Sentences with phrase «churches have treated»

Whereas most churches have treated me as a liability, this one treated me as an asset.

Carol do you mean this is how the church has treated the (former) attendee, or this is the attitude of the (former) congregant?

I've spoken at several events for Christian teens in my travels, and let me tell you, to a person, they find anti-gay bullying abhorrent and are very concerned with how the Church has treated their gay friends.

By and large, those on both sides of this debate — including those on the conservative side — acknowledge that the way the Church has treated gay people has been horrific...

Yet the Church has treated performance as «dangerous» and «dirty,» and therefore has traditionally pushed it out of the center of its purview.

Not exact matches

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

Yet I STILL would treat people better then this priest did (and as discussed below, I actually blame him mor ethan the church).

I get from David's cartoon that there are 4 distinct classes of women who have been treated badly by the bigotry so prevalent in the Christian Church.

If the Church had had it's way we'd still be treating women as second class citizens and all of you Christians would not own a bible but rather would have to go to the Church to hear what it had to say on the matter.

Which must mean they are wrong to treat me in such manner because if I haven't done anything to bring about church discipline, yet they treat me like I've been brought all the way through the process, then they are wrong.

To accept gay marriage as a genuine expression of marriage — and to treat it as such in the parish office, even if we could then keep it out of the parish church — would be vastly more destructive than accepting divorce (which has been bad).

Their hospitals have not attempted to be at the forefront in treating it, and indeed some in Africa have been cavalier in their use of untested blood for transfusions; American members who have contracted the disease have often been shunned; and African church leaders have assumed that AIDS is not an issue affecting Adventists.

It has become so now that many LGBT people are «automatically» atheist as a result of how church members are treating them.

He added the Church had «failed to engage in a process which would also give proper consideration to the rights of the Bishop» and that «such rights should not be treated as having been extinguished on death».

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

There is no way I would again attend a church that does not, in practice, treat women as peer - humans, and the Emergence movement as ended my long search for it.

The Mormon church has always treated homosexual relations as wrongful conduct, and already classed them with fornication and adultery as offenses calling for discipline.

It's also important for those of us who have grown weary of being treated like second - class Kingdom citizens to be reminded of the fact that there are indeed many Christian men out there who support and celebrate women in the Church.

Furthermore, from the Christian sight, a man, which has become a leader of a heretical church is to treat harsh, in order to show him that something is wrong.

Wherever we find the whole church has expressed its shared understanding, we treat what is said as authoritative.

I've wept as close friends slowly distanced themselves from me and well - meaning church people treated me like a project — someone to pray about, gossip about, and fix.

Sadly, I've seen how the Fox church people treat compassionate Christian moderates on an ordinary day, so it won't be too much of a fight.

but the government has every right and ability to treat the church the same as every other employer and require tehm to provide to their employees teh same benefits as all other employers.

The girl had to be treated in hospital for her injuries after an assault allegedly took place in the grounds of All Saints Church in Burton - upon - Trent, Staffordshire, on January 23.

Where the church has failed is not in its high standard of fidelity, but in its tendency to treat sex as incidental to the fulfilment of marriage, or as at best a minor element in fulfillment.

During the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), one person who gave evidence was asked how the church can deal with the abuse of power and replied: «It needs to stop squelching discussion, it has a way of crushing people when they try to speak and it needs to treat people as adults not children.»

Very seldom has anyone within a local church treated it as a field of study and reported out its patterns of culture because they constitute an important disclosure of the symbolic nature of the group.

The first chapter gives a brief overview of the history of psychiatry, beginning in ancient Greece, describing how mental illness has been regarded and treated through the ages; along the way, it debunks the myth that the early Church saw all mental illness as diabolic.

We also have examples of how missionaries have taken along with them the Western family pattern, identifying it with Christianity, and treating people living in polygamous societies mainly with church discipline.

During the war itself the Churches faced a problem that accompanied them until the present day — what were they to do with the Negroes who had been so unjustly treated for almost two centuries?

Hundreds of churches across the UK take part by handing out empty shoeboxes and collecting those which had been filled with treats.

I agree with the article and would add that one category that is missing: the way church leaders treat their people in terms of allowing them to serve in ministries.

Stormed into my house and treated me abominably because I had not been to church..

This discussion is turning into a real mess... but no wonder the «church people» have acted the way they do, if this is how discussions are treated.

I applaud their decision to stay true to their vows when the Church they have dedicated their life to serve treats them in such an unchristian manner.

«You can't have a church where we're all supposed to be one in Christ and then treat women as if it's the faulty half of creation,» she told CNN Sunday.

That constitutes, according to the fathers of the Church, the special dignity of human beings, and it should have been treated by Jenson in the section on «human personhood.»

That said, keep you mouth shut when your Christian brother or sister don't have that same conviction and decide they want to take their kids out to get some candy, or head over to their churches «Trunk or Treat» celebration.

If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector» (my italics).

This has opened my eyes to how victims are typically treated, the cult - of - personality error that is rampant in churches, and other issues.

No matter what organization he belongs to, there is no one who feeds more hungry, houses more poor, treats more sick, educates more children than the Catholic church and we've been doing it longer than any one else on the planet.

Perhaps the cardinal was suggesting that Amoris Laetitia asked all the people of the Church to treat those who have not been married in the Church but who wish to be part of the Catholic community with greater sensitivity and charity (a worthy proposal, although compassion is the norm in the situations with which I'm most familiar).

At this church, here is how the Trunk - or - Treat worked: They had about fifty cars in the parking lot all of them weare covered by a cheap van insurance, and at about half of them, you had to stand in a line for about 10 minutes while kids played little games.

I feel the Church treats God The Father and God The Son and God The Holt Spirit like an aging relative who has gone a bit deaf and daft, so we placate them as there may be an inheritance coming our way in the not to distant future.

I think many of us are so programmed by the church to feel guilt constantly about our very being, that we have trouble having the dignity of saying, «Yes, I am worth being treated well by others.»

Truth be told... others would call me critical, and negative and cynical, but my heart bursts for the church, I just wish leaders would realize how mistaken we have been to treat the church so much like an organization and a business rather than allowing it to grow and be nurtured as we would a child!

But women have been treated as second - class, in the church as well as everywhere else, including our marriage.

A few paragraphs later Cardinal Dulles laments that «the greatest threat to religion, in my estimation, is the kind of secularism that would exclude religion from the public forum and that treats churches as purely private institutions that have no rightful influence on legislation, public policy, and other dimensions of public life.»

If taken by themselves, some of these verses indicate that the apostle deviated from Jesus» example and had a bias against women, and even suggested that women should be treated as second - class Christians — submissive to their husbands, attired and coifed demurely and silent in church.

Luke Timothy Johnson's basic response to scholarly research on the historical Jesus is embarrassment on behalf of the Church: embarrassment that Christ's own followers would treat him as a dead figure of history who can be understood only through strictly rational methods of inquiry, barring faith and hope from having their say.