Sentences with phrase «feel about church»

It was just a comment on how «I» feel about church in this present moment.

Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like to..

It would be interesting to see a study on how people feel about a church after one or two visits, in terms of «are they made feel welcome», or just stared at with incredulity.

This is how we should feel about church too!

Instead of being baffled by any difficulties that we may feel about church membership we need to ask ourselves quite seriously where else we may turn.

How are you feeling about your church life?

If they are dull, then his earliest and deepest feelings about the church will be those of dullness.

I wanted to tell of the ways that my family and community have formed my theology, I wanted to write a love letter to my complex feelings about church and community, marriage and mothering, womanhood and sisterhood — and I wanted to tell our story.

These poor confused saints will be more confused trying to understand you going back and forth about how you feel about churches closing or should close.

Not exact matches

Bishop Barry Rogerson, Church of England, asked during the Gulf hearing whether the WCC wanted simply to «feel good» about its own correctness, or actually to do some good.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

How does the church feel about IVF that results in the termination of many un-implanted embryos but also gives infertile couples a chance at having a child?

It's one of the things that makes it possible for me to feel completely welcome in our church, to know I'm not alone in feeling there is an injustice here, and that this is something you feel very strongly about and are working on.

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

David's talking about feeling the need to go to church as habit — a meaningless exercise we still do because it's ingrained.

This is the one issue that church people have felt they could be abusively verbal about and this abuse has done great harm.

I wonder if those who support allowing churches to use school facilities would feel so strongly about it if it were the Westboro church, with there message of hate and intolerance that wanted to use the space.

Sorry, it's not the job of the church to help us to feel good about our sin... but rather to condemn it so that repentance can happen and that faith may be born, or to continue.

At a church we once attended, we were assigned a new pastor, a middle aged man who had not pastored before, but felt his experience in leading home bible study groups well - qualified him to lead our church, a congregation of about 80.

Trying to be someone else and trying to live up to expectations put on you by a Pastor or church moral police is what leads people to sneak to do things and feel guilty about doing the things that make them happy.

So here's my question — now that everyone is talking about the economy and feeling the pinch of unemployment and financial ruin, can we have an honest conversation as the church around what an economy in Christ could actually be?

Many LDS Church members, in fact, object to these people calling themselves fundamentalist «Mormons» as they feel there is nothing Mormon about them.

I went to church (non denominational, evangelical) with my girlfriend, every Sunday morning for about a year (she is a Christian), but I felt I had to hide my atheism.

If I were Obama I would refuse to attend church again until after his term, saying «Whenever I go to church it upsets the American people so severely, I feel badly about it — I don't want to do that.»

It also doesn't take the church or any religion to make you feel guilty about liking po - rn.

He was probably right, but I couldn't help thinking that perhaps he also only felt so strongly about the issue because of the kind of church he grew up in.

I'm so torn because I don't want to leave the people I care about at the other churches, but yet I feel lonely, worthless, and completely broken at the current church I'm at because of the drama.

Second, church bullies almost always like feeling important and knowledgeable, be it about how the church should be run, what God and the Bible say, and how other people should think, live and vote.

In fact, I feel changed and begun to get bad panic attacks when I even thought about going back to that church starting on Saturday afternoons.

A reader of my blog sent in a question about the fear and pain he feels after he left his church.

As a mixed - race couple it has become clear that there are «mixed» feeling about our presence in church.

I always felt it was a pity that church folk were so intent on disparaging others, they missed what's great about Christianity.

You have articulated so very well my own thoughts and feelings about so many of today's evangelical churches... and I'm a Boomer turning 60 next month.

This particular instance feels similar to many of the other great «Christian Controversies» of the past 15 years — Rob Bell with Love Wins, John McCarthur with his comments on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement, Don Miller's blog about church.

One way: if there is guilt involved, or a feeling of inferiority about your church involvement, church is ruling you.

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.

Let them know exactly how I felt about the way they were treating another child at church.

We joined this church about 4 years ago because we felt we needed a good base and spiritual learning for our son.

I have mixed feelings about the concept of people leaving church.

The more Alexis asked about the church, the more she felt like this was something she could imagine joining.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

She told the Tribute, «I feel so conflicted about the whole situation because I'm so protective of the reputation of the church, not just here but globally... But I have confidence that the truth matters.

When it comes to feelings about the Bible and actually reading and applying its teachings, there is a major cognitive dissonance in the modern Church.

Spiritual Gifts in the Workplace Many believers feel motivated to serve God wholeheartedly in church services and religious activities but lack passion about their daily work in the world.

Whenever I feel restless about Church — both the universal Church and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moChurch — both the universal Church and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moChurch and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact mochurch — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moments.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

It's an election issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day polling places.

And that's not a dodge, it basically means that most of these people don't feel welcome in church, they don't feel like God loves them, so before we even talk about those things — which by the way, the church hierarchy and LGBT Catholics are way far apart on — we have to talk about the basics: i.e. God loves them; God created them this way; etc..

(CNN)- It's an election issue that gets virtually no attention, but we found out today that many of you do feel strongly about it: Churches being used as Election Day polling places.

What started as a feeling of betrayal by certain authorities within the church, spiralled into deeper and more enduring questions about faith itself.