Sentences with phrase «certain church practice»

Ask Why 7 times to discover if a certain church practice should be continued or not.

But if you can get past that, the book will encourage you to ask questions about church that you may have never asked, and to see certain church practices from new perspectives.

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using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»

It takes some imagination and some discipline, like the organist spending a few minutes every day at a piano keyboard and reserving certain times of the week, like Saturday mornings, for practice at the church.

Hmm, not sure about the «sinful» part, although I'm sure there are some practices in certain churches that are sinful.

Within the church, the Quakers are united through orthopraxy: We have a similar set of practices, even as certain churches push those boundaries with liturgies (programmed worship) and pastoral leadership of worship.

It would be nice to go back and sit in on the conversations between Constantine and church leaders about why they did what they did to adopt certain practices and customs.

During the Protestant Reformation, as certain church leaders began to break away from the Catholic church, some of them dropped the idea about the mystical presence of Jesus within the bread and wine, but kept the practice the same.

But Luther was not the first to criticize certain theological teachings, church disciplines, or ecclesiastical practices.

Once Jesus was dead and buried, his followers, who were also Christian Pastors, went to work offending more and more people who continued to practice the Church of Israel, Judaism and Mosaic Covenant to a certain point that emboldened factions that would find them guilty of sedition and condemn the followers of Jesus Christ, who were more than willing to put them to death as well, usually by MOB RULE.

The real issue is not should certain practices be allowed, but how is the church to be welcoming and affirming and loving of all people at all times in all places.

The Catholic Church has a practice of «sainting» dead people who obtained a certain level of holiness during their life and who have at least two verifiable miracles to their credit.

This constituency includes persons now repelled by organized religion because they can not accept certain positions (such as opposition to evolutionary theory or to birth - control practice) which they have been exposed to in some churches and which they assume characterize all churches.

Having the practice devoid of the beliefs is responsible for a certain superficiality in church life.

As followers of Christ how can a practice certain people being excluded from serving in any capacity in the church be justified?

In theory and to a certain extent in practice solidarity exists among the followers of Mohammed, but it does not show itself in ecclesiastical bodies such as are the Christian churches.

Christ lay down certain principles (being a light, showing love instead of hate and plenty more) and the early church took these principles and put them into practice.

T.M.Philip's essay in it on «A History of Baptismal Practices and Theologies» points to a wide variety of practice and understanding that existed in the churches from NT times and says that the historical perspective would help us «to maintain a certain flexibility and openness in the light of the new questions and challenges presented by our present historical situation».

In the practice of most Christian churches, and especially in Roman Catholicism, there has been a certain reluctance to admit emotion into liturgical celebrations.

The plan for the series of six meetings which we are having together includes the discussions of some questions that are often asked by Church people and by inquirers — questions concerning the meaning of important beliefs of the Christian Church, questions concerning certain practices which we find among those who are members of the Church.

Large numbers of more or less devout people, and even certain branches of the church, cling to beliefs and practices which are essentially magical and hence deny the supremacy of God.

It is true that occasionally certain forms, institutions and practices no longer have a meaningful value and the substance or the Church expresses herself in a different way more suited to its evangelical encounter with the world around.

The church's worship practices, says Schell, «are aimed at taking people out of the constraints of having to be a certain way in church.

For this Beyond the Book, I set out to explore the history of snake - handling and to learn more about the taboo practice still used today in certain churches.

The use of certain otherwise proscribed drugs, for example, has been claimed to be an important part of «religious practice» (see, e.g. Holy Light of the Queen and the drug ayahuasca; and the amazingly prolific Church of the Universe, involving marijuana).