Sentences with phrase «feel good churches»

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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.

«I was making really good money working in the church, but I just didn't feel like I was doing what I needed to be doing.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

How often do we walk out of the doors of a church filled with excitement, tingling with a feel - good energy that surely could change the world — if we could just find...

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.

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, the Christians that pay attention to the mega churches «feel good» messages are just as hedonistic as you.

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.

Such ill - defined relations worked reasonably well for a considerable time, while the mechanism that kept Catholic institutions tied to the Church was a powerful cultural feeling for Catholicism (enforced by the tuition payments and donations that came from the members of that culture).

HOWEVER, if this person was running for public office, instead of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this church for some inane belief that they would take wildly out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.

Well, I once felt peace and brotherly love in a Mormon church and they blasphemy the name of God regularly with their capricious conceptions of Him and their desire to become Him.

It makes church - goers feel better when they read her (I know because my friends from church keep cheering for her on their social media!)

It's with the village as well as the church, and the whole village feels deeply aggrieved that this sort of thing should happen.

We are all supposed to feel guilty so as to donate money to churches is what I think.If people really did as Christ did instead of being hypocrites the world would be a better place.

If Romney was willing to condemn the church's racist history and state that it was wrong, I would feel better.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

We often felt very isolated and alone in trying to parent him... most often within the church... as Christians «we should have been able to do better».

The church sells good feelings.

She confides in you that she actually «gets more out of the Tuesday night group and is developing good relationships there» but would feel guilty «skipping church» on Sunday.

I feel like I am letting my parents down as well since we used to go to the same church service that they did.

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.

We also live extremely far from any family and we felt a good place to form bonds would be a church.

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

Granted, I go to some churches where I can glean a few good feelings and say, «Oh, those churches gave me a deep, warm sense of belonging.»

Of course, from a faith perspective, this also gives us all appreciation and connection with God, sometimes it feels better than church out there, truly holy.

And yes, venting is allowed as well: Someone finally owning their own feelings about an unjust situation at work, at home, or at church.

He may, of course, have known John Mark, as well as Peter; he may, indeed, have been John Mark; but I should feel much more certain in describing him as a Roman Christian — though possibly not born in Rome — who reflected at an early day the somewhat cold and unimaginative outlook characteristic of at least a major strain in the heritage of that ancient church.

I give to the causes I feel are good ones... just not Joel Osteen or the wealthy Lakewood Church.

I owe my own enthusiasm for the church to the vitality and freedom I felt in the late sixties in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, when Pope John XXIII threw the windows of the church open to the best thought of the modern world.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

For members of the Faith that attend Osteen's church they feel his style is better.

Many of them gave me the impression they felt rather guilty about their feelings that the church could get along with good language from the past if it could not find anything in the present that was not ugly.

What we do works so very well, that I am always a bit suspicious of those churches that feel a need to hide their financials.

David - thank you for this post - sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that we are the only person who feels this way about church» membership» - so good to read your thoughts on it.

It's all good, but sometimes I feel as if I'm at church every day of the week listening to a different sermon and having to digest it all so rapidly I can barely keep up.

Consequently, the agnostic who can, and frequently does say, «I am as good as So - and - so who goes to church,» feels that he has given a final and unanswerable reply to the whole Christian position!

I described being uncomfortable at events like the Cowboy Olympics, my fears that I would never marry as I was often the only black single in the church, how at times I felt strange or like an alien as well - meaning friends would ask questions about my hair and skin, etc..

Some of the churches I've visited were so hip and so full of well - dressed hipsters that I felt like such an uncool outsider.

«We need the Church to be a place where people can talk about this, not just shove it under the carpet and not come to church until they feel better.&Church to be a place where people can talk about this, not just shove it under the carpet and not come to church until they feel better.&church until they feel better.»

As visitors wandered into the church from the street to see what was going on, it felt like the church was serving them well — it was making space both for U2's passionate love for humanity and for its fury at how we treat one another.

I know that votes like these can make Christian women feel like less - than, but I believe, deep in my bones, that things will get better for women in the Church.

Effective church leaders of previous generations usually had a good intuitive feel for the people they wanted to reach.

Almost every single church in the world is out for money, and they feed off of peoples quest to feel better about themselves.

Well, whether that is how you feel or not, today we are going to see that when church is the way it supposed to be, it is a place people are excited to attend.

You will go to church and ask the priest who may or may not have abused little boys, whether you have committed a sin yourself, will ask for forgiveness, will give money to the church as for some inexplicable reason the house of god needs donations from the poor and desolate, and you will go home and feel good about yourself for being so committed to a statue.

Which gets me thinking about good friends of mine who feel alienated from the church.

For various reasons, a good many Saints feel constrained by the church's standardized program.

Once in a while I feel a speck of guilt to go because it is expected of me or my youngest daughter tells us that we never go to church and that it's not good....

Backward, it assumes a Christian community that comes to church not solely to feel better but also to find its Christian duty and vocation.

Yea, bad things happen in some Churches, but to run screaming, I ain't goin to Church no more cause «I am so tired of platitudes and statements by christians that mean absolutely nothing...,» and all the other excuses, well, you pat them on the head, and say, «Oh you poor thing, I feel your pain.

While his judgment about the value of the accord for the preservation of catholic life in Europe may be seriously questioned, he did not support the agreement simply to enhance his own power, as Cornwall implies, but because he felt it was in the best interest of the church at the time.