Sentences with phrase «found coming to church»

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You'll find that many atheists, such as myself, like Francis, because he comes across as someone who cares and is trying to fix the Church.

Jesus is not saying to the poor, «Come find the Church,» but He's saying to us, «Get out — go into the world, go into the prison.

If men carried children, I guarentee our Male Based Catholic Church would find it acceptable to choose when and where a child came to this earth.

The Word says also we shall have tribulation in this world but He has overcome the world — there will be a day of reckoning and the term gnashing of teeth I believe will be those who had the chance to believe and passed it up and when they find out He is real and coming for His church (believers) they will remember those times they said no — very terrible to find out it was all true

We're seeing churches coming forward offering foster placements, offering homes... people want to work with local government to enable refugees to come and find a home here.

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

Maybe you could bring in Christians from another church tradition or from the other side of the world to come and find fault with how your church is accomplishing (or not accomplishing) your mission.

There came a time when I refused point blank to bow and scrape any more and found another church.

Through the internet, I've come to find that others have experienced cult - like or abusive practices at «Christian Fellowship Ministries» or Potter's House churches associated with Wayman Mitchell.

God bless people who come into a strange church and want to find a place to be a servant leader and to apply their own gifts and ideas.

Spoke - tell that to the majority of Christians who are quick to hate Muslims and other religions... tell that to the Christians who still falsely believe that America was founded on Christianity — tell that to allthe Christians who are still in denial about Pedophile running around in the Catholic church — Christians are as silly as they come

That same month, Pope Benedict XVI issued a warning to the U.S. bishops: «The entire Catholic community in the United States must come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.»

The words of his Appeal to Europe are now engraved in the crypt, by the relics of St James: «I, Bishop of Rome and Pastor of the Universal Church, from Santiago, send to you, old Europe, a cry full of love: Come back and find yourself.

If it's not careful, the Church is going to find itself in the same predicament as they exclude so many people, both men and women, that there may come a day that they look around for capable leaders.

In terms of intimacy, I find my closet friends come as much churched as unchurched; but above all that I need to worship to receive and give thanks, in good times and in bad.

When I jumped (and I do mean jumped, a ready or not here I come, head - first dive) from the Sunday - mainstream - church - going - because - it's - what - you - do nominal / cultural Christianity that I was raised with into «serious» Christianity (to use the vernacular: born again, spirit filled, Bible believing, charismatic, etc.) and became what was at the time called a «Jesus freak» (it was 1972) I expected something from the church which was very different than what I found.

The talks of the conference have sought to explain what it means to say we have faith in God by looking at the evidence for His existence and his eternal plan to found the Church as man's true environment in which he comes into contact with his creator.

These divisions were later amplified by the difference between Christianity as a form of state religion, which came to be identified with Europe, and the free churches, which would find their home in North America.

After 3 months of searching the internet and you tube to decide if I wanted to come back to religion, I finally found someone who preaches from the heart, the way my Mama and Papa used to hear when they went to church, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hchurch, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hChurch of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back him up.

Some found Christ out of this help and came to church with me....

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

Why then is it so hard and almost never coming for those who sit in a hierarchy that Jesus never established (Luke 22:24 - 26) and who also set up «litmus tests» for excommunicating «heretics» (subtly administered in the following way»... maybe it would be better if you would find yourself a church that believes more like you do...») to repent and change the order of their churches?

I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «When Easter is Hard.»

I challeng you to find a church that even comes close to that, there is somthing going on here in so cal that only GOD make happen.

I've found my people without the striving and organizing, without the Official Sanctioned Church Programs, nope, we just all came into each other's lives, right at the time when we were meant to be there, we stayed open to finding each other, a part of me was always watching for the hints of my people, and so when I found them, I recognised them, I did.

I recommend reading it, and then going out and finding an Atheist or two to come visit your church and tell you what he or she thinks.

We offer groups for every other category of life, but when it comes to singles — if you're past college, there's a good chance you're out of luck when it comes to finding a group to connect with at your local church.

But I still find it difficult to feel the entirety of God's delight because I know that this calling comes with the mixed reviews of God's church.

