The collection trays are passed around and
everyone leaves the church.
Not exact matches
Maintaining separation of
church and stat s
leaves everyone free to practice their own beliefs and not have government forcing other's religion down our children's throats at school.
If
everyone who disagreed with the Pope
left the Catholic
church today, it would be deader than the so - called savior they say they follow.
I was determined to present a little cross to
everyone at
church that night in honor of Palm Sunday and the commencement of Holy Week, so the two of us spent the afternoon painstakingly folding the six - inch
leaves into tiny green crosses.
I
left my
church a few months back because after the senior pastor
left,
everyone started taking paths of labeling each other.
Everything we are taught in the
church promotes the notion that
EVERYONE who
leaves churchology is either wounded or running from God and in a backslidden state.
As I said earlier, I don't think this accounts for
everyone who
leaves church.
The issue with twentysomethings
leaving the
Church is a multi-faceted issue, and
everyone seems to want to crack the code.
When I
left the
church, the pastors told
everyone I was moving back «home.»
When I
left The
Church, I began to study other religions and began to see how divisive religion truly is... even though
everyone says they «believe» in God.
Then the senior pastor told me «
everyone in the
church has issues with you, no one can be bothered to speak to you about it — I could force you to
leave but I haven't»!
Unfortunately for most
churches, making these kinds of changes probably comes too late, because at this point virtually
everyone under 40 (especially every male) has
left the
church for good.
Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism was rejected by the
church before any split with Orthodoxy, so
everyone who his looking to his own spark of goodness shall be
left to his own devices, really.
Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing),
leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell
everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the
church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.
Under our first - past - the - post electoral system... you can only win if you are a broad
church political party, and for the Labour Party you have to take in
everyone from the
left to the centre -
left.