Sentences with phrase «church is in the hearts»

Church is in your heart, not a building.

To have faith in him that the church will survive because the church is in the hearts of the people, and how they care for one another, and not in material things.

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The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.

Keith Long from Post Office said: «We're delighted to be opening a new - look branch inside this beautiful church in the heart of West Hampstead.»

If what I have for my church life is more of an exception then it makes it all the more precious in my heart.

The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.»

Since the fundamental and indispensable unit of Christian community is the Church, these trends in general intellectual culture have in the last fifteen years stimulated a great deal of ecclesiological reflection: one can draw an interesting line of influence from MacIntyre and Habits of the Heart to Stanley Hauerwas and then to John Milbank and the other proponents of radical orthodoxy, all of whom tend to be pronouncedly ecclesiocentric in their thinking.

Estes Church said in a statement: «Our hearts are saddened to report the death of our missionary Roberta Edwards.

The Lord is in the process of gathering living stones to form the new covenant temple to be located in, not separated by doctrinal - opinion - church - buildings, but the territorial locality whose believers will be one Heart, Mind, and one in judgment, so the leaven of sin may not, can not, drag others down.

There are changes that will happen in the Catholic Church, but please remember the work of the missionaries are the heart of the spirit of being Catholic.

I think one reason the Reformation was so brilliant, so powerful, so swift in its spread, and still such an anchor — honestly: Luther and Calvin and Zwingli, et.al., but especially Luther, make me feel sane — for many of us today is because as it was taking shape and rescuing hearts, there was no Protestant Church yet to discredit it.

This is not to say that there is a lack of people within North American churches who truly have a heart for God and for ministry and evangelism; there are many who are passionate and sincere in their faith.

God has assured us that in and through the faithful worship of the Church, both our minds and our hearts will be opened, and that we will learn both to know God in truth and love God as God in fact is.

Hybels also recalled that she's been accused of participating in a «massive effort in the heart of the evangelical church to lure its members — especially its youth — away from the pro-Israel position God commands to an uncritical and unbiblical support for Palestinians.»

She says that churches should BEND towards what people today want in order to allow their sin, to allow their desire to live as we ought not, and to make our selfish hearts even harder, to not realize sacrificing self is not about the church sacrificing the Message, but for people to turn to their own hearts and how hard they have become.

I don't know what's in his heart... or his head for that matter but... I think it's interesting that he is now attending church at a time his political career would benefit from it.

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian....

While I agree that the church could definitely be less political and break with tradition in some areas, I think that a lot of this has to do with people hardening their hearts to the truth of the Bible.

NO, the only book that is that for me is the Bible, but I did take some of the insights to heart and am applying them to my life, my relationship with Christ and my role in my church.

This is another example where the Spirit of God moves in the hearts and minds of people all around the world to see similar truths at similar times so that we all work together to teach and learn what the Spirit is saying to the church.

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian culture, and the Roman Catholic Church.

I have a young daughter that has been in the church even as an infant and taught by both the church and ourselves to believe in God and Jesus Christ but ultimately it has to come from within her heart.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

Dear friends in Jesus Christ, I believe that God has called me to build a Church for him, not with bricks and mud, but with people's hearts, for may be God is speaking to you through me in the spirit of Elijah to turn the hearts of father to theirs children and the children to their father's to prepare the way for our Lord.

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

An ongoing challenge for church and clergy is to sufficiently establish the significance of scripture in the hearts and minds of believers so that they will attempt the hard work, the life's work, of seeking to understand the Word made Book.

That's part of what makes communal singing so amazing whether it's at a concert in Manchester or a church service or a kitchen party: our hearts are literally beating as one.

How briefly is the exaltation of Easter retained in the hearts of church members.

Suffice it to say that implicit in the novel's conclusion is the understanding of confession articulated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which declares that «Interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a conversion to God with all our heart, an end of sin, a turning away from evil, with repugnance toward the evil actions we have committed.»

Although simple and, in a certain sense, practical, for me this moment is rich in meaning: the Archbishop will call me by name to serve Jesus and the Church in St Andrews and Edinburgh, confirming aloud the calling I heard in my heart many years ago.

One day in 2011, while I was preaching at my former church in College Park, Maryland, I had a surreal moment and doubts completely seized my heart.

«The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.»

Celibacy is highly valued in the Catholic Church as an appropriate ways of living out the ministerial priesthood, being a Shepherd after the heart of Christ, the Good Shepherd.

If it is being born in the Church, it is first being born in the hearts and minds and lives of us, the Body.

And yes, our church isn't perfect and, in fact, it makes me a bit crazy sometimes just like all churches do for all people who show up and put their hearts on the line.

I am a guy with a great heart for God, scripture, church and mission; though I feel so hopelessly inadequate in terms of sexuality.

After suddenly losing my father - in - law to a tragic car accident and my mother - in - law just two years later, all in the midst of leaving the church my husband had been on staff at for ten years to move to a new church in a new town with new friends, I had let my overwhelming circumstances crowd my heart and mind.

This is New Dawn in the Church, a vast gathering that takes place every year at Walsingham, and the man in the chair - bike is Myles Dempsey, effectively the founder of the event and still keen to be at the heart of things.

Following the review's publication, Bishop Peter Hancock, the Church of England's lead safeguarding bishop, said: «At the heart of this case was a judgment, on the balance of probabilities, as to whether, in the event that her claim for compensation reached trial, a court would have concluded that Carol was abused by Bishop Bell.

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.

«We receive all these books, and these only, as holy and confirmation of our faith; believing, without any doubt, all things contained in them, no so much because the church receives and approves them as such, but more especially because the Holy Ghost witnessed in our hearts that they are from God, whereof they carry the evidence in themselves.»

Anything less in this fallen world is merely vain speculation and a pipe dream because like it or not there is real evil in the heart and mind of man and it permeates everything around us — even in the church.

He (the light) would be coming in the hearts of His Church With Power and the results would be visible to all.

It is impossible to list separately the many leaders in the Christian Church in Australia, of all denominations, who were so generous to me during my stay in their country; but I thank them with all my heart for all that they did to make my visit memorable and pleasant.

To further complicate things many are religious but do not believe in Christ in their heart, they are usually religious and they go to church a lot.

In Taunton a church has been sharing their faith regularly on the streets since January and has, so far, seen 74 people open their hearts to Jesus.

But if you don't champion the place of the arts within the Body of Christ, if you don't encourage young Christians to pursue the calling God has put on their hearts, if you don't train up your creative troops to stand and fight, then why on earth would you — would we — expect to see the Church being anything other than routed in the world of entertainment?

A young - in - heart elder once told me, «Do you know how huge a ministry (in church) you would have, if only you were not Caryn (that is, not a believing transsexual)?»

Where are today's counterparts to the giants who gave us the ecumenical building blocks toward unity in faith and order, life and work of the church: Visser t» Hooft, Niles, Nygren, Lilje, Newbigin, John XXIII and others who took Jesus» prayer to heart?