as a spiritually restless one.

According to Lifeway research, 66 percent of churched young adults rated the opportunity to meet the needs of others (locally and globally) as extremely important in their lives, and 47 percent of unchurched young adults said the same.

Almost every question I raised he used as an opportunity to talk about reaching the unchurched: «Our goal is to reach just one - one hundredth of the unchurched people in Chicago.

We shall see how important the creeds and other summaries of belief have been to many Christians, who have unchurched those with whom they disagreed and at times persecuted people whose opinions were regarded as unorthodox, whom they called heretics.

Jesus followers who are unchurched talk about spiritual matters half as much as most practicing Christians, and four times less than evangelicals.

Even in New England, as Stephen Prothero points out, it's hard to relate the densely populated and religiously diverse Fairfield County in Connecticut to Catholic and Jewish Boston and to unchurched and remote communities in the North Country.

They may be angry unchurched Catholics or apathetic unchurched Presbyterians, but they still think of themselves as Catholics and Presbyterians.

He continually gets letters from the unchurched who are moved by his focus on both theology and discipleship: a commitment to what he sees as the biblical imperatives of non-violence, solidarity with the poor and a commitment to justice.

On October 3, 1949, thirty - eight denominations set out to win as many as possible of the 70 million unchurched people of this country to a living evangelical faith.

«What surprised me is the openness of the hard - core unchurched to the message of God and Christianity — just not as expressed in church,» Stetzer says.

BW, I was fortunate enough to come to faith in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that was slightly less fundamentalist than most as an ADULT from a relatively healthy unchurched family.

The poll found that 14 percent of those unchurched who had listened to or watched a religious radio or television program in the past 30 days had considered becoming active in a church again as a result of it.

The large number of unaffiliated but at least nominally believing Christians — the unchurched, as shown by a 1978 Gallup study — constitutes an enormous audience potential for the electronic church.