Sentences with phrase «because particular churches»

Just because a particular church has more members than another doesn't mean that all members of that church are saved.

Not exact matches

Nor would I want to be cut off from the broader church community, only able to fellowship with those with whom I shared one particular belief because of my orientation.

There are so many things that have faced human society that were completely incomprehensible to the original disciples and apostles, the early church, and yet the church endures, the church survives because the Gospel isn't tied to one particular time in history, one particular school of thought, one particular framework.

We eventually left that particular church group, not entirely because of the pastors or the problems, but also because our general beliefs and desires for how the «church» meets, began to change.

My particular situation as a bi-vocational Pastor is ideal because I get to office my church and publishing work in the same location.

This, however, does not mean that there can not be serious differences of theologi - cal opinion within the Church, nor that a Christian could never refuse to obey a certain particular order of a minister of the Church because his conscience considers it as incompatible with justice or charity, despite the minister's good faith.

And because we live, and want to live, in a worldwide Church, we must bear with a certain self - criticism that which is inevitable if the Church is not to disintegrate into particular Churches which no longer have a common life.

Re 3 The Church or any one particular church has always been and will always be a complicated mixture of love and hate, obsessions and confessions, glory and grimness — because that's what wChurch or any one particular church has always been and will always be a complicated mixture of love and hate, obsessions and confessions, glory and grimness — because that's what wchurch has always been and will always be a complicated mixture of love and hate, obsessions and confessions, glory and grimness — because that's what we are!

The proposition that because it is a liberal church, it should never stand for anything in particular.

It's also important not to confuse Christ with a particular church because if we then have a bad experience of that church and it takes us further from Christ, we may not get back.

But the church in particular thought that its teaching possessed incontestable authority because it had been received in ancient times by divine revelation.

Because all of Scripture is culturally directed — i. e., because all of it was written for a particular situation and out of a particular context - the evangelical can not use the issue of culture to distinguish between arguments for women's place in marriage and her place in the Because all of Scripture is culturally directed — i. e., because all of it was written for a particular situation and out of a particular context - the evangelical can not use the issue of culture to distinguish between arguments for women's place in marriage and her place in the because all of it was written for a particular situation and out of a particular context - the evangelical can not use the issue of culture to distinguish between arguments for women's place in marriage and her place in the church.

After much study, prayer and thought I am convinced that the idea that only men are allowed to teach scripture, be a pastor, be an elder etc. etc. was a teaching that came about due to the status of women during a particular time and culture and continued because of the patriarchal system that most churches have continued to operate under.

Even though the Church of Rome acquired particular respect because of its association with the apostles Peter and Paul and eventually became the point of reference for the whole Church, the relationship among the local churches and with Rome was not understood in the sense of jurisdictional superiority or subordination.

Cobb also points out that «particular providence for particular occasions» (PR 351) leads not only to theoretical problems for theodicy, but to practical problems in the church, «because particular providence has often been appealed to as justification for many actions on the part of believers that are disruptive of the healthy life of the church» (TIP 14).

This is true not only because, as we have seen, the memory of Jesus himself is embedded in the life of the church and is carried in its heart — a memory which no historical criticism can possibly discredit — but also because the real medium of the revelation is the event as a whole, and not any particular part of the event, however important.

The now Wilsons WERE members of this church, and people join churches because they feel at home in a particular church, they believe the doctrines taught by that particular denomination, and other reasons, so evidently this couple felt at home in this church.

I haven't been going to one of my church groups recently because I've not felt like being with people, following a particular loss.

The difference in settings is important because the Church faced the task of taking the words of Jesus to a particular audience and presenting them as the word of the Lord in a new situation.2 It took both wisdom and courage for the Church to assume this awesome burden of interpreting, but to have failed to do so out of an overwhelming reverence for quotations from Jesus would have ended the work Jesus began.

I know a lot of people who choose to marry in a particular church or location because of the beauty, the ambience, or whatever.

If God puts a man or woman in my path in the Church, I will head their call and listen to them by the truth they speak, not because I'm scared God can only use a particular gender.

Because when the Church entered the Hellenistic world, and later helped create the world of the modern West, it became indissolubly linked with a particular historical tradition.

I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

So are you saying, Tiggy, that if people are committing suicide because the church preaches against sin, the church should stop preaching against a particular sin?

Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.

I did not leave the Church because of childhood knuckle rapping or from any particular transgressions of the members (and I did get a good basic education).

She drew particular focus to Catholic schools and explained that the rule was preventing new Catholic schools opening «because the Catholic Church believes it contravenes its own rules for a Catholic bishop not to prioritise the admission of Catholic pupils».

One has to imagine that Chevrolet Suburban buyers, circa 2016, fall into two distinctive camps: those who need one because of its particular combination of pickup - level grunt and church bus - style...

One has to imagine that Chevrolet Suburban buyers, circa 2016, fall into two distinctive camps: those who need one because of its particular combination of pickup - level grunt and church bus - style people - haulability, and those who want to make a serious effing 18.7 foot - long statement.

Because when you mess with a man's home and his church you are asking for trouble, the mortgage interest deduction and the charitable giving deduction are two deductions that are of particular concern to some taxpayers.

Also, some companies might give a scholarship because a student is a member of a particular church while some companies reward scholarships to employees» children.

In comments to that post, I approved a comment which was a diatribe against religion (Christianity in particular) because of church - sanctioned discrimination against homosexuals.

For this reason, where a church or religious body asserts, because of its ethos, that religious belief constitutes a genuine occupational requirement for employment, it must at least «be possible for such an assertion to be the subject, if need be, of effective judicial review by which it can be ensured that the criteria set out in Article 4 (2) of that directive are satisfied in the particular case.»