Sentences with phrase «down upon the church»

Peter and Paul worked within imperfect systems because any outright challenge to the law of the land would bring persecution down upon the Church in great number.

Not exact matches

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While the heart behind much of this has been to improve upon systems that needed change, the fruit of this labor has sent many churches down the road of misplaced purpose and identity.

We have high ranking officials in the Church who are extremely corrupt and were just suppose to trust because you say so then you're looked down upon once you question the word.

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

One young woman asked me this question with tears streaming down her face, for she had been made to feel small and worthless by churches like these, and she lived in fear that thousands upon thousands of women were experiencing the same thing and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

I wonder if those of us inside the church can truly cultivate an attitude that does not look down upon those who are outside of it, and who (perhaps for very good reasons) decline the invitation to enter in?

The fact may be explained by saying that everything goes back to, or rests upon, the Gospel of Mark; but I think we can not assume that this Gospel would have been accepted if upon any major point its general outline had been found to be faulty or inaccurate by those who were in touch with the primitive tradition handed down in the churches in Palestine.

The underground church is working very effectively... It [the war] will come down out of the north — that has to be the Soviet Union — upon the midst of the earth — Israel and the Middle East... That's why most of us believe in the imminent return of Jesus Christ.»

This is not to look down upon the other disciplines of the Church but rather to put the facts in clear perspective.

I have been beaten down, trampled upon, thrown aside like a piece of crap by a pastor and his cronies, when I was an elder in the church I was born again in.

Out of all the sins the sin of fornication and immorality — if left to prosper in a church with no one speaking against it — will bring down damnation upon that church — The church can be in the world the same way a boat can be on the see but the world in the church will sink the church the same way the see in a boat will!

In this case, furthermore, the intended violence of Christians against other Christians and against non-Christians is something whose «results» include the calling down of God's wrath upon the Church, part of which may well include the secularized crucible of what was once a «Christian culture.»

We'll land upon a stunning 16th Century church, Église Saint - Florentin, as we travel with Tonya Jennings on a French barge down the Canal de Bourgogne.