Sentences with phrase «church even talked»

Some of the younger gals on staff at the church even talked all of us old ladies into wearing fake eye lashes.

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I myself am Mormon I have always been a mormon ever since I was born, most of you don't even know what you are talking about, you just listen to what other people say about us but don't even visit he church.

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

It's really discouraging, when you try to find a church that isn't Calvinist, and isn't supposed to be (per the denomination) and then you talk to the pastor on the phone and are told that you «don't understand Calvinism» (even though I'd been a Calvinist longer than he was alive)!

I was even threatened with «consequences» by one of his buddy Pastors at a sister WELS church if I even talk about any of it.

Afterwards we talked with our friend about this, and he said the pastor was even more of a bully when not on the platform, as we noted in what he said to us when we left church.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

And that's not a dodge, it basically means that most of these people don't feel welcome in church, they don't feel like God loves them, so before we even talk about those things — which by the way, the church hierarchy and LGBT Catholics are way far apart on — we have to talk about the basics: i.e. God loves them; God created them this way; etc..

In the second part of the talk, I described a church that sometimes in the past has led in dealing with public issues and sometimes responsibly followed other leaders, but is now ineffective even when it makes occasional pronouncements that are good.

There are amazing apostolates out there to explain these teachings (One More Soul, based in the US, is a fine example), yet few know of these and even fewer talk openly about this issue within the Church.

While I think Viola is mostly talking about churches that aren't necessarily abusive, my experience was that you're even more likely to be boiled in oil if you dare to speak out about church leaders who engage in bullying and / or abuse.

Wait, which church are you even talking about?

Also, if they want to talk about this at the pulpit which many have done (even non-Catholic churches) then they should be paying taxes as they are now trying to indoctrinate their members to be against the Healthcare Bill.

society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

I do hear your points that you think I have not seen the need for warning of danger, that you believe I think of it as «unChristian» to talk about such things, and that you may even believe that my comments are akin to protecting evil deeds and harming the innocent, using the bible as a proof texting weapon to that end and contributing to a problem of church becoming fake and shallow while claiming to be deep and pious.

You ARE having spiritual conversations with people every day, even if you don't talk about Jesus, God, Scripture, or church.

At one point he even suggests that the sight of female hair might distract any angel («pretty, wingie, talking, fictional thingie» in church attendance (1 Cor.

People who have left the church because they've gone down some sort of slippery ethical slope are not the ones talking about their experiences and sharing with other Christians outside the church or even making it known that they ARE still Christians, but there are a great many Christians who don't go to a formal church service.

Hey Jeremy, before you even mentioned this was a parabole, I knew right off, I guess for a couple of reasons, one I have a daughter, and two, a lot of reasons you mentioned and experiences you talked about reminded me of Church.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

The church is full of this, and I want to emphasize, again, this is not bad people we're talking about, it's not even the Religious Right, it's people like, and including, all of us.

Because even these well intentioned folks would never consider going to a black or hispanic church... we want them to tone down their spirited religion and stop talking about poverty and social justice.

At one point he even suggests that the sight of female hair might distract any angels / «pretty wingie talking fictional thingies» in church attendance (1 Cor.

So even if the current talk about cooperation between Catholics and Protestants is not official, it has the potential of influencing churches and history in years to come.»

All three are terrified of discussing their relationship with God with their friends at Church, and are even more afraid of talking to their pastors.

Even though I explained that many churches do not believe that way, the next time we talked he told us he had «chucked the religion thing.»

Even in the bible with talks of how the early church was to worship, it basically just says that whatever method with which you feel comfortable worshiping, use it to glorify the Lord (within reason, clearly animal sacrifices, etc were no longer accepted practices).

Women's roles in the church most likely would have progressed much more quickly (and certainly would not have left us where things currently are in say the Catholic church or a fundamentalist or evangelical church); we don't even need to get into talking about the Inquisitions.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

You see, now that you are saved, you have to just trust that the Bible knows what it is talking about even when it does not make sense because the key is to make the church some cents and to not allow some smart - ass church member to pick up the foul scent of what you are doing.

I know that the preacher's wife in my church growing up was very constrained; she didn't feel free to express any negative opinions at all, even just to talk about her kids being a handful, because the pastor's family is supposed to be the «example».

Some don't even respect His presence (chewing and popping gum during the sermon, talking during worship, drinking coffee in church).

The church don't want to acknowledge there is a problem, and so many area churches pretend all is well, they don't even want to talk about it.

Many of them admit that they do not know how to talk to men except about church and religion, and even then only on the level of program and operation and not on the level of the meaning of the gospel for their lives.

Our own evangelical church even began to talk about fasting during Lent.

There was even considerable talk of possible schism: dissenting theologians regularly referred to the «American Catholic Church.»

The basic findings are that the average person who doesn't go to church wants to learn more about Jesus and is even open to talking about Him with Christian friends, but doesn't think the church is doing a very good job representing Jesus (either in our words or actions).

racial segregation was so widely accepted in the churches and societies throughout the world that few white theologians, did see the injustice, did not regard the issue important enough to even write or talk about it.

If one talks about «the church» or «Christianity,» one is talking about people, entities, or traditions that are obviously so compromised with their cultures that it would be hard even to state the problem.

Since there never were an Adam and Eve, Garden of Paradise or talking serpent, there never was any original sin i.e. baptism is a silly supersti - tion that even the Catholic church is slowly coming to grips with.

Now, let us even assume that the 25 % of you are truly blessed, and we are not, let us look at how much harm these 25 % have caused to humanity — often in the name of God (need I talk about Crusades, witch hunts, child molestation by church, oppression of females etc etc).

This suggests a disconnection: that people can talk about the «Church», or Church teachings, even the sacraments, but not about Jesus Christ, the Gospel, and what it means to be a disciple.

And even if it were the case that in the past we spent less time defending and discussing specific dogmas, there seems to me to be a much more plausible explanation than «no one really used to care about dogma», which is this: it's not that we didn't care about dogma, but rather that the truths of faith have come under unprecedented scrutiny and attack in the modern period, not least fromdissenters within the Church, so it has become essential that we do talk about what we actually believe.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

What church are you even talking about?

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

Although some of us are Catholics, we believe that Jehovah's Witnesses and others who oppose Catholic teaching, for example, have a judicially enforceable First Amendment right, even within a hundred feet of a church, peacefully to approach Catholics to talk them out of attending Mass and hand them pamphlets claiming that the Pope is the Antichrist and the Church is the Whore of Bachurch, peacefully to approach Catholics to talk them out of attending Mass and hand them pamphlets claiming that the Pope is the Antichrist and the Church is the Whore of BaChurch is the Whore of Babylon.

Sometimes he deliberately decides to interchange the masks, and wears the worldly mask for a church talk, a lecture, or even a sermon here or there.

The Kasper spin was then picked up by some of the usual media suspects, who called on the usual Catholic talking heads on the port side of the Barque of Peter, who took matters further by speculating that the apostolic exhortation would open up even more revolutionary paths, involving the Church's eventual acceptance of same - sex marriage and other matters on the LGBT agenda.