Because
church going people are instructed by The Bible to only date and marry within their faith, this means Christian singles more than most need sound advice when it comes to approaching the whole issue of dating and singleness.
Not exact matches
Last week, HBO released a documentary on the
Church of Scientology (COS), called
Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million
people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.
Last year, the HBO documentary
Going Clear drew in millions of viewers as it
went in - depth into controversial claims from former members and
people associated with the
church, while also investigating the religion's tax - exempt status.
In a time where
people are less likely to
go to
church or participate in bowling leagues, Amazon is contributing to the loss of some of the remaining public spaces where Americans gather with their neighbors: malls.
Personally, I'm not
going to heal unless I can rest easy knowing that the
people that are around me can
go to school safely, can
go to
church, can
go to clubs, can
go anywhere safely.
It has
gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The
Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced
persons who have remarried.
The thinking may
go like this» why bust my hump for
people in the
church who don't care when they say they do?
When you see younger
people enter your
church for the first time, do you
go out of your way to introduce yourself and ask them to sit with you?
she is just a bit sold out, otherwise she would understand that there are 300 million different
people and not a one
goes to every
church.
So I have no concerns at all that
people in the
church are
going to be involved in these discussions, get on board and help lead the rest of us forward in an age where there are intelligences other than the ones we associate with Adam and Eve.
I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of
people who are indifferent to religion and who only
go to a
church if there is a wedding or a funeral.
I have been encouraging friends to attend — I've never been in a
church that felt healthier for me or the
people around me (okay — my kids are resistant, when we don't
go regularly, but it seems very healthy for all the
people I know and love who attend).
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.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me why these
people can't use any other facility... including any one of the thousands of
churches in the area, many of whom have large spaces all ready to
go for exactly that sort of thing.
These
people don't obtain some special attribute like x-men because they
go to
church.
Previously we had to rely on second hand accounts at best, the «I know a guy who prayed and it totally came true» or «I know this
person who died and
went to heaven and came back» or «this
person in our
church saw a Smurf doll get up and start trying to choke a baby...»
We will be doing our fellowship service tonight in a community hall, we were doing it at our
church for seven years, but we got kicked out, because we wer n`t getting the
people to
go to the sunday morning service.
This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay
people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight
people getting married.
People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil
people really are.But these
people who are so into GOD, the Bible,
Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote
going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.
Even most
people that I know that live on base actually
go to the off base
church of their choice rather than on base
churches.
If this is
going to change in the
church it will take a lot of leaders brave enough to look at
people first and willing to leave the 99 to save the 1.
For me, those are the
people who
go to
church and make a loud show of prayer and other worship to be seen, but treat others badly.
People say they don't have time, but they have time to
go to
church and all those other
church meetings and conventions.
Blogs like this one swarm with
people who like to point out the faults of Christianity and
church -
goers.
People choose to
go to
church for any number of reasons.
to know how fellow [past tense] churchy
people think about me, or judge me, to know im not loved when i
go home into my
church and — fucking hell, my family!
The
church = Oldest criminal organization in the world; Accepted because
people can not accept their own death; Still
people are
going to be dead when dead; No religion will get you past that fact.
As more
people see these religious con - artists for what they truly are, more
churches will
go bankrupt.
I don't think that she finds the fact that
people in their 20's and 30's are
going to
churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending
churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.
People who
go to
church, don't know their neighbors?
People also
go to their
churches / mosques / synagogues / whatever for religious worship.
It took a couple of years, thinking and praying, pondering and talking to
people in the
church and
going through the processes.
If poor
people want help let them
go to
church and beg.
I wonder what would happen if our
churches were to recognize our role in showing
people the future, not just in our teaching and in our
going but in our being?
This is the
church that perpetrated the dark ages, sided with hitler, tells
people in third world countries that if they birth control they will
go to hell, etc..
An ex-friend
went online and ranted about me yesterday saying that i need JESUS in my life and she is a better
person then me cause she attends
church, but this article truly states that God can not be found in
churches but within our families and this is such a beautiful article.
One per cent of those surveyed believed gay
people who practice their sexuality shouldn't be allowed to
go to
church.
You also said «She assumes that SBNR
people don't appreciate or engage in the same things
church -
goers do, like relationships».
All too often
people act like if you don't do something the
church says you're
going to you know where.
There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay
person) who
went to hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to hear in his
church.
if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they
go to confession and say 10 worthless and meaningless prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a
person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is not, I do not believe in god or wasting time
going to
church to try to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am
going to hell because that's where all my friends are
going and I don, t want to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.
you're right the
church probably will be there long after any of us cease to exist but it stands to reason that it is
going down... as more
people come to the realization that the belief in a deity is not necessary to live, the less need there will be for a
church to exist.
It's not like we're
going to your
church to protest like you
people do to our funerals.
These beliefs are apparently the ones set forth by Messrs. Johnson, Hoge, and Luidens in «Mainline
Churches: The Real Reason for Decline» (FT, March 1993): (1) That Christianity is the only religion with a valid claim to truth, (2) that
persons can be saved only through Jesus Christ and otherwise
go to hell, and (3) that therefore one should try to convert others to the Christian faith.
you can't force the
church or
people to love what is considered a sin, because light and darkness don't
go together.
Now imagine a different ending to this story: Rather than
going to a payday lender, you share your story with
people in your
church.
I was joking with someone in
church on Sunday that if I haven't offended at least one
person in a week, then I think I am
going soft — they smiled;).
Frankly I'm exhausted of all of this, yet there will be debate on abortion, religion, satanism, and of course those terrible
people who
go to
church every Sunday and give money to fund things like feeding the poor and needy.
There were
people I know who are Irish, Polish, Italian, Mexican, Filipino, Guatemalan, but also African, Indian (the kind from India), Korean, Vietnamese, Colombian, Russian (why they don't
go to the Orthodox
Church, I'm not sure; but there they were), Lebanese, Japanese, Jamaican, Chilean, Ecuadorean — all in the same local parish
The problem is the
churches preach against
people being true to themselves and try to make
people go against instincts that we have naturally.
Many of them
go to
church only if it's convenient, or only on Christmas or Easter (happy Easter btw) and a lot of them wouldn't
go at all but for that nagging «just in case» feeling, but a lot of them are very quick to rant and rail at
people who are content and secure in their acceptance that there is no God.