Sentences with phrase «do about the church»

The Archbishop of Canterbury retires at the end of the year, I wonder what the new one will do about the Church of England.

You will be surprise in learning there are a lot of people who feel the same way you do about the church setting and would be very receptive in this type of approach.

The use of such words tell us more about the media and salivating church haters than they do about the church.

Not exact matches

Everyday, whether I'm at work, the gym, the grocery store or church, I make an effort to engage somebody and find out something interesting about them, what they're doing and what motivates them.

While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

Bishop Barry Rogerson, Church of England, asked during the Gulf hearing whether the WCC wanted simply to «feel good» about its own correctness, or actually to do some good.

I don't think about it in our congregation, although I do in any other church.

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

If you are claiming to be in the «body of Christ» and the «institutional» church is not, maybe you have something to offer about who Christ is, what he did and what it means, and you might be able to do it during the week where the west commemorates it.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

Or just transparent about thing that are easy targets — the church is an easy target — People's concepts of God are easy (Be done for centuries).

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?

And you think your church does not care about money ttt?

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.

For the first time, it's about the principal and not the money; churches don't need to use public spaces for their nonsense.

In April 1976, Buzz asked: «Does the Church care about unemployment?»

But — caution is wise: Be careful a blog does not become a theraputic enviroment for one to say what they want to say about the church — even God — Jesus or whatever.

How does the church feel about IVF that results in the termination of many un-implanted embryos but also gives infertile couples a chance at having a child?

I am a Christian who attends a Pentecostal church, but I'm pretty liberal in my views as well and don't always agree with my fellow Christians about certain heavier topics.

Ultimately — I don't think belief is what church is about.

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

I don't see anyone complaining about churches being built near any of the victims or families of victims of these guys.

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

Percy was asked what would have most surprised another major Catholic literary figure, Flannery O'Connor, about the post-conciliar Church she did not live to see:

Both me and my girlfriend are adamant about what we believe, but we do not attend church because we disagree with what the modern Roman Catholic church is.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

David's talking about feeling the need to go to church as habit — a meaningless exercise we still do because it's ingrained.

Seeing as the last time Malachy's supposed prophesies was correct was in 1590, I don't think Pope Francis or the church have much to worry about.

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

- what don't you understand about separation of church and state?

Hmm... I do remember someone posted about old churches and then the growth of larger congregation churchs....

This is the one issue that church people have felt they could be abusively verbal about and this abuse has done great harm.

Wail away all you like, about the const - itution and how it is being mis - read, the true meaning of the separation of / from church and state, but it all does not matter — the law as currently interpreted and enforced says events of this nature are not legal!

Think about it - do people like you ever take on the Unification Church (the Moonies), the Church of Scientology or their ilk with such venomous wrath?

Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

I do think you hate much about Christianity and its various Churches.

To be honest, most Christians in the church don't care about you unless you go to church, act and think like they do.

JWH: Of course one of the greatest tragedies of the Church in contemporary society is that the poor are among us and we don't talk about it.

The churches don't care about them.

So, if a church were using the Law of Moses properly, don't you believe there would be no bodies laying about in blood?

I also do not care about church history as I am not religious.

... I'm still amazed at how people could tell me that the cruel treatment I received from church leaders & members was somehow God - inspired and ordained, and was done for my own good (God told people to spread lies about me for my own good?

When I was religious, I was more worried about pleasing a god, following rituals, doing what the church said to do.

Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come from the scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.

The discussions at the Security Council of the U.N., for example, produce more moral statements about Russia's lies, violence, and manipulations than any church has ever done.

I do not embrace the man - made hierarchy of the Catholic Church or the secrecy and corruption it engenders, but I understand why they are concerned about nuns and priests - those who bear their name - and what it is they teach.

My dad is one, and he's both moral and law - abiding, but he just doesn't care about what the church thinks and he's happy that way.

This article is about people who belong to the official church of Satan who do NOT believe in Satan.