Sentences with phrase «church i experienced god»

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I have a couple of young adults in my church that were so excited to know that God could actually HEAL THE SICK and had never really experienced it... they drove all night to florida from Brantford Ontario for 1 day and then back (this was between school and their summer classes).

That is not true in my experience as everyone I know who quit going to church did it because they think the bible is complete nonsense, and that Jesus was not the son of god.

The only reason I suggest it is because you can witness the demonstration of the power of God in the preached word and it is a very good place to be if you are seeking your own experience, but you don't have to be in church to be saved.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Although I was raised in a Christian family and charismatic, fundamentalist church, attended a Bible college, and had professed the Christian faith for years, it wasn't until this experience that my intellectual assent of God's truth became deeply personal.

Dreaming for me means confronting my experience with the Church and trading it for the dream that God originally designed Church to be.

Dreaming for me means confronting my experience with the Church and trading it for the dream God originally designed Church to be.

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

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.

I'd say my own experience with a God - connection at church, as one who is «up front» leading worship, runs the gamut.

Ten months into our conversion journey, and still wondering how we could be experiencing the grace of God while in an objective state of sin, we decided to petition the Church to investigate the validity of my first marriage.

When it comes to the Bible, my experience in churches has been that they believe it is the direct Word of God and teach people to fear it.

I have a new Christian blog aimed at those who may have had bad experiences with churches but still have a great longing in their heart to know more of God.

Lebanese church leaders Camille and Stefan are seeing hundreds of Syrian refugees arrive destitute on their church doorstep, turn to Christ, experience miraculous healings and even express gratitude for their trauma — because it has enabled them to discover a God of love

Because it was my pastoral experience that congregants rarely supplied at least 10 % of their income to God - be that through their local church or to other worthy causes.

Probably not, unless the church teaches you how to meditate deeply and you have a direct personal experience of God.

I leave feeling non of the loving warmth of Jesus in these churches as I did in my aforementioned personal experience with God.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

My question is could it be that God is leading me back to experience Him the way i did before starting to attend the current church i am in?

It seems like you have a bad experience in a church and in the book of Revelation God brought churches like this out.

Others see God through the witness of his Church, and decide from there if they believe in God (a good experience gets a yes vote, and a bad experience gets a no vote).

If their church experiences include liberal doses of being bullied, should we not suppose they may decide to have nothing to do with any church and perhaps even God once they are old enough to decide for themselves?

Max Dubinsky writes about his experiences on a cross-country journey to find God outside of the church and in the streets.

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.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

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.

• «What is the biblical view and Christian experience of the operation of the Holy Spirit, and is it right and helpful to understand the work of God outside the Church in terms of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit?»

The Church as a body has centuries of experience of reading the Word, of immersing itself in the language of God.

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

The contributors to Finding Church feel the same way, and have written their stories to tell of their own experience, and encourage you to find the way God is leading you to be the church in your town and commChurch feel the same way, and have written their stories to tell of their own experience, and encourage you to find the way God is leading you to be the church in your town and commchurch in your town and community.

It's important to keep in mind that negative encounters with «the Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experChurch» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experChurch, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experchurch is a such a critical part of our collective faith experience.

We talk about the womanhood project, «Love Wins,» God experiences, and church.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

Another test for the church is how far it can build an accepting fellowship where people can articulate their own experience of God in Christ This again raises questions about the future organization of the institutional church and whether it can or should maintain its present hierarchical structure where authority seems to come down from on high.

I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «When Easter is Hard.»

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

In the experience of the early church the Temple turned out to have inhibited the missionary purpose of the people of God rather than facilitate it.

The irony in this is that these churches pride themselves on openness to the world, when really their minds are closed; refusing to engage God in all of God's dimensions, they can not engage human experience in its fullness or complexity either.

I wondered if my own childhood church experience was the thread that held onto me when I was ready to reject God in my twenties.

What are your experiences with having conversations with others about God and church?

The Assemblies of God Church Planting Summit was a great experience.

Although we have focused on Jesus» divine status, for many people their experience of him as Saviour is more significant The World Council of Churches in its basis, which has already been mentioned, says it is a «fellowship of Churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour».

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prayer.

So for much, perhaps most, of the New Testament, the expectation of God's in - breaking is a present historical expectation; if in later writings New Testament authors appeared to alter that expectation from an outward, historical event to an inward, spiritual experience — in light of its lengthening delay — the church did not excise that earlier, more immediate expectation from the canon.

Like a groggy - eyed Jonah waking up from a nap in the dark hull of a boat and giving incoherent answers to questions from desperate sailors caught in a life - threatening storm, we step out of our churches still tingling from the goose - bump worship experience, and give incoherent answers to our neighbors about the problems with their marriage, their wayward pregnant daughter, their drug - abusing son, and what God wants from them to fix it all.

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.

The Reformers countered that both the church and our experience must alike be subject to Scripture, for it is through our willingness to hear the Word of God that we exercise our accountability before the God of the Word.

This is why all the terrible things I have experienced in the name of love, God and the church are not simply written off as little slips or slights in human error, but significant manifestations of a deeper malevolence that need brutally honest detection and committed treatment.

This stage in the process of understanding God's revelation reveals the reasons why the early Church opted in favor of a philosophical framework in its attempts to conceptualize its faith - experience.

In Assemblies of God churches there still are those who pursue strong religious experiences and desire the expression of the full range of the charismata.