Sentences with phrase «church in my life time»

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However, many «General Authorities», or leaders who serve full - time in the church are compensated in some way if they require it for living expenses etc..

I hope that in time, the church will catch up and be truly inclusive of those who identify as lesbian or gay — and not just as church attenders, but genuinely as part of the life and activities of the church.

Another example: you may think I am a nutjob for attending church, and that my church is full of nutjobs, but that church as given hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well of many hours of time, to improve lives from the school across the street to those in Haiti and Indonesia.

The Christian Church, particularly in Europe, was the center of intellectual life for over a millennium and had a powerful influence over it until recent times.

She has lived in the seaside town of Leven in Fife, East Scotland, all of her life, and attended Leven Parish Church three times week at services and lunch clubs.

Economy in Christ, has been the Good News for two thousand years and it's time that our churches rediscover that and live it out.

«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

Most twentysomethings, especially those in the the Church, want to do something meaningful with their life — and they often think that translates directly into working in full - time ministry, dedicating their life to creating art or starting their own nonprofit.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

Unfortunately, there are times in our lives when our link to God's community is severed for some reason — whether by travel, death, moving churches or any of a number of reasons.

None, other than the LDS, believe that one (male only, and until recent time, white only) can only get a pass into the celestial realm if given by the LDS church, after the believer proves that he abides by church doctrine in all aspects of his life.

a) Divide the Mosaic law into 3 components: Moral, Civil, and Ceremonial The Civil Laws are gone because we are not Israelites living in Israel in that time period The Ceremonial Laws are gone because we have the Lamb slain once for all time (Jesus) As a part of this, the dietary laws are gone — see Acts 11 The Moral Law (10 Commandments) ARE STILL applicable to the New Testament church today, except the Sabbath Law, the 4th Commandment.

However, a life time of theological / spiritual formation in our Western Churches has left many people with a concept of God that is more like Baal than the Loving Merciful God and Father of Jesus.

I was already a Christian and had been in church for a long time, but just didn't have any victory in my life.

For most Christians, «church» has come to rule and dominate every aspect of our lives, much as «Sabbath» did for Jews in the time of Jesus.

Bonhoeffer's early and consistent resistance to the intrusion of Nazi ecclesial, political and military machinations is well known: his bold involvement in the Confessing Church, his directorship of the underground seminary community at Finkenwalde (from which time we have his book Life Together), his summons to costly discipleship, the increasing repression of the mid-1930s and his decision to return to Germany in 1939 (although he had the opportunity to become an exile in the United States).

Convoked by Pope John XXIII, the council engaged in a twofold movement of ressourcement (a return to the often - neglected sources of the Christian tradition) and aggiornamento (an updating of the church's life and doctrine in response to the times).

I'm blown away at what God has done in my life since I left church, but at the time, despite the peace of being led, it seemed like it was going no where.

God raises up strong voices and strong personalities in certain times in the church's life to pave the way forward.

Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a wonderful time with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and all the readers who came out to hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met in the bathroom of all places!

We are living in the end times of all these sheep herder religions, now, go back to church and wave your hands like a zombie worshipper...

The church is now living in the time of Jesus» departure, the period between his first and his final manifestations.

Ann Marie worked for CPS at the time, and having recently wed her partner, Patricia (in a church commitment ceremony at which I served as celebrant), she decided to become a foster co-parent to Hailey, a child with special needs stemming from the chaos of her life's earliest months.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Ruth and Patrick have been in full - time church ministry for over fifteen years, and live in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Expalining what led that decision, he said in a statement: «My 20's saw me with little time for church, instead concentrating on the world of work, sport, motorbikes and life in general.

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

However, it is difficult to make time and provide room for people who spend a fraction of their week at the church to have a say in most of what occurs in the life of the church.

Then there are the Bad Attitudes of the immature in faith: I have a hard time accepting myself; I feel overwhelmed by all the responsibilities and obligations I have; My life is filled with stress and anxiety; I tend to be critical of other people; I do not want churches getting involved in political issues; I do not understand how a loving God can allow so much pain and suffering in the world.

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

It is best the LGBT that are married meet in churches that will honor their life - time monogamous commitment, or their fidelity.

For instance, I can't write about church and community when I'm not making time for church and community in my life.

That is to say, the Christian gospel, the kerygma or proclamation, indeed remains and must remain fixed as the message of the Church, the heart of its life and the meaning of its existence; but at the same time we must find ways in which we can both understand and declare that kerygma which will not smother it in an unimaginative biblicism, but which will be appropriate for our own day.

Many churches preach that we live in «the end times» because our world is apparently worsening by the day.

I've grown more being out of church ministry than any other time in my life.

But in the last three years, as I have begun to question and challenge certain elements of how we «do church,» I decided to seriously examine Isaiah 28:10 - 13 for the first time in my life.

Then three years later I came to the church for the first time eve in my life, but I didn't know what I was getting into.

The church lives between the times, rejoicing in the coming of Christ as the culminating event in the history of salvation.

At the same time an effective support network for those who wish to live a chaste life in spite of homosexual temptations is necessary lest faithful people are left alienated and feeling separated from the Church.

Although this vocation is at heart profoundly personal and interior, it is at the same time completely rooted in the life of the Church.

At the same time the Elder writes another short letter, our Second John, to the church to which Gaius belongs, urging its members to love one another and to live harmoniously together, and warning them against the deceivers who teach that Christ has not come in the flesh.

For Balthasar, the risen Lord, who wills to be present in His Church until the end of time, can not be isolated from this constellation of historical life.13 He gives a lasting character to these figures so that believers may continue to have access to the divine life.

I think it might be a good idea for us, from time to time or even just once in our lives, to take a break from going to church every Sunday morning.»

At a personal level the prayer of the Divine Office also strengthens the virgin in her own seeking of Christ by uniting her with the whole Church, and that discipline and objective reality of the Office will sustain her in the inevitable times of aridity in her spiritual life.

The time has come for the Church to restate boldly and unequivocally that the Way, the Truth and the Life have all been revealed, that the Kingdom is here already and that the battle in which there can be no neutrality is on.

a couple of times in my life i decided not to join churches because as soon as the vicar or whoever realised i was a musician they started seeing me in a certain way ie.

We live in such a great time for church planting.

If you have been around church for any length of time, you know how damaging and destructive this can be, not only on the congregations, but also in the pastor's life and family.

In a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its lifIn a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its lifin the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its life.