Sentences with phrase «because in a love relationship»

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I have known one too many single Christians who have struggled with their relationship with God because they are told that God is only one who could fill all of their longings for intimacy when all the while God made humanity to be in loving relationship with another.

Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.

That's why there are 1000's of gay churches and gay clergy because no where in your bible does your god condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple.

Pope Benedict again reminds us: Many people today have a limited idea of the Christian faith because they identify it with a mere system of beliefs and values rather than with the truth of a God who revealed Himself in history, anxious to communicate with human beings in a tête - a-tête, in a relationship of love with them.

And, most importantly, to take all of that sin and pain and brokenness in the world onto his body and die on the cross for us, because He loves us, unconditionally, so that we can have a relationship with Him.

I want you to know Amanda is a woman of valor because she bravely and willingly followed God on this most painful journey; that this valor comes through in her relationships because she calls us to dig deeper and live larger and love with abandon.

As Christians, we don't have to fear changes in our relationships, because the God who never changes sent his Son to walk among us and show us how to love one another better.

«The reason same - sex relations were condemned is because they were not in the context of a loving, long - term relationship» - incorrect.

As Carl Dudley writes, «When church size is measured by human relationships, the small church is the largest expression of the Christian faith,» And David Ray reminds us that «small churches are the norm, primarily because many, many people still find them to be the right size In which to love God and neighbor.

This is because the stress in the pictures is on the divine all - sufficiency, total control, demand for moral rectitude, and active self - assertion, none of which fits in very well with the focus on Love — for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of tLove — for love is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of tlove is always a matter of receiving as well as of giving, and it requires that both lover and beloved are involved in a kind of relationship which matters to and has its results for each of them.

It is sacramental not only because physical contact is employed to express and increase human love but also because the human relationship in love is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward humanlove but also because the human relationship in love is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward humanlove is symbolic of, an expressive medium for, and a representation and effectual sign that enables a deep relationship with God, for God is Love and acts ever lovingly in and toward humanLove and acts ever lovingly in and toward humanity.

Because someday I hope to find another church relationship — one in which I can be myself and know that I am loved.

Yet because God is Love, there must be relationship in deity such that some creation is involved in the total picture.

To find a better path requires that you experience love, the love you do not have to earn because it is simply there, already there, in the relationship itself.

i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....

The reason same - sex relations were condemned is because they were not in the context of a loving, long - term relationship (May I ask - do you tell homosexuals that are only in a short - term, sexual relationship that they are sinning, and if so what is their response?)

If I selfishly love my frozen yogurt, microbreweries, and Pinterest, or dislike tattoos, noise, slow decision - making, or fill in the blank, more than my brothers and sisters who are different; if I prefer this church, or neighborhood because of the schools, the safety or because the worship resonates with me; if I am committed to my ways of doing life; if I let me self - comfort, self - enjoyment, self - security, or self - convenience guide my decision making; I will never experience the gifts that accompany thriving relationships with people who are different from me.

The truth stated theologically is, of course, the same: grace (the love one doesn't have to earn, because it's there in the relationship) + judgment (confrontation with how one is hurting or limiting the growth of oneself or others) movement toward greater wholeness.

When really, the mature Christians (who are more aware of their sin then others and in turn need God's grace even more) instead of investing in making church to appear like their own lives will naturally appear to most because of their relationship with God is more... advanced... should invest in mentoring and loving those newer in their faith and being real and honest with them.

Just because Wars had been waged in the name of religion doesn't make the point of it Wrong,,, otherwise why does it say (He who loves me, keeps my commandments) almost at the same time as it says (I give you a new commandment, love...) in short, Yes, Jesus is what matters, but to know Jesus I need His word, the Bible, I need a relationship with Him, I need to understand What He wants me to be Like (Be Holy as your Father in Heaven) which is not just an old testament quote, but a new Testament as well,,, at the end, if Religion was so pointless and to be hated, why Would God ask us to test the spirits, why does he tell us (by their fruits you would know them.)

Fortunate is the couple in whose relationship there is something which allows them both to experience grace — the accepting love which one does not need to earn because it is present as a spontaneous expression of the relationship.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

God as desire, or as the great Desire - for - good, is the yearning God, seeking to fulfil others in relationship with them, and by that very token seeking their returning love, which because it is given to God freely is also God's own fulfillment, God's own enrichment.

It's because of these facts that nowhere in the bible does it condemn the saved loving respectful relationship of a gay couple.

Because those are the very days when our relationship with God becomes the anchor for our love, holding us in place.

