Sentences with phrase «complain about the church»

I don't see anyone complaining about churches being built near any of the victims or families of victims of these guys.

To complain about The Church is to complain about our Lord's body.

When we complain about the Church, her leaders and her members we are demonstrating not only a misunderstanding of what a church is, but also a disrespect for Who the Church is.

I'm thankful that instead of simply complaining about church in the Bible Belt, Dan and I took a risk and got our hands dirty in an effort to «be the change.»

So, before we complain about the Church we need to understand exactly what church is and what we are trying to change.

I probably shouldn't complain about the church too much.

Not exact matches

According to the Daily Mail, Russian Orthodox Church leaders contacted cartoon channel 2x2 to complain about the episode.

Local Republicans complained about a local church feeding the homeless because the homeless were filthy.

Bufkin portrayed the move to deny the black couple a chance to marry in the church as the work of a small minority whom he called «radicals» and who he said made mostly anonymous calls to their pastor to complain about the black couple's wedding.

If you want to complain about Catholics, there are plenty of modern «Christian» churches that will be happy to accommodate you.

Please, hold those messages complaining about my being excessively critical of the Episcopal Church.

I'm tired, I'm hurt and I know my friends are ready to kill me because all I do is complain about Christianity, churches and anything to do with religion.

The church is holding meetings to figure out what to do next, since no members will actually come forward and admit that they were the ones who complained about it which is too bad, since there are so many questions worth asking them.

A Japanese church member once complained to me that not only was the concept confusing, but that all this talk about blood was repugnant to the Japanese mind.

He stormed out of the office and I heard the next Sunday that he had called several people in the church to complain about my lack of spiritual leadership and how he was not sure I was fit to be a pastor.

To complain about the establishment of boundaries and to promise to avoid them, only to draw cartoons that appear to go out of their way to deconstruct traditional methods of church, seems to me conflicted.

At the same time, churches complain about the children's lack of participation in the religious programs of the parishes.

In all the churches one hears seminary professors, bishops, and others in positions of oversight complain about candidates for ministry....

Students, ministers, churches and schools all complain about this in a way that perpetuates it.

Last year in Ireland, a police file was opened on Bishop Philip Boyce after one of the country's leading secularists, John Colgan, complained about an «offensive» homily in which the bishop stated that the Church is being «attacked from the outside by the arrows of a secular and godless culture.»

So - called «Neighbors» (who actually lived in a housing development built multiple blocks behind, and after, the original church) complaining about things like the sound of the bells and the smell of fish from the Lent Friday meals.

«With each other, SGKAs can complain about their Korean parents, crack jokes using certain Korean terms, and swap stories about what it was like growing up in Korean churches.»

I read an account this week of a pastor who had a lady complain to him about the church youth group.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

The only people who complain about women's roles in the church are those who aren't apart of it.

I've lived my entire life as a «mainline» Protestant, and people in our churches have never complained about practicing the Lord's Supper or Baptism.

He spends the entire book complaining about how corrupt and evil the church is.

The ADL press release complains about «certain Church figures» who are responsible for the «Christianization of the Holocaust,» citing the canonization of Edith Stein and, earlier, of the heroic Father Maximilian Kolbe who, in a drive - by smear, the ADL implies was an anti-Semite.

our church has oil changes every quarter for single mothers and car washes we also help move people if they can't afford movers and many other programs to help our community what has athesist done but complain about religion

It may not be what «the new» mantra for «church» is, but going back to ministry after being away for a time has shown me that to the many that are disenfranchised the «new» way or the pie in the sky of what the church should be... is ending up with a lack of loyalty to the cause, a lack of accountability to leaders — move on if you don't like this or that, complain about whatever and never really commit to the hard things.

The church complained about the distinction Winfred made between his own family and those of the church members.

What I do remember is that the class complained about me the next day, and I ended up never wanting to work in a church again.

I like how the church is complaining about the restriction of their «right» to restrict others of their own rights.

The Christians you are complaining to about the Church are the Church.

Child molestation is a different issue, this is about Separation of Church and State isn't that what everybody has been complaining about?

But each time I read books, blogs or articles about the topic (granted that I am more inclined to read stuff written by people who are really serious about their relationship with God rather than people complaining merely because they can — and thereâ $ ™ s plenty of them), I come to one conclusion: The complaints are mostly about what the church has become (or how people perceive the church to be) than against the church itself.

The church is not the only social institution to complain about the difficulty of getting volunteer workers, Nor is the church the only social institution to express concern about the effect of violent or sexually explicit programs, particularly on children.

Tell me something, if the Catholic church rulled the mark of cain refered to black people, and thus would only pay for insurance for their white employees, and the Obama administration said that was not permissable; would you be defending their right to stand on principle, defending their right to deny insurance for their black employees on principle, and complaining about the cost of insuring their black employees?

If he complained about Orthodoxy living in an ahistorical world of religious Let's Pretend, it was not because he thought the Church had that much to learn from history, especially the history of the West.

Just before the calendars ticked over from 1999 to 2000, one pastor was voted out of his job by church members who complained that he refused to preach warnings about the coming world disaster called the Millennium Bug (remember that non-event?).

The music was awesome, the pastor was challenging, and nobody was complaining about how much the church was spending on toilet paper.

Especially when it comes to church — just ask one of my friends what I complain about most, and yeah, you guessed it, the Cchurch — just ask one of my friends what I complain about most, and yeah, you guessed it, the ChurchChurch.

Busy, well - meaning Christians often complain about how hard it is to balance church activities with everything else.

Pastors considering a call to a congregation often complain about how little they learn about the church from a «parish profile» in which answers of members to long questionnaires have been quantified.

I dated a guy who answered the other questions easily and without raising any red flags, but as I got to know him, I realized that when it came to his church leadership, he had absolutely NO respect for them and took every opportunity to complain about them.

In Moskva, players visit a cathedral, and there are NPCs that complain about donating to the church when they don't believe in God.

I have heard that it is common for some churches to offer bus services to help people get to the poll, with nobody complaining about that.

I can get the same deduction by giving a dollar to my church or favorite charity and I don't have to listen to people complain about a lack of sprinkler or grog door opener.