Sentences with phrase «give it to a church»

do nt give to the church if you are paranoid.

Would you HONESTLY give up your Starbucks money to give to a church plant?

Giving to the Church is good, and we should give whatever we can... without being goaded to do so, lest we become Protestantized Jews.

One hundred percent of the donations given to the Church's humanitarian services are used for relief efforts.

Many pastors and churches use Malachi 3:8 («Will a man rob God») to guilt people into giving to the church while the church is robbing the poor of that which is rightfully theirs by misappropriating these funds into salaries, buildings, etc..

Why do we give to church?

He didn't command the rich young ruler to sell everything he had and give it to a church building or ministry.

We give to the church out of a love for God and his word.

(CNN)- Although many Americans may have wondered just how much money Mitt Romney makes and how much he pays in taxes in the lead - up to the release Tuesday of his tax documents, there was little suspense around how much he gives to his church.

I have repeatedly said he could give that to his CHURCH.

And the scripture for men is that a man should love his wife and give himself like Christ gave himself to the church and died for it.

Sometimes, it is pointed out that pastors are one of the foundational spiritual gifts given to the church (Eph 4:11 - 15).

(Ibid., p. 239) Theology does not consist of the describing of beliefs held about God by a designated group of persons but of the affirming about God and creatures in their relation to God of that which it has been given to the church to know.

The power and authority is given to the church, not just to a person or specific group of people within the church.

what would happen, if for one decade, all the money given to churches through donations instead went to our government?

Barnabas sold valuable property to give to the Church.

This does not mean, as many pastors preach, that the people in the pews are more blessed when they give to the church than when they receive from the church.

From the very beginning the Church forms part of the divine plan; and the fundamental nature given to the Church is Marian.

If you want to keep giving to your church financially, tithe on that money.

If I had given to my children what I gave to the church and other religious organizations, they might have had a nice down payment for a house each.

Nevertheless, we are bound to hope and pray that God may give to his Church the power of a courageous spirit which risks the future, even though this spirit should also include special and unexpected charismatic gifts.

(A Pastor may walk on political eggshells around the Sadducee because of the money he or she gives to the church, this may help to pay his salary.)

Those with the largest «gifts» to give to the Church will do so only if that Church reflects their position.

For the ministry of the Church is from the very beginning a service of the free charisma, of the discernment of spirits, a service of the unity and loving community of the many charisms which the one autonomous Spirit of God gives to his Church.

The greatest gift that Jesus gave to the Church is the authority to forgive sins IN HIS NAME (not in her own name).

One way of doing this is simply to set a dollar figure, a certain amount per week or per month, that you give to church and charities.

In the process he was forced to abandon the concept of God's judgment and retribution for sinners, was forced to adopt a universalist concept of salvation, and gave to the church a love ethic of which nothing substantive could be said.

A significant portion of money given to churches should not be for their use but should be given to the poor.

Lesslie Newbigin once observed, «One of the dangers of emphasizing the concept of mission as a mandate given to the Church is that it tempts to do what we are always tempted to do, namely to see the work of mission as a good work and to seek to justify ourselves by our works.

This power is given to the church!

What did romney give to his church, about 4million and I want to say that is very good but as a christain, when you give you do not expect anything back but do you know how much all these people that give get back from what they gave, Romney got more than half of that money back this last year and he would have got almost everything back and is that giving.

Trouble came into Christianity, with the rejection of the sole of authority given to the Church by Christ to Peter and via the Pope.

In our economic life, for example, it is very essential that we should broaden our conception of stewardship from giving to the church — important though that is — to the stewardship of all of life.

It reminds me a little of the pastor who says give your $ and you will be blessed - Oh I know you owe that rent and need food and clothes - but give to the church and you will be blessed - all this while there is a verse that says a man who doesn't care for his own household is worse than an unbeliever.

The age old problem of SELF often is manifest in a false identity such as; «we are children of Abraham» (therefore I am righteous), «I go to... «church»» (somehow this «church» makes you something) or «all you say we will do» (the people of Israel saying they in themself can meet God's standard), «I give to the church» (not personally meeting others needs), «I do this program or that program» (though you do not desire to glorify God but rather there is some intrinsic value in doing a program).

One's acceptance or rejection of the doctrine will be largely influenced by one's own philosophical and theological presu - ppositions, as well as the weight one gives to Church teaching.»

Now did we give to this church (yes) my husband was also a bio-vocational minister and filled in on several occasions with (not even a love offering) given to him.

One area of waste, fraud, and abuse within the church is the money and time that people give to church programs.

Such an affirmation, of course gives to the Church the responsibility to engage in the moral formation of its community — it is to «help shape both character and particular moral choices and action people take, singly and together.

Even the most highly organized churches which insist on the importance of «legitimate» orders recognize with the Church of England that» «there always remains the power of God to give to the Church prophets, evangelists and teachers apart from the succession,» and even the most spiritualistic groups will elect certain men to interpret the sense of meetings in which anyone moved by the spirit is allowed to speak.

but «Is this in the Divine deposit of truth given to the Church?»

The Second Vatican Council, in insisting in the document on Ecumenism that there can be no change or concession within the Church Catholic in matters of doctrine of faith and morals, has equivalently informed us in the name of the Holy Spirit, that it is the will of God to give to His Church and to His people who «seek Him with a sincere heart» just such new knowledge, new vision, and new unity.

So now I have started cutting back on my giving to my church, and sending more to charities which ACTUALLY DO try to feed the hungry and end poverty.

Giving to the church meant giving to the poor.

Those penny pinchers are more interrested in how they can save and make money and could care less about giving to the church.

Austin Too often, it seems, giving to a church means helping to pay for some pastor's fancy new suits, or shiny, expensive, new car.

Mormon is a nickname given to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

But giving to the Church is the only path to buying your way into heaven, right?

You can't claim good deeds from paying your taxes that help children, the poor and the infirm, only if you give it to a church first so God can take his 30 - 70 % first fruits of your donation.

And what good is the mission given to the church?