Sentences with phrase «church is the worst thing»

I used to think that change within the Church was a bad thing.

I am not going to say that the organized church is a bad thing, though I do believe it is not what God meant when He said He would build His Church.

I think going to church is the worst thing ever for a kid.

Not exact matches

ciroc2323, Suddenly the Separation of Church and State is viewed as a BAD thing?

lIKE MANY CHRISTIANS i KEEP GOING BACK TO THE CHURCH FOR MORE only to find out things were getting worse in my life!

why is that believers can ALWAYS absolve god from any bad things associated with the Church?

I was rather surprised to find myself quoted in the recent issue of FIRST THINGS as claiming, «Any church excluding Christians at a given place is not merely a bad church, but rather is not church at all, since a Eucharist to which not all the Christians at a given place might gather would not be merely a morally deficient Eucharist, but rather no Eucharist at all.»

If you discover that you are one who disagrees with me, the worst thing you can do is leave the church.

Robert Farrar Capon says it best when he concludes his analysis of the corporate church model by saying this: «The corporate model is, hands down, the worst thing that ever happened to the church.»

I appreciate it would be wrong to turn a blind eye to all the bad and not so good things the Church does, the wrong behaviour in the name of Jesus, but why oh why do you guys on these blogs continually go on and on about them.

It seems the drum beat is all about how bad the church is... how we need to listen to our accusers... could we not present the accusations and discuss them one by one... rather than alluding to them and things done so far in the past that to correct them is almost impossible.

Yea, bad things happen in some Churches, but to run screaming, I ain't goin to Church no more cause «I am so tired of platitudes and statements by christians that mean absolutely nothing...,» and all the other excuses, well, you pat them on the head, and say, «Oh you poor thing, I feel your pain.

In church people are repeatedly taught not to sin and not to do things that might be consider bad or sinful because if they do they will be judged for it.

Fortunately — and despite what some individual church experiences may have been — big questions aren't a bad thing.

I really think that more thought needs to be put into this but unfortunately most of the church has given up thought as a bad thing, something againts faith.

Kaiser thinks this is a bad thing (I think it is good), but what Kaiser fails to understand is that it is exactly the kind of theology he presents in this book which has caused most of those people to leave the church and give up on God.

While on fire, the worst thing we can do as the church is cut and run for our lives, thinking somehow the fire will be blown out by our running away.

* Yes I admit there were many bad things that happened, but we can not blame entire Christianity or the Church so singularly.

But it is the people inside doing bad things that can destroy the church.»

Samuel Jaykumar, who defends Dalit Christians as a leader with the National Council of Churches in India, told the Catholic news source that he was concerned that Kovind's presidency would make things worse for Dalit Christians and Muslims.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

what's worse, is the shock of church people if you stop wearing the mask, if you say things are not okay.

The corporate model is, hands down, the worst thing that ever happened to the church.

More important, by caving to demands for «one strike» and «zero tolerance» policies that will remove from ministry faithful priests who did one bad thing thirty years ago and have since had an impeccable record and are clearly no threat to anybody, Dallas may have changed the very self - understanding of the Church.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

But you see, I don't expect bad things to happen to me as created by other Chrisitans, but I have no illusions or rose - colored glasses on — Satan is alive and well and will use people within the church system to kill and destroy — My faith is NOT in the church system, but in Christ who set up the church as HIS Body by calling saved, but flawed people into it.

I don't think other churches need to do things our way, and I don't think we do things better or worse than anyone else other than when we do things that are not ourselves.

But you see, I donâ $ ™ t expect bad things to happen to me as created by other Chrisitans, but I have no illusions or rose - colored glasses onâ $ «Satan is alive and well and will use people within the church system to kill and destroyâ $ «My faith is NOT in the church system, but in Christ who set up the church as HIS Body by calling saved, but flawed people into it.»

I should mention that these divisions arose out of the church's sincere struggle to understand their faith, their place in the world, and their duty in the world, and I'm not so sure that is a bad thing.

Some members of my local church knew just how bad things had been and were generous with their loving support and prayer while I ended this tired partnership and began looking for premises.

Early on, he says his church leaders pegged him for a bit of a troublemaker, and that wasn't necessarily seen as a bad thing.

(Because actually, there's no such a thing as The Bad Buy — some nasty pastor, maybe, a church full of the Anxious and Needy.

And finding ways of allocating power well and having accountability might be one of the things that parts of the church are not at all bad at.

For myself, I do believe there are independent «things» which are'institution / s» which, if kept small and changed often, and devoid of power, are not necessarily a bad thing, but which, in the case of the church, has become far too large and been around in it's present form / s for far too long, with more power than is proper, and in many cases oppressing the people within its employ (not just those on the payroll but the volunteers as well)s present form / s for far too long, with more power than is proper, and in many cases oppressing the people within its employ (not just those on the payroll but the volunteers as well).

