Sentences with phrase «different than the church»

God forbid that someone would come in that would have a vision / purpose that God has given them that is different than the churches / pastors.

He said it was no different than a church asking its parishioners for donations — even though the state created the voucher program.

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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 have many gay and lesbian friends, others from different races... churches seem to divide rather than pull people together.

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

I was lucky enough to find the church that accepted me and my beliefs as different from the mainstream but valid and no more right or wrong than anyone else's beliefs.

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.

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.

I get David's vision but only because when I attend church I know that my views and ideas are different than the majority — and I think that's okay.

Now imagine a different ending to this story: Rather than going to a payday lender, you share your story with people in your church.

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

It was more than a decade before I left church behind entirely and still more years before I realized that what had been faith had metamorphosed into something entirely different.

The Mormon Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24).

So, you're really saying that your church is no different than any secular organization?

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.

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.

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

So in future follow - up posts, I will suggest some different ways of measuring success, different goals churches can have, and maybe different ways of achieving those goals than the standard «come to church for songs and a sermon» strategy that has been followed for so many centuries.

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sChurch (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a schurch in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

Instead, you are simply seeking to be the church in a different way than by sitting in a church building with other believers on Sunday morning.

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

The Orthodox Church has another view as they followed different early church fathers than AuguChurch has another view as they followed different early church fathers than Auguchurch fathers than Augustine.

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.

Forgive me if I'm misreading you here, but that makes it sound like you weren't ever really a part of the emergent movement yourself and that you attended a different church than Tony at the time.

It is an amalgamation of my many years — more than 20 — of being a part of womens» ministries in various churches of various denominations in many different contexts.

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.

When the Church acts as an employer and hires people of all different beliefs, it is no different than any other empolyer.

Yet... in essence, he's saying nothing different than all the mega church morons out there selling their swill to the gullible masses.

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

If churches want to to run hospitals, schools and other businesses that, but for their religious affiliation, are no different than any other business, it should comply with the laws that govern them all.

One local Christian pastor, meanwhile, publicly criticized First Presbyterian Church for sharing its space with my congregation, arguing that Muslims worship a different God than Christians.

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.

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.

A Church That Can and Can not Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan, jr. university of notre dame press, 280 pp., $ 30 Doctrinal development follows a different course in social ethics than in the realm of revelation.

These changes also place the church as an institution in a different power relationship to the culture than it has previously held since Constantinian times.

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.

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.

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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?

In today's blogging world, you have to be somewhat provocative to garner attention... As I mentioned above, I do believe in the value of doctrinal statements, but in a much different way than how they are used by most churches.

But with church resources as limited as they are, and the need so great, it seems clear that the churches will have to develop patterns of working alongside other personnel, with the chief resources coming from elsewhere than the churches and with administrative patterns different from those in which the minister is also the general administrator.

Churches around the world are trying to revitalize their Sunday morning church services, but this free eBook suggests something radically different than what is taught or tried in most churChurches around the world are trying to revitalize their Sunday morning church services, but this free eBook suggests something radically different than what is taught or tried in most churcheschurches....

Yes, theology and doctrine is important, but in a different way than used by many churches to keep people out, and keep them «in line.»

It is a different way of looking at things, which leads to a different set of questions, which provide different directions, values, and systems for a church that wants to grow by multiplication rather than addition.

Going to a building with lots of people inside, and calling it church is no different than going to a Safeway store full of people... UNLESS... Everyone there is a true believer, and the unbeliever is afraid to be in their midst.

... I can not say it any better than John Piper «True Christianity — which is radically different from Western culture, and may not be found in many «Christian» churches — renounces the advance of religion by means of violence.