Sentences with phrase «connecting them to a church»

«Many students today are sick of that and want something that is more connected to the church's tradition.»

But Mormonism is unique in the degree to which it's adherents are connected to the church.

Connect to a church that is a welcome and warm place, full of people who care about you, about seeing you.

What about those who don't get connected to a church?

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

We encourage our member organisations and other groups or organisations connected to the Church to do the same.»

Part of that will include connecting them to a church so they can grow from nominalism to deeper faith.

To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.

This mother church spiritually connected to ALL churches great or small of Catholics, Christians, Mormons, Jehovah witnesses.

Ultimately, the Church's social teaching is connected to the Church's distinctive Christology; it is not merely concomitant with her moral witness or the generic religiosity she has in common with other religions.

The Pew Forum says the nationwide survey, conducted in October and November, constitutes the biggest survey of American Mormons conducted by an organization that's not connected to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

«Concerns for neighborhood safety and desire to express compassion to the under - resourced seem to be the biggest potential draws for the unchurched to get connected to a church,» noted Rick Richardson, professor of evangelism and leadership at Wheaton College and research fellow for the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism.

As someone who's salary seems to be directly connected to church offerings, it is an enormous challenge to relieve people of the burden of the law in this matter.

So many people experience angst over this decision as they feel connected to the church and have many friends there.

Many young adults still feel connected to the church, even though they have had nothing to do with the institution for years, and have consequently been dropped from parish rolls.

Really neat to see how its connected to the church too.

A Bristol church which closed six decades ago will reopen this autumn to engage with young people that aren't connected to a church.

A woman who was not connected to our church had begged me to officiate at her wedding.

Truthfully, it had not become necessary to leave that work behind do to issues caused by it being connected to a church that became an abusive cult I'd likely being doing this work still and perhaps as fulltime employment.

Preaching must be addressed to the needs of a parish; but it must not be parochial, for one of the needs of every parish is to be connected to the church universal.

Meet Kenneth, who used Facebook to help his community feel connected to his church, even when they aren't able to attend.

They are closely connected to the church itself and do not stand alone.

-- Florida Senate postpones gun bills: State senators postponed Wednesday a vote on a bill that would allow private schools connected to churches to allow guns on campus.

I have seen you mention the concept in the past, and I am guessing that it is connected to your church / place of worship, but other than that, I am stumped.

Not exact matches

That the true vine we are ultimately seeking to connect people to is Jesus Himself and not a church or organizational structure.

In this work, the well - known postmodern thinker urges the Catholic Church to abandon the truth claims she connects to her faith.

Too often, the Church fails to connect the dots and sees the oppression of women as something far removed from our reality: something that happens abroad as a result of extreme political regimes, or cultural assumptions that are restricted to the global South.

The day's festivities will be run entirely by volunteers from Connect Network - a network that brings Christians, churches and communities together to help transform Sunderland.

By establishing a ministry that fosters excellence in the arts and gives community members a chance to engage in the arts, you can not only connect with people who might never darken the door of a church, but you can also create art that glorifies God and is truly inspirational.

Rt Revd Richard Chartres wrote in the Church Times that facial hair «represented a new way to [connect with] the culture of the majority of their parishioners».

Religion is man made, but I understand there are traditions and principal the Church feel connected to — so I respect them, but not blindly.

♦ Eye of the Tiber, Catholicism's answer to The Onion, has its own interpretation of the Clintonista interest in «facilitating» the development of Catholic doctrine: «A new series of emails released yesterday by WikiLeaks connected to its dump of John Podesta's server show that ancestors of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton attempted to sabotage the Catholic Church by creating the Society of Jesus hundreds of years prior to her nomination.»

The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.

The churches bring us in to talk about it, but come Monday it is their responsibility to deal with it and get people in their churches plugged in and connected.

It's a chrstn flwshp church, but I'm unsure if connected to the former reference to churches with that name.

To my surprise, some African churches (particularly those connected with reform movements) face a danger common to U.S. churches: they can so identify with their cause that they lose critical distancTo my surprise, some African churches (particularly those connected with reform movements) face a danger common to U.S. churches: they can so identify with their cause that they lose critical distancto U.S. churches: they can so identify with their cause that they lose critical distance.

The goal is to keep people from being anonymous, going from church to church with needs, and never connecting with a community of faith.

The stuff I've written on topics like getting to know neighbors and being the church in the community doesn't seem to connect with church people, who usually think church is about sermons, a belief system, music, political causes to be for or against and so on.

Though we left for another church in the mid 1990s, it was not until 2000 that I began to connect some dots.

The official news release carefully pointed out that the organization was «not officially connected» with the NAE's convention but that its statement of faith is the same and its membership (open to both homosexuals and heterosexuals) is composed of «members of NAE and various evangelical churches.»

He has a reputation for being a prolific church planter (more than 100 congregations planted out of his church), but his church - planting work in America is very much connected to his global vision.

If you're a church leader wondering why some sermons are not delivering what you hope they will; an evangelist who wants to present faith in a way that connects; an employee wanting to persuade your boss; or a young person preparing for an interview, then mastering the five prompts of the Centre Brain is essential.

It's a great way to feel connected to the historical, worldwide church.

Growing up in an independant 2nd wave Charismative - House / Free Church with roots in the Shepherding movement there was allot in the EC and MC that connected to my background.

As someone living in Asia and connected to people that advocate for the persecuted Church in this region, much of the church is undergoing revival on many level, both explicitly Spirit - led and implicitly Spirit - led (Human efChurch in this region, much of the church is undergoing revival on many level, both explicitly Spirit - led and implicitly Spirit - led (Human efchurch is undergoing revival on many level, both explicitly Spirit - led and implicitly Spirit - led (Human effort).

... never mentions that he is / was in anyway connected to David's church.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

But there is much more to be done and one question Lindsay is ruminating over is how to connect with churches north of the river.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

The book, Evolving in Monkey Town, was published by Zondervan in 2010 and became an important avenue through which to connect with other Christians who were struggling with doubts about their faith and wondering where they fit into the church.