Sentences with phrase «come to church»

To come to the church with an idiosyncratic checklist of demands is to take the church as church less than fully seriously.

People won't come to church when we invite them unless they first begin to change their perceptions about the church.

I know I said I was going to come to your church...

I feel more free to praise God now than ever before, because when I do, people don't think I am just trying to get them to «come to church.»

Her family had come to church together that morning, and by nightfall they were shattered.

They don't come to church to be uncomfortable.

The power which had come to the Church in this atmosphere of universal acceptance had led to massive economic involvement on the one hand and an «adaptation» of the ideals of the Gospel on the other, an adaptation which also included residual superstition and paganism from pre-Christian times.

Reading about the young and unsuspecting victims took me back to the dying girl in the ICU who had come to my church that day in 2007, in a an incident that left the two girls dead and injured several others.

Result: The neighborhood arts community and their friends come to church.

The protestants are the ones who should come to the Church in this case... the Church embrace everyone who wants to...

from the poor part of town so they can come to church on Wednesdays.

The confusion begins when the leadership of the church assumes that the collection of people is homogenous, that they actually all do share beliefs one hundred percent of the time, that they really do want to evangelize and bring in new members, and that they all always want to come to church, enjoy its style, volunteer, and support it financially in the way it hopes and even expects.

Well, I'm sorry but I didn't come to church to just sit there and listen to a sermon.

If you would like me to come to your church, school, conference, or local bookstore, visit the speaking page to check out a video Dan put together for me about my speaking topics.

As I have said before, Christian love does not consist in asking someone to come to church with you.

Are they exited to come to church and be taught God's Word?

After that I will come to the church's contribution and our responsibility.

Reblogged this on thewaythetruthandthelife and commented: «It's like some people decided to stop mowing the lawn and then decided to come to church,» says DeBonville, rector at the Church of the Good Shepard in Massachusetts.

So whenever anyone said, «If I lived there I would definitely come to your church.

They are leading tortured lives and they come to church for comfort and healing and more often than not, male victims of sexual abuse are not given the same regard as females.

«It's like some people decided to stop mowing the lawn and then decided to come to church,» says DeBonville, rector at the Church of the Good Shepard in Massachusetts.

People who come to church are a part of the world, and sometimes more a part of the world than they are of the church.

Since people do not seem to come to church to get what they really need, many churches have started to offer what people think they need.

Most Christians come to church with the same consumer mentality that motivates them in the rest of life.

I asked, «Did you mean that 1 could come to this church?»

People may not want to come to a church, but they'll come to a bowling alley.

Daughter sometimes says to me «if you're sick, you should come to church and get prayer.»

They come to church looking for an instruction manual on what they can and can't do to get into heaven.

If people want to come to the church because they like being there how are you going to stop them coming?

Why do pastors say we should come to church only to seek God?

Are we giving people what they want, musically speaking, when they come to church?

If Christians believe that the church and the worship it offers to God ought in some ways to counter the norms and practices of the surrounding culture, then what does it mean that after spending so much of our time each week in front of computer monitors, cell phones, and sports bar TVs, we come to church on Sunday and happily position ourselves in front of the biggest screen of all?

This is why so many come to the Church only to get thier «Get Out of Hell Free» card.

My Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer provides for the reservation of the sacrament to administer to those who are unable to come to church for Communion.

Too often, in modern America, we think it is enough to come to church and bring our unsaved friends with us.

A church that acknowledges the extent to which our lives are lived inside our own hearts and minds and in the secular world — from which we come to church and to which we return — will find and share riches in the stories of a journeying people.

I would love to have them come to church and hear God word and repeant of their sin.

- don't sing from hymnals - don't go to church on Sunday (which they often mistakenly «the Sabbath»)- meet in a building that is lit with candles - preach wearing sandals and shorts - preach from anything but the KJV - allow homosexuals and prostitutes and drug addicts to come to church just as they are - have a pastor with facial hair (yes, I've heard this one!)

Many Christians still hold that picture of the world — or, shall we say that they half hold it, thinking and acting one way in the world and in another way when they come to church?

So when people come to your church from another church, welcome them with an open hand, knowing that they bring some blessings and some baggage.

Whether or not the chemically sensitive can come to the church, the members and staff should keep in touch with them, for it is easy for them to fall away from the church altogether.

They come to church on their own every week (or mostly), they meet together once a week collectively and talk thru «Velvet Elvis» and meet together at other times to eat, party and feed the hungry.

Do you want me to come to your church service and waste YOUR time discussing zoning issues or budget concerns?

Folks can come to our church in their military dress clothes if they like; that wouldn't bother me any more than a pizza delivery - man coming in his uniform.

You can't be a pocket of resistance without attending... but I still think people come to church when church is different from the world, when there is something noticeably ecclesial in the broadest sense, when church seems like church rather than a shopping mall.»

I am blown away by the change I hear in the way she talks, and she actually invited me to come to her church?

I'd love for you to come to church with me one Sunday.

Prince Charming may have come to the church in the form of its new pastor, who is significantly more acceptable than his immediate predecessors.

In short, some people pretend to be someone else when they come to church!

The well known person standing at the front of a mega church saying you don't come to church because of God, you come because it makes you happy is one example.