Sentences with phrase «at traditional churches»

One of the criticisms leveled at traditional churches by the «emergent / emerging» crowd is that they use too much technical language, theological terms, and Christian jargon that nobody understands.

The high neckline, long sleeves, and knee - grazing hem won't grab negative attention at a traditional church wedding — and that's one occasion where it's good to stay under everyone's fashion radar.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, over in Europe, we seem to be somewhat more flexible with homosexuals in the church, at least in the «traditional» European churches that focused on the practicality and contexts of the written documents contained within the Bible.

The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

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 government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

Some see Mother's Day as at best an antiquated observance or at worst a patriarchal indulgence, evoking traditional ideals of motherhood and domesticity, when what the churches really need are new liturgies of gender equality and inclusion.

I go to my McChurch, rather than traditional church, where one stares at the back of people's necks for an hour, so I can be the living, Biblically R - E-A-L (Relational - Engaging - Authentic - Life - giving) Cchurch, where one stares at the back of people's necks for an hour, so I can be the living, Biblically R - E-A-L (Relational - Engaging - Authentic - Life - giving) ChurchChurch.

«So at this point, traditional Mormons, evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics have more in common with one another politically than they do with the more liberal elements within their respective churches.»

But where the study, for instance, only hinted at normalization, the draft forges ahead with a strong bias toward full acceptance of gay unions, explicitly ruling out the traditional opposition of the church toward homoerotic behavior.

But beyond that, Mathison, who is a Reformed Calvinist, hints at various places that he also thinks that we should include the traditional decrees of the Four Councils of the Church, the Second Helvetic Confession (p. 137), and the Westminster Confession (p. 138).

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Davids church, as with most traditional church models, should not be looked at as a business.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional posiChurch People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional posichurch life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional posichurch's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

We want to make our church look like a quintessential English parish, to return traditional treasures to the people and to re-capture that distinctive English spirituality that was lost to the Catholic Church at the Reformation», hechurch look like a quintessential English parish, to return traditional treasures to the people and to re-capture that distinctive English spirituality that was lost to the Catholic Church at the Reformation», heChurch at the Reformation», he says.

I am so much more «at home» there than I ever was in traditional churches.

Support groups are problematic given the church's traditional task, which I stressed at the beginning, of transmitting identity to new generations and maintaining identity across the life cycle.

Leaving aside all the other factors - old - fashioned anti-Catholicism, eagerness to discredit a traditional morality most publicly represented by the Catholic Church, and so forth - look at it from a purely journalistic viewpoint: nobody is going to win a Pulitzer Prize for exposing rude things done to a fourteen - year - old boy in the basement bathroom of, say, Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis.

Several months ago, at my small group, I asked the question, «why did the pastor decide to forgo the house church model and create a traditional church?»

If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and divorced heterosexual couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative by the traditional teaching of the churches.

While the conclave was not designed to embrace a specifically religious perspective, it was noteworthy that even many of the representatives of secular organizations attributed their interest in aging at least partially to their own churches» influence and traditional support for the elderly.

With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

A speaker at one of the pre-sessions at the «Families 2000» conference, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, after elaborating the problems of the traditional family, exclaimed at three points: «The nuclear family is dead.

George Barna, in his book Revolution, indicates that while numbers and involvement in traditional «brick and mortar» churches is declining, people who are committed to following Jesus in their lives, at their jobs, and among their friends, is expanding exponentially.

If, however, the rejection of war in toto — which apparently is how McElroy understands the words of Paul VI — is at the very center of Catholic teaching, it would seem that the Church's traditional just - war doctrine has not been developed but repudiated.

Perhaps Carl Trueman's difficulty («Traditional Troubles,» May) is that he looks at the Church as «institution.»

Jerry Marshall, CEO at the Arthur Rank Centre, an ecumenical base for the national rural offices of the Church of England, Methodist and United Reformed Church, says: «Some Christians would assume the rural church scene is traditional, old - fashioned and elChurch of England, Methodist and United Reformed Church, says: «Some Christians would assume the rural church scene is traditional, old - fashioned and elChurch, says: «Some Christians would assume the rural church scene is traditional, old - fashioned and elchurch scene is traditional, old - fashioned and elderly.

