Sentences with phrase «different churches where»

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

Priests that had a history of bad behavior were shipped to different churches where the congregation had no idea what kind of criminal had been placed in their midst to prey on their children.

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I wonder if he was around today (at a time where the church is becoming more and more accepting of committed gay relationships), if he might have a different mission... one that includes fighting religious persecution of gays.

Where I am, the church is «the last frontier», and I think that is more than enough to make our approaches different.

I belong to a wonderful church where we welcome (encourage) diverse points of view and seek to learn all we can about different religious traditions.

I drive 40 minutes each way to my church in a different city despite having tons of churches on every corner where I live.

They just know that something is leading them in a direction that is different than where the traditional church is going.

As has been said, if we are one Church, then people may move freely within it, and there will come a point where each member needs a different leader for further growth.

Every church has its different maturity levels (1 John 2:12 - 14) and there are some that have been saved for fifty years and still wearing diapers spiritually and they will pop up where your least expected.

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimChurch Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimChurch is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimchurch has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

We can celebrate those churches where everything comes together, but imitating their approach offers no assurance of a second success, because the mix of people and circumstances will be different.

Even where the Church is still only on the way with its own doctrine, it draws its formulas each time out of its own enduring basic convictions, which always recognizably and unchangeably shine through the attitudes and concrete formulations, which at first sight by their merely literal tenor appear different or contradictory.

Quite a different pattern has developed in Germany, where the churches sponsor family counseling services staffed mainly by physicians and psychologists.

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.

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.

There are times where people in our church community come around us and tell us they believe in what we're doing by supporting us in different ways.

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.

Only the address of where they go to church would be different.

Yet another «biblical» «justification» about the current state of affairs where so many churches silently hate on gay sex and call that hate under different names.

There are many different styles of worship and people tend to gather at the churches where they feel comfortable with the worship.

In this final chapter we will consider the nature of spirituality, the sacred, the role of worship, different forms of prayer, the integration of our work world into our faith, the nature and purpose of the Church, and where we go from here.

I was already drawn towards the early emerging - church conversations in the United States (where I lived at the time), and this book was just so different.

I enjoy this analogy (not in THAT way), because I've long advocated not for a different or more innovative church service, but for church to be stripped to its essence — where it is more raw and powerful.

«He also suggested that parishes introduce Forty Hours» Devotion, where Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is kept up continuously at a succession of different churches.

«Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.&church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.&Church at the End of the Millenium.»

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

There are a limited number of instances where the parable in very much its original form made a point of significance to the early Church, even if that was different from the point originally intended by the historical Jesus, and in such cases the gospel form of the parable may approximate to the original, e.g. the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son.

Highlights for me included: 1) Belcher's call in Chapter 3 to find common ground in classic / orthodox Christianity (the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed) which, if applied, would dramatically reduce some of the name - calling and accusations of heresy that have been most unhelpful in the discussion between the emerging and traditional camps, 2) Belcher's fabulous treatment of postmodernism and postfoundationalism in Chapter 4, where he rightly explains that when talking about postmodernism, folks in the emerging church and the traditional church are using the same term to refer to two completely different things, and where he concludes that «a third way rejects classical foundationalism and hard postmodernism,» and 3) Belcher's fair handling of the atonement issue in Chapter 6, in which he clarifies that most emergering church leaders «are not against atonement theories and justification, but want to see it balanced with the message of the kingdom of God.»

Paul blessings as i shared with Christine it is a personal relationship with Jesus when Jesus called his disciples he said follow me not the church not man.I belong to 2 churchs and i keep in touch with a couple indirectly and minister from time to time they are all different styles and different doctrines and in each of them i have people i care about they are family to me brothers and sisters in the Lord and i can go there and feel at home we sing and worship the Lord and hear the word together its awesome.I used to feel that i did nt fit in now i can fit in anywhere because where we go he goes with us.There is unity in Christ even though we may differ in doctrine.brentnz

There is an increasing attempt by churches belonging to different confessional families, groupings of those oriented in a particular theological direction, or even by individual churches themselves, to engage in bilateral or multilateral dialogues, where specific issues regarding the doctrines and practices that continue to be both theological and practical irritants, like the practice of Baptism or the existence of mixed marriages are discussed, analysed and debated, and attempts made to produce consensus documents for further study and action.

It is no different from what happens in new nations where the Church identifies itself with the aspirations of the people.

As Jeremy has said in his books look at scripture through the lens of Christ and you will start to see a different God to what the Church has painted ie A angry wrathful God demanding a sacrifice, where as Christ portrays love, forgiveness, compassion.......

you can call yourself whatever you want baptist, born again, methodist, etc but you belong to the universal church where you get the word catholic which mens universal.there was one holy catholic apostolic church for 1500 years then father martin luther on his own authortithy not GODS decided to try and start his own which mutated into know 1000s of different competing groups with 1000s of different interprataions and ideas and much confusion.

We just shouldn't forget where we came from or that we are all in different stages of growth and spiritual development — and that most churches offer at least Something that is better than Nothing.

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.

It is where we meet God, and therefore, we have to dress up to «go to church,» and act a different way «at church.»

Pope Benedict: «Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups.»

After growing up in a traditional church where we sang out of a hymnal and had intense (and many times ridiculous) business meetings, I was craving something different when I went off to college.

We as the church shouldn't be above humbling ourselves to listen to others with different views, because as we listen the Spirit may well speak to us about the person and where they're at.

It is when different people have designs for the church, where they want it to be something other than what it is, that it destroys the fabric of the community.

I don't know about you, but I've reached a point where I suggest that they find a different church.

(2) The organization of the churches is somewhat different from that reflected in the major Pauline epistles, where the word «presbyter» never occurs and «bishops and deacons» are mentioned only in Philippians 1:1.

Although Christianity was born in a different cultural ethos where a holistic view of reality was in vogue, the Indian Church's theology and practice have been, with some notable exceptions, heavily influenced by western missionaries.

We had park time every day at lunch, shorter breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon, with different things the kids could do in the church gymnasium where the camp was held (blocks, Legos, paper and crayons / markers, puzzles, balls and skipping ropes, or they could practice their music if they wanted to).

Now more than ever, Labour appears to be a broad church, where inner factions and very active intellectuals give voice to different positions on policies and programs.

The Ulster County Religious Council, the Dutchess County Interfaith Council, the Kingston Area Council of Churches, the Ministers» Alliance of Ulster County and the Mid-Hudson Islamic Association got together a while back to create a non-threatening, user - friendly forum where regular people can learn more about people who have different belief systems — in the process, hopefully learning to communicate with them in a more peaceful, positive and constructive way.

This is a safe place where Christian singles, pastors or seeking pagans can share, view, comment and read «stuff» on a variety of different topics of concern to Christian singles that many churches need to address, but simply don't.

It's even possible to take a private helicopter ride over the island, where you're guaranteed to see it's blue - domed churches, dramatic cliff - faces, and dazzling blue sea from a totally different perspective.

Outside of community events, and the occasional difference depending on where the character is in town (characters have different dialogue in church on Sunday, for example), most NPC's say the same thing over and over again, day after day.

Newberg comes to McGuireWoods from the Falls Church, Virginia, office of Reed Smith, where he was lead attorney on many different intellectual property matters.