Sentences with phrase «better get me to church»

Not exact matches

«But I sincerely believe that Jesus wants a Church attentive to the goodness which the Holy Spirit sows in the midst of human weakness, a Mother who, while clearly expressing her objective teaching, «always does what good she can, even if in the process, her shoes get soiled by the mud on the street.

Churches in other nations that are persecuted don't have the luxury to sit around and argue the finer points of theology until they find their depravity getting the better of them.

'' «It takes a good deal of deception and manipulation to get an improper submission through the safeguards we have put in place,» the church said in a statement Tuesday» Religion takes a lot of deception and manipulation, period...

But indeed, good music videos will get people to watch and come to church!

Previously we had to rely on second hand accounts at best, the «I know a guy who prayed and it totally came true» or «I know this person who died and went to heaven and came back» or «this person in our church saw a Smurf doll get up and start trying to choke a baby...»

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

In contrast to Orthodox «getting things right» books, Everyday Saints depicts the Church as people with warts and flaws through whom God nevertheless works for good.

The priest isn't a surfer but said he thought it would be a good way to get people interested in the church.

So the lay need to either be good little sheep or GET OUT OF THE CHURCH Not so.

We can debate the «were a Christian nation» thing back and forth without getting anywhere, but to imply that the freedoms we have now came only from Christian roots ignores the rest of world history as well as the fact that its often been the Church impeding civil liberties and progressive movements.

Then add all the towns and cities in all the other countries where the scandal has broken out — and then the third World countries where the Church is still powerful enough to keep a lid on it — and we've got to be well into six figures.

Satan will get churches to tell the pastor that people don't want to hear the Bible taught any more, and so if he could just tell them a bunch of stories, that would be better.

Oh wait... Ive got it wrong this isn't for believers, Atheists no the look foolish to us, This is so Atheists can find other atheists, So they can eventually form a Church, its going to be a weird Church, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wChurch, its going to be a weird Church, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wChurch, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wchurch without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to watch!!

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How many folk get pressured to leave a good SS class or Bible study where they are receiving the meat of the Word so «they can get busy for the Lord» and «helping His church to grow»?

Actually now is a very good time to get out of the fully leavened gubmint churches.

And whilst I understand concerns surrounding institutionalisation of the church we can't get away from the fact for a community to function effectively requires structure, strategy and systems as well as values and vision to carry out its purpose's.

To the contrary, when it is recognized that in Paul's surviving letters to the Corinthians, he nowhere addresses elders, this section is best seen as a description of how a church could get it's teaching when there are no trained and qualified elders to perform the teachinTo the contrary, when it is recognized that in Paul's surviving letters to the Corinthians, he nowhere addresses elders, this section is best seen as a description of how a church could get it's teaching when there are no trained and qualified elders to perform the teachinto the Corinthians, he nowhere addresses elders, this section is best seen as a description of how a church could get it's teaching when there are no trained and qualified elders to perform the teachinto perform the teaching.

The emergent church opts for «Christ - follower» which, I have to admit, is the best term I've got as well.

In his post, Piper says, «submission does not mean you do not try to influence your husband» and suggests that a good test of proper male headship in a relationship is to examine who says «let's» most often — as in, «let's go out to eat, let's try to get our finances in order, let's get to church on time next Sunday.»

The proper thing to teach young black males is to stay in school, get good grades, choose a respectable career field, attend church regularly, be kind and couteous to everyone you meet, repect and support the police, stay off drugs, don't steal, don't assault people, and quit thinking the man is out to get you.

If the bully has done his job well, those being bullied will have been taught that confronting the bully is akin to punching God in the nose: God's going to get really mad if you punch him, and if you confront a church bully.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Getting lots of people to go to church (or to attend a convocation / political rally) isn't the same as making disciples of Jesus Christ, and Christian leaders would do well to remember the difference.

I think that true and deep discipleship is not happening in a church unless the needs of the congregation and the community are being met, and I think that one of the best ways to disciple believers is to get them serving in the community along side each other.

By his definitition, that means I could ask Jesus into my heart at a church camp, make a concious decision to leave the church, spend my entire life raping and murdering children, get shot down by my drug dealer for stealing, and then appear before God where he tells me: «Well done my good and faithful servant!»

The church gets too focused on doctrine and then the pendulum swings dramatically away to good works, the church ignores doctrine for social action and so the pendulum swings dramatically back toward an inward looking intellectualized faith.

I suspect that when we do finally get to heaven, we will discover that this very imperfect thing called the church was the greatest source of comfort and good on the earth save our Lord Himself.

It is impossible to not allow sin into the church, and if any pastor tries, he better get rid of himself first.

We've got a variety of well - known theologians, biblical scholars, musicians and church leaders scheduled, as well as interesting people eager to share about their faith, lifestyle, interests, stories, and areas of expertise.

I have to say, that I believe it be better to just go love your neighbor, invite and eat etc, actually get involved and share burdens and there is no church necessary to do this.

Close the Church's doors to sinners, and well... who ya got left?

I suspect that when we do finally get to heaven, we will discover that this very imperfect thing called the church (in all its sometimes confusing manifestations) was the greatest source of comfort and good on the earth, save the person of our Lord Himself.

If the board backs you in this decision, they should gladly provide you some time away from the church to prepare resumes, apply for jobs, go to interviews, or even attend schooling to get some education you will be better prepared for a «second career.»

So when Kim shared a small piece of her own story about leaving the institutionalized church and connecting to a less traditional community of believers, I mixed the well - meaning, thoughtful critiques in the comment section with some of the messages I've been getting from critics lately, and this is what I heard:

Well, for God and Jesus Christ's sake, get some balls and don't go to church if you don't want to!

True spirituality transcends allows us to transcend even «good» American ideas, but there is so much mixture in the American church that it gets hard to separate»em out.

My wife loves to knit as well, someday when we make it up to visit David and the rest of the church you two should get together.

How do we get from «We must be good stewards of creation» to «Our church needs to invest in the Eden Conservancy Project»?

I do not get in to all of that Church / Community as a self help place to make people better people.

Well, did you know Mormon's believe there religion is the ONLY righteous, perfect one that will get you to heaven and that the U.S. and eventually the world will be taken over by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

Questioning every element and teaching of the church is one good way to get at the heart of our mission and ministry.

I thought the idea that living in a home belonging to the church and getting just over $ 2000 per month for expenses — with access to the food bank — was a «sweet deal» was, well interesting.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

What did romney give to his church, about 4million and I want to say that is very good but as a christain, when you give you do not expect anything back but do you know how much all these people that give get back from what they gave, Romney got more than half of that money back this last year and he would have got almost everything back and is that giving.

that maybe the best way to get our church services to look like Jesus is to cancel our church services altogether.

so this is a group for gays folks to go and get told that there desires go against the teachings of the church and if they keep at it they will spend the rest of the time in hell... but if they just stop doing that terrible deed then all is well....

I just hate to see the church telling these young couples that somehow their marriage will be better or their family life more fulfilling if they can only get some other piece of junk.

Well, the Lord had me on my journey, in mens churches, until, I got my on the JOB training, watching, MEN < pretend to know the Lord.

However, the local church needs to be exhorted to get out there amongst those who have never heard the good news.