Campbell: The Stamford church, founded in 1635 was slipping when I came — as are many downtown churches — and it became clear to me that communication, especially two - way feedback, was required to turn the congregation around.

Re the church - I found I had to give up the «fellowship» in order to have freedom to be open - minded and read widely and come to different conclusions.

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

I was trying to do church planting there and came across a lot of injustice, so I found myself having to do advocacy on an individual basis.

Another writer, a male religious in San Francisco, has apparently found not only the church but the Kingdom of God: «So I have come to the «new Jerusalem» with its wide open Golden Gate to complete the healing journey I embarked on many years ago.»

I would find a church and make Christian friends — «Christians are everywhere,» I told myself — but my community has come from an unexpected quarter: friends within my group, although they don't believe in Jesus, are often grace to me.

The coalition of black churches in urban communities can no longer be counted on for block Democratic votes, and despite the president's pleas, he may find that his most loyal constituency will not be able to bring significant wins to the Democratic column come Tuesday.

On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

If the leadership of a church was serious about reaching the people who don t come to church on Sunday, maybe a good strategy would be to find the places where these people already are on Sunday morning, and go join them rather than ask them to join us.

Marco Polo's account of his journey to China and of the Christians he found there is one of the most important pieces of information that has come down to us about the church in China in the 13th century.

is not found in the best manuscripts of Matthew and Luke, and is either an independent later piece of oral tradition, or a liturgical conclusion which the church added when the prayer came to be used in worship.

The wording of the presbyter's remark leaves open the question of Mark's use of other sources than Peter, whose «interpreter» he was: sources, or traditions, in circulation among the Christians in Rome no doubt from the first founding of the church in that community, long before Paul's arrival and perhaps some time before Peter's coming; and also, no doubt, traditions that were added to the common stock by every believer who came to Rome from Palestine.

Because people go out and find out what the church is really about and they come to see that it is a good thing.

advancement comes through research not fairy stories... that i used to believe in till i found out my friends parents give 15 grand to the church every year... no money no church..

The search to finding God doesn't end when you find your church since God never came from any particular church.

Noni and all those who find themselves ostracised or slandered unfairly firstly God loves you and you are special to him you are his children his daughters and sons do nt ever forget that so you are not alone in fact you are the apple of his eye and he loves you.No matter what people say about you it does nt change the fact that he loves you and will protect you just abide in him he will strengthen you in your weakness.Never think you are alone we have the holy spirit and have other believers even though we may not go to church together we love the Lord just as much as you do which means we are brothers and sisters in Christ.Just trust him and take each day as it comes he promises to never leave us or forsake us.He has given us his strength in our weakness so that like him we are overcomers the head not the tail.Keep asking the Lord what it is he wants you to do and be obedient though it may be hard but in the end it will prove good for you for the Lord is for you not against you.regards brentnz

Given the links that the church's current leaders had with the KGB, one can understand why the patriarchate's policymakers are finding it difficult to come to terms with the church's activities during the Soviet period.

He has an awesome position but when I remember Jesus Christ's promises to His Apostles that He would send the Paraclete to bring them into all remembrances of what He told them and also bring them into further Truth in the future and that evil will not prevail against His Church... I can dismiss the harshness that sometimes is found on these «belief blogs» and hope and pray that all will eventually come to know the Truth as it is.

Finding Organic Church by Frank Viola is probably about the closest a book will ever come to providing a «how to» for simple, organic, house church gatheChurch by Frank Viola is probably about the closest a book will ever come to providing a «how to» for simple, organic, house church gathechurch gatherings.

Likewise, the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s changes to its policy took place over a much longer time than Azumah names, involved persons holding many positions left undescribed, and came about not because the denomination chose to ignore the Scriptures but because over time, many of us became convinced that there are theologically and historically faithful ways of reading the Scriptures that find space for contemporary understandings of homosexuality.

20 evangelical congregations during the period 1966 to 1970, they found that over 70 percent of the new members in these evangelical churches came from other evangelical churches, largely because of geographical or social mobility, while 20 percent of the new members were children of existing members; two groups which the mainline churches found difficult to hold.

Are you likely to be found fumbling in every pocket when the offering comes round at church?