Sentences with phrase «church experience»

I see many finding answered to concerns and shared journeys online in a way that was not met by church experiences.

Somehow, academic theology is thought to be more important and profound than the practical theology that grows out of the black church experience.

I completed a doctoral dissertation based on the research of those who had negative church experiences under pastoral leadership.

After being burned by a string of fiery, painful church experiences, I understand the common struggle.

Nope, a retail giant analyst I am not, but what I do have I offer to you: regular old church experience.

Fortunately — and despite what some individual church experiences may have been — big questions aren't a bad thing.

While this statement may be less true in some forms of evangelical worship, it is generally true of all modern church experience.

They've had a positive church experience and can't imagine this.

The local voice was present in a way not true of the on - line church experience.

I have two different church experiences to relate to: One of an older, more traditional church.

She is passionate about giving voice to those outside the bounds of traditional church experience.

My suspicion is that as more and more people are self - aware and vocal about their negative church experiences, more people will learn not to trust the church implicitly.

Many young families were in retreat from certain kinds of church experience and the refreshing secularism of the new approach was welcome.

In our effort to curate a singular church experience for such a broad and multi-channel audience, we do run into a handful of obstacles.

As a family (not hubby as he is an atheist) we have all had trauma from church experiences and no longer belong; with the exception of our son who thankfully has found a CofE church where he feels comfortable and affirmed.

See Leila Hendrix, Extended Family: Combining Ages in Church Experience (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1979) for an excellent description of the house - church as a model for spiritual formation.

It still amazes me how many women share their very negative church experiences at the hands of its so - called leaders, only to have them ridiculed, dismissed, or silenced.

However, if we accept the thesis of certain religious educators that it is the total church experience which is the chief educational influence on members, we have a crucial clue to development of various styles of social action within local parishes.

Based on my early church experiences, letting my son «make up» his own mind about religion would be misguided, because that conception of freedom fails to recognize how children learn to reason in the first place.

Even the Roman Catholic Church experienced some unrest, but it could not split because of its allegiance to the pope.

2) An unhappiness for many with previous church experience — people with a fair amount of pain and baggage, and with that an understanding that acceptance is more important than conformity.

Millions of people today know that something is missing from their normal church experience, and they sense Jesus leading them to something more, but they don't know what...

The overthrow of the last emperor, Haile Selassie, by a Marxist - inspired coup in 1974 introduced a period of being in the wilderness for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which along with other churches experienced martyrdom and persecution.

THis typically happens after a period of purification as the Orthodox church experienced under Stalin, and as the Catholic church is now.

Everything except my immigrant church experience on Sundays and my home was dominated by the presence and influence of a fairly white America.

I have had my own horrific church experiences but I don't think those mean I no longer need the Imago Dei that I can only find in another human being (s).

Having grown up in a very similar church experience, I can't tell you how many times I say «I KNOW!!»

I can't say that I thought through the theological implications of «I'm But a Stranger Here,» but its view of things was not inconsistent with what my overall church experience taught me to be true.

I applied to study on the foundation course at Moorlands College, having had very little church experience.

They too come with much church experience.

Each year, the Christian church experiences a net loss in attendees and the waning political influence of the movement is now more than apparent.

Many Christians, because of upbringing and past church experiences, view sex as gross and something that should not be talked about in public.

As Christians from other parts of the world have found a home in the UK so they are increasingly finding that their own young people are less interested in a monocultural church experience.

Kelsey thinks the unique difficulties of being a New Yorker make it a breeding ground for a more liberated, relational church experience.

Before I started going to church I experienced God far more, before that image was there.

Nor is it helpful to bifurcate church experience so that the women get all the comfort and love while men get all the challenging calls to discipleship.

L. Gregory Jones, dean at Duke Divinity School, agrees that Oprah's roots in the black church experience lend the television personality some of her authority.

Under the missionary impulse and through the use of revivalistic preaching and methods, the Methodist Church experienced a phenomenal growth.

We aren't having «Acts church experiences» because people want to come sit down, and «be fed.»

Wayne retells the story of Janette, a single mother of two, and her damaging church experience in Philadelphia with a self - appointed Apostle and his non-denominational deliverance ministry church.

I couldn't help comparing this church with the rollicking, regular church experiences of my youth.