Sentences with phrase «come to church expecting»

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People come through the church doors expecting it to be a fix - all, and most people in the church believe they are the fixers.

The problem with most Churches is our virtual total lack of going into the community, we expect them to come to us, Jesus didn't.

We also expect people who have no concept of church or God to conform to coming to a building at 10.30.

When I jumped (and I do mean jumped, a ready or not here I come, head - first dive) from the Sunday - mainstream - church - going - because - it's - what - you - do nominal / cultural Christianity that I was raised with into «serious» Christianity (to use the vernacular: born again, spirit filled, Bible believing, charismatic, etc.) and became what was at the time called a «Jesus freak» (it was 1972) I expected something from the church which was very different than what I found.

Chapter Three, «The Perfect and Acceptable Sacrifice», includes the relationship of the altar to sacrifice, the presentation and blessing of the gifts, and the traditional eastward orientation of churches because Christians expected the Second Coming from the rising sun.

Most churches retain the belief in the Second Coming — the Church of England Communion service includes the words, «Christ will come again», which everyone is expected to say — yet there is no great expectation that the second coming is about to take Coming — the Church of England Communion service includes the words, «Christ will come again», which everyone is expected to say — yet there is no great expectation that the second coming is about to take coming is about to take place.

The believers and the sympathizers who expected inspiring personalities at key positions in the Church were disappointed by a procession of tired bureaucrats who lacked the magnanimity, vision, and creativity necessary to prepare the Church for the coming decade.

Members of this St. Paul, Minnesota, congregation, also known as the Recovery Church, have come to expect God to orchestrate such moments.

He expected the team would be a blessing to refugee families, but he wasn't expecting the blessings that came to him and his church as a result of serving.

They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

Don't expect people to come to church this Christmas, bring Christmas to the people!

They expect you to come once a week, if you are not able to fit in time for god and the church once a week you should either feel like you let yourself and your family down or you should not go since it clearly does not mean much to you.

Secondly, the belief in the imminent coming of the day of the Lord, so strong in the thought of Paul, and presumably in that of the early church, was bound to wane in intensity by the time two generations of Christians had passed away and the expected end - time had not yet come.

To describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theologTo describe the Church as a community of memory and hope, sharing in the common memory not only of Jesus Christ but also of the mighty deeds of God known by Israel, expecting the coming into full view of the kingdom on earth and / or in heaven; to describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theologto describe it further as the community of worship, united by its direction toward one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit yet worshipped more as Father or as Son or as Holy Spirit in this or that part of the community; to describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theologto describe it as a community of thought in which debate and conflict can take place because there is a fundamental frame of agreement and because there are common issues of great import — to do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theologto do all this and the much more that needs to be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theologto be done would be to essay the work of a large part of theologto essay the work of a large part of theology.

What it DOES represent very well is the kind of snide smugness... mixed with a healthy dose of dishonesty... that we have come to expect from so many in the church.

With the overabundance of clergy, with the church's current acceptance of the novelty without coming to terms with the reality, and with the likelihood of a backlash from the laity, we can expect to have a large group of angry ordained women in the near future.

Why, in almost every other sphere of existence, do we expect people to learn from their experiences, but when it comes to the church, people are supposed to ignore their negative religious and ecclesiastical experience and just blindly love the church?

When people come together in the life of the church they expect to meet in small groups and feel comfortable in such a setting.

If healings and miracles are something Bethel has come to expect, there have also been a number of unexpected phenomena that have attracted attention, and led many to write the church off as an esoteric fad.

This has taken place in Eldoret where people who went to take refuge in Church were burnt to death, so it is almost expected that this could make things degenerate even further in the next coming days.

«The world thinks it is coming to bless Haiti,» says AIM founder and executive director Seth Barnes, «yet our staff in Haiti expects to see gifted leaders rise from the church in Haiti.

We come to the crux of the matter when we confront the Hindu scholar's statement with regard to the Indian branch of this Church in which he expects to «combine the best elements of Hinduism with the good points of Christianity.

«I feel like I have a responsibility, that God has given me a gift to write songs for his church that people listen to and that people are coming to expect now,» he said.

No one had a fit when I didn't go to church (beyond the expected paternal disapproval), they didn't come after me and try to «reactivate me» when I first left the church, and no one ostracized me when I wouldn't go back.

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.

But I suggest that Protestants who are fascinated with Mary be careful not to expect us to adopt titles for Mary like Mother of God or Mother of the Church, when those terms, even when technically correct, come with connotations that some of us believe, with Barth, necessitate «an Evangelical protest.»

Their friends and relatives, who come from churches all across America, turn to us because they know we will welcome them, honor gay relationships, and provide acceptance that they can not expect from most mainline churches.

At a time when I was dealing with some serious burnout with the Church, when I was angry about all the judgment and division I've come to expect from it, Pastrix arrived and dropped a badly - needed Truth bomb right in the middle of all my crap.

I'd say that if Jesus actually formed a church or had the church form the way he would have wanted, it would have been full of Jews sworn to poverty as they expected the coming of the son of man and Yahweh's justice.

There's no cost to keeping your name on the membership roster, past having a large body of peers thinking you believe something you don't, expecting you to come to church (and hounding you about it), holding you to a social critique (a strict one) dictated by the church, etc..