Sentences with phrase «do service to the church»

They often start their families while in the military and still have time to do service to the church!

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She ended a 2009 visit to China by attending services at a state - sanctioned church, having a conversation with women's rights activists and doing a short Web chat.

Those wanting to attend Easter and Holy Week services and activities on the USD campus can do so at The Immaculata Catholic Church.

I hope this applies to your question, many times, sitting in services in a particular church, the Pastor would give a reprimand to the congregation, saying: «If you feel the urge to raise your hands and do not do it, then you are resisting the Holy Spirit.»

We will be doing our fellowship service tonight in a community hall, we were doing it at our church for seven years, but we got kicked out, because we wer n`t getting the people to go to the sunday morning service.

Aerobic exercise, even to staunch gospel music, was dangerously close to dancing — something we could only do in the mildest of ways during a church service to praise the Lord — so the Aerobercise was also out.

This does not belong to the secular world / media to comment, it belongs to the catholic church in this case to decide what they hold as being truthful / sacred in the service of their Lord and Savior.

Some of the same churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.

(Somebody, perhaps his preacher, needs to remind varney that going to church doesn't save your soul, it's what you do when you leave the service that makes the difference)

Weddings still contain the appearance of some of these forms, as do some church services that are sprinkled with violin accents that are lamented by strings players as «football scores,» reflecting the shape of the whole notes that they must play repeatedly as a form of musical gingerbread to elevate the tone of the event.

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

I was one of those cutting edge ministers who was hired by a mainline church to start a «contemporary» service (read: a church service with a live band and worship team instead of an organ and choir) in the late 90's when it was the trendy thing to do.

It is precisely in the community gathered for worship, and most expressly in the Eucharist, that the Church «puts its faith into action,» «focuses on Christ's teaching,» including the command to «do this» in remembrance of him, and offers its chief service (Greek: leitourgia) to God and to the world.

They can not have anything to do with christianity much less attend a church service and not expect to get basically excommunicated from Islam for doing so.

First, do you and your family go to a local church service now?

I feel like I am letting my parents down as well since we used to go to the same church service that they did.

We are sitting next to sinners if we attend a church service, and we are sitting next to sinners if we belly up to a bar... does not matter

But my dad & grandmother are church bullies; you don't attend the same style of worship service, study the same Bible translation, and believe to the letter exactly what they believe then they feel the need to «correct» and «instruct».

A pastor that doesn't listen to feedback or a work performance review is doing themselves a dis service because you'll never improve personally and your church will be limited to only what you can do.

If the forthcoming 2015 Synod on the Family can begin to grapple with that issue it will be doing the Church and wider society a great service indeed.

A concern for compassion and justice for the victims, however, does not excuse a lack of faithfulness to the truth, and frequently the occasion of sexual abuse by Catholics has itself been abused in the service of dishonest propaganda against the Catholic Church, and our Priests in particular.

The Catholic church has been doing a great service to the poor, needy and the underpriveleged and nuns have been leading the way in those life changing efforts for centuries.These women have already set a great example by actively participating and leading in activities of the Catholic church.

On the other hand, churches really don't want equal footing, they want totally subsidized municipal services (trash, police, fire protection, civil and national defense) AND they want to dictate to the governments that provide them the terms under which they operate.

Well if that is the case the State should not force a Church to pay for services or drugs that it does not believe in.

Did we do this so we could invite people to a Bible study, church service, or give them Christian literature?

Such service doesn't even need to be a part of the church program, but can also be a simple part of living life among other people.

One way to do this is simply to cancel the church service.

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrationTo cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrationto prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

They are planting churches in Budapest, particularly in North Budapest and doing works of service to show and share the good news of Jesus Christ.

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.

Let me challenge you: if you were shown something you were supposed to do, and you haven't yet done it, don't read another chapter in your Bible or attend another church service until you have obeyed.

You are even picketing outside of churches and sending people in to invade them during their worship services, violating their sacred space, because they don't live up to your «standards».

So the question isn't «Where do you attend church» or «What do you do in your church service» but instead, «As a part of the church, what can you be doing to strengthen it?»

I want to be of service to churches and other spiritual communities that endeavor to do the same.

Police are peacemakers, so I think American Jesus would want churches to do some heavy duty recruiting of policemen at church services.

I do not look happily on my 25 years of shopping for the right parish; I have been quite hard on consumer Christians who flit from church to church seeking the most convenient services.

I was so depressed, fearful, and permeated with these horrible thoughts about the Holy Spirit, and one night alone in my room I was watching one of videos of the services at church, and there was a woman who was moved by the Spirit (didn't realize it, but I thought it was her acting on her own), and I lashed out in frustration of the nonstop intrusive thoughts, because I wanted them to go away, and said «that's so stupid, and you are too Holy Ghost.»

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

They did not submit to the terms of Stout's description, but they did suggest that their efforts to make their churches more faithful yields greater service to the world, rather than less.

Anyway... I found myself wanting to watch my church service online, or look on television for another service... or looking for sermons that I could find online... and then Jesus did one of those... Jesus things, that He does so well.

People who have left the church because they've gone down some sort of slippery ethical slope are not the ones talking about their experiences and sharing with other Christians outside the church or even making it known that they ARE still Christians, but there are a great many Christians who don't go to a formal church service.

Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nchurch can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nChurch you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.

She doesn't have to drive herself to the Sunday service in the church on the Sandringham estate when she's there, but she often does.

One assailant was killed by a church security guard while trying to enter the service, but another — wearing a suicide vest — was shot and still made it inside, though according to reports, he didn't enter the main building.

I also read of those of you who were appalled at their church serving popcorn during the service, little mention of what was missing, loud worldly saturated music that has nothing to do with the Holy Ghost.

The local shelter in my city makes the homeless sit through a church service before they can get food and / or shelter which sounds like they do not want to help but convert.

I have a theory though that at least half of the people sitting in a church service don't actually believe; they go because their family, friends, neighbors, customers, etc expect them to go.

I know that that doesn't help the Somalian child necessarily, but I am happy to give money to my church to help them provide services to the community and abroad.

While many quickly growing churches deal with growth by starting new ministries to handle the influx of new members, Warehouse 242 leaders decided to focus on doing three things well: small groups, the Sunday worship service and community outreach.

I have several notebooks full of ideas on things churches could be doing to share Jesus more effectively with the world, to do a better job in making disciples, to help children grow up and «stick» with Christianity, to make the services more meaningful, to help people connect with God, to develop real and genuine friendships within the church, and on and on.