Sentences with phrase «even going to church»

If any Christian church is correct in saying that we are saved simply because we are Christian, especially if we do wrong and don't have to own up to it, then what is the point in even going to church?

But consider too that being LDS is not a Christmas - and - Easter religion; we don't even go to church for just one hour sometime over the weekend.

Fifteen years ago, pastor Susan Sparks didn't even go to church.

It was a different world then, I realize: The Marxists I knew were happily married to their first wives, gave their kids curfews and chores, and a few even went to church or synagogue.

We didn't even go to church at Christmas or Easter.

I am a Catholic and can't even go to church because thats not GOD «S house anymore I hope GOD will take care of there these perverts.

Can the same be said about most theists and letting their children stay home or even go to a church that's a different religion?

«A laity that is well - informed might not want to support church structures or even go to church and may not believe any of the things that they are «supposed» to believe.»

We didn't even go to church at Christmas... More

Actually no one even went to church, but the life in these people who met together from 2 or 3 states was unmistakable.

I doubt that he has even gone to any church without his parents urging him.

And I laid it down, surrendered it and just said to Jesus, I have no clue, you figure it out, how can a woman like me be a pastor's wife again, how we can even go to church again.

And I think it's a very good thing that people even go to church.

I did my duties, taught classes and graded papers, even went to church, but somehow I felt as if none of it really mattered very much.

I do believe some people never know God, and we should pray for them, as it says in the Bible... one of our very religious friends whose family even went to church on Wednesdays confided in me that she had gone to church all these years and prayed and really did not believe in God... and was amazed that people who often did not go to church knew God and believed deeply in the Christ... which only assured her more of her damnation and seperation from God..

And so as a culture we have turned to astrology, explored Jungian archetypes, dabbled with cosmic consciousness movements, and even gone to church for its liturgies.

I am fine with religion and have even gone to church a few times with friends.

Talking to people you're interested in is hard enough; chitchat to discover if the person even goes to church is even more awkward.

One Sunday evening I went to a church auditorium evening production of songs from Fiddler on the Roof.

Not exact matches

«You figured going to church you wouldn't feel nervous, but even the preachers are nervous.»

Even if you believe God is vanishingly unlikely to exist, the consequence of being wrong (Hell) is so great, and the benefits of being right (not having to go to church on Sundays) so comparatively miniscule, that you should probably just believe in God to be on the safe side.

Finally, it bears mentioning that while all adults (our parents included) truly do make it up as they go along, for better or worse, traversing our world as young adults can present to us positive opportunities — opportunities that allow us to shepherd and encourage others in our churches and communities, even the wee ones or our own children who desperately want to grow up.

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.

Even most people that I know that live on base actually go to the off base church of their choice rather than on base churches.

Religion is the rosary, humming Latin songs, going to Church (the act), and even things as simple as folding your hands while you pray.

If you're wussy enough to be bullied into going to church even though you don't want to, there's TWO problems.

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'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 sayTo 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 sayto consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

And even better: all the women in the Catholic Church need to leave or go on strike.

You do not even need to go to church to learn that.

I went to church Sunday morning, night and Wed evening.

As a kid who went to church every day I can't tell you the number of times the daily readings said something really strange and perverse; why even keep it around?

Tons of christians don't go to church, and at my church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us to even get into the place.

Even with all of the things that I have going on — school, work, church, a looming internship and my relationships — I can still find time in the busyness to be thankful for my countless blessings.

Today, we have the example of the Mormon Church that even went as far as converting dead Jews to Mormonism.

I just don't think going to church for an hour every once and a while, and even living in a Christian country, quite measures up to brainwashing.

How did God manage to let His church go hundreds of years without direction and then need to be «restored» when He said not even the gates of hell would prevail against His church?

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

It does become culture just to turn up at church on a Sunday; you can go through worship time, sing the songs, and then you're out the other side without even knowing it.

In fact, I feel changed and begun to get bad panic attacks when I even thought about going back to that church starting on Saturday afternoons.

In fact, right now, I am trying to decide if I even want to go to church there in the morning.

He also relates how he had to grapple with important lifestyle questions even at a young age: «At about 13, 14 years old, the question arose: Can I actually kick on Sunday morning, even though I was supposed to go to church?

When I came to Christ, it was outside of the church, even though I had gone to church all of my life.

So even though many of these church people may be the most involved, generous, outreach - focused, Jesus - loving people you'll ever meet, they generally don't «get it» when a church planter tries to do the things that are necessary to plant a church for people who won't go to church.

But now I say unto you, report those who disagree with you to the church or denominational authorities, label them heretics or say that they raise «red flags» and let everyone know not to listen to them, criticize their positions without ever going to them personally to find out what they actually believe and are teaching, align them with other «heretics» without ever researching their books, writings, and messages, and above all, side with your friends against them even if you personally have never been hurt or offended by them.

It is commonly heard in books, and on blogs, and even from pulpits nowadays that one does not «go to church.»

But if you go to a big church and let out that you are sick and need help people will help and maybe even see your problem resolved.

It may be tempting to say, «I have tried on belief by going to church» or even «I've experienced belief because I've read the Bible».

Because even though the phrase «going to church» kind of bugs me (we don't go, we are), and even though it's messy and imperfect, even though I've let them down and they have let me down, even though there are disappointments, even though I don't agree with everybody and they probably think I'm crazy sometimes, too, even though I don't think we need an official sanctioned Sunday morning thing to be part of the Body of Christ, because even though I think the Church crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope anchurch» kind of bugs me (we don't go, we are), and even though it's messy and imperfect, even though I've let them down and they have let me down, even though there are disappointments, even though I don't agree with everybody and they probably think I'm crazy sometimes, too, even though I don't think we need an official sanctioned Sunday morning thing to be part of the Body of Christ, because even though I think the Church crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope anChurch crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope and joy.

In my childhood and teenage years (and perhaps even way past them) I solidly believed the members of other churches than our group of 3 reformed denominations were going to hell.