Sentences with phrase «be in a church which»

How would you encourage people who are in churches which are not really involved in their communities?

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Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.

French actress Clotilde Courau looks over the shoulder of her new husband Emanuele Filiberto, the head of the Royal House of Savoy, as they leave their wedding, which was held at Rome's elite Santa Maria degli Angeli church on September 25, 2003, in Rome, Italy.

According to Jeffrey Augustine, author of the blog The Scientology Money Project, the church has a book value of $ 1.75 billion, about $ 1.5 billion of which is tied up in real estate, mostly at its headquarters in Clearwater and in Hollywood, Calif..

Daniel Neyoy Ruiz, 37, spent 27 days in the church before he was granted a one - year deportation reprieve, which was renewed in May.

The average commercial property tax rate in America is 1.940 %, which would mean that the church is getting out of about another $ 20 million annually in property taxes, based on the estimate that it owns $ 1.5 billion in real estate.

Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.

The newspaper wouldn't shy away from investigating Amazon either, added Baron, who was immortalized in the Oscar - winning movie Spotlight, which dramatized the investigative reporting project he oversaw at the Boston Globe, exposing a molestation scandal at the Catholic Church.

This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.

Every year, Glide, a San Francisco church and mission, is the beneficiary of an auction in which the prize for the top bidder is a private lunch with Buffett.

«If he's walking out in a wrinkled suit, hasn't eaten... and he didn't have a good night's sleep, then he's not going to be able to rally everyone in church the next day which means they don't come,» she told Massaschusetts» Bay State Banner.

Except if you are worshipping at the Church of Byron Sharp, in which case there has to be a specific and extremely complicated reason why either the Brexit campaigners were in actual fact targeting everyone or this campaign clearly did not work, despite what everyone is starting to suggest.

In 1962, the Vatican released the Crimen Sollicitationis which outlines how the Church is to handle accusations of s3xual impropriety against clergy which took place in the confessionaIn 1962, the Vatican released the Crimen Sollicitationis which outlines how the Church is to handle accusations of s3xual impropriety against clergy which took place in the confessionain the confessional.

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.

Like was drilled into my brain when I was in the conservative church, Lauren and Yen have been taught, among many other things, that masturbation and being gay (one which is a sexual act and one which is an identity) is wrong.

After a while I could not listen to a sermon in a PCA church without wondering which parts did and didn't apply to me, since I'm female.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

The wife submits to her husband, as in the first part of Paul's dictum in Ephesians5, and the husband fulfills the second part of Paul's injunction by laying down his life for his wife as Christ did for his Church (which might have been what Paul had in mind in the first place).

That's bad news for the Catholic Church, which has seen a 12 percentage - point drop in Hispanic members since 2010, with most of the losses coming from former Catholics under 50.

If this woman is treated and in conrol do you think she shouldn't be attanding a church service which possibly can heal her broken spirit?

Regrettably, however, most Orthodox Churches seem to be retreating into a stifling, sheltered and safe provincialism, which they explain — or excuse — as attending to internal affairs, which in turn are reckoned as more important pastorally than concerns for collaboration or collegiality.

In fact, many would say that it is the Nuns who are pursuing a life of Christ - like service, and it is the Church which has lost its way among the distractions politics.

In his toast this past Thursday night on the eve of the Holy and Great Council, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the first among equals of the bishops of the Orthodox Church, expressed his sympathy for the Church of Antioch, which is suffering in the face of militant IslaIn his toast this past Thursday night on the eve of the Holy and Great Council, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the first among equals of the bishops of the Orthodox Church, expressed his sympathy for the Church of Antioch, which is suffering in the face of militant Islain the face of militant Islam.

James and Paul — those 2 letters alone — reveal a difference in focus in the early church — which is clearly attested to in Acts 15 (and Galatians 2).

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

In its intrinsic supernatural reality, marriage includes three goods: the good of exclusive, personal, reciprocal fidelity (the bonum fidei), the good of welcoming children and educating them to know God (the bonum prolis), and the good of the indissolubility or indestructibility of the bond, the permanent foundation of which is the indissoluble union of Christ and the Church, which is sacramentally represented by the marriage (the bonum sacramenti).

Dionne's honest observation that «here» he «depart [s] from the church's official teaching» is a damning admission that he is in an adversarial relationship with the church to which he claims to belong.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the cChurch — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the churchchurch.

There were many evil things done in the Name of Jesus Christ, but it is not really to be as surprise, becaue Jesus said that the evil one, which is the devil, will plant his seeds in the midst of God's church, meaning here «The Christendom».

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

«Restoring Faith in the Safety Net», published by Church Action on Poverty, documents eight key holes in the safety net, many of which are leaving large...

I describe myself as a «former evangelical» for many reasons, not the least of which is I have an adult gay son who is not welcomed in lots of churches (neither is he welcomed by Muslims or those who practice B'hai Faith).

«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»

The Pope is the head the Catholic Church, the offices of which are located in the Vatican City in Italy.

I am pretty comfortable with people disagreeing with me (even with something so personal, but likely because that is because I don't encounter it often), but to know that my church represents an organization in which I am persecuted is very difficult.

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

The real picture is that harm, in the form of hom ophobia, pedophi lia, misog yny, etc., are destroying the Church, and there's nothing in your list of commandments which covers that.

In Church: The Human Story of God, Schillebeeckx says, «Therefore the historical future is not known even to God; otherwise we and our history would be merely a puppet show in which God holds the stringIn Church: The Human Story of God, Schillebeeckx says, «Therefore the historical future is not known even to God; otherwise we and our history would be merely a puppet show in which God holds the stringin which God holds the strings.

The council of 2016, which has been on the table for discussion and preparation since at least 1961 (although there were earlier proposals for such a council in the 1920s and 1930s), will for the first time ever gather representatives from all fourteen independent Orthodox Churches.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.

The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.»

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

A spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Arundel and Brighton said: «We confirm Peter Ball has been in contact with the Roman Catholic diocese of Clifton, in which diocese he now lives, expressing an interest in becoming a member of the Catholic Church.

I've known since I was 18 that I couldn't have kids and, during the years I spent in Pentecostal style churches, often did feel condemned, although it is something which is part of who I am and which I can not change.

And there's a sense in which church is meant to be hard work.

This passage, which is about proper attitude and decorum in church, though it may have a vague implicit reference to the sensual kind of modesty, is actually very explicitly referring to a materialistic kind of modesty.

There were Japanese congregants in the church in which Geoff served as a mission partner.

The Church, which is not affiliated with any other group, will target the comedians funeral because he played a gay father in the 1996 film The Birdcage.

This habit of the Early Church was according to the doctrine of the Holy Bible, which knows no hierarchy in the Church.