Sentences with phrase «built around church»

Civilization, he feels, is built around the church.

In the past, our world had been built around church activities, praise music, and shared belief in general.

Not exact matches

Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.

The original ministry that I was affiliated with was part of a large neighborhood coalition that was built by / around the Catholic Charasmatic church.

The church, however, should be free to build itself around a quest for God's vision for their world, plans / goals of working towards it, expectation of change lives and conformation to the will of God.

But isn't that how most churches get their following; a charismatic leader that builds a following around him or her self.

That includes managing investments across the country based around the Church of England's network of parishes, schools, buildings, chaplaincies and dioceses.

How can the church build an entire system around accountability if it isn't expressly taught in Scripture?

A church member told the Mirror about the moment 80 members of the choir at All Saints Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.church member told the Mirror about the moment 80 members of the choir at All Saints Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.Church realised something serious was happening, as police snipers in balaclavas were spotted outside of the building on rooftops at around 8.20 pm.

In an era of evangelicalism where there are church ministries built around the idea of «family,» marriage has become the focus of countless books and sermons and «family friendly» entertainment...

I wonder if First Baptist Church in Dallas could have built their building for about $ 10 million less, and sent the extra $ 10 million overseas to plant about 2000 churches (It costs around $ 6000 to build a church in AfChurch in Dallas could have built their building for about $ 10 million less, and sent the extra $ 10 million overseas to plant about 2000 churches (It costs around $ 6000 to build a church in Afchurch in Africa).

Imagine what the church could do in the community and around the world if it didn't have to pay for pastors or buildings!

When you build your church and your culture around hierarchy and power, you are naturally going to be 1) highly - organized, and 2) personality focused.

But unlike the transit hub, built largely with federal transportation money, the church is being funded through donations including from the Greek government, Greek Orthodoxchurch members around the world, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and the Italian city of Bari, whose patron saint is St Nicholas.

I recently visited a church that sent their youth group on a scavenger hunt around their building to count the number of places you can get a drink of water.

If this approach is valid, then we shall have to give greater emphasis in the church's mission, to conversion of religions to Christ and to urge individuals from other religions converted to Christ to stay within their religious communities and build up Christ - centred fellowships around the Bible and the Lord's Table within their religious ethos.

It is not uncommon to go into some of the poorest and most destitute communities around the world, where many of the people live in cardboard and tarpaper shacks and have barely enough food to live on, and in the middle of this community, find a large, grandly constructed church building with towering steeples, intricate stained glass, beautiful woodwork, and gorgeous hand - painted murals.

That night, we church representatives from around the world met again at the chancery building of the archdiocese to talk over what we had seen.

[Mt. 6:24] So, if in «my» church we are praying for the Lord to provide funds for our new building (etc.), while millions around the world are dying in suffering... am I not choosing to serve a diff.

One example of the evidence for the Indian apostolate of Thomas is Didascalia Apostolorum (Teaching of the Apostles), a book probably written around AD 250, which says, «India and all its countries and those bordering on it, even to the farthest sea, received the Apostle's Hand of the Priesthood from Judas Thomas, who was Guide and Ruler in the church which he built and ministered there.»

3) Church Family — whom you've built all your relationships around.

As millions of people across the country and around the world leave the institutional church — you know, the one with the buildings, paid pastoral staff, and weekly schedule of church services and Bible studies — they often don't know what to do with themselves after leaving.

The church building may be dilapidated or the population centre has moved so there isn't community around the church anymore.»

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

The purpose of our Armed Forces is not about building churches and stomping around according to their manipulative and subversive machinations behind the scenes using simple mind - control techniques against our own military's usage of mind - control in training.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, better known as the Mormon church, started its semi-annual conference this weekend by announcing it will build five new temples around the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, better known as the Mormon church, started its semi-annual conference this weekend by announcing it will build five new temples around the church, started its semi-annual conference this weekend by announcing it will build five new temples around the world.

A large cross outside at a church nearby was draped with white fabric, symbolizing «Resurrection» while the local paper ran pictures of rescuers working around the clock to recover the dead in the rubble of the bombed building.

Just from my own experience, I don't see a lot of the modest church buildings being constructed around me.

We work with leaders of influential churches around the world to help us better understand what are the products and tools that are needed to build community on our platform.»

We are drawn to this place of slaughter, this symbol around which our churches are built, and at the same time we are repelled by it.

But experiencing four years of struggle with her family's health, legal cases involving her church's building, and her own encounter with cancer has led to a rethink around the place of a theology of suffering within the Vineyard context of heaven - on - earth healing.

«I understand the church to be the people of God who follow Jesus into the world and so a gathering of the church occurs whenever and wherever believers gather, whether it is two or three around a dinner table, five or six in a living room, seven or eight at a coffee shop, or larger gatherings in some other building.»

Grace Church New Orleans sent a letter asking for help from other Grace Churches around the United States after its building was flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

As it is carried in a procession around the interior of the church building, the congregation sings the hymn «Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us.»

Several times I've not even gotten as far as the church building; turned around and gone home again.

For the missional Rorschach Test, the question may be built around what you think the mission is, and how it is best lived out related to the church, mission, and culture.

Dulles» point is that there are built - in tensions between the Church and the press, and, while we should work at better understanding all around, the tensions will not, and should not, go away.

The display showed pictures of cars parked in many rows around a large, low church building called «Calvary Chapel.»

Growth - oriented confirmation class: Departing from the usual didactic pattern, a church built its preparation - for - membership class around basic issues such as «Who am I?»

The church was built by Christ, not by the architects hired on by Constantine IV around 300 A.D?

The pastor of the Pakistan Gospel Assemblies church in Yousufwala village, on the outskirts of the Punjabi city of Sahiwal, told the news source that around 20 armed men violently attacked the church members as they built the wall ahead of the Sunday morning service.

The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

What if we built Sunday Morninlg «church» around a brunch table instead of around a pulpit?

These schools ran out of buildings around town, typically churches, and required a great deal of parent participation, but were relatively inexpensive.

Don't limit yourself to the church buildings you see driving around town, either.

(e.t. Visitng a church / museum to look at the art work, and daughter started to get fussy in the stroller - pulled out the folded ergo and undid the velcro to strap around my waist... it sounded like it echoed through the whole building and all attention on me).

The United Methodist Church in Cutchogue, built around 1928, went on the market last year.

Mr. Vance is correct that the legislature created limits, but it simultaneously built ways around them; its «spirit and intent» is like the public piety of a Mafia hitman who makes the sign of the cross when passing a church on his way to work.

They had quiet meetings, screenings around the country of this new movie in churches and before religiously oriented audiences of various kinds and they built up a great grassroots enthusiasm for this film.

It is a place of contrasts, with high mountain villages seemingly built on the sides of mountains in the interior to red roofed villas on the coast, clustered around an ancient castle or church.