Sentences with phrase «coming out of a church»

I realize the term excellence is kind of a buzzword that came out of the church growth movement and some people are beginning to grow weary of it.

There are many people in our society who came out of a church, but they didn't come all the way out.

His father was a minister and theologian, so Dulles came out of the church.

It certainly is a better message than the many hypocritical messages that have come out of churches today.

Two out of three Americans believe gay people commit suicide at least partly because of messages coming out of churches and other places of worship, a survey released Thursday found.

It's been quite awhile for me coming out of the church world, and I'm relieved and glad that I don't pay much attention to that crap any longer.

More than four out of 10 Americans say the message coming out of churches about gay people is negative, and about the same number say those messages contribute «a lot» to negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people.

Fifty - two thousand parishioners coming out of church and 52,000 different ones going in.

Well, what system of 55,000 + divisions of Jesus came out of the Church of Rome, but those denominational institutional daughters we see today?

Is this coming out of his salary, or is this coming out of the church coffers?

My struggle now, is that I am coming out of church and navigating a post-church theology or lack therof.

Two elderly women thanked us as we came out of the church on our last night there.

They can nourish a substantial segment of the nation's future leadership, coming out of the churches, in their particular traditions and perceptions of the challenges of the future.

God commands true believers to come out of the churches and go to Christ (the Word).»

Indeed, he says, it is hard to think of any major reform movement «that did not come out of the Christian Church» (though «opposition to reform also came out of the church»), 318.

President Hollande said the attackers claimed to be from the self - styled IS before they were killed by police as they came out of the church.

Special Moments Coming out of the church as a married couple and seeing all the people that we loved in one place everyone was so happy

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal.

Not exact matches

Abbott's comments come a day after one of the pastors, Robert Morris, told news outlets Abbott had reached out to him and nine other churches to build support for the legislation.

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

It was heartening to see the Evangelical Alliance come out in support of No More Page 3 earlier this year, asking all member churches to do the same.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

The Church of Scotland says it does not support any side in the Scottish Independence Referendum despite a number of churches and ministers coming out in support of Yes.

he never mentioned them and would have lost support with the public and the baptist church if he came out in suport of gays.

It was offered tongue - in - cheek and was directed at the speculation about whether anything of substance will come out of the Council, but it expressed well the hopes and concerns held by the scholars of the Orthodox Church.

We have people who come to church in jeans, we have people who will shout out «Hallelujah» if the like what is being said, or repeat the chorus of hymns.

Church is the one time a week Lucas knows he can get out of the house, and at Trinity House of Prayer people won't look away when he comes down the aisle.

i beleive there is good out there, and as a Mom i want to make sure i live me life in a way that will make my daughter proud of me so i will introduce Church to her and i will teach her the commandments because whether or not Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets in his hands they are a good starting point to instill good morals.

Mankowski, who holds quite different views on ordaining women, agrees with Weakland that it would have been much better if the writers of the pastoral came right out and said what they mean by lamenting the sins of sexism in a hierarchical church.

«I love my church and have a lot of faith, but culturally we haven't done a good job in dealing with people who are gay when they face life challenges,» whether that be coming out, depression or struggles with suicide or illness, Fletcher said.

A 1922 letter to the Politburo sets forth Lenin's view of the campaign against the church: «For us this moment is not only exceptionally favorable but generally the only moment when we can, with ninety - nine out of a hundred chances of total success, smash the enemy and secure for ourselves an indispensable position for many decades to comes.

The Word says also we shall have tribulation in this world but He has overcome the world — there will be a day of reckoning and the term gnashing of teeth I believe will be those who had the chance to believe and passed it up and when they find out He is real and coming for His church (believers) they will remember those times they said no — very terrible to find out it was all true

«It does not reflect well on the messages that are coming out from the Church for greater tolerance of other faiths.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints come from many nationalities, cultures, and backgrounds check this link out for yourself: http://mormon.org/me/3QV2 In fact, there are more members outside of the United States than inside!

It rules out anyone, priest or layman, encouraging them to go to Mass or giving them a ride to the church, letting them come to Bible studies or Sunday school, driving them to the doctor, giving them the food and clothing they need, counseling a pregnant woman against abortion or helping her take care of her baby.

Paul came right out and said that neither he nor the church had any such customs... I wonder if he was trying to correct one of those false letters.

Rob came to the attention of publishing giant Zondervan not only because his church meets in a shopping centre, and not only because it's in the same city as their headquarters, but because out of his church came «Nooma».

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

A question, as i am curious... Should the «laws» change in relationship to the issue of gay's being allowed marriage, and full equal rights, would you and the Mormon Church come out and «change it's position and say, we are following our government and it's laws which say it (gay marriage) is o.k..

Usually, they are not kicked out of the church but helped to come back.

And a pastor of a Baptist church in Colorado actually kicked me out of his car (and I'm a disabled woman veteran in a powerchair) after inviting me to Easter dinner with his family, because I refused to deny that Jesus came to me in that dream.

Christianity is the religion out of which separation of church and state came * and has always been the main opponent of separation of church and state.

CNN: American nuns come out swinging against Vatican in face of «radical feminist» accusations The leadership representing most of America's nuns came out swinging Friday against the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, in the face of charges from the Vatican that the nuns are espousing «radical feminism» and straying from church teaChurch, in the face of charges from the Vatican that the nuns are espousing «radical feminism» and straying from church teachurch teaching.

Very often, as we do these things in our community, it comes out that we are followers of Jesus but that we don't attend church.

Yes, spiritual warfare on every front of Christendom and when these hit pieces come out against the men of God who lead these churches (institutions as you call them), I believe it aids and abets the enemy.

Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a wonderful time with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and all the readers who came out to hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met in the bathroom of all places!

Ralph Wood pointed out that in the great Barmen Declaration of the Confessing Church in Germany, every credimus, «We believe...,» is followed by a damnatis, «We reject...» Alas, when it came time for the rest of the German church to say «Nein!&Church in Germany, every credimus, «We believe...,» is followed by a damnatis, «We reject...» Alas, when it came time for the rest of the German church to say «Nein!&church to say «Nein!»

Just where Lenin Avenue makes a turn, coming out of downtown Moscow and heading out toward the southwest suburbs, stands St. Nicholas's Church.