Sentences with phrase «church came into being»

Apparently, Ukrainian Greco - Catholics can sigh a great sigh of relief, since this Church came into being through the decision of the bishops of the Orthodox Metropolia of Kiev, and not through «the union of one community to the other, separating it from its Church.»

The church came into being to transform the world and all its systems.

The Ukrainian Autocephalous Church came into being only because the Bolsheviks wanted to destroy the Russian Orthodox Church by dividing it and therefore destroying it from within.

The church came into being not just for the purpose of worship, teaching or fellowship.

Not exact matches

So, generally speaking, the only people who come into the church, or who stay in the church once it comes are true believers.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

I am free now from the bondage of mans church and all the controling rules it imposes, free to create and just be which was my original intention when I chose to come forth into this time / space reality.

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Jesus is not saying to the poor, «Come find the Church,» but He's saying to us, «Get out — go into the world, go into the prison.

«We couldn't coax him into the church, we said «come and have a cup of tea, come and worship with us», but he was too busy and he said «you don't know what's going on in there (the church) at the moment».

The ten tribes had been concealed in the pagans who came to the Church, and as each one was baptized into the Church he became part of the new Israel.

This book, in my opinion, is to actually minimize the great apostasy taking place in our churches; especially among those who were never taught the real meaning of being «last instead of first», to help those who come into the church who may bring with them societal norms of entitlement and «whats in it for me» attitudes and behaviors.

A church is a place where hurting man can come into contact with the one who has the power to heal and forgive in Jesus Christ.

The problem with most Churches is our virtual total lack of going into the community, we expect them to come to us, Jesus didn't.

God bless people who come into a strange church and want to find a place to be a servant leader and to apply their own gifts and ideas.

I was born and raised into a Christian family, going to church each time the doors were open and eventually came into a genuine relationship with God.

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

When I jumped (and I do mean jumped, a ready or not here I come, head - first dive) from the Sunday - mainstream - church - going - because - it's - what - you - do nominal / cultural Christianity that I was raised with into «serious» Christianity (to use the vernacular: born again, spirit filled, Bible believing, charismatic, etc.) and became what was at the time called a «Jesus freak» (it was 1972) I expected something from the church which was very different than what I found.

We have been truly blessed to come fully, unreservedly, into the Church.

CNN: Jeremy Lin emerges as emblem of burgeoning Asian - American Christianity Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

This is not the place to get into a debate about the tribulation so all I will say is at least be open to the possibility that Jesus was warning the Church to ready for persecution and be therefore prepared to endure to the end in the face of whatever might come.

Initially, I was caught off guard that this thread turned into being about public figures from Emergent Village who gained some degree of national - level prominence coming out of the «emerging church» movement.

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

Most of us would no doubt say that the gospel is, first of all, Jesus» own proclamation of the Kingdom of God, the terms of admission into it and the conditions of its coming; and then that it is, in the second place, the apostolic proclamation of this message of salvation, with the added emphasis and fresh meaning given to it by the resurrection of Jesus and the continuing work of the holy Spirit in the church.

When I run into folks from past ministry, the inevitable questions come up, «So, what church are you at these days?»

Then three years later I came to the church for the first time eve in my life, but I didn't know what I was getting into.

Maybe to say «that is a good question but I cant give you a satisfactory answer» maybe put the ball back into his / her court by offerring an invitation to the Alpha course or to come along to a small Bible study group st your home or an invitation to a non Church tyoe activity with other Christians, walk, bike ride, five a side football or other sporting things, befriend them and truly love them without an agenda.

Out of the original Christian hope for the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God evolved the institution of the church (in which there was to be «neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female»); 3 this eventually developed into Christendom.

The two letters are brief, for the Elder is coming to them very soon in person; but short as they are they bring us into the very heart of a controversy that was already dividing individual churches and threatening the peace of a whole district.

Methodism came into being to meet individual and societal needs that were not being dealt with by other church institutions, first in England and then elsewhere, especially on this continent.

but equally, nobody coming into the Church off the street is going to think that anything else is going on but the worship of God.

If either of these theories are true, we must be careful about using the verse to guilt people into «coming to church.»

It has always astonished me that so many churches and individuals who are «missions minded» rarely engage in the mission of Christ that requires them to come face to face with an unbeliever and love that person into God's kingdom (p. 125).

The movement came into being on a stormy evening in November, 1906, at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Boston, when the first «class» for those with functional illnesses was held.

In reality, there is a growing number of clergy who accept this teaching and are seeking to show it in its positive and life - giving fullness in their pastoral work: many of them have had the opportunity to be involved in movements which embrace the Church's teaching and / or have come into contact with Humanae Vitae for themselves and subsequent Magisterial teaching.

I've found my people without the striving and organizing, without the Official Sanctioned Church Programs, nope, we just all came into each other's lives, right at the time when we were meant to be there, we stayed open to finding each other, a part of me was always watching for the hints of my people, and so when I found them, I recognised them, I did.

Even what in itself is mutable can be binding on us if in the Church's judgment it is here and now the safest, what presents least danger of coming into conflict with the unchanging spirit of the Gospel.

Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

The rigorism of the Donatists, named after their second bishop, was not accepted by the majority, but the Donatist church survived into the eighth century, by which time North Africa had come under Muslim rule.

When Charles the Great was crowned emperor by pope Leo III a pseude - empire with a pseudo-church (the Roman Catholic Church) came into being.

But it was not until the church came that we changed from a subdivision into a community and became real neighbors to one another.»

The John Jay Report revealed that a full 70 percent of the claimants against Catholic priests came forward not in the 1960s to 1980s, when the abuse was claimed to have occurred, but in 2002, when Church institutions were forced into «blanket settlements.»

The temple should give to the poor the rich should give to the temple God says bring the whole tithe into the store house that there may be food in my house then he will bless us the tithe is used to keep the doors open to the church where we can get true food spiritual food that's the reason for the tithe we will always have the Poor amongst us Jesus will one day come back and leave for the finale time Come to Jesus while you stillcome back and leave for the finale time Come to Jesus while you stillCome to Jesus while you still can

By the time Christianity was receding in Europe, the churches of Africa, Asia and Latin America were coming into their own.

It came into very clear focus when my church was protesting at an abortion clinic.

for every priest that violated his vows and the trust of his parishioners there will someday be a reckoning... true the head always suffers for his members that go astray... but the Brits don't understand the Catholic church if they think that we are going to accept practicing man and females gays into the priesthood and except the pope to issue condoms for the prevention of AID they got something else coming... If the Brits want to live in a perverse society where every thing goes that their moral problem!!

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Most of us who read this will soon take our journey to a house where the promises of God come true and new life comes into the world, for so we can describe the church of which we are a member.

Christianity is, through and through, a historical religion, and except for the coming of Jesus Christ into the world, his life, his teachings, his death and resurrection, and the establishment of the Church as the community of his followers, we should have neither Christianity nor New Testament.