Sentences with phrase «different churches do»

There is no uniform Anglican practice of Holy Communion — different clergy in different churches do different things with different understandings.

Not exact matches

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

I mean, people might know who was gay, but often people in churches think they know everyone else's sin, so that doesn't seem much different.

The problem is fred the xbox playing person doesn't create their own church, try to dictate social policies, use it as a way to spread intolerance and hatred of those that are different than them, no.

The Mormons are no different from other denominations in at least one major way; that is, they interpret the Bible differently than others - BUT so do all churches.

Fox - Genovese writes, «For although the Constitution prohibits the establishment of specific churches and prescribes a tolerance for different faiths, it presupposes a fundamental Christian ethic and does not leave matters of life and death to the private judgment of individuals.»

He also said that he didn't see a place in the church to foster interracial dialogues to deal with the vastly different understandings of the verdict by many whites and blacks.

Things are so different now that I didn't recognize what «church» the author speaks of.

This not to say that the Western world doesn't have its own history of social upheaval, but at least we have learned from our past mistakes and learned (for the most part) that killing anyone who goes to a different church is not the way to solve our problems.

I agree that being the church / people of God is a lot different than «getting things done».

@krk — I mean to tell you that to talk to God and Jesus, we don't have to go through different levels of the church, talking to them, so that we can talk to Him.

It is interesting that Christian have thousands of different churches, numerous versions of The Bible, some Non-Trinitarian churches, and the Douay (Catholic) version of the bible with books Protestants do not believe in.

The LDS Church does not approve or disapprove of who runs for different offices of government.

So tell me John, if a group meets in different homes, they don't rent or own a building, the pastor actually has a J O B, and does not live off of the congregation (community), and no one «tithes» but gives gifts individually to the poor, the fire dept, the food bank, individually, not pooling their money together in one place, why would any church community want or need a budget?

Paul wrote to existing churches and to pastors on a variety of different topics, and one does not present an air of confidence if one is telling a lie when he knows very well that there are witnesses who saw the same things that he saw, and could call him out should he tell a lie.

Hailing from four very different parts of the Church, Pope Francis, Steve Chalke, Carlton Pearson and Rob Bell don't have that much in common.

While Farron didn't particularly help by seeming to offer different answers, all quarters of the Church were having their own battles with the issue of sexuality.

There wasn't any abuse involved from either side - just two very different ways of doing church.

Have you ever wondered why your church does certain things a certain way, while the church across town does everything so different?

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

Jesus doesn't say, «it should be different» in church leadership, he says «it will be different.»

Naturally, all us have to make a living and do something on the side to pay the rent and the leaders of the church are no different and usually come from the ranks of successful and talented business people who have a lot to contribute to the Kingdom of God.

Those churches, he said, «have a different Lord than we do....

When I jumped (and I do mean jumped, a ready or not here I come, head - first dive) from the Sunday - mainstream - church - going - because - it's - what - you - do nominal / cultural Christianity that I was raised with into «serious» Christianity (to use the vernacular: born again, spirit filled, Bible believing, charismatic, etc.) and became what was at the time called a «Jesus freak» (it was 1972) I expected something from the church which was very different than what I found.

Standing in front of his congregation at Ecclesia Church, a congregation he admits is different - more diverse, more urban - than many evangelical churches - Chris Seay encouraged them to do so something he said combines the ideas of sacrifice and devotion that mark the Lenten season, the 40 - day lead up to Easter.

And then maybe a year or so later to do a session on learning styles and how to use the different ways God «wired» us to create stronger teams for doing cultural field work for missional stuff and / or church plants.

Six different Christian denominations share collective ownership over the church, and they don't always get along.

If a church doesn't recognize people of different races as equal, can they refuse to admit or hire someone in their «non-religious» activities?

In part, these are reflected in denominational divisions, but many of the differences are cultural or to do with church order or caused by political influence, or they reflect different temperaments and patterns of worship.

John Prest, national stewardship officer quote at the Church of England, told the Financial Times: «We're aware that younger generations - and there are many people now who don't carry cash - want to give in different ways».

Though located only a block apart in a small town, each drawing members from the same social and economic stratum of the town's population, the two churches were strikingly different from each other in ways their Baptist and Methodist affiliations did not explain.

So it came as a bit of a shock to recognize that the churches we were visiting during our search had a different feel, a different sense of community and welcoming that we recognized as being part «Christian» and part «white» but did not fully resonate with us.

@Mark To be clear, I would see granting exemptions if the organization was expressly religious, like an actual church, but merely being guided by the religious principles of the founder simply doesn't justify preventing coverage to those within the organization with different beliefs, atti.tudes, and morals.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

Also, a different man from Southern California told me of a ministry his church does to men.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

Hauerwas insists that the first task of the church is not to make the world more just, but to make the world the world — by which he means that the best favor the church can do for the world is to live as a different sort of people, and thereby at least offer the world something interesting in which not to believe,

I am not Baptist nor do i intend to become a member of this church but I am thankful for the pastor letting me attend bible study despite our very different beliefs on biblical subjects.

I am fully aware of what being saved is because I have done it in churches and with about 10 different protestant leaders.

Common sense is anything but common in a land where some churches teach you to hate people who are different than you, where the media blasts you with unfettered violence and when our schools have been gutted by the greed of those who don't wish to pay to educate the next generation.

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!

Model different types of prayer in what they see you do — on your own or in church — not just in what you put on especially for the kids.

This different origin of the Church's authority does not, of course, exclude, but rather implies that her ministry is possible only within the sanctified people of the redeemed and that it does not confront them from outside.

But if that is done by the Church's magisterium, it can only be through propositions which are not themselves absolute dogma but serious and valid items of knowledge (in varying degrees, of course, and of very many different kinds), but knowledge which in principle is subject to revision and capable of improvement, and which can be deepened, clarified, given greater discrimination, improved in this or that respect, or even abandoned.

But it seems almost certain that that is because New Age and its variations have so successfully infiltrated the churches that many who identify themselves as Christian do not realize they have bought into a quite different religion.

Hi Ed, The Pastor at the Church of Hosanna International Ministries (HIM), does not get paid he willingly shows his bank statements to the congregation, in hopes that they will understand where the money is really going and with that said he keeps 100 dollars in his account and lives off of that for a whole month and the rest of the tithes and offerings go to 13 different ministries, divided evenly and the Church helps out at least 3 - 4 missionaries and the youth group of the Church all in separate accounts, this is a Church of around 68 to 80 people every Sunday this is not a big Church but God has blessed this man beyond measure and continues to do so this Church can be found in Saint Joseph Missouri, Pastor Larry Gray.

I don't mean that church - related schools should hire only creationists, I mean they should hire people who are sympathetic and informed about the different ways that Christians integrate belief in God with the findings of science.

Those are different questions, questions whose importance some church leaders minimize or even fail to recognize — as I did earlier in my theological life.

How much of these different kinds of social capital did you find in these churches?