Sentences with phrase «faster than the church»

Are we not embarrassed, as Christians, that the armed forces have moved faster than the churches toward solving the problem of racial segregation?

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I have a cousin who decided he wanted more than one wife and was kicked out of the Mormon church faster than you can blink!

I see people get healed much faster at a witchcraft festival than I do at a church.»

A painful church experience is magnified in a digital age where gossip and slander can spread through social networks faster than ever before.

Church attendance is reported as increasing at a faster rate than the population.

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)

When the Catholic church is evolving with the world faster than your ideas... You are probably on the wrong side of history...

Its churches are growing faster than their liberal counterparts; its seminaries have expanded to the point of overflow; its liberal arts colleges are successfully fighting the otherwise national trend toward insolvency; its books are widely read.

That is blatant campaigning and those churches should have their non-profit status yanked faster than you can say Obama.

The AG's U.S. division grew more than twice as fast as the American population in 2012 (1.8 percent vs. 0.7 percent), gaining almost 54,000 adherents to now number nearly 3.1 million worshipers at more than 12,700 churches (up 127 from 2011).

In 2013, GlobalPlus editor David Briggs noted that fast - growing Presbyterian Church USA congregations are more likely to prohibit smoking and drinking alcohol than they used to be.

If you truly believe in God, you would turn your back on the Church faster than a priest could say, «Want some candy little boy?»

One year ago, the reportedly «fastest - growing church in Africa» dedicated a $ 15.5 million, 10,000 - seat conference center in a sparse prairie town northeast of Dallas whose population is less than 1 percent black.

Yet here he is, a non-Christian sociologist, surveying the American religious landscape, and arriving at the conclusion that the church has lost its power and influence because it now caters to the demands and desires of the people, rather than holding fast to Biblical truth.

But when it comes to building community... the kind of fellowship the earliest church was... vision will kill it faster than you can come up with a vision statement.

Long - haired music, funeral - dirge anthems and stiff - collared song leaders will kill the church faster than anything in the world....

The castle church was pressing ahead faster than if Luther himself had been in residence.

I don't know the history really well, but I'm pretty sure martin luther had a much bigger problem with the church accepting money for people to «get out of purgatory faster» and with the idea that saying 10 «Hail Mary's» gets people forgiven than he ever had with the act of confessing.

E. coli «grows fast, three times faster than yeast, 50 times faster than Mycoplasma, 100 times faster than most agricultural microbes,» explains geneticist and technology developer George Church at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in this research.

Word travels fast in the Christian community, only rather than gossiping at church picnics like might have been the case in a film set 50 years prior, Pearson's conversion and eventual expulsion happened with news cameras and pundits and on CNN.

The civil wedding is more convenient, faster and less expensive than a church wedding; it's performed by a judge or mayor.