Sentences with phrase «different churches often»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

They are called black churches because of their perspective, which is often far different than those of Conservative White churches.

That number is substantially different among respondents who attend church less often.

Often times the congregations of different churches can't even get along with each other.

The difference is often detectable in the very way that a church member may express her congregational affiliation; «I go to that church on Brady Street» is very different from «I belong to a great community of people, and we call ourselves St. Paul Lutheran Church.&church member may express her congregational affiliation; «I go to that church on Brady Street» is very different from «I belong to a great community of people, and we call ourselves St. Paul Lutheran Church.&church on Brady Street» is very different from «I belong to a great community of people, and we call ourselves St. Paul Lutheran Church.&Church.»

With all these differences it is hardly surprising that ministers in the nonliturgical churches, when conducting communion services, often confuse and combine the different accounts and even insert sentences or phrases not found in any of them.

This effort often goes under the same banner of inclusiveness that justifies the church's outreach to members of different races, classes and ethnic backgrounds.

Those in America, obviously, have a different social view of the church's practices, values, rituals which often times are reluctantly ignored.

If we step back and forget everything we think we know about church, and read the texts without such filters, they say something very different than often assumed.

In the Church, people of different backgrounds or belief systems than the majority are often overlooked or not approached properly.

Too often the church is filled with folks who have been raised in a controlling church, and don't know any different.

Although his understanding was that different individuals would fulfill these roles in varying degrees, the emphasis on the four modalities often became a source of depression for campus ministers who concluded that their own situation did not embody the fullness of the church's ministry.

The name «Free Church» is often applied to this style of worship, but what flourishes today under that title is greatly different from what evolved during English Puritanism's struggle to be free to order worship according to God's word.

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.

Phoenix went on to point out how the Church has often painted Mary Magdelene as a prostitute — in fact, Pope Gregory claimed she was a prostitute in 591 — and said he hopes the film provides a different lens for people to view women in the Church.

One of the obvious difficulties with these suggestions is that the fundamental issue as to how the individual churches themselves have internalized different understandings of baptism as being a part of their existence and self - identity, an existence and identity which has very often been at least partially shaped as a reaction to the teachings propounded by other churches, has not been adequately addressed.

Alise — To some extent I think that while big and small churches often have different positives, like the kind you point out, part of the reason why people like small churches is that they are less likely to fall into rigid or limiting structures.

Often times we use the idea of a corporate / business vision in the church, when our idea of vision should be something different.

American and British theologians oft en find themselves in significant agreement — drawing on similar sources and reaching shared conclusions — but geographical distance as well as the very different church - state relations in the two nations have meant that Christians in one region are often unaware of theological developments in the other.

One of our problems is that we have not asked the laity to make available for the mission of the church what it already knows about the world in which it lives, which is so often a world different from the one the parson preaches about.

The way you worship at your Church, is often not the way different Christians around the world worship at theirs.

They sometimes become fodder for my blog because I find that they are much like those silly messages on church signs; what the author thinks they are saying and the message that comes across are often very different.