Sentences with phrase «families left the church»

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

Not exact matches

Gladys Knight (R&B / soul singer, with the Pips) joined the LDS Church as an adult, and her family thought she was nuts to be leaving her Baptist faith and joining «that racist cult.»

Two years later I became the son of a preacher man as our family left the confines of Ft. Worth, Texas, to plant a church in the rain of Vancouver, Canada.

In my experience, those who left our church family have either found another church body (the best result), dropped out entirely, or church - shopped until they found a church with lower expectations for serving, giving, and personal accountability.

She and her family had left our church and never gave a reason that made sense.

We've left our «family» of 25 years and are unable to find a «welcoming» church that doesn't involve a long commute.

Moreover, in keeping with the Church's teachings on subsidiarity, free will and real love, it seems most if not all the issues raised in the letter questioning Speaker Boehner's faith would be more efficient, effective, just and respectful of human dignity if they were left to the individual, family, community or state level.

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

Without warning he just jerked his family out of the church and made up some lame excuses as to why they left.

Aren't you discounting the work of missionaries who left family and forsook more lucrative futures, traveled to distant continents, braved hostile societies, climates and disease to build churches, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure, all while sharing the Gospel?

Dozens of families ended up joining them in worship — a bittersweet transition from the churches, homes, and jobs they left behind.

Many of our friends began leaving the church, and our family felt betrayed.

The 33 - year - old said her former church's stance toward victims and involvement in restoring former SGM president C. J. Mahaney led her family to leave the congregation.

In March 2010, Bethlehem Baptist Church pastor John Piper embarked on an eight - month leave, saying his soul, marriage, family, and ministry pattern needed «a reality check from the Holy Spirit.»

Church tradition tells us that that the disciples of Christ had families, but they still were willing to be martyred and die for Christ, leaving their families behind.

Mark Driscoll came back from vacation with his family, delivered his update from Pastor Mark, and will now take a six week leave while the elders of Mars Hill Church investigate the accusations against Driscoll.

If you're thinking of leaving because of theological differences, you need to ask if and how those differences inhibit your ability to live in fulfilling community with your church family, and which is worth more to you.

Leave aside what I owe to church, family, friends or local community.

If I saw the church as a significant part of the new birth, I could no more give up on ex-church members (who are family) than I could give up on a wayward child — they may leave, but that doesn't change the nature of my relationship or commitment toward them.

The Mormon Church should leave the dead alone, family members too.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

Mark Phelps: I left my family and my father's «church» in 1973.

In purely aesthetic terms, it's hard to imagine a starker contrast than which Father Ed Tomlinson and his family and flock must have felt four years ago when, as a group, they left their Anglican parish church of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pechurch of St Barnabas in Tunbridge Wells, where Father Tomlinson was vicar, entered the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of PeChurch through the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham and began their new life at St Anselm's in the nearby village of Pembury.

I left my family and my father's «church» in 1973.

The author (foreground, age 7), his late aunt, Sylvia Blake (left) and other family members outside their Baltimore church.

the point of the cartoon was inspired by people on my other site, http://davidhayward.ca who have been rejected by their families for leaving the church.

I have a son who is gay and have ended up leaving the traditional local church because it didn't seem like a safe place for our family.

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.

I can SO see this happening with / to some people I know, if their children grow up and leave church (or possibly even just the family's particular denomination).

After leaving all my family and friends in Iran, this church was my new family.

To make matters worse, the average congregation is more worried about overpaying the staff than underpaying them which leads to the church being crippled spiritually by pastoral changes as the pastor moves to a better deal or leaves the ministry or works multiple jobs just to support his family.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Left wholly to the creative resources of providers and of families in need, child care sought its own way and soon found the church.

I doubt the elders would suggest for the «church bully» to leave because they have family members that attend.

Last night I was told about someone... he and his whole family... life - long members of the Christian church... they left the church (not mine but theirs) for certain reasons.

Hertzke acknowledges that Jackson's sympathy for the left's agenda on the family, gay rights, and abortion has generated tensions among culturally conservative black church leaders, but he argues that racial pride has proved a more potent appeal among Jackson's black constituents.

As soon as they acquired the resources, the families promptly bought mini-vans, left the church and moved to the suburbs.

Oftentimes, like their biological families, their church families vanished as a source of love and encouragement, leaving behind a terrible and dangerous void.

From dysfunctional family... from dysfunctional church... I left... and in my journey I left several times more when I encountered the same old traps.They could no longer ensnare me as they had in the past.

I signed the form to leave the Church when they were more forgiving of adultery, corporate greed, and robbing the poor then family planning and abortions.

Yet the situation left this family feeling pushed out by the church.

I'm guessing L4H is someone living back on the farm and has never left his rural community, the only life he knows is that of his family and close church friends.

Apparently Church, Family, Police, Military, and The National Anthem are things the left hates.

In secondary schools immeasurable damage has been caused to the Church, families and students by the manner in which our Faith is «debated», wastage rates of over ninety per cent of pupils leaving school are quoted.

Freedom from the moral values of «the family pew» does not leave the church without moral guidelines.

I see how urgently necessary it was for me, for my family, and even for the church I left.

There's not much to say about me: I've known God for about 30 years, prayed and studied the Bible over the years, changed churches when I've moved away (left town for work / study), or if the church moved away (it happened twice — kinda like having your whole family run away from home!)

but then (like others that I know), I abandoned the Republican Party as I tired of the hate - based logic that caused me to also leave the churches my family once enjoyed.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

Kim VanBrunt shared what it's like to leave church with a family in tow.