The reason God did this is because if God wanted real relationship with His creatures, ones He could love and who could love Him in return, there was no other way to do it.

Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who of us is worthy.It is by grace that we live and yes bad things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love him..

I agree with the other poster you took the cowardly way out it you are truly gay, because nowhere in the bible does your god condemn the saved loving long term relationship of a gay couple as we know and understand it today.

The piece was misread, I think, because I had positive things to say about gay people and about the love present in countless gay relationships.

I told Matt I loved him, but I didn't believe that anymore because I was living in reality and he wasn't, therefore our relationship didn't exist.

This view is like a healthy parent - child relationship in which the parent naturally accepts the child because he is his child and he loves him.

It was life - changing because I finally understood how my mother's and father's behaviors, many of which I brought into my own love relationships, impacted me — and not in the best ways.

Because the only way to have a relationship — married or not, cohabiting or not, monogamous or consensually non-monogamous, you name it — that continues happily is to have each person choose each other over and over because they love each other in a way that they want to stay together (which, of course, is the thinking behind a renewable marriage conBecause the only way to have a relationship — married or not, cohabiting or not, monogamous or consensually non-monogamous, you name it — that continues happily is to have each person choose each other over and over because they love each other in a way that they want to stay together (which, of course, is the thinking behind a renewable marriage conbecause they love each other in a way that they want to stay together (which, of course, is the thinking behind a renewable marriage contract).

This has been difficult at times because there are some issues from our past relationship together, also dealing with different parenting techniques is hard when you are not in a loving relationship anymore.

Psychoanalyst Beverly Engel, author of Loving Him Without Losing Yourself, calls it the Disappearing Woman — what happens when women lose track of what they believe in, what they stand for, what's important to them and what makes them happy just because they happen to be in a relationship with someone they love.

But I do have a wish or two for you in 2015 — please consider getting rid of the script in your head of what love, relationships or marriage should look like and instead ask yourself what you want them to look like; that you stop looking to others to tell you what you should or shouldn't do and question, question, question any advice you read or hear from Internet experts or, for that matter, even credentialed experts (some are just not very good or have their own biases); and, finally, to stop giving credence to articles in women's magazines that often fuel anxiety and chip away at self - esteem because the emphasis always seems to be that you're doing something wrong and if you just did X, Y and Z, you'd have what you want and live happily ever after.

Submission after submission I find myself duped, baffled and / or slightly disgusted by what I am reading, not because I think the mothers in the submissions are sick people, but because I think it's inappropriate to attribute qualities of romantic love to the relationship you have with your son.

More often, kids give us the benefit of the doubt because all the other loving, affirming interactions create a positive balance in our relationship account.

They will actually end up developing a bigger number of secure attachments to loving adults, and having relationships with new people who can teach them new things and offer perspectives that their parents can't have (because we're all limited in terms of what we can know, and how we view things) and in general, their squad of caregivers is going to expand and that is nothing but good.

It is okay to love the story for what it is, a story, but it is not okay to claim that the relationship is healthy because that leaves an impression on young girls that could lead to them to being in an abusive relationship.

So my question is, do you think a marriage or a relationship / friendship like that could work if both are open and upfront about the terms and boundaries of the relationship, and both are content to cohabitate (sic) in an arrangement like this because we make each other happy and we love each other in our own way, but we're not in love with each other?

This is because child custody laws in most states favor custody arrangements that allow both parents to maintain a close and loving relationship with their child.

You embody the the idea that it's better to «want» to be in a relationship because there is a loving bond rather than you «need» to be in a relationship because there is stuff to be done or procured.

Teens love it too because they see positive changes in their relationships with their parents within a few weeks, even days.

In our family, I don't mind my daughter knowing that my husband and I have our own special relationship and that we value time alone because we love each other.

Because this relationship is grounded in love and trust and many small interactions, it can tolerate mistakes and misunderstandings.

Maybe you're even writing them because it's all too easy to believe, once you've been in and out of a marriage, that you finally have love, relationships and marriage figured out.

Well, I actually have a love - hate relationship with it because sometimes I just want my body to myself and I'm tired of being kicked in the eyeball by a toddler, but I love it so much more than I am irritated by it.

Incredibly marvelous, all of them are so amazing but mostly I love those reward stickers because it will encourage your toddler to do everything in his / her best to get them and I love that there is gonna be a bound or a relationship between the child and the parent is so amazing when you involve your child in this kinda stuff I love it.

Expression of affection between parents is also important because it teaches a child what normal loving behavior between adults is and helps them to be well adjusted in their adult relationships as well.