Sentences with phrase «come to church just»

- 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!)

Churches Peter James I do agree that sometimes people come to church just for the show but that is the opposite reason that I go.

An Anglican priest is criticising «disrespectful» tourists who come to her church just to take selfies.

Not exact matches

(Many people who «leave» the church don't actually request their names be removed from the rolls; they just stop coming to meetings and try to «fall off the grid.»)

After all, this not - to - subtle comment about the health marketing came after he had just given a speech in a Chicago church in January 2015.

«The Christian Church has started to realize that we're sexual, too, and we are just as visually stimulated as men and we look at porn,» said Crystal Renaud, author of the recent book «Dirty Girls Come Clean,» a memoir about her own addiction to porn.

I am free now from the bondage of mans church and all the controling rules it imposes, free to create and just be which was my original intention when I chose to come forth into this time / space reality.

Don't try to claim churches and their ministers are just like anyone else when it comes to finances, they're not.

im so sori this had to happend to eddy yet he is only human and only a man and it has nothing to do do with god and gods word im sori he has to be the example to the world that this is not the way but this is the life he has chosen if it is true he should have known wat happends in the dark will come in the light his bad yet god is a forgiven god just cuz you sit in church do nt make you saved just like sitting in the garage do nt make you a car.... - smile

The loving God came down and sacrificed the essence of Himself for this messed up people, the entire world, not just the church, and has paid the price for only those who choose to follow Him.

And also — not trying to pick a fight — but I just can't help but wonder at the irony of a criticism on those churches» provocative sermons (on sex with hot wives, drinking beer, etc.) coming from a «naked pastor» and «graffiti artist on the walls of religion.»

Just as Sabbath was ruling over the Jews in the days of Jesus, church has come to rule over Christians today.

Protestants are more like, «Just come to church on Christmas, that's all we ask.»

Just once, I would love for a mega-church pastor or a prominent church author to come out and announce a blessing upon all those people who are leaving their church to follow Jesus in tangible and loving ways in the community.

the catholic church is just a breeding ground for phedefiles, there is about always news stories about catholic priests molesting kids, i'm not saying it's just catholic priests, but those stories always seem to come up alot

We have to make the inside of the church warm, friendly, with coffee areas, places for young people to come and just be themselves.

I just wonder if there is any real way to compel them to come back to an established church where we are, hopefully, trying to reset our direction.

I talked with a lady just a few weeks ago who lives in Trego and I invited her to come to church, and she said she really wants to, but Sunday is the only day she has to get the things done around the house that she needs to, and so she can't make it to church.

It's also inspired the church's great modern poets — the people responsible for updating the outdoor marquee with new service times and mind - boggling puns — to rise to their finest hour and show these gamers what they're missing if they just come for the Pokemon.

Do we bill our churches not just as places to come to, but communities to get involved in?

Try to ask a serious question with an open mind, acutally listen & try to imagine where that person is coming from... not just your narrow pious world / church view.

if he is just preaching just to get people to come to church and mabey know god i can assure you he is a lost man and he is damming many people to an eternal demise in hell.

Coming out of extreme fundamentalism, I thought it was just the churches to which I'd been exposed early on.

But naturally, just like everything else in culture, not everyone agrees — particularly when it comes to women's role in the Church.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «When Easter is Hard.»

I've found my people without the striving and organizing, without the Official Sanctioned Church Programs, nope, we just all came into each other's lives, right at the time when we were meant to be there, we stayed open to finding each other, a part of me was always watching for the hints of my people, and so when I found them, I recognised them, I did.

OK, I just didn't get the sentence «have you ever noticed how the true «prayer warriors» of the typical church never come to «Prayer meetings»?»

According to Trena Mewborn, Director of Counseling Service at First Baptist Church at the Mall, there are addicts in the church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.&Church at the Mall, there are addicts in the church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.&church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.»

Just as God is not a respecter of persons, he's also not a respecter of church size when it comes to orphan care.

When I go through David Kinnaman's research, which reflects just about every concern I express in my «15 Reasons» posts --(young people are leaving the church because they believe it is too exclusive, too combative with science, hyper - political, out - of - touch when it comes to sexuality, and an unsafe place in which to wrestle with doubt)-- I am often met with blank stares.

«We need the Church to be a place where people can talk about this, not just shove it under the carpet and not come to church until they feel better.&Church to be a place where people can talk about this, not just shove it under the carpet and not come to church until they feel better.&church until they feel better.»

That's why you come here instead of just going to church and praying.

I do think about new believers as well, so I try to come to an understanding of the text, then to talk it out (sometimes just alone with myself) with out all the «church terminology».

Just like Ray Ortlund discussed last week with respect to church planting, small churches often assume that due to limited resources, they have little to offer when it comes to tasks that seem as daunting as orphan care.

Eastern theology acknowledges that there's something drastically wrong, even evil, about human beings (just not in the same sense as the Western Church), and it's because of Jesus» work as the «true human'that humanity may come closer to this vision.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

Just as the Reformers sought to reform the church of their day, so also, they would want those who came after them to continue the reforms «till we all come to the unity of the faith» (Ephesians 4:13).

I could tell by her tone that if I dared say that I don't even know who she was, she would have just said «well, if you would come to church, you sure (as heck) would know who I am (and the deceased).

If you were to come to my church, you wouldn't just be asked for money, in fact, if you're not a member, or if you're just giving out of obligation, we ask you not to.

I started to see a picture of the Church that there come times when we're just sloppy in the exchange zone.

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Martin Luther presented the theology of Sola scriptura that the bible is the sole source to live and understand what Christianity is all about... but the bible itself does not come with a table of contents to prove that it is correct which is why the bible itself says that the CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth... remember that the church existed before even the bible was even put together... To understand the bible you cant just rely on your own interpretation like the protestants often say... The truth is always absolute and hence the teachings of the bible HAS to be absolute which is why the church is said to be ONE in nature (in every sense of the word), HOLY, CATHOLIC (Universal in teaching in every corner of the world) and APOSTOLIC (roots dating back to Jesus himself)... Now figure out what is that one church... 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On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

The move comes just days after the Church of England voted to allow women bishops in a move Archbishop Justin said he was «delighted» about.

Religion just never came up, other than a few visits to church on Easter when I was very young.

What he was doing was leading; he was saying «this is where this community is going, where God has called us to go, and there may be other churches that God has called to just preach sermons and have people come and listen, perhaps doing ministry outside the community.»

And when it comes to food, when we have all our great church dinners, make just enough food to go around, One of the worst causes of methane in the air is when we take a lot of food from church suppers and throw it away and put it into landfills.

I'm not sure what my point is really, I'm kind of rambling, but I suppose it's just that I'm wondering that if it's possible for a bunch of online strangers to work out their disagreements and come to a friendly understanding (and yes endure temporary offenses and misunderstandings), it must be possible in real life church IF (a big «if») we are willing to stop being too afraid to speak up.

The Church's «faith story» is more than just a graced subjectivity: it is the response by the redeemed Brideof Christ, of which we are all members by Baptism (note, by Baptism, not by some a-sacramental graced subjectivity), to the Lord who lived, died and rose again in history and whom she awaits to complete all things in His Second Coming.