Sentences with phrase «family idolatry»

Roots of family idolatry of the Victorian period can be found in the covenant theologies of both English Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians who emigrated to the United States.

If love of family is stronger and deeper than love for Jesus Christ, this is family idolatry.

It has not been easy to write about family idolatry while affirming the importance of family relationships to Christians.

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Pope Francis» main economic message is exactly in line with Pope Benedict and Pope JPII — all have stated in various ways that unbalanced Corporate Financial interests, and the idolatry of money negatively impacts families and takes advantage of the poor and also the working class.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

For we have to realize that the Baalism of Ahab and his family was not just simple idolatry.

To love family members or family life more than God is exposed here as an idolatry that makes it difficult to follow the way of Jesus.

The idolatry of «the family pew» may be the motivating force for such decisions if the life of a congregation is organized around rituals that do not give meaning to the lives of participants.

When Christians direct reverence toward love of family without acknowledging the source of that love, they may imagine they are expressing reverence for Christ when they are, in fact, engaging in idolatry.»

Excuse me righteous - in - Christ, you commented that you «have friends and family that are Catholics and believe that they can pray to Mary and other idols that were hand made by men... see the book of Isaiah, it teaches about idolatry.»

I have friends and family that are Catholics and believe that they can pray to Mary and other idols that were hand made by men... see the book of Isaiah, it teaches about idolatry.