Sentences with phrase «better than a church»

Of course, from a faith perspective, this also gives us all appreciation and connection with God, sometimes it feels better than church out there, truly holy.

I love how an author named Gordon MacDonald put it, «The world can do almost anything as well as or better than the church.

That seemed so much better than the church's teaching that God sends everyone to hell who doesn't believe as it teaches.

Just a lot of «priests are pervs», the church only wants money, the church hates science, and I know better than the church.

I heard Bill Hybels say there's nothing better than the church when things are working.

You consider yourself better than the Church which is made up of sinners.

And: «PTL is better than any church I have ever attended, which is quite a few.»

However much the oldline churches can be faulted when evaluated according to Cobb's signs of vitality, those churches still come off better than churches of the new conservative religious center.

We have to ask ourselves, could it be that this Roman officer understood Jesus better than our churches do today?

Also, the LDS Church uses its resources better than any Church in the world.

If they love and care for each other, that's better than a church that runs over its members to get a job done, no matter how glorious the job is.

Not exact matches

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

Why do you think that empty school buildings are better than having churches that are helping poor people that are helping people get off drugs, get out of crime and tutoring students of all faiths?»

Well, if «take very seriously» means conforming his politics to Church teaching, rather than his understanding of Church teaching to his politics, then this is patently false, and we do not need to peer into the soul of John Podesta to reach this conclusion.

Just my opinion that the evolution debate on behalf of churches does more harm than good for the congregation.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Not that I fully agree with everything the church does nor condone the actions of those priests, but seriously do you have anything better to do than to spew hate on a comment board?

Men who meant well did more harm to the reputation of the church in the eyes of history than any good that might have come of their actions.

Most atheist have a better moral compass than so called Christians especially the Catholic church.

Why worship at a Church when they are behaving NO better than culture that surounds it.

The movie had a better sense of liturgical music than most Catholic parishes: Actually, the real reason I like to see any film in which the Catholic Church is featured prominently concerns the music.

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

Four months into his presidency no Christian denomination has better played the sycophant to the Enlightened One, Barack «Barry» Hussein Obama, than the Roman Catholic Church.

If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?

The Church of England welcomed some aspects of the review, but also said: «We are however disappointed that the report misunderstands the role of Church of England schools in providing a rounded education to more than a million pupils from all backgrounds as part of our commitment to the common good.

As a Catholic, I've found that my church is portrayed both better and worse than other Christian faiths.

Because the Kids is afraid to report to the police or parents and those Stupid Priests have better chance to commit a crime inside of churches than out on the streets.We need undercover federal investigater to infiltrate in all of them.

a vermin shirt remits venial sins Whipping yourself with a switch erases having dirty thoughts Putting gravel in your socks for four days makes God happy Going to church and donating on Holy Days of Obligation is better than other days?

Americans have better things to think about than the President and his family going to church.

Each of these can cause us to be more critical than normal and often manifest as false critique in the form of «Church would be better if...» The problem with better is that it is too subjective to be a helpful aspiration in this context.

As to whether the television guide is a good guide to the Times, the ten pounds of newsprint that Sunday had no other reference to religion other than a business story about selling palms to churches and an article in the Sunday magazine about a Catholic who has decided to become a Jew.

People should practice their religion at home or at their church and leave it out of the workplace other than setting a good example of honest behaviour.

The Church needs to be punished and what better way than to bleed them dry... their arrogance is astonishing... now they are being made to eat humble pie... I love it.

He is right, it's better to have a church that is bruised and dirty from the streets than unhealthy and unwise, clinging to insecurities.

There is no better place to learn how to do this than at church.

Many seminarians will become pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false» church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.

For example, aren't there better ways to help humanity than protesting soldiers» funerals as the Westboro Baptist Church people do?

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

You may not think you are saying this but by the way you come off you act like you are better than those who are a part of the church.

Why milennials are leaving the church: Because they are more intelligent and better educated than previous generations.

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

Nowhere has this worked better than in the Church in Society bureaucracy and its ally in this enterprise, the Commission for Women.

One of the things I highly value, and I wish the church would, is mutual passion for truth and the well - being of all people, rather than its own security or agenda.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

Broadly speaking, it is probably true to say that the Church was more concerned to communicate the schema to the laity than the Bible itself; but in doing so it ensured that whatever of the biblical material became available, either by direct reading, or through liturgy and offices, through sermons, hymns or pictures, was seen in a well - defined perspective.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

What I hear in David's postings and cartoons is a call to something better — I hear, come on, church, we have to be better than this (whichever «this» is on his mind for the day.

We begin to suspect that this is the case when we see the record of the church in the midst of our world storm The record of the church has not been perfect, but it has been better than its despisers expected.