Sentences with phrase «different churches who»

There were some broadcasters and program agencies of different churches who gave me access to their files and made otherwise private research available to me for use in the study.

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People who shun their loved ones because they choose a different path, are not following the teachings of this church.

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.

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.

Rather, I think many of us would prefer to separate those who disagree with us and cleanse the church and even the world of all who are different and challenge our understanding of who Jesus is and what he means... unless they get saved, of course.

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.

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.

if churches make their # 1 priority demonstrating the unconditional love of Jesus, instead of criticizing and ostracizing people who have a different opinion, they would not be alienating people so much.

But the election of Israel and the election of the Gentiles who answer the call to the Church of Jesus Christ take radically different forms: Jews are called as a nation, while Gentiles are called away from their nations, as individuals.

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

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.

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.

Jackson W. Carroll and Wade Clark Roof, researchers in the sociology of religion (at Duke University Divinity School and at the University of California — Santa Barbara), analyze three age categories — pre-boomers (born prior to 1946), boomers (born 1946 - 1964) and Gen Xers (born between 1965 and 1980)-- who according to Carroll and Roof have profoundly different expectations of the church and of religion.

That's when I realize I have nothing to say and little to learn from somebody who thinks of evangelicalism as a church you can join, a megadenomination that comes in different flavors.

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.

Heresy and Doctrine in the Early Church In the first few centuries of Christianity, teachers taught wildly different ideas about who Jesus was.

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

Whatever your views on church might be, you will be challenged by these stories to view church a little differently, and to not judge or condemn those people who choose to be the church in different ways than you.

And we're no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities.

In this respect, Allison is quite different from N.T. Wright, who has far more confidence in his ability to reconstruct a historical portrait that coincides with the picture depicted by the canon and the Church.

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».

The numbers of people who have come to Christian faith through the Toronto movement, through many different churches, are impressive.

I once read a thesis that quite correctly shows that the Dulles of the»40s, who was head of the Federal Council of Churches» Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, was different from the Dulles of the»50s as U.S. secretary of state.

Also, I'd like to hear from my Catholic readers, who I suspect might have a slightly different perspective on what it means to be a part of the Church.

Ten months ago, the conversation started about creating such a campaign to let people know there are a variety of different faces who attend the church.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

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.

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?

Yet even though the differences in usage between Old Testament and New Testament caused some second century Christians to conclude that two different realities were referred to, the apostolic church was adamant, that it was none other than the God of Israel who had spoken to men in Jesus.

Such worried Catholics who are already going wild even when they have only to get up and sit down at Mass should really ask themselves quite simply and charitably: What has be - come different in the Church and what has remained the same?

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

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.

The only Christians who helped us with our marriage issues were my parents who live in a different state and have no affiliation with our church.

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.

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.

We have a minister (servant), a youth pastor (shepherd), and an assistant pastor (that's me — I particularly like the «assistant» bit — I'm there to assist everyone, not just the minister) and a team of about a dozen elders (most of whom are far from elderly) who are responsible for different aspects of the life of the church and meet monthly.

Missionary work to «save the heathens» who use a different word to praise God, any word that is different than their own... even though the other peoples and cultures don't speak English and have their own words of prayer... How many churches respected other cultures and how many do now?

According to this story in the LA Times, each hour - long episode of the show — which will debut in 2014 — will «visit a different congregation at churches across the U.S. in order to find the perfect romantic partner for a preselected single person» (a person, who, presumably, has not kissed dating goodbye).

Mark's approach is not that different to those Church of England vicars who are frequently asked to christen babies from non-church going families.

I want to pay tribute to all the church groups of different denominations who seek to serve the most vulnerable through the provision of food banks and other support.

There are people all around us from different ethnic, cultural and religious (or non-religious) backgrounds who have no interest in our churches or our institutional Christianity.

It is quite a different matter with those who do not know — i.e., do not recognize the truth — that the Catholic Church is what she claims to be.

He did not, but those 2 Billion Christians who belong to 500 plus different denominations are conned each day of their lives to contribute to the church so the church stands.

Though our service in the name of Jesus may look different than those who «go to church», it is no less sincere.

Perhaps it would be different if people realised that Devin Patrick Kelley, the shooter who walked into the church and shot as many of the worshippers as he could, was a Muslim immigrant who shouted «Allahu Akbar» as he mercilessly gunned them down?

Please know that Jesus does not require you to «attend a local church» especially when they can be so judgmental toward people who live and believe in different ways than they do.

On the other hand, there are «sad» teens who feel so different because of trouble at home that they may be very quiet, or simply refuse to participate in youth programs at church.

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