Sentences with phrase «churchgoers who»

The friend said they would give my name to some fellow churchgoers who were looking for a house in return for a $ 500 referral fee.

There's the avid churchgoers who are #blessed #fortunate.

Pastors say mental illness is spiritual ailment Christian pastors may tell churchgoers who seek help for a mental illnesses — such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia — that they have a spiritual problem instead.

But it's not just churchgoers who don't like the idea.

White men must be made to realize that the black church is the instrument of God in this world, not just a group of nigger churchgoers who are separated unto themselves until the good graces of white men call them back into fellowship with white congregations.

Under this reasoning one would expect the frequent churchgoers to be more compassionate than the infrequent churchgoers who are presumably more extrinsically religious or other - directed.

I know many churchgoers who never, EVER volunteer or practice the well - preached «take care of thy neighbor» community - minded sermons given at their local churches (oh, the rich ones can write a check in about 15 seconds, but do they donate?

I now meet very few churchgoers who (from the commentary on this page) might be facing serious trouble when the sheep - goat thing happens, or the accounting for every stray word time comes (let alone the millstone thing for people who lead children astray).

My husband and I are life - long churchgoers who no longer want to be.

The Barna Group recently ran a survey on the cities that had the highest percentage of churchgoers who attended mega churches.

I doubt that there is a Christian leader, ordained or lay, who has never provoked anger or irritation in a church situation, and I doubt that there is a single churchgoer who hasn't experienced hurt feelings and discouragement from a congregational incident of some sort.

They help to define the nature of evangelicalism's theological impasse in a way that the average Christian churchgoer who reflects on the faith can understand.

Alexander says he used to be an indifferent churchgoer who ignored stories about the afterlife.

Considered all together the data suggest a portrait of the religious - minded as a churchgoer who has a self - centered preoccupation with saving his own soul, and an alienated, other - worldly orientation coupled with indifference toward — a tacit endorsement of — a social system that would perpetuate social inequality and injustice.

Also, as a lifelong churchgoer who has seen her fair share of pastor - centric churches, I like that the lectionary lets Scripture set the agenda for the sermon... which, when you think about it, is a pretty evangelical way to look at it.

Not exact matches

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

But today, regular churchgoers are just as supportive of Trump as those who rarely attend church:

Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership.

However, my first few weeks in this strange environment convinced me that theology was not an exclusive endeavour for the cultured churchgoer; it was for anybody who wanted to wrestle and reflect on who God is.

So take off the mask of churchgoer and take a serious look at who church says that god is.

According to a new Pew Research survey, 1 percent of churchgoers said their pastor has spoken positively of Donald Trump, compared to 6 percent who heard praise for Hillary Clinton.

More than ever, churchgoers must have help to understand the bursting energies that are shaping society and church, to rediscover the God who acts in history, to join him in the arena of his work.

If you don't believe me, ask someone who's a regular churchgoer — let him read the email and tell him what I said — and see if he agrees that what she did is a little unorthodox, but not out of bound.

You religious men who hump boys and your cohort wives and churchgoers... your days have been numbered with the number of a prison cell.

Far Cry leaves us with something we've seen time and time again — fundamentalist villains who seem meant to resonate with real churchgoers, but never quite move beyond cardboard cutouts.

leaves us with something we've seen time and time again — fundamentalist villains who seem meant to resonate with real churchgoers, but never quite move beyond cardboard cutouts.

But, I believe there are a lot of churchgoers out there who wouldn't know the dirty truth if it bit them in the ass.

As mentioned above, today's religious leaders are crooked men who have misled today's churchgoers.

Salvation was ranked third by those who attended church every week, but it dropped linearly to 18th for those who never attended; forgiving was ranked second by the weekly churchgoers and decreased linearly to 11th for those never attending.

A middle - aged woman we interviewed in Connecticut — let's call her Carol — is typical of many people who continue to see themselves as «regular» churchgoers despite increasingly irregular attendance.

And 43 % of Muslim Americans say they attend a mosque on a weekly basis, on par with the 45 % of US Christians who have described themselves as weekly churchgoers in recent surveys.

She was raised in the 1950s and 1960s by parents who were United Church of Christ members and active churchgoers.

And then comes: the taboo subjects; talking about people as if they are not there (or as if they are an «issue», not a person); assuming everyone (who counts) is of a certain race, ability, class, language, sexuality or gender; various non-biblical behavioural rules; the targeted enforcement of church rules (whether «biblical» or not) on particular groups; and the general reluctance to see things from another's perspective (even if this is a skill that churchgoers use all day, every day, outside thw church).

Far more important than denomination is regular church attendance: 65 percent of weekly churchgoers oppose legalization (with 56 percent strongly opposed), while 70 percent of those who rarely or never attend church think it a good idea (with 47 percent in strong support).

The review also concluded that no significant concerns had been reported to the authorities about the behaviour of churchgoer Chevaze McGregor, who bit Jeremiah during months of sickening abuse.

De Blasio, who is running for reelection this fall against Republican Nicole Malliotakis and a string of third - party candidates, told churchgoers: «It takes a lot of gall to tweet negative things about people recovering from a hurricane while you're at your golf course playing golf.»

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, who is an atheist, also attended alongside 80 MPs, 20 peers and almost 600 churchgoers, campaigners and lobbyists for the early morning gathering in the medieval Westminster Hall.

Exceptions are made for Native American churchgoers, who are allowed by law to use peyote in prayer meetings, and members of a branch of a Brazilian - based church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, who have won court battles for the right to use the hallucinogenic tea ayahuasca in their religious rituals.

The finding that regular churchgoers seem to be happier than people who are not religious (9 October, p 14) could be interpreted as supporting the adage that ignorance is bliss.

It's students — and churchgoers, concertgoers, and other victims of gun violence — who suffer while policymakers stumble in the dark, beholden to the money the gun industry uses to influence public opinion.

«In fact, couples who never go to church are 2x more likely to divorce than regular churchgoers.»