Sentences with phrase «church is in danger»

If a new building program is for the pride of its membership rather than the effectiveness of its ministry, then the church is in danger of a bad building program.

It seems, in the interest of «updating, modernizing and insuring todays church is relevant», the churchy part of church is in danger of being deleted.

Every church is in danger - and that includes yours.

Not exact matches

The responsibility of bishops is and always has been, as Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis and other bishops have explained in great detail, to protect the integrity of the sacrament, to prevent public scandal that creates confusion about the Church's teaching, and to avoid the danger of people receiving the sacrament, as St. Paul puts it, to their damnation.

1:23] One of the dangers of being in church as often as I am is that it all starts to make sense.

Churches that could not demonstrate that all monies charged were directly used to cover costs were in danger of losing their tax exempt status for the building.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

How could the church do otherwise when souls are in danger?

Even what in itself is mutable can be binding on us if in the Church's judgment it is here and now the safest, what presents least danger of coming into conflict with the unchanging spirit of the Gospel.

Today, when Christendom is in mortal danger, the Churches ought surely to be prepared to make even now any concessions to each other that are not absolutely contrary to their convictions.

Only those who have no understanding of the Church and of Christianity could imagine that the Council was in danger of changing anything of the Catholic dogma, or, on the other hand, that it ought to have done so.

The danger is this, to put it bluntly, that many Christians are tempted to believe no longer in the infallibility oi the Church's doctrine and to make light oi its directives for the life and practice of the individual as well as of the Church.

How different would be the certainly inevitable controversies in the Church if all parties would fight honestly, admitting the weaknesses and dangers of their own position, if they would only acknowledge at least the speck in their own eye while they think themselves obliged to take exception to the log in the eye of their neighbour.

In such a materialistic society, the Church MUST reclaim the strong language used by early church leaders to warn of the potential dangers of wealth, and we MUST be more careful of proclaiming all wealth as an undisputed blessing froChurch MUST reclaim the strong language used by early church leaders to warn of the potential dangers of wealth, and we MUST be more careful of proclaiming all wealth as an undisputed blessing frochurch leaders to warn of the potential dangers of wealth, and we MUST be more careful of proclaiming all wealth as an undisputed blessing from God.

The Methodist church is in grave danger.

And, writing for theologians, Karl Barth said in his Church Dogmatics (T & T Clark International) that we must not become too engrossed in the demonic as there is the imminent danger that we might become a little demonic!

The danger of the Bob Jones decision is that if the university can be forced to comply with public policy in order to retain its tax status, then all other nonprofit institutions — with churches listed first in the tax regulation — can be forced to do likewise.

There is a danger that real doctrinal differences may be underplayed or ignored in such an ecumenical framework, all in the effort to achieve «mutual recognition,» as the cardinal says, of each other as equal manifestations of the Church.

Rev Richard Coles has warned the Church of England is in danger of becoming nothing more than «a picturesque... More

The Church seems in danger of forgetting that the communication of germs is not the only mystery at issue.

Unless these clearly powerful and increasingly well defined influences on the lives of church members are met by equally powerful and well - defined influences of grace for living the Christian life, the role of clergy is in danger of being reduced to the role of chaplains, summoned for brief, emergency ministrations to a life cycle unfolding in complete isolation from the life of faith.

In Matthew 10:26 - 33 the church is exhorted to fearlessness in the face of danger and to trust in God, who cares for even the smallest things of eartIn Matthew 10:26 - 33 the church is exhorted to fearlessness in the face of danger and to trust in God, who cares for even the smallest things of eartin the face of danger and to trust in God, who cares for even the smallest things of eartin God, who cares for even the smallest things of earth.

That is why I indicated at the beginning that there is danger that our freedom to speak in radical ways as paid servants of the church may not last.

In this he said, that in an individual case, a couple might judge that they were excused from observing the «concrete directive» (viz. not to use contraception) if they judged that by following the Church's teaching there would be a danger to the essential value of the «community of love.&raquIn this he said, that in an individual case, a couple might judge that they were excused from observing the «concrete directive» (viz. not to use contraception) if they judged that by following the Church's teaching there would be a danger to the essential value of the «community of love.&raquin an individual case, a couple might judge that they were excused from observing the «concrete directive» (viz. not to use contraception) if they judged that by following the Church's teaching there would be a danger to the essential value of the «community of love.»

