Do we as a family still
go to our home church?
I totally agree, with your statement Jeremy, That is why I don't go to church like the masses,
I go to a home church which is real, we don't say those sayings, Things are told as it is.
I go to a home church, but I don't feel like number # 4.
Not exact matches
There were students who intentionally left their chargers at
home so their phones would die on them during the day, a girl who mainly
went to church to escape her phone, and students who reported they enlisted friends
to literally hide their devices from them.
He was raised in a
home with strong believing parents, and
went to church regularly growing up.
to know how fellow [past tense] churchy people think about me, or judge me,
to know im not loved when i
go home into my
church and — fucking hell, my family!
The religious folks still have their
churches and
homes to go feel comfortable at.
I
went back
to church while visiting my
home town and realized the
church wasn't teaching love and acceptance but hate.
If he isn't the
church going type then by all means worship at
home but don't publicly
go to church as a reminder
to the American people that your still a believer.
Go to church, Sunday brunch, stop by the store and pick up those 40 - watt fluorescent light bulbs you've been needing (you really should consider some softer lighting, though), head
home and watch Netflix like you always do on Sunday.
When American student Alex Humphrey
went on a mission trip
to Peru with his
home church, a colleague prayed that they would see an eyeball grow into someone's head.
Many will gladly tell you they have no
church, no pastor — and then
go home to watch 8 hours of television each night — every night — for the next 40 years.
I was looking for a place
to share this... our
church many years ago was
going through all this legalism stuff... I heard this from a friend of mine because by the time it all blew open we had stopped
going to church... One guy was always trying
to say something «wise» so he shared with the group that the other day as he was showering it occurred
to him that «the hand washes the body» and repeated it slowly — theee haaaand waaaasheeees the bodeeeee» — My friend took it
home with a «meh» reaction and shared it with her non-believing hubby....
And so it is ironic that many Christian complementarians / patriarchalists --(who advocate hierarchal gender relationships in the
home and
church)-- seem to assume that egalitarians like me --(who support mutuality in the home and church)-- must have gone off to a secular universities, majored in women's studies, and come back to impose these «cultural values» onto Scripture and the C
church)-- seem
to assume that egalitarians like me --(who support mutuality in the
home and
church)-- must have gone off to a secular universities, majored in women's studies, and come back to impose these «cultural values» onto Scripture and the C
church)-- must have
gone off
to a secular universities, majored in women's studies, and come back
to impose these «cultural values» onto Scripture and the
ChurchChurch.
Funny how she talks about «cherry picking» when she herself espouses an incredibly hypocritical, cafeteria - style approach
to Christianity and the
church; i.e., «If I don't like it, I'm
going home.»
I've seen enough people
go quietly from what used
to be their
church «
homes» that the idea intrigues me.
(Matt 28:19, 20) Why are they content
to speak in their
church but not
go to individual's
homes, as Jesus did,
to assist them
to make changes in their personality that conforms
to Jesus life pattern,» stripping off the old personality» and putting on the «new personality»?
It's quite a dilemma:
go to church and get butchered or stay
home and break the commandment.
Let's face it: We are unlikely
to find a single party that truly represents a «culture of life,» and abortion will probably never be made illegal, so we'll have
to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels of the Kingdom
to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our
homes and
churches, reach out
to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute
to the abortion rate in this country, (especially birth control).
It emerged that he came mainly
to get some respite from a difficult
home life, although he had indeed recognised something peaceful and attractive
going on in the
church.
Can the same be said about most theists and letting their children stay
home or even
go to a
church that's a different religion?
In the meantime, Mike and Michelle, (who are Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they urge Joe and Jane
to abstain from the aforementioned drinking of alcohol and having sex),
go straight
to heaven, where they are told by Jesus (the
church pastor) that they are finally
home for eternity.
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?
T T Please
go back
home and read the Bible again and
go to church with your father.
Churches these days seem
to market themselves more as restaurants than
homes and
church goers seem
to behave more like patrons or clients than community members, ergo the mobility.
Number 2 not
going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always n
church can be harmful
to you not
to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at
home rather than
going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you
go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always n
Church you don't
go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.
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.
Have you ever encountered this «
Go big or go home» mentality when it comes to ministry, and that small groups of believers would be wiser to pool their time and resources with large churches so that their ministry effectiveness can be multiplie
Go big or
go home» mentality when it comes to ministry, and that small groups of believers would be wiser to pool their time and resources with large churches so that their ministry effectiveness can be multiplie
go home» mentality when it comes
to ministry, and that small groups of believers would be wiser
to pool their time and resources with large
churches so that their ministry effectiveness can be multiplied?
These questions come from a person who thinks that «
home churches» are the only way
to go, but I think we all need
to ask them.
According
to Don Tatlock, coordinator of the CWS program in Honduras, if housing was the sole priority,
church leaders «could ask folks
to stay
home and just send us the money they were
going to spend on airplane tickets....
They claim
to be «christians» and
go to church regularly, displaying religious statues in their
home and work.
When they left
home they left all that atmospher behind until I was about 15 or 16 and they started making me
go to church.
so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats
to much like work its easier
to play christian around your
church you belong
to and play follow the leader and
go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it
go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up
to your
churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need
to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?
People
go to the
church that's closest
to their
home.
I no longer
go to church b / c for one I don't want
to and two I haven't found the right one for me
to call
home.
The other day, and I mentioned that already, I think, my pastor's wife talked about Pentacostal
church in Barabdos with the pastor yelling and screaming and she coming
home feeling that God was
going to send her
to hell.
Yet every time FFRF or the ACLU acts on a violation of the separation of
church and state, the Christians cry «persecution» even with a
church on every corner
to which they can
go any day of the week, pray at
home, in the street, put fish plaques on their cars, whatever.
In my own
church, I see how several times during the month, groups of fellow Christians, armed with a list of local
homes in disrepair,
go at no cost
to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemned.
I knew he was a Christian, but he didn't seem
to have heard of being a stay - at -
home daughter; while I knew our
church was more conservative than most, I assumed that a concept as plain as «keeper at
home» would be obvious no matter what
church you
went to.
Someone serving in
church leadership, who didn't want
to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, said he doubted the Romneys would observe family
home evening since their kids are grown and
gone.
Like you, I too was raised in a Christian
home,
went to church, expanded my point of view etc..
People from our
church have
gone on
to become
home group and worship leaders elsewhere because they had training in a small environment.
While Henry speaks, Mary has been speculating about
going with Edmund
to his new
home, but is shocked when she is «no longer able, in the picture she had been forming of a future Thornton,
to shut out the
church, sink the clergyman, and see only the respectable, elegant, modernized, and occasional residence of a man of independent fortune.»
I left my
church in April and missed a few Sundays, but when my mother started asking me each week if I was
going or had
gone to church, I started visiting a few
churches near my
home.
Explain
to me how
going to a
church is better than sitting at
home and reading the bible?
Following this, he
goes through several sections of the Bible, forcing us
to read it and see it in a way that you probably won't hear in most seminaries,
churches, or
home Bible studies.
So I don't know if I will ever be
going into formal «
church planting» but one thing I do know... this year, I am
going to continue planting a
church in my own
home.
In these pieces are story after story of Christians who
go to church in the morning and don't know if they will make it back
home alive.
We
went to church on Sundays and said grace before meals (only at
home with the immediate family, not in restaurants or with extended family / friends), but other than that we weren't a particulary «religious» family (aside from not doing all the «stuff good Baptists don't do,» but we didn't preach about that either).
When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about
church is that she has
to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.