Sentences with phrase «attract them to church»

May God forgive us, his churchpeople, for using our social capital to attract to our churches those who are powerful and rich while we ignore those who might seem a burden — those whose humble worship surely pleases God.

In other cases the existing evangelism staff has been attracted to church - growth theory and practice; some staffers have gone to workshops at Pasadena or have otherwise gotten hold of the insights of the movement's theoreticians and incorporated them into their programs.

He does this by the kind of person he is, the quality of his relationships, the sort of people he attracts to the church, the motivational influence of his leadership, and his own passion for making that church a need - satisfying fellowship with a dynamic concern for helping lift the load of humanity.

Students attracted to church music in the «90s will find the prospects of employment excellent — a simple case of more churches chasing fewer graduates and offering higher salaries.

Once they are attracted to the church, they can not become members without enrolling in a comprehensive educational program.

He follows through on the principle that his Sunday morning job is to reach the unchurched and to attract them to church.

Nor can they explain how converts like Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton were attracted to this Church whose public face is taken to have been that of a xenophobic, anti-intellectual, politically reactionary ghetto.

Not exact matches

And questions being asked about how to attract men to church.

It has no authority in the life of the member churches, but it does have resources and the ability to attract attention.

Bonhoeffer had been attracted to aspects of the Catholic Church since his first visit to St. Peter's in Rome in 1924.

This church is simply using the cross and its location to attract dollars to add on to their elaborate church.

The website «Love One Another: A Discussion on Same - Sex Attraction» www.mormonsandgays.org, outlines the church's position on «same - sex attraction» and provides readers with a host of videos from «church members who are attracted to people of the same sex, and conversations with the loved ones of gay spouses, children, or grandchildren who are dealing with the effects of same - sex attraction in their own lives.»

In its 1.0 phase, Church Revival failed to address its top priority: «churching» those who were attracted to Orthodoxy, which meant catechizing Russians and incorporating them into the Church.

This is one way we attract people to our church!»

Show me a church that doesn't try to attract people and I will show you a church that does not care if people go with them to heaven.

More new churches are springing up, attracting young people who are unaware of any difference to what they may have learned before.

A simple way for church leaders to show that homosexuality is not shameful is by publicly inviting gay or same - sex attracted people to be open about it, and to assure them of a warm welcome and true acceptance if they are.

A bunch of Church robots is the last thing that will attract others to Him.

I often wonder if churches attract bullies or if people who get into a position of power in churches find it's easy to use their position to lord it over others and even bully them.

More than anything else, the unwillingness to perform the difficult task of forgiveness and reconciliation in the love and spirit of Christ is what robs the church of that quality of life that first attracted outsiders.

Another church that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT pchurch that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT pChurch (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT pchurch that welcomes LGBT people.

The church is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominatchurch is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominatChurch of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominational.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

That's actually pretty lovely, and part of what attracted me to the emergence church is its relational focus.

Perhaps its signiicance in the future may be for Moslem pilgrimages, attracted by the extraordinary link with the founder of their religion, open in new ways to the truth of Christ and the Church.

They make a big, shiny church for one reason only: to attract suckers.

Most Fascinating: John Burnett at NPR with «To Stave Off Decline, Churches Attract New Members with Beer»

However, statistics and surveys reveal that in general, disciple - making churches don't turn out very good disciples, and seeker - sensitive churches tend mostly to attract Christians from other churches.

Perhaps this is partially due to the fact that the masses of men and the common people who first settled the frontier were never much attracted by the Anglican Church.

Some people who would never give $ 2,000, or $ 1,000,000 for that matter, for a church to spend on a mission effort, will give that amount for the church to build a facility that can attract and equip others to give and go.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

Big Church Day Out is a weekend - long music festival that is expected to attract 25,000 people and will also feature music from Tim Hughes, TobyMac and Phil Wickham

I am 60 years old, grew up in a very legalistic cultic church, been part of several church leaderships, served as pastor of a start up church, read and went to many, many, many church growth conferences, wanted to reach the lost, always trying to find the best structures, the best form of church, and what type of bells and whistles will attract people to church.

I discovered firsthand that church planters tend to attract people of their own age, and that means leaders need to be the age of the people they are trying to reach.

The Houston Chronicle: For Jeremy Lin: Houston church - hunting advice Linsanity has hit Houston hard already, and in such an ethnically diverse and heavily Christian city, new Rocket Jeremy Lin bound to attract even more fans.

But followers of the real JC must admit that, until recently, neither the Christian Church nor our nation's major political parties have been able to attract large numbers of young adults.

Gopnik has his own agenda: he claims, for instance, that Chesterton's supposed Jew - hatred was linked to his conversion to Catholicism, saying he was attracted by the Church's «authoritarian and poetic solutions» and therefore went for its endemic anti-Semitism too.

This consensus could be interpreted to reflect powerful socializing forces within UU churches or to indicate that the same kinds of persons are attracted to the pews, pulpits and classrooms of this denomination.

She was a beautiful church, and he became very attracted to her.

Thereafter Greek Catholics actively sought to attract co-religionists dissatisfied with the Hellenic domination of the local Orthodox church; and during the 19th century various Catholic groups engaged in missionary work among the Arab Orthodox.

Surprisingly, mainline churches were also less likely than conservative churches to attract members from nontraditional households.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

And I would argue that The Church, was never intended to attract outsiders to it in the first place.

Cooperate with other churches and temples in working to attract competent psychotherapists to the community and to set up community - sponsored outpatient services, alcoholic treatment programs, psychiatric wards in general hospitals, day hospitals, night hospitals, halfway facilities, and crisis clinics.

Churches need to help in the task of community - building so that lives might be attracted to the quality of love, acceptance, forgiveness and inclusiveness that I believe must mark the people of God.

The Church of the Nazarene, for example, has never joined the NAE, and its scholars have by and large not been attracted to the ETS.

While these churches are effective in attracting a nonchurchgoing population, the worship experience may begin to seem shallow after awhile.

They now have an enrollment of 1,500, and the adult education program is the single most effective way of attracting new members to the church.

When it comes to choosing a new church, congregation or otherwise house of worship, a huge majority of people are attracted (or not) based on a church's preaching.