Sentences with phrase «even attended a church»

I thank my Mormon neighbor fairly often still when I think of all the repairs and clean up their work crews did in my yard and in my house (and around practically every neighborhood on the gulf coast) with no obligation to join or even attend their church.

This is fascinating — I think a lot of people who are basically atheists «try» religion in this sense — reading sacred texts, reciting prayers, even attending church.

they even attend our church services sometimes and celebrate christmas.

They can look at a passage like «Love your neighbor as yourself» and know that their neighbor may be the person sitting beside them in church, but that neighbor could also be someone who doesn't even attend church.

Because of this, none of us would even attend church, and we are to gather with other believers to stir up one another to love and good works, to encourage one another, to teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, to bring the sick among the elders.

Implicit is that Bell has deviated and gone Hollywood, is no longer a pastor, doesn't even attend a church, questions orthodox theology, and doesn't believe in hell.

I personally have a good relationship with church communities in my city and I don't even attend church nor hold to many of their doctrinal statements.

In fact, as I mentioned in a comment above, it could easily be argued that even attending a church is no guarantee of true community.

Not exact matches

On a frigid evening, days before Christmas, nearly 100 people braved icy roads to attend a SolarCity job fair at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, on the slight chance they might qualify for one of the few hundred positions available at the company's solar factory.

Humanism has become the prevalent world view, even among those who attend church regularly.

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

You attend church every week, you go to small group, maybe you even read your Bible regularly, but it's started to feel more like a routine than like worship.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

I know people who attend the new Mass who are even patronizing the Pentecostal churches when they are sick or when they have problems.

I am a Catholic (by Catholic I mean, regularly attend church, send my children to Catholic school, and work in many ministries) I also use contraception, but I don't think that organizations the church runs should have to pay for anything they oppose — even it I don't oppose it.

On the rare occasions that they actually show a character in a church, it's usually for a wedding or a funeral — despite the fact that even the most limited estimates have shown that at least half of America's 300 million citizens attend church services fairly regularly.

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.

Modification is to bury Biblical ideas - Obama's support for gay and lesbian marriage, abortion even after advanced pregnancy etc., Obama attending church may be for political support.

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Even if I don't like the music, can't stand the preaching, there's nothing for my kids, and I think the church is wasting my time and money, I will still attend faithfully.

This includes: barring them from serving on leadership teams, refusing them believer's baptism, banning them from taking Communion, denying them involvement in children's or youth work and even asking them not to attend church services any more.

There was a huge outcry from the community — not even people who attended the church!

Heck, I'd even make a safe bet that there are hundreds... thousands of Christians, right here in the US, attend Church every Sunday, etc, and don't believe in god, heaven or hell.

If you have ever stopped attending church for a short period of time, even for a week or two, you know what I mean.

First, one may attend a church without necessarily having come even close to following the precepts of the Church, let alone obtaining holchurch without necessarily having come even close to following the precepts of the Church, let alone obtaining holChurch, let alone obtaining holiness.

«Our family chose not to attend the ceremony this evening because we did not feel welcome at the event and we even feared for our safety in light of how hostile some of the public comments have been,» the family said in a statement released by the group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

Going through the motions of attending a church and even set devotions is no guarantee of holiness: one must participate with the heart not go through the motions.

Also, that's awesome, so now you're saying that GW couldn't have been a christian because of his actions, even though he stated he didn't believe atheists should be citizens, he attended church every sunday, preached the heck out of the gospel.

Even if they don't like attending, Americans like church.

If the board backs you in this decision, they should gladly provide you some time away from the church to prepare resumes, apply for jobs, go to interviews, or even attend schooling to get some education you will be better prepared for a «second career.»

I grew up in an LDS home and attended LDS Church (as a tangent I lived in Utah when Smart was abducted, was even on a volunteer search team canvassing SLC neighborhood the Saturday following, I was in Utah when she was found and was beside myself but also weeping for what she must obviously have gone through.)

Why attending church is vital even if it doesn't meet all your felt needs.

Bryan T. Calvin on why his African American family intentionally attends a white church, even when he misses his upbringing in black churches.

Our God is compassionate and full of grace and therefore will attend church at sit through our show - off righteous acts, even as He attends to those that need, Him more; the perishing.

I was required to attend Sunday School, Church, Youth Group, Confirmation class and even earned the God and Country Medal in Scouts — which requires years of study.

We don't attend Christmas or Christmas Eve church «services», even those that sing Silent Night and pass out candles.

I sang loudly and more or less on key, and because my father was organist and choir director of the various Lutheran churches we attended during my boyhood, I was always drafted for the children's choir and occasionally even given a semi-prominent role, but I was never as good as my family heritage or personal eagerness might have predicted.

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.

There are over 300 moms in the group and many of them have been very wounded by the church and left the church because they don't think it is a safe place for them and their families — some have found affirming churches and now attend there but many don't even want to attend an affirming church as church in general is related to too much negativity for them at this point.

Shahla was now free to attend church, read the Bible and even to share her faith with her friends.

Many are deceived by thinking that because they attended church or even made a «commitment» they are Christian.

When you first started attending a church, in the beginning it is great, great fellowship, great conversation and then maybe a year or could be even months later it seems like something underneath changes, the closeness and conversation move from intimate personal conversation to surface conversation and I notice distractions in their eyes and individuals don't seem to have a real care or concern.

It is not a person's words that make him or her a Christian, or what they post on Facebook or wear on their t - shirts, or even how many Bible verses they can quote, or how often they attend church and Bible studies, or whether they can «take a stand for Christ.»

Yeah, I pick the guy who put others first, even though people on these boards keep telling me that since I don't attend church, I am all about personal gain, drugs, crime, and solipsism.

In fact, «missing church» and «attending church» should not even be in the church's vocabulary.

This is why I left the church years ago even though I was raised Christian and attended a Christian school.

I can hardly bring my - self even to attend church any more, partly because of the all - male language and symbolism of the services, partly because women are expected to stay in the kitchen and the church school classroom and the pew, and partly because even the Bible seems to make women inferior.

What do people mean when they say ninety per cent of the people in Britain are Christian, especially when perhaps no more than ten per cent attend church even once a month?

Dozens of people attended a vigil outside Notting Hill Methodist Church - a short distance away from the Grenfell Tower - on Wednesday evening.

And even if one wasn't attending a church, I do hope they would have christian friends and fellowship around them nonetheless.