Since there's the very real possibility of it happening, our organic
church group talked about what we would do if a gay couple wanted to come to our meetings.
Not exact matches
A few weeks ago, my buddy and former HBS classmate, Allan, asked me if I'd like to give a
talk about my debt pay - off to the youth
group that he leads at his
church.
@Steve: Have you
talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect
church in front of
groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive
churches?
Rt Rev Leo Cushely wrote to Tina Beattie, banning her from a
talk at a Catholic
group in Edinburgh because she disagreed with the
Church's teaching on sexual morality.
«Where fighting
groups refuse to meet outside, when we invite them to our
Churches to
talk, they come.»
At least I hope the
church groups that do get funded believe in
talking snakes and aren't one of those fringe
groups.
A
church is supposed to be the combined efforts of EVERYONE in it to serve their communities, not an exclusive
group that sits around
talking about their own needs.
It is a bigger
church so I don't usually
talk to anyone but I joined some small
groups and did make friends.
There may also be room for some form of
group outside the
church too; perhaps a supportive network where you are able to
talk with friends.
In our
church there were 2 sisters in a youth
group who were rallying the other members not to
talk a girl because she wore the same jacket as one of them.
You also speak as though you are certain no gay people are present and that «we evengelical Christians» are
talking amonst ourself about what an entire
group of people deserve in terms of full inclusion and acceptance in society and the
church.
I enjoy it better when
church institutions
talk about the open arms of Jesus, and the narrow doors of their
church group.
(Note: I realize that inequity in the
Church extends to many
groups besides women, and that's important to
talk about as well, but for efficiency and clarity, next week's focus will be on women in the
Church.
After a number of pastoral contacts of this type, he received a phone call from Mrs. L. saying that she would like to
talk with him about a problem connected with the women's
group in the
church.
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.
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!!!
To launch this new
church, the core
group talked about a 20,000 - piece mailing campaign, a typical move for starter
churches.
The
church has developed the bad habit of
talking about this
group as if it is a problem for the denomination.
Should one
talk at all about great men among Christian
groups, in that most of the time and in most places
churches have been chiefly populated — and chiefly kept functioning — by women?
I'm
talking about the most common way of «doing
church» today... a building, a paid pastor, a 90 minute service on Sunday morning with 4 - 5 songs, a prayer time, a 30 - 40 minute sermon, youth
group, children's programs, etc. etc..
A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems in that
church, sat me down one day and
talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional
group of people.
For example, despite his insistence that what he does is different than what goes on in an Institutional
Church, he still describes a
group of people who sit in chairs arranged in a square, sing some songs from a book, and
talk about spiritual things.
I really don't want to
talk about
church groups that empower women and young girls in this, my seeming multi-faceted rant.
«Here we are, a
group of ninety people, gathered to
talk about transforming an institution, the
Church, that has a 1,900 - year history of oppression and exclusion,» announced Adams.
Maybe
talking about the «changing
church» instead of the «emerging
church» will bring more voices into the conversation and add some diversity to the
group.
I remember that on several occasions my
talk to a local
church group was repeatedly interrupted by tirades about Red China and Angela Davis.
The Christian call to peacemaking has been co-opted, the
group said, when «a «theology of war» is emanating from the highest circles of American government; the language of «righteous empire» is employed... [and] the roles of God,
church and nation are confused by
talk of an American «mission» and «divine appointment» to «rid the world of evil.»»
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).
Second, I'll just jump in here with Chad and say that I'm finding it amusing that lots of people are
talking about «the
Church» the way I hear «the
Church» (yes, I know I'm doing it too)
talk about the «Gay agenda» or «the atheists» as if there's some back room meeting that takes place between some
group who decides things about what will and won't happen or how we'll all be (in any of those
groups).
I'm not just
talking about the
church group or the condo board — these can be huge time sinks — but rather your community of professionals.
Last week at
church a me and a
group of 5 other women were standing around chatting — admiring one woman's new 2 month old — and we started to
talk about our own struggles with becoming moms and learning to nurse, etc..
We do this in my small
group at my
Church but we add «awkward» as one of our categories to
talk about - such a fun way to quickly catch up about everyone's week!
«It's like Coogler grabbed everything black people
talk about in barber shops,
church, kitchens, cookouts, and
group texts and wrapped it in Wakanda magic,» she said.
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Talked About,
group exhibition at St PAUL St Gallery, Auckland (forthcoming); Wilderness,
group exhibition at New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen (forthcoming); instead to meet strangers who might change our minds, solo exhibition at the Swiss
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Selected exhibitions include; Beyond the Nation Station State I want to Dream, solo exhibition, Decad, Berlin, 2018; A Farewell to Progress, performance, South London Gallery, London, 2018; A Farewell to Progress, performance, KW, Berlin, 2017; Ideology Meets Implementations,
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Talked About,
group exhibition at St PAUL St Gallery, Auckland; Wilderness,
group exhibition at New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen;... instead to meet strangers who might change our minds, solo exhibition at the Swiss
Church, London (2014); A Space of No Exception,
group exhibition at Sokol Space, Moscow (2014).
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Friends, family,
church and religious
groups can all provide a network of people for parents and kids to
talk to during the divorce process.
Barrett works tirelessly to recruit volunteers by
talking to local
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I laughed at my mother's
group who
talked of which school incessantly, I dismissed my neighbours as stuck up when they chatted about it like every kid goes to private school and almost fell over when friends started going to
church every Sunday although confirmed atheists just get into Catholic school.