Over half of New Yorkers are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and the city hosts many thriving immigrant churches, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical, Pentecostal, and charismatic, but Bishop Rimbo's focus — at least in this profile — is on the white middle class, the traditional constituency for mainline churches.

During the summer, contactless payment terminals were passed around with traditional collection plates at approximately 40 Church of England congregations, as part of a separate pilot scheme.

At Madras Christian College, students and faculty spoke of the explosion of independent Bible study and prayer groups that coexist in tension with the traditional churches.

Is the creation of the soul of man at the beginning of the history of humanity and at the beginning of the individual life of each particular person, as this is understood by traditional Christian philosophy and the Church's magisterium (as a truth of faith), an exceptional, extraordinary occurrence whose special ontological features contradict everything that is otherwise understood regarding the relation of the first cause to second causes?

For the author, the cult of the icon has served to create a cordon sanitaire around the Orthodox churches, allowing them to immure themselves in a gated community of obscurantist ecclesiastical politics and attempted geographical hegemony whereby Western Christians (or Eastern churches in union with Rome) can not exercise their religious rights (and rites) in the lands of traditional Orthodoxy, but the Orthodox bodies are allowed to evangelize at will in the lands of the Western Enlightenment.

But at the same time, one of the things that bothered me about the traditional church was the limited scope preaching often took.

I've read several books and articles exploring both the traditional and affirming perspectives, but perhaps no one else so succinctly, persuasively, and carefully presents the affirming view than Matthew Vines in his now - famous no - frills, one - hour lecture on the topic, delivered at a church in his Kansas hometown.

If you are part of a traditional church and have wondered how to grow in unity, or if you just want to know what church unity is all about, or if you are part of a house church, missional church, simple church, or something that doesn't look like church at all but is still connected to Jesus, then this book will invite you to grow in unity with other brothers and sisters who might follow Jesus a bit differently than you.

The traditional disciplines of the church — Bible, church history systematic and practical theology — continue to function but at the same time, are coming apart.

The same holds true for making contributions to the local church, for participating in nonworship activities at church, for upholding the traditional role of women, for being dissatisfied with today's moral climate, and for expressing traditional and more restrictive sexual values.

And these good ladies had items in the newspapers and on the internet, the Daily Telegraph announcing that: «Hilary Cotton, chair of Women And The Church (Watch), the group which led the campaign for female bishops, said the shift away from the traditional patriarchal language of the Book of Common Prayer in already at an «advanced» stage in some quarters».

God, at times, has been pictured as a mighty emperor and the worshipper as the most humble subject The traditional prayers of confession in many churches, often dating from the time of the Reformation, seem today to be too groveling.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

A look at the Catechism of the Catholic Church will indicate how many of Rahner's insights have not been taken up by the Church and indeed sit very uncomfortably with traditional Church teaching.

Speaking in response to the Scottish Episcopal Church's decision to allow gay marriages, a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland told the Belfast Telegraph: «Many people in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland will be deeply saddened at this week's developments in Scotland, which seems so obviously at variance with the traditional biblical understanding of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

The same difference in response holds true for making contributions to the local church, for participating in nonworship activities at a church, and for social attitudes such as upholding the traditional role of women, being dissatisfied with today «s moral climate and holding traditional and more restrictive sexual values.

I'd say half of the most impactful people I know, who love Jesus and tear up at the mention of His name, who reach out to the poor and lonely and are fundamentally sound in their theology, who create institutions that feed hundreds of thousands, do not attend a traditional church service.

In order to see specifically just what this can mean in terms of traditional Christian belief and practice, and in terms of the church and the church's preaching, we have only to eavesdrop on three couples at a dinner party who are old friends.

The effective disestablishment of Christianity in its traditional «Western» form is experienced by all of us at levels of recognition which go deeper than our knowledge of church membership rolls and finances and other readily quantifiable data.

They had the opportunity to start additional Sunday night services at a church in town, a traditional church with stained glass and pews.