Sentences with phrase «conservative church people»

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Ironically I went from what what most people would consider to be an extremely liberal and open minded church to a (somewhat) more conservative church, and find it more open to honest self examination.

Mainliners, for their part, can offer this satisfying explanation: while conservative churches have offered people a simplistic faith.

The church is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominatchurch is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominatChurch of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominational.

We have here a picture of some people frozen out of the evil, patriarchal, institutional, also perhaps now «ultra - conservative» church of dogmatic, unloving, neanderthal - brained men.

Having grown up as part of a conservative evangelical church, I was taught as far backas I can remember to tell people about Jesus, to tell them that by inviting Him intotheir hearts, they would be saved from the fires of Hell and instead spend eternity inheaven with Him.

I've come to realize after growing up in a conservative church and then moving away from that environment that the majority of people that sincerely believe the Bible is to be taken completely literally have never read it all.

Hence such conservative people, too, have a genuine individual function and duty in the whole Church, provided only that they are obedient to the authorities, open to their directives and loving and reasonable towards all their brethren.

You know the type... the ones who THINK Jesus would like them... the ultra conservative type that make business deals at church on Sundays, drive a Buick, gossip about the «bad» people on the other side of the tracks.

As a pastor's kid who had grown up in a small, moderately conservative church, the sheer volume of people in the room floored me.

Media brainwashing has corrupted a whole generation of young people against the church, because of the media's left stance vs the church being more conservative — they'll see the truth, but hopefully not too late..

I never was [fully] conservative on the gay issue, but I tried to walk a pastoral road, where I would not drive either gay people away from the Church or conservatives away from the Church.

«On the whole, conservative churches tend to be stricter in terms of what they require people to believe and their demands upon them, something which generally makes an organisation stronger.

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

interestingly, all of the times i've seen people elect way «C», they are people who have some sort of «conservative» theological axe to grind and they started up their own new churches.

And yes, its most likely millions of people who have had their lives ruined by church, but conservatives hate it when you tell them the truth.

I noted that his position elevates people above geography, and his announcement does diverge from conservative views within the church.

So we've read the studies, often written in the spirit of Tocqueville, that American conservative Christians are distinguished by their philanthropic generosity and their voluntary care giving, and their churches, at their best at least, are attentive to the whole lives of particular persons.

Reginald W. Bibby and Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, «The Circulation of the Saints: A Study of People Who Join Conservative Churches,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 12 September 1973, p. 276.

That includes evangelicals (among whom he holds a 55 % to 2 % lead over Clinton); non-evangelical born again Christians (he has a 49 % to 31 % lead among them); those who attend a Protestant church (47 % to 32 % lead); adults who claim to have a biblical worldview (57 % to 30 % margin); people who believe that absolute moral truth exists (48 % to 37 % preference for Trump); and those who consider themselves to be theologically conservative (60 % for Trump, 28 % for Clinton).

A conservative pundit criticizes the statement because it also affirms that «the Catholic Church teaches emphatically that individuals and society must respect the basic human dignity of all persons, including those with a homosexual orientation.»

Most Amish, and some of the more conservative Mennonite groups don't have buildings, paid preachers, or the other things that most people equate with «a church».

For most people in America, all those not familiar with the complicated ideological positioning on the right end of the political spectrum, the term «conservative» evokes images of the board room, the country club, and the Episcopal church located not far from the latter.

By and large, those on both sides of this debate — including those on the conservative side — acknowledge that the way the Church has treated gay people has been horrific...

«This is an absolute perfect example of the separation of church and state, and it takes a 20 - year - old to stand up and say no,» There is something extremely wrong with America and the conservative religious people are the cause of it.

As a writer, I'm often sharing thoughts that I know would annoy people in my small, conservative church.

The books are familiar: The Gathering Storm in the Churches (Jeffrey Hadden), Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (Dean Kelley), Where Have All the People Gone?

First, in view of the appalling gap separating Christ's example and our performance, we church people — conservatives and liberals alike — need to declare a moratorium on pious platitudes, admit our hypocrisies, and re-examine what we really are living for in the context of Christ's imperatives.

In Evangelical churches, people can stay during hours to discuss and are (generally) very kind to each others but their theology is way too conservative for me.

Reginald W. Bibby and Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, «The Circulation of the Saints: A Study of People who Join Conservative Churches,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12, September 1973, pp. 277 - 80.

But whereas Alpha offers a somewhat systematic introduction to basic issues — God, Jesus» life and death, the Holy Spirit — from the perspective of a theologically conservative believer (Nicky Gumbel), LTQ offers a collage of persons, stories and arguments which seems to assume an audience of people involved enough in church to have been wounded by its fundamentalist versions.

He does not like to judgmental of people who do not follow the church's doctrine either, so that will really upset conservatives.

He does not like to be judgmental of people who do not follow the church's doctrine either, so that will really upset conservatives.

The approach of many conservative churches has been to cop out at this point with the rationale that it is the church's responsibility to bring people to Christ and that once they have been converted they will take it upon themselves to work for justice in society.

I know of no survey which has shown people within churches — conservative, moderate or liberal — to be eager for their religious bodies to be involved with specific political action in their name.

It's actually quite similar to the Church of Christ ad that showed gay people turned away from a conservative cChurch of Christ ad that showed gay people turned away from a conservative churchchurch.

Forty - eight people — mostly conservative intellectuals and ministers — have written an open letter to the Synod asking for the Church's official stance on divorce to remain firm.

There are neglected impulses toward Christian unity latent within the conservative, and even fundamentalist, sector of American evangelicalism: a passionate concern for theological truth - telling, an unflinching allegiance to the holy scriptures, an evangelistic and missionary impulse to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all persons everywhere, an ecclesiological postulate of an invisible church known only to God.

Opposing the bill in the Commons, Conservative MP James Arbuthnot said the practice seemed «out of touch with the majority of the people we represent, because only a tiny proportion of our constituents go to church.»

The list of those opposing the amendment includes the state Conservative Party, religious groups like the Catholic Church and people worried about problem gambling.

It appears that religious liberty, for the conservative fools running the legislature, only matters when it's the «liberty» to be as oppressive and cruel as you can think of, but doesn't matter one bit when all you want is the religious right to marry the people your church loves and supports, regardless of gender.

«It locked people out who were naturally Conservative from supporting it and so I think I can make that point to the Church, gently,» he said.

When the show toured from London to the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, this artwork quickly became the center of one of the most heated art controversies of the 20th century, earning Ofili the scorn of the Catholic church, a place on conservative writer and political pundit Bernard Goldberg's list of the «100 People Who Are Screwing Up America,» and instant art world fame.