Sentences with phrase «church as a new family»

They suspected that the speaker was radically relativizing the nuclear mother - father team in order to replace it by some, vague model of the church as a new family surrogate.

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As a pastor, Young's income «was all over the place,» he says, and so were the gigs — he was constantly moving his family to a different town or state with every new church.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

If I saw the church as a significant part of the new birth, I could no more give up on ex-church members (who are family) than I could give up on a wayward child — they may leave, but that doesn't change the nature of my relationship or commitment toward them.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

Twenty centuries later, I think we are the ones who invest our ego in the church and make the church about our values, rather than seeing our relationship to Jesus as finding expression in a community of believers — quite literally a new family.

From the beginning of his pontificate, he reached out to religious believers outside the Church; and as he grew closer to them throughout the world, it had a parallel effect of forging new alliances in America, particularly between Evangelicals and Catholics, and Jews and Catholics, who have worked together to protect the family, uphold Judeo - Christian morality and combat prejudice.

Even as a Christian family, we found the search for a new church home in our new community daunting.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

In purely aesthetic terms, it's hard to imagine a starker contrast than which Father Ed Tomlinson and his family and flock must have felt four years ago when, as a group, they left their Anglican parish church of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pechurch of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of PeChurch through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pembury.

Certainly the Christian life which the Church has to mediate is not a ghetto - like idyll carefully safeguarded and cultivated in the margin of the rest of life, solely in the gentle inwardness of conscience or in the respectable Sunday churchgoing of a family seen as the last oasis in the omnipotence of a pitiless new age.

As the only institutions with direct entree to millions of new families, churches have a strategic responsibility to provide growth experiences for those who have or will soon have awesome influence over the mental health of small children.

marks the apex of new voluntary spiritual communities that have increasingly taken over the functions of family, extended family, and neighborhood, as well as the social functions of the church and workplace» (pp. 162 - 163).

He blessed that wee new girl, and her family, and it was that moment when the quiet unassuming one is revealed as their true identity in the movie, he's still a pastor, still a teacher, even after all of the deconstruction and pulling apart and rebuilding of our faith, and our understanding of church and go - go - go - programs on the premise of compounds and build - it - they - will - come, coupled with a new understanding of vocation and ministry, even with his business acumen, and the new normal life in the secular marketplace.

But that empirical, visible church, located where we happen to live and which we can see functioning well or ill, is only the hither side — the imperfect expression, if you will — of what the New Testament thinks of as the «Body of Christ» and describes as «without spot or blemish,» as «the household of faith,» and as «the family of God.»

Christ was born, he preached, to a world as disparate as shepherds and kings, not merely to nuclear families, and the way the church witnessed God's new embrace at Christmas should be by congregation - wide Communion, not private huddles at the altar.

As new research released suggests half of children in families who use foodbanks are aged between five and 11, a Christian charity has told Premier the situation could be worse without Church support.

And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Already, during orientation sessions, prior and subsequent to matriculation, deans and counselors admonish newly arriving seventeen - and eighteen - year - olds to make «good decisions» as they reconnoiter a new terrain of sexual freedom out of the purview of family, church, and neighborhood.

To put this in everyday terms, parents treat their children as they would a new coworker or employee, a new member of their church or community club, or their friends and adult family members — they would come from a place of great compassion, forgiveness, and patience as the child is learning about their place in the world.

We had a play date, went to church as a family, tried a few new recipes and relaxed!

His white - trash family (Thomas Haden Church as his dad, Gina Gershon as his father's new wife and Juno Temple as his little sister) eagerly agree.

Other than public media, one can strive hard in making strong contact through friends, family members, and churches that as well would help in promoting the new and unique books, such as collection of poems, because very exciting to read it.

And just as you might offer money to a homeless stranger, smile at a person walking down the street, or invite a new family from your church over for tea or dinner, take the types of actions online that will help you to get to know the people who follow you and want to connect with you.

With a seemingly bottomless supply of money from the Walton Family Foundation, they acquired essential works, such as Asher B. Durand's 1849 «Kindred Spirits» (from the New York Public Library for a reported $ 35 million) along with paintings by Thomas Moran, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole and other 19th - century painters.