Sentences with phrase «being in church because»

I never felt free to be who I am in church because according to what they teach in the Bible I am cursed, have a demon, or something else.

I love (like I did today) to hear a guy tell me how he was in a church because he had always gone to church with his parents and grandparents.

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They may live far away from family members or have few close friends because they are not involved in church or community organizations where most friendships are developed.

Another executive Quartz interviewed, Erik Church, has a five - hour commute from Toronto to Vancouver because his wife's medical practice is based in the former city.

Ben Gresham also still attends Hillsong in Sydney, despite a complicated past with the church, because he believes gay and lesbian members are key to helping the church move forward.

I see you every morning, with your pin curls and children in the back sear of your Expedition, because you are trying to run me off of the road going 80 in 50 zone because you are late to church.

People in my generation abandon church because of how cold and unloving it is.

I'm «not there» because I haven't found a church in Belfast that fits, like I did in London (some of the conservative Anglican ones there were really good).

You don't start a new church because the people in the old one were mean, and little is accomplished by labeling winners and losers.

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

That was until the church, according to Butler, told him he was no longer welcome because of his tweet in support of Collins.

Ok, I won't let a gay teach in the church I pastor because of it being a degradation to something beautiful.

The USA is a place that is free from any kind of religious classification and official religious sponsorship, primarily because the founding fathers didn't want the church to have control on par with that of the church in England.

(CNN)-- CNN's Brooke Baldwin spoke to Barbara Johnson who says a priest denied her communion at her mother's funeral Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland because she is a lesbian.

Well, here I am writing about it again because it not only takes place in the church but in Christian movements such as Emergent.

preacherlady said, on November 5th, 2009 at 9:35 pm Fishon... thats as prejudiced a statement to condemn something because it was written by a homosexual as it was to judge you because you are Church of Christ -------- Alice, the Bible doesn't condemn being in or of the Church of Christ, but it does condemn practicing homosexuality and as I said before, calls it....

I'm giving up the burden of the expectation that I put on myself to be perfect, and the pressure to conform to the expectations of others just because I work in a mainstream church.

In a letter to the Bishops of the Anglican Church of Australia, he wrote that he felt the need to» stand in solidarity with faithful Anglicans across the globe» especially «for those who are marginalised because of the doctrinal unfaithfulness of their bishops»In a letter to the Bishops of the Anglican Church of Australia, he wrote that he felt the need to» stand in solidarity with faithful Anglicans across the globe» especially «for those who are marginalised because of the doctrinal unfaithfulness of their bishops»in solidarity with faithful Anglicans across the globe» especially «for those who are marginalised because of the doctrinal unfaithfulness of their bishops».

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

The churches are in a conundrum because of the following logical trap they created: Premises 1.

That is not true in my experience as everyone I know who quit going to church did it because they think the bible is complete nonsense, and that Jesus was not the son of god.

MacIntyre is not naive about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»

I thought they found the names of those posthumously baptized because they were listed in the church list of names (I'm sure there is a technical term for that).

As for the Mormons, did you know that the founder of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, was considered a radical in his day because of his extremely liberal stance concerning blacks and slavery?

The reason is because they believe that Christ's original church in both form and doctrine, unaltered in any way, was restored to the earth again after a long time of being gone through apostasy (or a falling away — 2 Thessalonians 2:1 - 3 KJV).

We will be doing our fellowship service tonight in a community hall, we were doing it at our church for seven years, but we got kicked out, because we wer n`t getting the people to go to the sunday morning service.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

If someone thinks Jesus «isn't in the church» then they may have veered slightly off course with their judgement, because if you are a believer, then you've brought Him with you to whatever church you've arrived at.

There are individuals, yes, who do hold beliefs not in line with Church teachings — I was stunned, for example, when I was 18 to hear the leadership chastising members for not allowing their children to play with «nonmember» children, because «they don't have our standards.»

Too, some people leave the church because they choose to engage in practices that are sinful or harmful.

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.

These nuns are lucky the Pope isn't burning them as witches, because that's exactly what was done in the past before secular governments reigned the church in.

If anyone here is sick and tired of all the silliness and nonsense in religion today and want a real church, I invite you to check out mormon.org where you can talk (not to a paid professional), but to ordinary members who volunteer their time for free because they just believe in serving and want to answer your questions.

The fact is that the issues you speak of are not because the people are members of the LDS church but in fact this is what happens in any society of humans living as close together as we do in large cities.

By the end of my graduate work, I dearly loved the man, sort of in a Stockholm Syndrome way (where hostages empathize with their captors) but also because despite his vibrant cynicism, he was such an incredibly encouraging person who had clearly learned something from his time in church, or perhaps in spite of it, if his memoir is to be considered.

We are leaving the church because this is the 21st century and the belief in Bronze Age sky gods are moronic.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

The Catholic Church in Spain allowed the dictator Franco to forbid the common people to own a bible because there was so much fear (not unfounded, as proven by fundamentalism) that apart from ecclesiastical it would be misinterpreted.

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.

He was in my church today... but I couldn't get that needed hug because of the clamoring, noisy throng.

And to clarify... The LDS church does the baptisms for the dead because this is an ordinance that is to be done in the flesh.

I cartoon and comment on this issue often because it is a hot and current issue for me personally, having gays as friends and in our church who honestly struggle against overwhelming opposition, both latent and obvious, in society and the church.

The church = Oldest criminal organization in the world; Accepted because people can not accept their own death; Still people are going to be dead when dead; No religion will get you past that fact.

«Ok, I won't let a gay teach in the church I pastor because of it being a degradation to something beautiful» (Fishon)

The only reason I suggest it is because you can witness the demonstration of the power of God in the preached word and it is a very good place to be if you are seeking your own experience, but you don't have to be in church to be saved.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

While the importance of «community» is preached in churches across the nation, most of the time, we feel like we've aced this tenant of our faith simply because we're constantly building a tribe of followers online.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

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.

«It's time to put the bed back in church and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,» says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Cchurch and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,» says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship ChurchChurch.