Sentences with phrase «be in the church generally»

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So, generally speaking, the only people who come into the church, or who stay in the church once it comes are true believers.

I don't think you are generally disgusted with all churches — in fact, through Lasting Supper you are again running your own sort of Church with doubters and not those clamoring for certainty.

These 4 women... well... five actually... are generally marginalized by a large segment of the church, and I wanted to show how, by the remarkable diversity represented in one family, that they could model love, acceptance, and unity.

Institutional separation of church and state, religious freedom, and toleration are values that grew up in America within Christendom's fundamental religious and political commitments, and not generally in opposition to them.

And because of that, your church is clearly seeing every flawed ministry, every lack of programming, every glitch in the Sunday service, and generally everything that was once flying by too fast to see.

I was told this by the church — but anger was generally expressed from the pastor in a more passive agressive way...

How are we doing generally as a Western church in engaging abuse which those in our congregations has had some intersection with?

While Lutheranism has been generally more prudent in its social activism than other Protestant churches, the trend has been in the activist direction.

Though they were generally regular, faithful members of Catholic services (until the Reformation), they seem to have viewed the worldly Church establishment in its wealth and power as corrupt.

The charismatics at that time were generally regarded as being a bit odd — as indeed some perhaps were in those early days before John Paul, with the aid of the magnificent Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), called them to a realisation of their place with Peter in the fullness of the Church and to growing Eucharistic and Marian devotion.

I hadn't intended it to be a comprehensive piece on the faith of millennials, just a commentary on how — generally, based on multiple surveys and my own experience — millennials in the U.S. long for change in the Church that goes beyond worship style and marketing.

Jesus Christ is present to the church generally in the Holy Spirit, who is sent to call, teach, lead, enlighten, comfort, and heal.

But even churches that try to do both are generally quite weak in one or the other.

They say the same prayers in church establishing that everyone there believes generally the same thing, and the implication is that the same thing is being established in every meeting that features the same thing.

This solidarity in the end redefines what the church means when it says «poor,» for the prayers of the church, and the actions that make those intercessions informed prayers, challenge the isolation that is generally inherent in poverty.

These» captured only generally in terms like «Church versus state,» «active dissent versus quiet resistance,» «civic nationalism versus a more traditional ethnic / religious variety»» have been for the last two decades the subjects of dispute in democratic Poland.

I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.

Churches which have tried a variety of marriage enrichment retreats report that participation by couples in the first ten years is generally more enthusiastic than that of couples in any other marriage stage.

The letters of Paul — which were the first NT writings — would generally «make the rounds» among these groups of believers, being read aloud to the group by whoever's home they were in (the genesis of «home churches»).

We are in for a longer and more arduous struggle than we have yet recognized, for our vision is tarnished and the message of the ecumenical church unsure without whose mainstays people make decisions according to their own interests — and the interests of the powerful generally prevail.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilIn Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a chilin judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

The «all» of which I speak has generally been understood in the church as all human beings.

It might be the church is simply located in a very provincial and unfriendly cliquish town full of mean people generally.

The connection between these groups and spirituality has often been noted, particularly because 12 - step groups generally acknowledge dependence on a higher power, but also because many such groups are in fact sponsored by churches.

In its academic form, it is generally foreign to the church.

You may, if you like, get this or that person out of the church — like the homosexual person who is generally in control of himself but who has occasional relapses.

One obvious point of division between black theologians and black church people is that black theology is not generally taught in black churches, state and national conventions, regional associations, ministers» conferences or Christian education congresses.

Only the church organizations and legal aid groups were interested more generally in achieving a free marketplace of ideas.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»

My church is known in town as a top - notch Bible teaching church and the pastors / speakers are generally very good and stick to solid teaching of scripture.

Your post made me chuckle a few times and there is certainly some truth in it, particularly from the production - line style artists (I'm generally thinking the big church praise bands) who seem to produce so much stuff that it's become incredibly generic.

That «we have this treasure in earthen vessels» is generally very clear to ministers, Church and world.

Historically the Churches have generally been rather on the side of the wealthy and powerful due to the common interests of the Churches and of the affluent in society.

«On the whole, conservative churches tend to be stricter in terms of what they require people to believe and their demands upon them, something which generally makes an organisation stronger.

Monasticism was a kind of reform and could lead to movements of reform more generally in the church, as with Augustine, Benedict, or Bernard of Clairvaux.

In the more conservative churches sin has been generally conceived as a state of inherited Adamic guilt, not very sharply defined or related to the moral life, but nevertheless with some moral content in the individual's personal relationIn the more conservative churches sin has been generally conceived as a state of inherited Adamic guilt, not very sharply defined or related to the moral life, but nevertheless with some moral content in the individual's personal relationin the individual's personal relations.

I have a lot of people challenge my claim that questions, generally speaking, are not welcomed in the church.

Catholic theology was generally based on the view that outside the church there is no salvation, though a gradual opening up towards others began after the «discovery» by Columbus of the New World in the Americas in 1492, and the opening of the route to the East after Vasco da Gama in 1498.

This was in direct contradiction to the Churches» generally accepted beliefs based on a literal reading of certain books of the Bible.

Were there no such thing as inspiration, Christianity would be true, and all its essential doctrines would be credibly witnessed to us in the generally trustworthy reports of the teaching of our Lord and of His authoritative agents in founding the Church, preserved in the writings of the apostles and their first followers....

That is a remarkable prediction, for it generally describes the state of affairs in the mainline churches today.

Though approaches differ, the new versions are generally inspired by Alpha's success in helping seekers to learn about the Christian faith, and in helping churches to offer a compelling overview of the...

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

The Church's public presence lifts people's hearts, and the service she gives — in Catholic schools, homes for the elderly, chaplaincies in prisons and hospitals, and the vast range of projects for the poor and disabled and so on — is generally appreciated.

Generally these are local people already fully employed as pastors or in the secular world who can arrange «to free up» some time to respond to calls from churches in their home areas to do evangelism training or carry out preaching missions.

Mostly the article is a series of quotes from ministers of largely African American churches talking about how churches should mobilize their congregations to participate in education — participating on and voting for school boards and generally getting involved.

«Like here in the 21st century, generally if somebody says some stuff you don't like, you just say you think they're wrong, and people stop going to their church and they become less popular, and then they have to go off into the sunset,» Glass says.

In Christian history this has been generally referred to as the communion of saints, and a far - reaching piety has been cultivated on the basis of a real linkage between those on earth (the church militant), those in the interim state (the church suffering), and those in heaven (the church triumphantIn Christian history this has been generally referred to as the communion of saints, and a far - reaching piety has been cultivated on the basis of a real linkage between those on earth (the church militant), those in the interim state (the church suffering), and those in heaven (the church triumphantin the interim state (the church suffering), and those in heaven (the church triumphantin heaven (the church triumphant).

We can rue and remember with nostalgia the time when «Catholic» meant generally one sort of writer, but in my view both the Church and its literature are far better off with far more practitioners making far more sorts of art.