A Frayed Knot — One of the things that I have seen from atheist's comments is that most of them have been raised in Catholics, gone to a Catholic church and had a very bad experience.

All bad things about the Church are coming from fallen human nature and from the devil trying to destroy it but he will never succeed as promised by Jesus.

Perhaps the end of the church as we know it today is not a bad thing:) That being said, the church, His church, will have no end.

In my home town, NO divorces and we knew most people being in business; oh, the churches were full every Sunday too but that is a BAD thing today.

And in case anyone is still in any doubt about just how bad things are I urge them to watch a video that went viral on the internet two days ago showing a group of violent and battle - hardened Fulani herdsmen and terrorists in Church choir robes dancing, celebrating and making mockery of Christians whilst brandishing AK47's in the Church premises after they had slaughtered 2 Catholic clerics and 20 parishioners in Benue State last month.

I am outgoing, love having family time playing uno having movie night is a must... love going to church and looking for someone who will be there when things are good and bad

Twain writes such terrible things about Muslims that if he said them today I'm sure he'd be stoned by every tolerant progressive in North America, although they'd probably feel bad about it once they see how he treats the Church and her relics.

One of the most exciting and unique things about the xenosaga series is that you can look foward to seeing different character models with each new game because appearence of the characters change with each game, not because the characters have aged but for other reasons.There is one special thing that xenosaga episode three has that should have been in the other xenosaga games is the swimsuit mode because it allows you to watch movie scenes with the characters in there swimsuits but for some reason not all of the movie scenes in xenosaga 3 can be viewed in swimsuit mode, I guess it would have made the movie less serious or something.My favorite movie scenes in xenosaga are blue testament, white testament, KOSMOS verses Black Testament, any movie with Luis Virgil becaus ehe is my favorite character in the game because he's passionate and i don't think that he is a bad guy since he was able to brek free from being a testament and the only real reasons why he became a testament was because he wanted to be able to visit that old church on miltia and to gain power to prevent death.I also love Luis Virgil and all of the movie scenes that he appear in becaus they are very dramatic.The best thing about the xenosaga series is thst the story is very dee, interesting, and shocking and anyone who has played the game in order from episode one through three will definitely say the same thing.There is no doubt that anyone who has completed episode one and two will be stunned when every secret and mystery is unraveled in episode three.The one thing that I can't seem to under stand is why do some of the characters have to travel back to the earth in the end, will shion and the gang make it back to earth or will there descendants finish the mission and find earth in the end, Chaos and Nephilim told the group that the key to saving humanity lies on earth, what I want to know is what is it and how will it be used to save the universe, Even in the end new mysteries arose and remained unraveled.If there is any one outher who has has the awnswer to any of these questions please let me know when you write you're review or else there has just got to be a xenosaga four on the way, (crying) they just can't leave the story end this way.The only thing that dissapointed me about the game at first was the battle system because on the back of the case of xenosaga three said that the best aspect of the previous battles systems from episode one were combined to form a new battle system, If namco had really done this Xenosaga episode three would have had a better battle system in my opinion because I belive that the best aspect of xenosaga episode one were the special atacks wich are better than the those of episode three and the best aspect of episode three as the break system wich was also better than those of episode three.I think that namco should have given xenosaga episode 3 the battle system of episode 2 combined episode ones style of special attack, but doing this would have probably made the battle system of xenosaga episode three boring because the same old tactics would have to be used in a new game and the battle system most likely would not be as realistic as it is but it would probably be cooler.However the ability to summon all four Erde Kaisers including the new Erde Kasier Sgma my most favorite summon in the world at will and use new Ether and Tech attacks along with the new Counter and Revenge abilities gave xenosaaga episode three more than boost that it needed to have an descent battle systemThe E.S battle system of xenosaga episode 3 is way more better than those of episod one and two though, I must say that Namco really outdid themselves with the E.S battle system of xenosaga episode because the other E.S battle system from the two previos games weren't good, luckily they made up for it with the character battle system.In episode one I never really wanted to use anA.G.W.S, lucky for me they were optional but in episode two sadly it is manatory that you pilot an E.S to progress in the game in Episode three you piloting an E.S is also mandatory to progress in the game but the difference between the three episode is that will be sorry in episode three you will ge glad that you are using an E.S because their battle system is extremely cool.Xenosaga is most definitely one of the besrt RPG games in the world andit is far more better than any final fantasy game that Square Enix has ever made but for some reason it still score lower than Some Final Fantasy and other Sqare Enix games on this site.I bet that if xenosaga was actually named Final Fantasy and had a subtitle it and if it wre made by sqare Enix it would have probably been more famous and it would have scored higher even though it is still the same gameIn the end with every thing being written said and done all i can say is that I feel more at peace now that I have defended this underated game.All I have to say now is that TURN BASED GAMES RULE!

One of the things we'd like to accomplish here is a more nuanced discussion of the evidence, rather than calling it «good» or «bad» as if some of the evidence went to church and the rest went out to the tavern and got drunk.]