Sentences with phrase «from church experiences»

I wish all the best with you faith journeys and / or recovery from church experiences that you may all thrive an enjoy life in it's fullest that Christ came for.

As a family (not hubby as he is an atheist) we have all had trauma from church experiences and no longer belong; with the exception of our son who thankfully has found a CofE church where he feels comfortable and affirmed.

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I have a couple of young adults in my church that were so excited to know that God could actually HEAL THE SICK and had never really experienced it... they drove all night to florida from Brantford Ontario for 1 day and then back (this was between school and their summer classes).

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You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

I'm sorry for your experience but my family was rescued by the Church, fed and provided, and protected from criminal regimes.

My experience has been those believers that listen among any of these: the ex-ex-gay departing religious «therapy programs», the believers departing from religious belief, and those leaving church - sponsored patriarchy,... in time, these people see the commonality of humanity....

In Pentecostal circles, theology and practice are inseparable, so I would like to offer some observations drawn from my own experiences «on the ground» in Pentecostal churches, which may help corroborate and clarify some of Smith's insights.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

In my experience, so many people demand credulity and it's what keeps the institutional church from being a place where faith can really grow.

12 years later — there we were, driving away from our abusive house church and meglomaniac pastor in our clunky Datsun B210, near bankrupt, with our kids, our TV, our clothing, and my guitar... and a wealth of experience!

From my 40 years of experience in the church all over the world attending each week, to say otherwise is a lie.

Might not something be learned from the experience of those Chinese «house churches» that are flourishing despite no formal recognition from the Chinese government?

As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

But my experience and from things I read, even on this blog site, most, not all, but most don't like Churches teaching biblical morals and ethics.

I'm guessing that you know only the institutional church model from personal experience.

Regrettably, few preachers have addressed the matter from the pulpit — partly because most aren't really sure what the Christian position is and partly because their understanding of the Bible and the teachings of the church does not square with either their experience or their reason.

Others see God through the witness of his Church, and decide from there if they believe in God (a good experience gets a yes vote, and a bad experience gets a no vote).

So many have experienced similar things from the Calvinistic churches they have attended.

The purpose of the consultation was to share the experiences gained by the CNI through the above process, with other churches in India and also to learn from the churches in India their mission experiences.

And yet, in my experience, it seems to be almost impossible to get an apology from a fellow christian — and the higher up the church hierarchy they are, the less likely they are to apologise

In my experience the reformed traditions (baptists, presbyterian, and many independent churches; the puritans and anabaptists also came from this branch) can tend toward legalism; the pentecostal traditions (Church of Christ, Assembly of God, vineyard, many independent churches etc.) can tend toward biblical literalism and a bit of a herd mentality; the lutheran tradition can tend toward antinomianism, while the anglican and wesleyan traditions do the best at shooting down the middle (though I am admittedly biased).

I am reading your newest posts to your oldest.I have never been to bible school but I consider myself in the journey of education concerning the bible.more than any opinions that you have what concerns me most is how «brothers and sisters» through their comments responds to someone who thinks differently from what is perceived as absolutes (not sure if that's the right term) in scripture.I wonder did the apostle believe half the things that are seen as church doctirine today?how did the disciples who did not have the new testament or the ability to read follow Jesus?I appreciate your questioning.In my experience we are too quick to try and fix someone or use the scriptures as a control mechanism and to slow to practise empathy and love..

More of my rambling thoughts and two cents after thinking on this for a bit... Part of the reason it's so devastating to lose the friends we made within the church is that from my experience those are the only «real» relationships most in the IC make.

Finally, there are those who experience pain and hardship in church, and often feel like throwing in the towel, but choose to stick it out with their current fellowship of believers to help encourage and change their church from the inside.

I live in a predominately Christian city, from my own experience church attendance is down and churches are closing their doors.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in the church.

The experience led Rachel — a therapist from St. Paul, Minnesota — to research how other queer women from non-affirming Christian communities have related to the church and how they've maintained their faith.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

But to John the letters have always been ascribed, and we may think of the Elder John as sending them out from Ephesus, one to Gaius, one to the church to which he belonged, and one to that and other churches, in full assurance that the Christian experience and belief in Jesus as the Christ would save them from the mistakes of Docetism.

I receive a full time salary from the church (less than $ 84k), but much of the freedom that you have described as a benefit I feel I experience, because I know if tomorrow things changed radically, I have my hands and my tools, and my knowledge.

I invited a handful of pastors and church leaders from different ethnic backgrounds to reflect upon their experiences within the evangelical church or to suggest steps Christians could take towards greater reconciliation.

Another test for the church is how far it can build an accepting fellowship where people can articulate their own experience of God in Christ This again raises questions about the future organization of the institutional church and whether it can or should maintain its present hierarchical structure where authority seems to come down from on high.

From the perspective of race relations, what has your experience within evangelical churches been like?

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.»

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

And so now, Paul is exhorting some of the churches who were not experiencing similar difficulties, to give from their excess to the churches which were facing such dire need.

For we are still very far from experiencing the Church of Christ as the highest realization of the presence of Christ and the unity of love in the local eucharistic community.

«In my own experience, I've seen men deposed from ministry, and then a month later I've inquired about them and other church leaders have no idea where they are,» Labby told CT..

You «christians» are nothing more than hypocritical sunday christians who go to church, put on a face for a few hours per week, then come home and BEAT YOUR CHILDREN because you say the bible says to use the «Rod»... Do I speak from experience?

He should spell out in some detail what he would like from the center, what the mental health needs of his people are, what training and educational experience he would like to receive, his ideas of cooperative projects between his church and the center, and the time and talents he has to offer.

As the actual Church in fact does not fulfill it, does not advocate concrete social demands energetically enough, does not dissociate itself radically or quickly enough from dying social forms, does not stigmatize nuclear warfare profoundly enough (all this according to the opinion of these Christians, which objectively is by no means necessarily false), they experience one disappointment after another in regard to the Church, protest against it, hurt and irritated, and turn into lay defeatists.

My church actually facilitates my fellowship with the wider Church, and benefits from the insights and experiences our members gain in other conchurch actually facilitates my fellowship with the wider Church, and benefits from the insights and experiences our members gain in other conChurch, and benefits from the insights and experiences our members gain in other contexts.

Much of its recent membership gains have been drawn from charismatics who have left their former churches to find a place of worship more compatible with their new experience.

For I really can not expect a Church that would be different from myself, the in - adequate sinner who must constantly rebuild his life through a thousand byways and experiences.

If you have left the church or have found it mainly harmful and have experienced, as a result of your beliefs, opinions or attitudes, rejection from the institution and its leaders and members, this does not make you valueless.

Now it seems to me that after the Council this experience and piety of the Church is demanded more intensely from us than may have been the case before.

So for much, perhaps most, of the New Testament, the expectation of God's in - breaking is a present historical expectation; if in later writings New Testament authors appeared to alter that expectation from an outward, historical event to an inward, spiritual experience — in light of its lengthening delay — the church did not excise that earlier, more immediate expectation from the canon.