very fun outgoing love to do lots of things i listen to the other person and talk any time they want to i fish alot build old cars send time with my two boys alot and
family go to church live in nice log cabin iam 6 \» 2 hair was brown but now getting gray i keep it short i work out to stay in fit i...
Did you and
your family go to church, mosque or the temple?Can CNN find qualified journalist to serve America?
OK, so the president and
family go to church for political reasons.
Americans have better things to think about than the President and
his family going to church.
I know because
his family went to church with people I know.
Point
families went to church, stayed together, held signs on street corners during election months.
My favorite Christmas memory is when my whole
family goes to our church's Christmas eve candlelit communion service.
Not exact matches
They're raising
families,
going to your
church.
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.
to know how fellow [past tense] churchy people think about me, or judge me,
to know im not loved when i
go home into my
church and — fucking hell, my
family!
I'm agnostic but I still
go to church with my
family because it makes them happy.
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 say
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 say
to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their
church or
family says.
Now why don't you
go talk
to the thousands of ex-Mormons who have been shunned by their
family and friends for the rest of their lives just because they disagreed with certain
church teachings.
Your article was the first thing I read this Sunday morning before
going to church and I wanted
to extend a special «THANKS» not only for the support you provide
to those who actually need it most but also for your wonderful message for those
family members who think they need
to hear and understand it the least.
They are my religion, trying
to prevent me from spending time with my
family and trying
to convince me that I MUST
go to church no matter what.
keep bringing the world into the
church... and watch your
families go to Hell because you knew the truth and you chose
to deny it!
Its a bless for
to see President Obama and his very Loveing
family to go to church together.I Seen them on World News.
And then, on those occasions when I told him if I didn't get a mother's hug soon, I would simply die, he would send along Mrs. Stevenson
to drive me
to church (I got grounded for
going to church one time, I had no way
to go with my
family) And that would be the week that they would pick me up in their truck and not the car.
Question: When you or a
family member or co-worker or friend
go to church of a Sunday, are you «parading yourself as being a Christian» or are you just... oh,..
PS - I am a Catholic and religious person... and as a
family member of two abuse victims I will no longer
go to church.
The piece
goes on
to list some of the programs which are being shuttered — they include building the
church's congregation, the
church's famous greenhouse, and a «
Family Saturday» initiative, which brought familes with young children
to the cathedral.
A person is never
going to fully agree theologically, in every way, with any community of believers however, when choosing a community for myself and my
family to be a part of, I certainly looked for the
church which had the most points of agreement.
It is time for all the lying atheists who
go to church, lie at work and
to their
families and friends
to stand up and be accounted for.
First, do you and your
family go to a local
church service now?
But
to get me
to ever
go with another close friend
to her
church (Republican, women must obey their husbands, homophobic, they have the only correct interpretation of the Bible and Christianity), you'd have
to kidnap my
family and threaten
to kill them.
I think why you didn't see people move from the
church because they are «Presbyterians» People who
go to the main line
churches are often there because of tradition within their
families.
Just like we wouldn't separate from our spouses without first trying
to make our marriages better with counseling, etc., maybe we can better evaluate our participation in our present
church family before
going elsewhere.
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.
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.
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 an
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 an
Church crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small
family out of hope and joy.
Many believers tell their children that non-believer children are
going to hell, but they tell them
to keep it a secret that should only be shared at
church or during
family devotionals.
I have stopped
going to church, stopped praying, stopped having anything
to do with religion, but my whole
family is Christian and they would not understand, especially my son who is 10 — who I unfortunately brought up
to believe.
I had the good fortune not
to be born and raised in a
church -
going family.
The playing down of the importance of Sunday Mass in the definition of practising Catholic is very serious indeed, especially for
families trying
to make their youngsters
go to church every week.
She would
go with the
family to church.
but when your
family is all brainwashed already, most I think, choose not
to admit it and
go to church to fit in!
Do we as a
family still
go to our home
church?
Sometimes its as simple as sitting with their
family member so they can take a leisurely bath or a walk,
go to their kids school, spend some unhurried time with their mate, or
go to church and pray for strength them selves.
She considers the
church community her spiritual
family, and
to go to another
church would be the equivalent of having an affair.
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.
My dad's response was that if I didn't want
to go to church because I didn't believe any more, then he guessed they would be returning the bike they had already bought as my Christmas present and that there wouldn't be any point in me participating in the
family Christmas celebrations.
I have a theory though that at least half of the people sitting in a
church service don't actually believe; they
go because their
family, friends, neighbors, customers, etc expect them
to go.
Mark's approach is not that different
to those
Church of England vicars who are frequently asked
to christen babies from non-
church going families.
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)
I was about 12 when our
family started
going to an evangelical
church.
I still see whites in black
churches and I
go to a majority white
church with at least 6 black
families (and other minority groups).
My
family, who are Mormons, actually like
going to Midnight Mass on Christmas eve at a Catholic
Church in Salt Lake City.
I am not religios, I have a relationship with a heavenly father, and I
go to church to fellowship with my
family and that is just what my
church is... an extended
family.
I love that my
family cares alot about me learning religion but forcing it on me soo young and not letting me develop and interest has drawn me away from
going to church every week.
Based on this idea of the
church as a
family, Richard Jacobson
goes on
to talk about
church elders as facilitators, on how
to carry out conflict resolution within the
family of God, and a whole host of other related topics.