Sentences with phrase «by church experiences»

So forgive me for my earlier comment about «religion», it was not intended to be insensitive to anyone who has been hurt by church experiences, but to express balance which I feel often is lacking in society.

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@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?

Notwithstanding that I consider that there are some such flaws in the approach adopted by the Judge, I consider it is important that the church does acknowledge, as I do, that we were, and I include myself, at that time only at the beginning of learning how to deal with disclosures of abuse, and leaders such as myself did lack experience and training.

I was amazed at first, then after several hours, my amazement turned to disappointment, disappointment that — I had never known that what I was experiencing was experienced by every man in the church, including the leadership.

You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

I'm sorry for your experience but my family was rescued by the Church, fed and provided, and protected from criminal regimes.

This is theological exegesis at its finest: informed by historical - critical scholarship, but going far beyond the biblical dissecting room to show how the experience of the Risen Christ both formed the Church and impelled it into mission.

We need to stop defining our churches by what people experience in the doors, but rather by whom people become because of Christ inside those doors.

In other words, any alteration to who we are as a people, whether individually or corporately, is not experienced by us â $ œon a consistent basisâ $, but merely in those times when we remember it is not achieved through some attempt to â $ œreformâ $ the Church or, for that matter, ourselves, and sit down beside the oasis for awhile with Him.

So, with this incredible promise of healing why are our churches still so outnumbered by those who are hurting and defeated compared to those who are experiencing hope and some measure of health?

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

There are many other patterns of prayer historically used by the church that may greatly enrich your prayer experience.

Within our church we are currently experiencing bullying by a church leader (Board Member, ex-officio).

I had been verbally and mentally abused by church leaders before (and came close to suicide several times), so my experiences with this pastor were the last straw.

After all, John Wesley was perhaps the major figure in what came to be known as the «Evangelical Revival,» and the heyday of the evangelical experience in American life is often described by American church historians as the «Age of Methodism in America.»

By paying attention to these four expressions of the church, we can all better understand some of the personal and institutional struggles Christians are experiencing during these times of global change.

Good he has experience, he can start by bouncing all the pervert priests out of the Roman Catholic Church for a start.

The reason for the decline in church - going Christians is the lack of Love those in the «world» experience at church or by so called «Christians»... IMO.

It may be tempting to say, «I have tried on belief by going to church» or even «I've experienced belief because I've read the Bible».

I've never met anyone in any religion more convinced of their personal experiences and testimonies than Mormons, yet the entire Christian community outside the Mormon churches dismisses their beliefs as false and their experiences as either delusions or deceptions perpetrated by Satan.

Per experiences two decades ago, the underground churches in China are not necessarily got harassed by the Chinese government as long as you don't say things against its policy, not get the foreign influences in your underground, then you're as peaceful as anywhere else in the free world.

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

The whole church needs help in avoiding the depersonalization of God as we seek to overcome the limitations imposed on our Christian experience by male - oriented language.

The purpose of the consultation was to share the experiences gained by the CNI through the above process, with other churches in India and also to learn from the churches in India their mission experiences.

I am associated with Julie and a few others here only by a common - type experience — being abused inside the church and then rejected for it.

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

After being burned by a string of fiery, painful church experiences, I understand the common struggle.

This no doubt expresses the fact that many people have not been liberated and empowered or deeply touched inwardly by their experience in churches.

The overthrow of the last emperor, Haile Selassie, by a Marxist - inspired coup in 1974 introduced a period of being in the wilderness for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which along with other churches experienced martyrdom and persecution.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

I know her hard work and service over at Redeemer Presbyterian Church far exceeds her job description and that many, many people have been blessed by her wisdom, experience, insight into Scripture, and grace.

Nonetheless, I am dismayed by the popular phrase «worship experience» to describe the church's corporate worship.

Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in the church.

Hundreds of working - class poor, oppressed by industrializing England and neglected by the church, were experiencing emotional conversions under his fiery preaching.

Everything except my immigrant church experience on Sundays and my home was dominated by the presence and influence of a fairly white America.

«At the bottom of this is the humility of the Crucified, which will always be contrasted by the great powers of the world, but which generates a real hope that is manifested in the creative vitality of the Church: in her communities and her movements, in the new responsibility of the laity, in ecumenical relations, in liturgical and spiritual experiences.

«Our theological task is informed by the experience of the Church and by the common experiences of all humanity.»

I have several friends who were so traumatized by their experiences with Christians they can not even walk through the doors of a church without suffering a physical reaction similar to PTSD — uncontrolled shaking, sweating, and panic.

In fact, Wesley was confused by the experience, but his perplexity was to lead to a period of soul searching and finally to one of the most famous and consequential conversions in church history.

However, the group that has experienced the greatest net loss by far is the Catholic Church.

After personally experiencing mental illness and shadowing mental health chaplains as a part of her course, she was struck by the need for hope within mental health units, and to see a change in the way the Church engages with these issues.

One young woman asked me this question with tears streaming down her face, for she had been made to feel small and worthless by churches like these, and she lived in fear that thousands upon thousands of women were experiencing the same thing and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

However, without a doubt, we can affirm that much wisdom about healthy family life, based on the experience of generations, has been taught by the churches.

The Fourth Gospel offers, in my view, a most profound and moving meditation on the traditions used by the Synoptists, in the light of the experience of Christian believers who truly encountered the risen Lord in the worship and witness of the Church.

Yet miraculously enough, the persecution experienced by the early Church caused the Church to spread in popularity across the Middle East and the Roman Empire.

Essentially the orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person of Jesus Christ and in the experience of God present in Christian life and worship, the believer was met by very God.