A post-secular world is full of opportunity for the Church and for Christians, but it also abounds in dangers for the human soul and for society at large.

In the midst of exile dangers, we must, as the church, live in the hope that a way out of the nuclear stalemate is possiblIn the midst of exile dangers, we must, as the church, live in the hope that a way out of the nuclear stalemate is possiblin the hope that a way out of the nuclear stalemate is possible.

A male - centered view of the church will indeed produce a sense of dismay that the church is not manly enough and is in danger of being overrun by women.

Our parish church, where all of our children were baptized and which I imagined being the church of my daughters» weddings (and my funeral), was wonderful, if half - filled and always in danger of being consolidated with other churches.

The Church of England was always in danger of being co-opted by the state — witness Keble's Assize Sermon, which launched the Oxford Movement in response to state interference in the structure of the Anglican Church.

In some countries there is a danger that the churches, by having too great a respect for the prejudices of their own members, and for the prejudices of non-members, will make these difficulties greater than they are.

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

And I would say that one of the great dangers is that in choosing an online community, we only have virtual friends and virtual communication without the depth of relationships that marks Jesus, the early Church and Christians throughout history.

In the minds of men and in the Church, a revealed truth can be compatible with an error in secular matters, as can be seen from the very fact that the Church declares contrary theories in theology to be equally «safe», that is to say, without danger to RevelatioIn the minds of men and in the Church, a revealed truth can be compatible with an error in secular matters, as can be seen from the very fact that the Church declares contrary theories in theology to be equally «safe», that is to say, without danger to Revelatioin the Church, a revealed truth can be compatible with an error in secular matters, as can be seen from the very fact that the Church declares contrary theories in theology to be equally «safe», that is to say, without danger to Revelatioin secular matters, as can be seen from the very fact that the Church declares contrary theories in theology to be equally «safe», that is to say, without danger to Revelatioin theology to be equally «safe», that is to say, without danger to Revelation.

But prophets are generally regarded as a danger to the church to the extent that this designation, in the case of a preacher, conjures up a radical, condemning voice standing over and above the congregation thundering against the evils of society.

«Every church is in permanent danger of the rise of prophets.»

Reminding the church that it was still subject to the judgment of God, he said that «every vehicle of God's grace, the preacher of the word, the prince of the church, the teacher of theology, the historic institution, the written word, the sacred canon, all these are in danger of being revered as if they were themselves divine.

I'm afraid the church today is in the same danger.

The Body of Christ being released into the wilderness — amongst the darkness and danger and wolves of the world — with no «church» building to retreat to on Sunday, no «Pastor» to listen to week after week, no tribe to look for answers in tradition and no tax motivation or direction on where to give money?

Are we in danger of creating a corporate culture where all our church leaders look like smart, well - spoken businessmen?

Meeting Juan in a church, Catalinón warns his master of the danger, but Juan is unimpressed.

In our era of the «soft sell,» the danger of a church becoming a chameleon without knowing it is great.

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

Bibles were scarce in the days before the printing press, so there wasn't much need to «ban'them from the common folk, and considering how loosely people are interpreting the Bible nowadays is it any wonder that the Church saw the danger in doing this?

It's a danger to young people not to know what they believe and why they believe it, because they are much more sensitive to the accusation of hypocrisy that «you are in a Church, and you don't understand what it believes».

Dorothy Sayers writes: We can not blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger.

«A very Imperfect knowledge of church history is sufficient to teach us how real these dangers have been in the life of the on going Cchurch history is sufficient to teach us how real these dangers have been in the life of the on going ChurchChurch.

Questions of strategy have to be asked by the church serious about her task in spite of the lurking dangers of utilitarianism.

They are always in danger of narrowing the pattern of the church's vocation until it is conceived in terms of an exaggerated asceticism or of a mechanical sacramentalism or of an inflexible clericalism.

It was pointed out that this danger existed especially in Africa and Latin America where the membership of certain councils had prevented their joining the International Missionary Council because of its association with World - Council of Churches.

There is always the danger of distortion in relating stories about one's church, accentuating the achievements and minimizing the failures.