Sentences with phrase «damaging church experience»

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This lack of an as it were «mobile» clergy may well be damaging for the living presence of the Church in a pluralist society, for such a clergy might be aware of new tasks, and make use of special gifts and contacts due to their former professional and general experience.

When I left the Charismatic Vineyard church over frustrations I experienced there among them being what I regarded as a cavalier exercising of «gifts» causing damage someone came to me with a word of encouragement on my last day.

In this area, as in others, a better approach would be to show the damage artificial contraception causes such as increased immorality, strains on marriage due to impossible demands regarding sexual gratification, increased abortion, legitimisation of homosexuality, sexualization of children, procreation without sex (e.g. IVF) and the moral decline and confusion experienced by protestant churches since they allowed artificial contraception.

Ben and Melissa, a young couple from Arizona, were in rural Mexico on a church mission re-building homes damaged by a hurricane when Melissa suddenly experienced difficulty breathing and collapsed.