Sentences with phrase «eventually left that church»

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This really resonated with why I ended up leaving the American Baptist Churches (though I eventually found another church home).

We eventually left that particular church group, not entirely because of the pastors or the problems, but also because our general beliefs and desires for how the «church» meets, began to change.

Churches that try to do this eventually have to resort to two aspects of the human nature: the abusive person's desire for power; the abusive victim's fear of doing it wrong... those who are neither of these will eventually leave...

He too was in adultery with someone in the church and eventually left the ministry, his wife and children.

And that's why giving people permission to leave church is so important (many of whom will eventually leave anyway).

The school eventually closed, even the Boy Scout troop which used the church basement for meetings left.

He eventually had to leave the church (I don't recall if it was his choice or not).

A while after I left the pastors sat my parents down for a talk and told them they were no longer welcome to the church, because my parents wanted their own church eventually.

I once pastored a church of this sort, and eventually had to leave when the «patron» decided he didn't like the way I was pastoring.

Instead of going inward («the kingdom of God is withing you» said Jesus) the church encourages people to meddle in politics, dictate what others do in their bedrooms and with their bodies, and foment hatred of other paths to finding God — all of which leaves the seeker eventually unfulfilled.

A vast majority of us came from other churches where we tried our best and eventually got worn out and had to leave.

The sad thing is, this freedom eventually compelled me to leave the church.

The more difficult but necessary move is to leave the complaints to others and turn our attention to the unique opportunities that churches, synagogues, meetings and mosques have to stimulate the encounters and transformations that could eventually give the candidates something to talk about.

If such a solution to the civil religion problem does eventually emerge, a solution based on the common acceptance of certain political values rather than a struggle to the death between different religiopolitical ideologies, it will depend on changes in both the church and the socialist left.

If they eventually do get divorced, they are likely to leave the church all together — to relegate it to the growing pile of relics divorced people create as they separate their past lives from their futures.»

I have struggled for 30 years in my local Parish Church and have been tempted to leave several times but God has called me back as i eventually learnt that it's not what I get out of Church thats the main thing, it's what I can add, so if I remove myself I'm being mean spirited, I'm like a child who has a ball but if I don't get my own way in a game of football, I pick it up and take it home so no one gets to play.

Illich eventually broke with the church for good in 1969: Rome called him «politically immoral,» and he left the priesthood.

Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic (born 1946) was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.

The artist is present not only in the exhibition but also in the experience of the book.Born in Belgrade just after the end of the Second World War, Marina Abramovic was raised in the Serbian Orthodox Church (her great uncle was a Patriarch and a canonized saint in the Church) and left Yugoslavia in 1976, having already established herself as a performance artist, living in Amsterdam and eventually New York, where she presently lives.