Sentences with phrase «church benevolence»

We took them out to dinner to assess their situation and after finding out they had not approached the church for assistance I suggested they request aid through the church benevolence fund.

Church benevolence programs are awkward to run: * Who receives; * What do they receive; * For how long do they receive;

This man, on his own and not representing church benevolences, with his own resources took boxes of food, oranges, etc to people from our church, members or not, who were home or bed - bound sick with flu.

Not exact matches

The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the church are from the claims it makes about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.

Even so, Marcion clearly tried to lift up a God of sublime benevolence for the alternative church he founded, but he was able to do so only by sacrificing the essential unity between love (his Supreme God) and power (his unloving Creator God).28

A church with 20 tithing families would be able to support a pastor with a salary that is equal to the average church member family, pay the church bills and have a great missions and benevolence program.

I am aware this happens as I was involved with benevolence at a previous church.

I used to sit in on benevolence situations at a church I used to attend, they required all those who did not attend church there, who were looking for money to come sit through a service, and then we would meet.

The churches» task in the area of benevolence has become that of ensuring that persons gain access to the benefits for which they, are eligible.

Stressing the endeavor for social justice as a complement to the task of evangelism, recognizing the inadequacy of benevolences to meet the challenge, and therefore seeking concrete, structural, political involvement based on a Biblically informed concept of «social justice,» editor Smedes argues that the church's action will «find its way on the ridge between harmless generalities and divisive particularities.

That is what the church and the nation need today as we blunder into a world in which the desire of Americans for wealth and power has been the source of so much benevolence, and yet so much anguish and death.

The church and individual Christians are too often guilty of substituting benevolence for justice in the basic organizations of life.

We wonder why there is so much unease in the hearts of members of Christian orders and of priests, why so few deep conversions are effected in China despite the flood of missionaries, why the Christian Church, with all its superiority of benevolence and devotion, yet makes so little appeal to the working masses.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I do it because i realized i wasted decades of my life and tens of thousands of dollars of my money believing in God and supporting my church, getting in return the never - ending reminder that i was nothing but a sinful cretin unworthy of God's benevolence.

The continuing secular popularity of Pope Francis, thought Sandro Magister, had a good reason, which «explains better than any other the benevolence of worldwide secular public opinion toward Francis... [and that is] his silence in the political camp, especially on the minefield that sees the greatest opposition between the Catholic Church and the dominant culture.

The scolding asserts standards of benevolence, piety, and denominational conformity, and then demonstrates how far short of the mark a church like Wiltshire falls.

When you research (and it is difficult because most churches really are «shy» about publishing their budgets) how much a church gives to benevolence, it is many times even less than 10 % with the rest going to «stuff» that makes us better Christians.

My church has a benevolence program that spends over $ 100,000 a year feeding 800 families a month as well as helping pay mortgage payments, rent payments and a multitude of other needs.

Women's organizations continue to raise major portions of many churches» benevolence giving.

With new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches, revivalism poured outward through home and foreign missions as well as a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform, not forgetting that the message was for all of life.

Thus the new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches was released by revivalism and poured through home and foreign missions and a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform.

Under the Word of God, the church must also constitute itself as a fellowship of faith through preaching, teaching, celebration of the sacraments, spiritual discipline, and benevolence.

Finally, the church also administered poor - relief and benevolences of all kinds through the deacons.

They have a Benevolence Plan that offers a solution for the church and its members, which includes life insurance, charitable gift and deferred gift annuities and covers members up to 85 years old.