If we could just get along we wouldn't «need» a thousand
different churches in a metro area.
When I see more than 20
different churches in South Florida from different denominations raise enough money to cover all of the medical expenses of the Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting victims, I see the church working as it was created to.
It's been a long hard road belonging to 4
different churches in that Spirit filled denomination.
I have attended probably 60 or 70
different churches in my lifetime and find that this is the first church that actually puts Jesus first and studies the Bible (the word of God).
On Palm Sunday 45 people were murdered in Egypt, many of them Christians, after two separate suicide bomb attacks at
different churches in the country.
An approach that has great potential for consciousness - raising within ordinary congregations is fulfilled by a group in Chicago which convenes its handicapped members once a month at
a different church in the Chicago area.
In his role as president of the Massachusetts Conference of the UCC, Antal said he spends each Sunday preaching at
a different church in the state and tries to incorporate climate change into roughly every other sermon.
It hit home because our family stopped going to church about 10 years ago after a wonderful pastor moved on to
a different church in a different town.
Not exact matches
Our communities are full of people
in different seasons — and that is one of the most attractive aspects of the
church.
My parents are of
different Christian denominations and when they wanted to get married, neither of the
churches would perform the ceremony as inter-denominational marriages were considered to be «doomed to failure» — especially as neither of them would agree to raise their children
in one or the other's
church.
More religious claptrap, read some history and find out that santorums lot (the catholic
church) executed whole societies
in south America simply because those poor ignorant people had a
different religion.
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.
Facing the very
different challenges posed by the sexual revolution, we can learn from this sad episode
in the
Church's history.
It made me wonder if we are trying so hard to be
different, to be unique, that we've placed ourselves firmly
in the center of all discussions of
church and worship.
I was singing
in church for so long, I wanted to sing about something
different.
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 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.
In 2012, I was part of a group of women who founded the Christian Feminist Network, a move that was greeted with immense positivity from women of all ages and from
different church backgrounds.
In the LCMS
church that I was raised, Christianity was considered the completion of Judaism, not an entirely
different religion.
«But now that we have a little say
in the attitude of the
church, we're taking a
different approach,» Gyorke continues.
In some places they are flat out told they are not welcome in church, and there are different rules for the
In some places they are flat out told they are not welcome
in church, and there are different rules for the
in church, and there are
different rules for them.
The
Church recognizes that Russia is composed of many
different ethnic and religious groups, and that individuals should be free
in matters of religion.
He argues that the criticism of the archbishop's words — mine and the Greek Orthodox
Church in America's — only expresses a
different understanding of history from his.
Since these two were raised
in different states and went to
different churches I have to believe this is an underlying current
in all Mormon
churches.
Theological liberalism has split one
church after another — to the point that the theologically liberal
in different churches often have more
in common with each other than with the more orthodox
in their own
churches.
(CNN)- A New Jersey
church - already a bit
different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate
in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.
Particularly,
in a city like this, the south side
churches and political headquarters aren't much
different.
When I was 25, I was
in my third job
in as many years — all
in the same area at a
church, but the responsibilities were
different each time.
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.
It is no
different in the
church.
Twenty - five is the perfect time to get involved
in a
church you love, no matter how
different it is from the one you were a part of growing up.
Mankowski, who holds quite
different views on ordaining women, agrees with Weakland that it would have been much better if the writers of the pastoral came right out and said what they mean by lamenting the sins of sexism
in a hierarchical
church.
Now imagine a
different ending to this story: Rather than going to a payday lender, you share your story with people
in your
church.
Christian charity Housing Justice Cymru found
churches in the Caerphilly, Newport and Swansea areas served the destitute at 20
different centres across the period, amounting to that time.
But what makes the Obama mandate for the coverage of contraception by Catholic employers
different»
in both its original form and
in the so - called «accommodation»» is the directness of the
Church's financing of contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization.
However, for a
Church pastor the context of considering these things is quite
different, and writing about these things provokes a very
different response
in people.
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 Catholic
Church once played a more central role
in the lives of American Catholics, the study says, but now finds itself serving distinctly
different groups.
A symposium of
church leaders, law and justice professionals and academics of
different races has taken place
in Westminster looking at ways to tackle the problem.
I'd love for some of the songs to be picked up and used
in churches; I think it may be bring a slightly
different feeling or aspect to worship than they are used to.
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?
The practices and beliefs of members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints is very
different from the FLDS and other religions that practice polygamy, and the polygamist lifestyles recently being represented
in the media
in no way reflect the lifestyle of active members of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.
Believing
in God and knowing there is a higher power is so
different than going to a
church and getting wrapped up
in the politics
in a
church.
Christianity as a whole, is very confusing, because so many
different churches claim to beleive
in Jesus... we have the baptists differing with the catholics, and the catholics differing with the escopalitans, and then we have the lutherans differing from the methodists, and then we have the born - agains differing from everybody else on this earth.
I will agree, if people are strugging
in a
church because they are «
different,» that is a shame, and may well be sin on the part of those who are causing them trouble just because they are differnt.
Over the years, (I am now
in my mid - 60's) I have had to leave 4
different churches because of issues of «bullying»... usually from those who were
in positions of of great «power» Lay - leaders, Bishops, administrators, choir - «Masters», and even pastors and now my own Priest.
In a calmer, more reflective tone years later, Madison expressed satisfaction that the idea of separation of
church and state that he promoted and built into the 1st Amendment allowed those with
different beliefs to flourish:
Understanding this new perspective on
church is as difficult today as it was in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same: Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual mat
church is as difficult today as it was
in the days of Jesus for Jews to understand a
different perspective on Sabbath, but the basic principles seem to be the same:
Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual mat
Church, just like Sabbath, is not supposed to be a bunch of human traditions which have become legalistic laws by which to judge one another's spiritual maturity.
But I believe that
in the place of the legalistic Sabbath traditions, we have substituted
in a
different burden:
church.