Sentences with phrase «church communities feel»

Those in small churches often find it hard to meet enough single people, while singles in large church communities feel under the spotlight, or find it hard get to know people well.

Not exact matches

Our service is an outreach to the community, for people who have been hurt by church in the past, non believers, people who are feel they are outcasts, etc.We run with no budget, all the offering goes to a need in the community, tonight its going to a senior that lost everything in a house fire.

While the importance of «community» is preached in churches across the nation, most of the time, we feel like we've aced this tenant of our faith simply because we're constantly building a tribe of followers online.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Until there are stronger practices of friendship and community and hospitality in the church, I feel an enormous amount of anguish and frustration when I tell young gay Christians that, yes, I do think, on the authority of Scripture, that God is asking you to live without gay sex.

I also asked how it feels to be black, and a faithful part of @hillsongnyc... all I can say, is that I'm glad to be a part of a church and community that is a work in progress and discontented w / status culture quo.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

We joined an abusive, (house / semi-communal) «Bible» church primarily because it seemed to provide what we desperately felt we needed at that time, as a young couple, expecting our first child: Stability, Clarity of belief, «Coolness», Community, and a sense that we were joining something that promised it was going to have a great impact on the culture in the future, and we were thus getting in on the «bottom floor.»

I travel a very Christ - centered path, but haven't been able to do that in the company of a large church community for the reasons you mention in this post — feeling pressured to conform.

The pastor felt that the church was neglecting the unchurched, and he came back from a seminar at Saddleback Community Church with «a clear sense of God's mission.&church was neglecting the unchurched, and he came back from a seminar at Saddleback Community Church with «a clear sense of God's mission.&Church with «a clear sense of God's mission.»

It also means helping family members and other people within church communities to understand the right way to confront and help their loved ones dealing with addiction — even if it feels uncomfortable.

I felt my deep interest in community was limited by my career as a pastor and the local church.

In a fractured and mobile and hyper customized and individualized globalized world, intentional community — plain old church — feels like a radical act of faith and sometimes like a spiritual discipline.

Your concern for the church is not just local, i.e. Mars Hill, but global, and the global community obviously feels it has an investment in the way this turns out.

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.

So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «white» but did not fully resonate with us.

We couldn't shake the feeling that maybe we weren't supposed to Go To Church anymore, like we were meant to forge ahead on a broader quest, redefining church and community and finding our faith again outside the confines of church tradChurch anymore, like we were meant to forge ahead on a broader quest, redefining church and community and finding our faith again outside the confines of church tradchurch and community and finding our faith again outside the confines of church tradchurch tradition.

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

Far too often, churches feel the need to «do our own thing» and we often end up competing with the community we are trying to serve.

I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship service I feel) and I talked about that church you posted about once — the one where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?

Backward, it assumes a Christian community that comes to church not solely to feel better but also to find its Christian duty and vocation.

Do you wish your church felt less like a business and more like a community?

I have completely given up on the idea of finding a church that I can feel safe in and find true community in.

As for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelings.

I prefer the small tight knit church communities to huge ones... though I love the brothers and sisters in both structures and feel empathy for pastors in general.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Young men and women today feel themselves challenged to identify themselves with the community and institution devoted to the service of God rather than with an ideal; the human need of which they are made aware is one that only the community can minister to; the words through which they hear the Word of God addressed to them are likely to be the words of the Church.

All churches were linked with the mother - church of Jerusalem by a feeling of gratitude, which showed itself in the voluntary contribution of alms (e.g. Acts 11:29 - 30, Rom.15: 26 - 27), and by a recognition of the authority attaching to the original community which contained the acknowledged leaders of the Churchchurch of Jerusalem by a feeling of gratitude, which showed itself in the voluntary contribution of alms (e.g. Acts 11:29 - 30, Rom.15: 26 - 27), and by a recognition of the authority attaching to the original community which contained the acknowledged leaders of the ChurchChurch (Gal.

Moltmann feels that the future of the Protestant church in Europe lies not with the large state church, but with small communities of faith,...

Instead, feeling the problem is too pervasive, they have acquiesced, leaving whole churches and communities paralyzed.

I often hear from women who feel called to preach but can not seem to find support or resources within their churches or communities of faith or traditions.

It seems interesting to me that atheists can't find a «new and improved» model for community, but feel the need to imitate the churches that they find so problematical in other ways.

Although there is an unmistakable tendency toward denominationalism in all American religious communities, and although denominations have dominated the cultural history of America, I feel it is not quite correct to call the denomination the American church form.

I wanted to tell of the ways that my family and community have formed my theology, I wanted to write a love letter to my complex feelings about church and community, marriage and mothering, womanhood and sisterhood — and I wanted to tell our story.

I feel Church buildings have to become Center's of Community, to establish God at the center.

It's great to see your blog, if I were living in your area, I would love to attend your church service or community or whatever you feel like calling yourselves.

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

Church and Christians can so strangely keep us from Jesus, but if you find a faith community that feels like the gospels and prioritizes our neighbors and sticks together even though their leaders are just medium and stuff goes sideways...

In a fractured and mobile and globalized world, intentional community, church, feels like a radical act of faith and sometimes like a spiritual discipline.

In fact one has the feeling that the New Testament sees realms of society and state as both capable of being transformed by the ferment of the church, the community of Divine forgiveness and the hope of the coming Kingdom, to become foretastes and signs of ultimate human destiny, namely the Kingdom of God.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

These, I feel, are significant questions that need to be asked if we have any concern at all for the future of the church, spiritual communities, or any community for that matter.

On the other hand, people will join communities or churches regardless of what is believed because they feel loved and cared for.

It had never occurred to me how significantly the modern church — particularly the modern evangelical church — glorified and catered to extroversion, and how uncomfortable (even marginalized) introverts can feel in their own faith communities.

I felt lost in church, like I didn't fit there, the whole round - peg - square - hole thing that so many of us feel about faith communities.

He conjectures why leaders of larger churches feel less comfortable using the word evangelical: «As a church grows, the core becomes surrounded by larger concentric circles that Rick Warren called the «crowd» and «community».

Pastors in larger churches feel acutely that they must speak not only to the core, but also to the community, and these results show they fear the term won't work anymore in their surrounding communities.»

Now, we can look to this passage as comfort for all the times we've felt rejected — by our community, by our loved ones, by our church — but I can't get through this one without a deep, uncomfortable sense of conviction.

But Miller said Pentecostal churches «have been more successful [than the «base communities» of liberation theology] in dealing with the felt needs of poor people — and especially women.»