As as result it feels to me that a wall has gone up, just like I experienced resulting in the frustration I described in
the church experience I shared.
Not exact matches
The purpose of the consultation was to
share the
experiences gained by the CNI through the above process, with other
churches in India and also to learn from the
churches in India their mission
experiences.
A guest Belief Blog piece on the subject Tuesday morning, «My Take: Stop using
churches as polling places,» fetched more than a thousand comments, prompting us to ask Twitter followers to
share their
church - based voting
experiences and pictures.
Just because you and a friend
shared a mountaintop
experience together at a
church retreat 10 years ago doesn't mean you have a right to know their heart today.
It's important to keep in mind that negative encounters with «the
Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith exper
Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the
Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith exper
Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to
share positive stories about why
church is a such a critical part of our collective faith exper
church is a such a critical part of our collective faith
experience.
What I do want for them is a place /
church to
experience other Christians as the world is filled with other views and beliefs... it is nice to be around others who
share a love for Jesus and want to serve him and are willing to walk the walk and take on battle scars to serve him in whatever way that shapes up for that individual.
Other
churches support group activities designed specifically for ex-patients who can meet and
share experiences and problems with others in like situations.
The co-founder of Saddleback
Church talks honestly about her marriage to Rick Warren, their son's suicide and how
sharing her
experience has helped ot... More
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experience at your
church?
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.
And Holiness and Pentecostal
churches share much in ethos, hymnody and social / cultural
experience.
The mainline
churches («oldline,» as some have suggested, is probably the better term), while they won't pass away, will predictably continue to
experience losses in «market
share» within the American religious economy.
The long struggle over whether a conversion
experience was essential for
church membership was an argument over whether the unconverted could
share in the covenant relation with the converted and attain at least some of the worldly and spiritual advantages of
church membership.
When members of one family
share the same learning
experience each week, they have an ongoing topic of conversation between house -
church meetings.
By
sharing her personal
experience, Ofelia Ortega describes how Pentecostals have gradually approached the historic Protestant
churches through the world ecumenical movement.
But in my
experience (and I'm just
sharing what's happened to me) I've also had some amazing and beautiful times with my friends in my
church family.
The so - called mainline
churches share the
experience of having a shrinking membership and a declining influence.
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.
The author
shares vivid recollections of
experiences in Vacation Bible School and Sunday School from her girlhood in a Methodist
church.
Their
shared experience of martyrdom under the Soviets should remind them that a national politics favoring one
church over another can quickly turn against all of them.
Active and positive inclusivity in which we
share diverse thinking and
experiences with our neighbors of other
churches and other faiths is necessary.
Churches «most likely» to
experience decline
shared three characteristics: they were founded before 1900, they were located in cities, and their membership was more than half female.
When I
shared of my
experience in my last
church a few years ago, a leader attributed difficulties I had with my mother to be my responsibility.
Women in seminaries today and women moving out to serve in local
churches in increasing numbers have
shared some unique
experiences.
My parents got to
share the
experience in several visits to New York and, most dramatically, in a trip to Rome at the turn of the millennium, where they joined me at a grand reunion of the Krakow seminar alumni — and where, just eight months after entering the
Church, in the Clementine room off St. Peter's Basilica, they got to meet the Holy Father.
Coming from someone who has
experienced my own fair
share of pain at the hands of the
church and regularly laughs at and gets ticked off with the
church, I think you're deeply misrepresenting the heart of the original piece.
In discussing
experience, the Bible, and the
church as candidates for authority in the Christian faith we know at the outset that Christian
experience can not be communicated except by being
shared, that the law of the Bible is not of the letter but of the Spirit, and that the
church can not be an institution that compels, but a community that frees.
Wayne has
experienced this, and
shares why he and his wife left such a
church.
«Understanding our world» and «what it means to be a part of the
Church of Jesus Christ»: these to me constitute what is involved in «ethical and theological» considerations so that I hope that as I try to «understand», and to
share the life of the
Church I know and
experience it, I am doing «ethical» and «theological» considerations.
All these older men of the
church were
experiencing, to a degree, exactly what I was
experiencing, yet none felt the need to
share that with each other.
All you need is a willingness to
share your
experience of married life and a commitment to the teachings of the Catholic
Church.
I
share completely and totally («I get it») the Naked Pastor disgust with what has been his «
church»
experience.
For example, like many
churches do, a
shared belief in the imminent return of Christ can be an incredibly binding
experience.
Then I wrote more, and actually
shared my
experience at the
church and where I am now, the journey I'm on.
A while back, I started
sharing my
experiences at different
churches where I might speak.
If you are one of the millions of people who are no longer attending
church but who nevertheless have a vibrant and growing relationship with Jesus and have seen your relationships with other people grow in amazing ways, please
share your
experience below.
It doesn't really matter to me whether it's temple or
church, it just matters that it feels like home and gives him a
shared experience of the sacred.
Church events, family gatherings or activities based around a
shared hobby are
experiencing a slight decline in popularity as ways of finding a partner and this could be because they are viewed as less successful hunting grounds, says the study.
A single Christian who spends every Sunday at
church, for instance, probably prays for a partner who
shares those
experiences and values.
About Blog This blog I have
shares my
experiences through life faithfully and honestly, while aiming to spur others in the
Church on to stronger faiths.
When looking at his works the relationship that mankind
shares with world around us emanates through Söderberg's imagery resembling what people describe as a religious
experience as if they were within a sacred space such as a
church, temple, shrine, etc..
For many, the TRC offered former students a chance to
share their
experiences in the
church - and government - run institutions that stripped away their language, culture, and childhood.
Many thanks for
sharing such a beautiful part of your life... it makes my heart sing when I hear other people getting the same kind of blessings I
experience in
church!