Sentences with phrase «do about worship»

Certainly there are churches that care more about entertainment than they do about worship.

Not exact matches

In spite of the Ten Commandment's ban on «graven images» (and the worship of them), many Christians have become so used to visual representations of Christ that we often don't give them a second thought, nor consider what they say about our mental picture of the Son of God.

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.

So much of what I led worship with in high school was about me — the lyrics centered on me telling God what I wanted to do, or what I wanted Him to do.

Worship, to him, entails obeying the great commandments to love God and your neighbor, something that he thinks any sincere person could do, whatever erroneous views they hold about God's nature.

It didn't fly when it was Pharoh, it didn't fly when it was the King of Babylon (in the story of Daniel), it didn't fly in history when it was Alex the Great, it didn't fly when it was the Caesars (including Augustus) who were deified and supposed to be worshipped... and in the only Jewish sect on record who followed Jesus that we know about, (the Ebionites), it didn't fly there either.

You know one of the «laws» says they have every right to worship whichever fairy tale they wish to an there is not a thing you can do about it.

It doesn't bother me in the least that I won't have to sit worshiping at the feet of some egotistical deity for all eternity, or try to make some demon feel good about himself.

Muslims never take Jesus» name in vain or disrespect him, he got the people a message about worshiping the one GOD, just like Muhammad (pbuh) did.

As it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's good).

When I rebranded myself from church work to prison work to worship leading to taking food to the woods as a woman... I submit I do know what I am talking about.

I do think that maintaining the normativity of Scripture entails giving it a higher priority than worship, if we are talking about our means of knowing the shape the Christian faith ought to take in the world, even if our primary encounter with Scripture is within the context of worship.

Nobody ever talks about the sign in front of almost every house of worship talking about the coming sermon, or any other form of religious advertising — and those outnumber anything atheists do by an order of magnitude.

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

I get small glimpses and whiffs of His presence among a disparate group of people that most of the time, if the truth be told, I don't give a s ** t about, who stumble clumsily through worship, and most of the time deal awkwardly with each other.

America ia about letting each believe and worship as they choose as long as they do not hurt others with their practices.

If they did want to make an issue of it they'd be asked to leave, just as readily as I'd be asked to leave because I felt I could bring my wife one week, and then my girlfriend one week to worship and others would know about it.

«It's not about same - gender relations — it is about se.xual idolatry and worshipping false gods» ---------- It does refer to certain kinds of idolatry, sure, but you have to remember, all sin is idolatry, therefore when using the word ar.senokoitai, it refers to the idolatry (sinful act) of same gender s.ex.

I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.

Ahead of leading worship at Spring Harvest, she tells Joy Tibbs about the wrestling she has done with God over the years, and about her new album Ethos.

But sometimes you get a long way into what you think is a clear discussion of evangelicalism, and suddenly realize that the person doing the talking is getting increasingly shrill about how the hallway needs to have more room for seats in it, and wants to know where we're going to put the worship band or the choir, and where the weddings take place.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

I do remember about 5 groups creating a worship space, 5 different rooms, and inviting the public in to go through it all.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

Quite frankly, I don't know where I stand on Dr. Hawkins» theological comments about Christians worshiping the same God.

Thomas Day is writing about the culture of American Christianity and what it does to our understanding of God, self, and community — as reflected in the way Christians worship.

Although it is a byproduct of worship, which exists for its own sake, constant exposure to words, actions and roles within the worshiping community does more to reinforce a Christian's attitudes about justice than anything else the church does (see my articles «The Words of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» Dec. 13, 1978, and «The Actions of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» May 7,worship, which exists for its own sake, constant exposure to words, actions and roles within the worshiping community does more to reinforce a Christian's attitudes about justice than anything else the church does (see my articles «The Words of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» Dec. 13, 1978, and «The Actions of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» May 7,Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» Dec. 13, 1978, and «The Actions of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» May 7,Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» May 7, 1980).

The Bible says the same kinds of things about people who don't worship the one true god... it even tells you you to kill people who try to convert you... the difference is that we have grown as a society and we no longer murder people for what they believe... islam hasn't caught up with the rest of us... it's a problem and threat to the civilized word.

I did my best to hide my doubts, but there were times when I would be about preach or give a worship talk on campus that I just couldn't.

The scholar metaphor is useful for worship and Bible study, but books like Andrew Murray's With Christ in the School of Prayer don't have much to say about faithfulness in the workplace.

An opening prayer of confession sometimes does little more than suggest that worship is primarily about our failures rather than God's triumphs.

Sure, we learn about Jesus from the Bible, but we don't worship the Bible.

My main dissent, which I did not express, was that the discussants were treating the battles about worship as a relatively recent phenomenon — several references were made, for example, to «the last two decades.»

The «meetings» in the new testament don't seem to be primarily about performing acts of worship as they are about helping one another live as Christians, obeying Jesus, Kingdom building, etc..

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

«So you believe your god changed his mind about killing people if they don't seek to worship him?»

If for you your faith is only about «worshiping» the words in a book (which are written by man)... think about it... you might be wasting your time and not realize how distant you actually have become (from the true msg) worrying about trivialities or needing to reconcile scripture with science / common sense... simply because your book (and your self - imposed obligation to believe in the words) doesn't leave you another option.

Quakers don't worry about doctrines, but instead welcome anyone who wishes to engage in the practices of worship and community with us.

so worship whomever you chose and do not worry about who i may worship.

I am not about to equate visiting a church building with idol worship, but I do think it is important to recognize that people can worship and follow God just as well outside of the four walls of a church building than they can inside the walls — and maybe even better.

Therefore, He doesn't really care about His people, or even care too much if they don't worship Him.

But when the Hebrew people did not erect shrines and temples all over their land, this would have made foreigners think that they did not care about their God or care whether or not the people of the land worshiped him.

Paul does many of the same things in his letters, using a genre and language that was common in his day to subvert the prevailing cultural views of the day about Caesar worship.

I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship service I feel) and I talked about that church you posted about once — the one where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?

Dead Sea Scrolls that have been covered up by the vatican have already hypothesized that jesus preached that the holy temple is your body that was given to you and no other temple need to be worshipped as long as you care about your temple and do not cause ill will to the temples of others.

The sailors, who know nothing about God, end up fearing Yahweh and worshiping Him in truth in ways that Jonah never does.

Talk with your worship leaders about what does and doesn't work for you, but always constructively and with appreciation for their dedicated service at a job where they can never please everyone!

It is obvious that you don't know a thing about a true Christian, the one who worship the true God, Jesus Christ.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

Sorry but MORMONS are nothing even cose to christians.They believe in polygamy, molestation, and the worship of Joesoph Smith the molester, murderer.The Mormons will deny this becauser they do not want to be arrested or persecuted by the public.This is why they are super secret because if people really knew what they were about they would be run out of town and rightfully so.Why on earth would anyone want a president in office who believes his underwear is magical... he belongs locked up in a padded room for being a weirdo cultist... Romney you can take you magical skidmarked underwear some where else but not the whitehouse you weirdo sicko....