Sentences with phrase «church as habit»

David's talking about feeling the need to go to church as habit — a meaningless exercise we still do because it's ingrained.

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Second because most of the people thinks that the church - goers are as screwed as everybody else with a delusionary disturb associated with religional habits... Only church members think they are better than others.

To greet as many people as possible, I made a habit of hanging around near the outside main entrance to the church.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

As well, it drives me crazy when sincere people veer away from sincere «church talk» and out of habit or influence, start using the buzz words and «churchy» talk... I want to shake them and remind them they are better than that... to go back to their most sincere and honest use of language.

This simple fact of human life as well as of the Church is often overlooked by the progressive, when he screams that developments are too slow, that antiquated habits and customs are not abandoned fast enough, especially with regard to canon law.

As we don't add to the Apostles» Creed and other historic creeds of the church — though we are in the habit of trying to create new ones — so in the time of Jesus.

The church has developed the bad habit of talking about this group as if it is a problem for the denomination.

Nobody should want the politicizing of church leadership that comes with popular elections, as is the case in many Protestant denominations, and the Board assumes the right of the pope to appoint bishops, but they are convinced that the present pattern of the promotion of the like - minded by the like - minded within a clericalist club designed to perpetuate the habits that created the present crisis is not a promising way toward reform.

In the past two or three years, 2,000 volunteers came to Honduras as part of a Church World Service reconstruction program designed to break the bad habits of other volunteer programs.

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

He made no secret of his disregard for religion and seemed (to the family) to delight in criticizing church - going people as hypocrites or duty - bound slaves to habit.

As I remarked late last year, the introduction of the third edition of the Roman Missal and the new translations of the liturgical texts offer the entire English - speaking Church an opportunity to correct some bad liturgical habits that have developed over the past four decades.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Not only that, the newly planted younger churches have also absorbed ethnic factors, such as language, dialect, custom, habit, tradition, life attitude, thought pattern, way of thinking, music, dance, visual art, etc..

There is some possibility that church leaders will recognize that such reflection is needed on other topics as well, that a habit of theological reflection, and that alone, can provide a context in which new problems can be met in a healthy way.

So after he had propounded in these notes, partly for his own private guidance, and partly as actual lecture material, the idea of charity being not a «habit» but directly the «Holy Spirit», he added: «unless perhaps there be a decision of the Church in favour of the opposite view».

The Church must continue in the practice of considering «how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.»

As a child he had attended weekly Baptist church services; like most of his peers he was there largely from habit rather than devotion.

Fresh thinking on teaching financial literacy The Church of England is proposing the creation of savings clubs in primary schools to help kids as young as four learn good money habits and avoid debt later in life.

There is plenty of talk here about Los Angeles as a physical, mental, and historical site; hideous institutional architecture; gay pornography pioneer Fred Halsted; the revolutionary political stance and unlikely resurrection of Christ; the decline of celluloid filmmaking; and even catty commentary about the church - going habits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.