Sentences with phrase «different church experiences»

I have two different church experiences to relate to: One of an older, more traditional church.

Not exact matches

The point here is basically that each way of conceiving of evangelicalism produces a different population when each net is used to pull out of both church history and contemporary experience a coherently related and defined subset.

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.

I wish I could say most Christian movements or mega churches are not like this but my experience over many years says different.

I invited a handful of pastors and church leaders from different ethnic backgrounds to reflect upon their experiences within the evangelical church or to suggest steps Christians could take towards greater reconciliation.

I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «When Easter is Hard.»

If our young Evangelical would happen to visit a Lutheran church, long before he hears about theological differences, he will «feel» that the experience of church and spirituality is different in the Lutheran church.

For I really can not expect a Church that would be different from myself, the in - adequate sinner who must constantly rebuild his life through a thousand byways and experiences.

As a «someone» with a very public view that is contrary to the «official» party line, and who has ministered in so many different churches — evangelical and otherwise — what has your experience been in this area?

But as church history and personal experience reveal, no church can completely guard the minds and hearts of the people who attend that church from different theology and dangerous ideas.

While different from the role practiced in the local church, it is essentially a recognition of spiritual authority based on relational and proven experience as opposed to positional leadership.

Then on Sunday at St. Patrick's: «For all of us, I think, one of the great disappointments that followed the Second Vatican Council, with its call for a greater engagement in the Church's mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious family.

It might have been different if the U.S. church had chosen someone with, say, a quarter of a century of experience and a Ph.D. in theology, not someone «from a tiny diocese, and she's, what, a biologist?»

The Church has always been a collection of people from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church, more than the three Orthodox churches, has been influenced by the experience of Western Christians and thus takes a different view of the relationship of the Church to the ethnos or nation.

However, if our church were not in a city — or even if our church were in a different part of the city — this kind of experience would not be possible.

If I selfishly love my frozen yogurt, microbreweries, and Pinterest, or dislike tattoos, noise, slow decision - making, or fill in the blank, more than my brothers and sisters who are different; if I prefer this church, or neighborhood because of the schools, the safety or because the worship resonates with me; if I am committed to my ways of doing life; if I let me self - comfort, self - enjoyment, self - security, or self - convenience guide my decision making; I will never experience the gifts that accompany thriving relationships with people who are different from me.

I think the biggest disconnect I have with you Jeremy, is that often your experience seems to be entirely different than mine; so that what seems to you to be «typical» to «most churches» doesn't seem to be the case to me, and probably anything that I would guess is «typical» could be just as foreign to you.

The Roman Catholics, with whom I am especially familiar, go to church, have some appreciation of their theological underpinnings and are hoping to find a slightly different style of worship, teaching and activity from what they had experienced in their home parishes.

For example, the baby - boom generation, raised in the «60s and «70s, possesses experiences, values and approaches to belief and belonging that are very different from those of older church members.

Based on the «downward mobility» model of the Beatitudes, Kathy's approach to «church» is radically different than what we've come to accept in our consumer - driven Christian subculture and focuses instead on following Jesus into the hard places of suffering, inequality and justice in order to experience hope, beauty, justice, equality, generosity and healing.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

Leaves was written during the days of Detroit's great industrial expansion, and Niebuhr was pastor of a rapidly growing church; my own experience in rural, small - town and semi-suburban congregations has been markedly different.

It will be as different from the traditional church of our experience as the great cathedrals were from the church in the catacombs.

When I think back to my students at Creighton, I can see that their experience of the Church» and to a great extent mine» also involves worries about betrayal, though of a different kind.

But science goes on in laboratories where experience is manufactured, religion has quite different practices — praying and worshipping that go on in such places as churches.

The sharp, black - and - white divisions between church and government which some of the sixteenth - century Anabaptists experienced is going to be different from the experience of most North American Christians in the twentieth century.

Then (3) in view of the further claim inherent in the nature of the synoptic gospel material (situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience) we may apply historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus directly to the situation of the believer in any age, always providing, of course, that we can solve the practical problems involved in crossing the barrier of two millennia and radically different Weltanschauungen necessary to do this.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

A while back, I started sharing my experiences at different churches where I might speak.

I was remembering the physical sensations and experiences that I have had, which began to happen when my Mom, took me and my sisters to church when I was 11 and continued through out my lifetime in the different churches I was in.

For pastors and churches, this means encouraging loving, open - minded dialogue not only within your congregation, but with other congregations as well... For all of us, productive dialog means reaching out to people whose views and experiences are different from our own and having the patience to really listen to them with a goal of better understanding them and their worldviews.»

Empathizing seems different to me... as in, «I'm sorry your father was so cruel to you» (e.g. Judge William Adams) or «I'm sorry that you've had such bad experiences within church meetings or church organizations.»

Love exercise, love reading, dancing, movie, music, trips, Love experiencing different cultures.I go to church regularly and would like to find someone who likes that too.

Over the last couple of decades, we've experienced significant changes in the use of different levels of technologies, implemented throughout schools to ultimately enhance everyday teaching in the classroom and assist with back office administrative functions, writes CEO of IG3 Education, Tony Church.

Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «church» of nature.

Church Boutique Hotel is located on Hang Gai, which in Hanoi is considered the silk street.The location of this hotel allows guests easy access to the 120 different shops along the street.The Cu Thanh Shop and Hoa Silk sell different style silk garments and the hotel is not far from several cafes like the Sinh Cafe.There is also a nightlife presence nearby that guests can take advantage of for a better experience of the culture.Rooms in the Church Boutique Hotel overlook the city or the main street depending on what floor they are on.The room is equipped with a tea and coffee maker, mini-bar, and in - room dining, if the guest does not wish to venture out.

In the sacred space of St. Johannes - Evangelist - Church in Berlin - Mitte, the exhibition BEYOND presents forms of contemporary artistic discourse with a topic that not only exists in different cultures and religions but are also closely linked to individual existence and personal experience.