Sentences with phrase «counter-mystical modern church»

Does the modern church need Big Macs to bring more worshippers into the fold?

Far from seeking his own advancement, each move up the echelons of the episcopal ladder has been met with surprise by Justin Welby, perhaps influenced by the fact he was told there wasn't «place for him in the modern Church of England» when he first applied for ordination.

Many believers, including many Christian leaders, consider it a powerful tool for fighting what they say is one of the modern church's biggest problems: porn addiction.

The early Church (and the modern Church!)

«Christian leaders consider it a powerful tool for fighting what they say is one of the modern church's biggest problems: p * rn addiction.»

I have been to traditional churches, modern churches, alternative churches, non - denominational / interdenominational churches....

Yet we can find all of these models at work in one way or another in many of our modern churches.

I think this is the problem with the modern church today... we should not be in «circles» Also, saying that you will acknowledge someone as your brother or sister in Christ based on YOUR perception of whether they are actually saved or not IS sanctimonious.

Nothing could be a greater indictment of the modern Church than this (The Myth of a Christian Religion).

I know many Christians that no longer go to church seeing the modern church as same heartless rule bound church that Jesus criticized.

When it comes to feelings about the Bible and actually reading and applying its teachings, there is a major cognitive dissonance in the modern Church.

Blunders have loomed large in modern church history.

I also recommend Gary DeMar's book «Last Days Madness: Obsession of The Modern Church», he successfully debunks the rapture, the seven day tribulation period and more.

Some of the deepest divides within Christiandom regarding war, peace, politics, and Biblical interpretation were brought to light last night, and they served as sober reminder of both my own sin and the challenge facing the modern Church.

Most modern Church - goers give this weekly witness to their own inner conviction without the slightest sense of superiority, and more frequently than is sometimes supposed, it is given by young Christians despite ridicule, discouragement and even some persecution.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

Bonhoeffer's accusation that the modern church seeks «cheap grace» has become a commonplace.

I can love God and still think we aren't doing what's right in the modern church.

Whatever the ultimate outcome for Bonhoeffer in the history of doctrine and the history of the modern church, his name is certainly one of influence.

Homosexuality is a very sensitive subject within the culture of the modern church.

One of the greatest downfalls of the modern church era is the movement away from genuine relationships, and into the corporate model of the church where we think the most important thing is to increase our market share, and expand our influence through size, numbers, and a year - over-year increase in attendance and giving.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

Anthony Ehrhardt has a great series going on about the Characteristics of Pharisees for modern churches.

Another program has been assembled at Drew University and neighboring institutions which is particularly strong in Reformation and modern church history;

Nevertheless, the critique goes much deeper than the abuses of the late medieval - early modern Church.

Rather it involves the recognition that the modern Church can now be only one society among many, and that its distinctness in this sense occasionally demands accommodation for sake of self - protection.

In his recent and final book Catholicism and Democracy, the late Cambridge scholar Émile Perreau - Saussine attempts to defuse that anger by presenting a long view of modern Church history.

Any person who is referred to by such sobriquets as «the Catholic Barth,» «the most cultured man in Europe,» «a modern church father» and «Pope John Paul II's favorite theologian» is certainly someone to be reckoned with on many theological fronts.

I personally am perturbed at how these modern churches teach people, is not chapter by chapter or verse by verse.

This sort of teaching was part of the Gnostic heresy in the early church, but has worked its way through numerous forms of the modern church as well.

Modern churches may temporarily have looked «up - to - date,» but in the end they proved failures.

The problems and possibilities of modern church architecture are sensibly addressed by another Catholic writer, Michael E. DeSanctis, a professor of fine arts at Gannon University.

It is not clear how Volf's perspectives about ordination address this «culture of professionalism» in modern churches that draws a sharp demarcation between clergy and laity and pays no mind to the doctrine of the Trinity.

One of Rose's major objections to modern churches is that worshipers don't know what to do in them.

Modern Churches even have classes for wives on how to deal with being the minority decision makers in their own families.

[8] This is where the modern church has failed the most.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

Money - theism has its own concept of the divine, priesthood, rites, liturgies, missionaries, theologians, modern churches and cathedrals.

What the term is meant to designate is indicated rather indirectly by the character of modern church architecture and by the perverted form in which the idea occurs.

Sexual addictions are frequently touted as being the scourge of the modern church, and our answer to people struggling has too often been a simple, «flee from immorality!»

The pastoral director is indeed responsible in the modern church for a highly complex organization.

You realize what the modern Church could be doing and isn't.

For Houston, the modern Church is built to be resilient.

Its as if the modern Church has decided that what makes the Bible sacred is its inerrancy, that what qualifies it as the Word of God is its historical and scientific accuracy.

And it is these kinds of religious vocations which, not surprisingly, she believes would best serve the modern Church.

What may seem obvious in modern church circles about welcome, and musical and cultural engagement, was revolutionary when Chuck Smith first did it in the 1960s.

Joanna Bogle appears to view the state of the modern Church through double - glazed, rose - tinted glasses.

Tithing (as taught in modern churches) is legalist.

Perhaps one of the reasons we have so many problems in modern churches is because we've stopped having pastors, and instead we have teachers and administrators.

An oft - heard critique of the modern Church is that we're losing people not because we've made Christianity too difficult, but because we've made it too easy.