Sentences with phrase «committed by your church»

I went to Jesuit school where they readily admit to the errors committed by the Church.

You think a little volunteer work is enough to erase all the atrocities committed by your church?

Three female plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Wednesday «allege a conspiracy spanning more than two decades to conceal sexual abuse committed by church members» throughout the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Associated Press.

It is with this type of worship that we are concerned in this chapter — and appropriately so, because it is the type of worship which provides the best setting for the preaching of the gospel or Word of God, while at the same time it is the type of worship which best delivers the body of believers from complete dependence upon the minister to whom is committed by the Church both the preaching of the gospel and the conduct of the divine service itself.

Christianity has done much more good than bad in the past 2000 years so although you can point out some of the horrendous wrongs committed by churches and governments, it doesn't eclipse the good.

«many people are offended and / or frustrated by the very sight of the cross because of the atrocities committed by the church and positions the church takes on certain issues.»

@Timmy: What horrors committed by the Church?

How can you remain a Catholic and be aware of centuries of horrors committed by your church?

Not exact matches

The people at that church should boycott it for having a preacher that is so prejudice and by passing judgment on her he committed the greatest sin of all.

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

See the verdict given by the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State committed by vatican and heads of state re crimes against humanity.

Many aspects were blown up, though many Crusaders did commit abuses that, in no way, were backed by the Church.

When we decided to leave that church, I was told by the pastor's wife that we could not be friends anymore because I wasn't committed to them, that I had been like a «live - in girlfriend» because I had been fellowshipping with them and had decided to leave them.

The anguish suffered by those people persecuted by the churches, including your pagan inspired church, caused many to commit suicide.

The far - from - impressive picture of liberal churches that emerges from these data is that they are inhabited by aging, not very committed members, many of whom are headed out the church door.

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

The review found the Church acted in good faith and that it was right to acknowledge cases of sexual abuse committed by the clergy.

CNN: After Anne Frank baptism, Mormons vow to discipline members Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch policy.

(CNN)- Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch policy.

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

According to the book, the Vatican had knowledge of multiple cases of sexual abuse committed by Maciel decades ago, but church authorities chose to do nothing about it.

«When taking vows as elders at Coral Ridge, each individual commits before God to strive for the purity, peace, and unity of the church,» Coral Ridge stated to CT. «We are saddened that these two elders failed in their vows by withholding this information regarding our former senior pastor, which has since caused many families and churches much harm.»

The Catholic church ought to be ashamed of the evil IT has wrought; far more harm has been done by your popes and their minions than has ever been committed by gays.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives an appealing but also a very self - committing description, saying that consent is the act «by which the spouses mutually give and receive one another» (no. 1639).

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

What do individual crimes committed by individual priests have to do with a church wanting stolen property back?

A ban on full Christian funerals for people who commit suicide has been lifted by the Church of England.

Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people in search of a safe place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.

When I first arrived here, I searched for a church for months, and by January, I was so worn out that I knew if I didn't commit soon I would be tempted to start staying home altogether.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued an unreserved apology after admitting the Church of England colluded and concealed the abuse committed by Bishop Peter B...

Though slightly different in context, one could add an event that must not be forgotten: the silence of the Indian church during the Emergency period (1975 - 1977) even though everyone knew of all the atrocities committed by the Indira Gandhi regime.

To the extent that the oldline churches are shaped by a membership that is not decisively committed to Christ, they can not respond well to the challenge they face to.

By criticizing these two positions I am seeking to establish that, insofar as we are committed to genuine renewal in the churches that we represent, there are no short - cuts; we must begin with basics.

In service the church is committed to the care for the victims of society, but the church has the responsibility of creating just structures that are necessary to reduce many forms of suffering — especially the suffering that is caused by deprivation, inhumanity and violence.

Deeply informed by the disinterested «religious studies» approach to religion, she remains committed to theologizing on behalf of the church.

It is our belief that this vision is urgently needed by the Church in this time of crisis and we are committed to continue to promote and develop it through the movement in its many different spheres of influence and especially through this magazine.

Some pastors and church leaders say that if they are doing something by the power of the Holy Spirit, and someone else challenges them and says that they are of the devil, then the questioner has committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and will never be forgiven.

In the third century Church fathers like Tertullian and Cyprian held that sins committed after baptism dishonour God and that we need to offer him some «satisfaction» by way of compensation.

Tullian Tchividjian Fired by Church, Liberate Board Members Quit Tchividjian tells CT: «I remain committed to that painful and progressive process» of repentance.

A motion at its recent meeting asked the synod to «acknowledge the injury felt by members of the Church who enter into loving, committed and legally - recognised, same - sex relationships, due to the absence of provision for them to mark that key moment in their lives publicly and prayerfully in Church.»

While many churches and pastors teach that those who commit since like those listed above can never be forgiven, this series of posts reveals that all such sins are forgivable by God.

The church for too long as beared a false witness, essentially lied about the true nature of God, by committing itself to everything else, BUT LOVE!

Churches and pastors who participate in miracles and prophecies don't like to be told that they are being controlled by the devil, and so they often counter with the argument that anyone who says that something is of the devil when it is actually from God is committing a blasphemous sin against the Holy Spirit and will never be forgiven of such a sin.

That was not sanctioned by the church but was committed by members of the Cchurch but was committed by members of the ChurchChurch.

Perhaps that's part of reason that a number of hospitals and universities have been started or sponsored by churches and many organizations with religious roots committed to humanitarian causes.

I know that being from the US Bible Belt that by and large homosexuals are greatly persecuted and often not allowed to be members of their churches... even going so far as seeing hate crimes committed against them....

As far as the wrongs committed by members of church, that does nothing, and should do nothing to change my opinion of the church as a whole.

On the other hand, atrocities done by the church were quite proudly and openly committed in the name of god.

The church said it is «committed to taking action against individual abusers by suspending the submitter's access privileges,» the statement continued.

In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.