Sentences with phrase «church experience for»

These New Ways to Keep Kids Quiet at Church might give you the ideas you need that will change your church experience for all of you!

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.

Not exact matches

Benedict XVI is adamant that the strength - and weakness - of the Church is found first and foremost in the dioceses, -LSB-...] He studies every dossier prepared for the three candidates in each diocese, he examines the course of studies and professional experience of potential future bishops and finally takes a decision.

I have a couple of young adults in my church that were so excited to know that God could actually HEAL THE SICK and had never really experienced it... they drove all night to florida from Brantford Ontario for 1 day and then back (this was between school and their summer classes).

I'm sorry for your experience but my family was rescued by the Church, fed and provided, and protected from criminal regimes.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

If you have these opinions due to a personal experience, maybe you ought to try another church... or several others for that fact.

Although I was raised in a Christian family and charismatic, fundamentalist church, attended a Bible college, and had professed the Christian faith for years, it wasn't until this experience that my intellectual assent of God's truth became deeply personal.

It has been the trend of American churches for some time to venerate marriage as the holy grail of human experience — in spite of the obvious preference of New Testament teachers — including Jesus — for singleness (Matthew 19:10; 1 Corinthians 7).

Dreaming for me means confronting my experience with the Church and trading it for the dream that God originally designed Church to be.

Dreaming for me means confronting my experience with the Church and trading it for the dream God originally designed Church to be.

In other words, any alteration to who we are as a people, whether individually or corporately, is not experienced by us â $ œon a consistent basisâ $, but merely in those times when we remember it is not achieved through some attempt to â $ œreformâ $ the Church or, for that matter, ourselves, and sit down beside the oasis for awhile with Him.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

There's a fine balance that churches have to strike between impacting the in - person experience for the sake of the online viewers.

I've in Alberta for 16 plus years and in numerous evangelical churches and have never seen or experienced this, quite the opposite really.

CONVERSELY, I recently experienced a church CLOSURE (it died) where there was NEVER an opportunity for folks to express themselves, either in worship, in meetings, amongst themselves, with the pastor, with the elders... etc etc — strangely, eventually, it died.

Church doesn't have to be what many of us have experienced but we shouldn't settle for an illusion either.

Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

In my experience, those who left our church family have either found another church body (the best result), dropped out entirely, or church - shopped until they found a church with lower expectations for serving, giving, and personal accountability.

Not only this book a lively and honest memoir of Lane's experiences with church, but along the way, she makes a compelling case for the virtues that make thriving church communities to which we want to belong.

Lebanese church leaders Camille and Stefan are seeing hundreds of Syrian refugees arrive destitute on their church doorstep, turn to Christ, experience miraculous healings and even express gratitude for their trauma — because it has enabled them to discover a God of love

I've been through many traumatic experiences with the church that, for some reason or another, have left me outside of it.

We know those who checked out churches for awhile, grew totally disillusioned based on what they experienced and just chucked the whole church / Jesus thing.

But tell us about your experiences in the comments below, and whether or not you think there is a connection between what Las Vegas is known for and what mega churches (often) do best.

Here's an alternate dialog for this cartoon... one that is right out of my own experience in the institutional church:

Good he has experience, he can start by bouncing all the pervert priests out of the Roman Catholic Church for a start.

My experience and observation is that the church is a safe haven for abuse, manipulation, control, bullying, and strong - armed tactics that chew people up and spit them out, leaving countless voiceless victims in its wake.

The reason for the decline in church - going Christians is the lack of Love those in the «world» experience at church or by so called «Christians»... IMO.

If their church experiences include liberal doses of being bullied, should we not suppose they may decide to have nothing to do with any church and perhaps even God once they are old enough to decide for themselves?

For the average church goer this is probably close to the experience they have with giving financially to their church.

Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother Church, encountering different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.

This blog post was referred to me because I'm experiencing a very mild form of what I consider pastoral abuse as I try to leave a church I've been in for many years.

A few years prior I'd had a harrowing experience at another church, wherein I nearly lost my job for reporting a suspected abuse situation to the authorities, rather than hand it off to my boss.

I am associated with Julie and a few others here only by a common - type experience — being abused inside the church and then rejected for it.

Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.

It's totally possible for a small church with limited resources to produce an excellent worship experience in multiple locations.

We appreciated the safe space it had provided for people who experienced abuse in the church, and for me to offer a bully another chance in this context seriously violated that sense of safety.

He denied, attacked my personality, blamed my past experiences for my perceptions, blamed behavior within his church on things like deaths and illnesses, and threw in some non-apologies like «I'm sorry you feel that way.»

And, Colina, this is a forum for those who have experienced abuses within the church....

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.

Chris Butler, pastor at Embassy Church on the south side of Chicago, told the federal appeals court: «For the majority of churches, the pastors are like me and experience at some level the same problems that we're trying to face in the community.

There's a lot I could say about my experiences, but as his wife, I would like to make a few points for everyone to consider as we continue discussing sexuality in the Church:

Not just for women in the church but for a lot of people's experiences in the church.

No one has time for pretense, posturing or plastic church experiences.

I suppose what ended up being for me a rather free - for - all melee, instead of a real experience of communion with like - minded and ostensibly like - hearted folks, is sort of an object lesson that ended up characterizing most of the rest of my journey in Emerging church circles.

Warren Bird is a primary researcher and writer for Leadership Network and has more than 10 years of church staff and seminary teaching experience.

I hadn't intended it to be a comprehensive piece on the faith of millennials, just a commentary on how — generally, based on multiple surveys and my own experience — millennials in the U.S. long for change in the Church that goes beyond worship style and marketing.

I pastored local church for years and have experience with church insurance.

More of my rambling thoughts and two cents after thinking on this for a bit... Part of the reason it's so devastating to lose the friends we made within the church is that from my experience those are the only «real» relationships most in the IC make.