Sentences with phrase «family came to a church»

When a family came to the church for financial help they first had to prove they were current with tithing.

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We're not maniacs or anything when it comes to church, but we both grew up in church - goin families.

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

If you were asked to picture the regular attendees of an average local church, a few things might come to mind: You might think of a quaint, middle - class family who...

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

Of course, there are things we need to learn about family and God that does come from the scriptures and church and prayer and revelation.

And a pastor of a Baptist church in Colorado actually kicked me out of his car (and I'm a disabled woman veteran in a powerchair) after inviting me to Easter dinner with his family, because I refused to deny that Jesus came to me in that dream.

That, at least, is my own hunch about the reason for the relative paucity of material about the family coming from the churches and the character of what material there is, What to do in such circumstances?

The church is baptising an average of one refugee family per month, and Stefan believes that more growth is yet to come.

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.

I was born and raised into a Christian family, going to church each time the doors were open and eventually came into a genuine relationship with God.

Shortly after VBS was over, my parents and pastor talked to me about getting baptized and sharing with our church family the decision I had made and the importance of coming forth publicly and making this declaration.

Around 1967, a visitor came to worship at the church that my family attended.

Her family had come to a church where I was pastoring that morning, a routine Sunday.

And if you asked the average church member what he or she wished his or her congregation to be more like, it would again be the family metaphor that would come forth.

Most, like the Wesley brothers, came from middle - to lower - class families and had few job prospects outside the church.

If the only reason people join and remain in the church is out of obligation or out of family connection, that's a sign that the church's time has come to an end.

I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «When Easter is Hard.»

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

«Therefore the Church gives thanks for each and every woman: for mothers, for sisters, for wives; for women consecrated to God in virginity; for women dedicated to the many human beings who await the gratuitous love of another person; for women who watch over the human persons in the family, which is the fundamental sign of the human community; for women who work professionally, and who at times are burdened by a great social responsibility; for «perfect» women and for «weak» women - for all women as they have come forth from the heart of God in all the beauty and richness of their femininity; as they have been embraced by his eternal love; as, together with men, they are pilgrims on this earth, which is the temporal «homeland» of all people and is transformed sometimesinto a «valley of tears»; as they assume, together with men, a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity according to daily necessities and according to that definitive destiny which the human family has in God himself, in the bosom of the ineffable Trinity.»

As the Church, we're comfortable when it comes to talking about courtship, love languages, marriage and raising a 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)

The result has been several precious families coming to our body, a host of kids coming up the hill to our AWANA program where they can be loved and learn about Jesus and a group of people form India who use our church as their community center.

During its plenary sessions the recent conference «Families 2000» came dangerously close to suggesting that in response to family disintegration, individualism and loneliness the church should become the new family surrogate, a warm and accepting replacement for the puny, broken and disappearing nuclear families whose remains are strewn across the social laFamilies 2000» came dangerously close to suggesting that in response to family disintegration, individualism and loneliness the church should become the new family surrogate, a warm and accepting replacement for the puny, broken and disappearing nuclear families whose remains are strewn across the social lafamilies whose remains are strewn across the social landscape.

If this the way we act with our earthly family, why is it we refuse to extend this level of patience and perseverance to our eternal family, the Church, when the time comes?

We love the Church like family when we see the extent to which God came to save our own souls.

«We are sure this will be a focal point for our church family and the local community for years to come.

This must have come home with real comfort to the persecuted church in Mark's day, with its broken families and temptations to recant based on family loyalty.

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

The Good Neighbor team at North Church in Spokane, comprised of people of different ages and stages of life, came alongside recent refugees to Spokane, including an 11 - member Muslim family from Somalia.

He expected the team would be a blessing to refugee families, but he wasn't expecting the blessings that came to him and his church as a result of serving.

The revelation of the Word, the building up of the Church and the «Covenant», or family bond of communion between heaven and earth, these are natural to the constitution of the universe, but they do not come about by the laws of scientific inevitability.

Craig i agree totally church should be a slice of heaven on earth that is where corporately as believers come into the prescence of God.Its good when worshiping the Lord to feel his prescence and to feel connected to others because of Jesus.We had our carol service yesterday i was involved in the choir we combined with other churchs in the area it was a good turnout and alot of fun singing as we celebrated the birth of Jesus.It really makes christmas for me.If we love Jesus that should spill out into every area of our lives.He is the one that impacts others through us as we rely on him daily.Merry Christmas to you and your family regards brentnz

In it he explained: «If the day comes that I am a victim of the terrorism that seems to be engulfing the world... I would like my community, my church and my family to know that I gave my life for God and Algeria.

They expect you to come once a week, if you are not able to fit in time for god and the church once a week you should either feel like you let yourself and your family down or you should not go since it clearly does not mean much to you.

It takes more than regular participation in worship to come to appreciate that it is the church, and not blood kin, that is the family of faith.

What would your vote be if a family moved out from the near east side and came forward on the invitational hymn to join this church, and they were black?

@Valerie — I would give 30 % to a Church if it came to my house when I called due to an emergency, or helped put out a fire, or repaved the road out front so I can get to work so I can feed my family.

We need to put our petty differences aside and come to the conclusion, that no matter what we believe in, what colour our skin is or what nationality we stem from, it is our community, family, church, government and our company that feeds these messages of hate.

He told us that the Church does not come to the aid of wounded families.

Sometimes you read or hear comments like that and you come to the painful conclusion that it is representative of much of our church family and of even it's finest members when joined together in the collective.

In addition to its broad target — reaching the entire congregation with a message that will help them understand alcoholism — the church has a number of more limited and strategic target groups: teen - agers and pre-teens who are making or are about to make decisions about alcohol; parents who are searching for ways to prepare their children to cope constructively with alcohol and to avoid alcoholism; alcoholics and their families who need help but are afraid to come out of hiding (see Chapter 8).

A family in my church has suffered the loss of a child; many of the congregation are struggling to come to terms with what has happened.

At least you weren't asked to leave - unlike a black family that once came to my middle - class Presbyterian church near Detroit.

One day as the rest of the family is heading to church, he comes out of the house with a knife and attacks your fourth «grade daughter, slashing her arm with the first swipe of the blade.

Especially when the husbands are being told from their church each week that they get to make the final family decisions, it's their choice if they want to go hang out with the boy's a little longer, have another beer, come home late, and if their wife complains?

BW, I was fortunate enough to come to faith in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that was slightly less fundamentalist than most as an ADULT from a relatively healthy unchurched family.

Then he went over to the housing development and invited the families and kids to come to use the church's outdoor basketball courts whenever they wanted.

Abortion can end when the Church comes to the aid of those mothers - to - be are in trouble and families are scared to bring a child into the world — not working against them.