While Jesus will lead many of us down similar roads, He will also lead different people and
different church down completely unique and diverse roads that have never before been travelled.
Not exact matches
Part of my own story is that I went for a big wander outside of my my mother
Church, encountering
different and new and ancient ways of experiencing and knowing and being changed by our big and generous God as if I were encountering occasional cups of water while in the desert, drinking each one
down as if they were sustaining me for the next leg of the journey.
This guy just doesn't go to another
church down the road when the pastor doesn't tickle his ears just right; he switches to a
different religion!
Such worried Catholics who are already going wild even when they have only to get up and sit
down at Mass should really ask themselves quite simply and charitably: What has be - come
different in the
Church and what has remained the same?
Perhaps it would be
different if people realised that Devin Patrick Kelley, the shooter who walked into the
church and shot as many of the worshippers as he could, was a Muslim immigrant who shouted «Allahu Akbar» as he mercilessly gunned them
down?
If Madrasahs are breeding grounds for terrorism, then its no differentwhen it comes
down to child molestation as reported at no less than 25
different occasions from abbots, monasteries and
churches around the world in the past decade.
while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any
different, or try tp put christians
down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a
church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»
Today, of course, the practice would not have the same effect, since such a man could just go
down the street and join a
different church.
He was very
different about laying
down behavior for the
church, however.
That «distinctive faith» ventured
down a
different ecumenical path in 1960 with the proposal by United Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake that four major denominations — his own, the Methodist
Church, the Episcopal
Church and the United
Church of Christ — merge into one denomination.
The
church I attend looks very
different than the one three minutes
down the road, and the larger
church body I belong to has little in common with the type of 10,000 member megachurches below the border that fly giant American flags and preach that God's 100 per cent in favour of bombing Iraq.