Sentences with phrase «good church members»

The «just» (ordinary good church members) will get to heaven, but those who cultivate the «church of the heart» are the «perfect».

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.

«many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.»

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Jones is perhaps best known for having successfully prosecuted members of the Ku Klux Klan over the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African - American girls.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

Yes, the church can make whatever rule or decision it wants, but the rest of the world is perfectly well allowed to point out when those rules are ill formed, and unnecessarily harm the members.

The mainline churches haven't done a very good job of equipping their members for the challenges of the late 20th / 21st centuries!

... I'm still amazed at how people could tell me that the cruel treatment I received from church leaders & members was somehow God - inspired and ordained, and was done for my own good (God told people to spread lies about me for my own good?

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).

Therefore, even if one has not (yet) been excommunicated, one can not both be at variance with the law of the land and, in good conscience, claim to be a Latter - day Saint (the prefered reference to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, «saint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer»).

Here's the thing — you can find any number of Stepford-esque church members who will attest that they and the folks they know are «just good people», etc. (and I, too, know many very pleasant and admirable Mormons), but that doesn't address the creepy facts related to the administration of the overall organization (which is by no means a true non-profit, BTW).

There are many good and faithful black members of the church who know this.

As a member of the LDS church, I believe this article was well written.

Moreover, the imbalance is accentuated by the fact that 60 percent of Jews do not belong or contribute to any Jewish organizations, religious or otherwise, whereas well over 60 percent of non-Jews are church members.

I'd had well meaning church members try to fit me into their one - size - fits - all box many times.

He is well - liked by his peers, volunteers with University Big Brothers and Sisters, is involved in his church (he is an adult convert to Mormonism), is a member of the University's interfaith Religious Life Council, and has compiled an impressive academic record.

What would you do if the church members became convinced that to do a better job at reaching people in the community, they needed to sell the church building?

To get it out of the system is good, and to examine our way of relating to church members / attenders is good too.

This book is showing those who want to be a member of a local church how they can be a better member and in so doing having a deeper relationship with Christ.

The irony here is that this bill would have actually increased attacks upon religion, as many gays and lesbians, as well as their supporters and those who are not biased towards them, are actually also members of churches, albeit more liberal ones.

When she suggested I raise my children like she raised hers, saying they didn't seem to know what good was; I knew she pinched and beat her kids for her own expectations, not the church member's.

Rubio, a Cuban - American who has played up his Catholic roots on the campaign trail and today attends Catholic churches as well as a Southern Baptist megachurch, was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints as a young boy.

He also noted that member churches would be provided with MinistrySafe resources in order to have «the best training and safety measures available.»

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

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(CNN)- Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch policy.

Mormons teach a rigorous, exacting standard of Holiness that ALL their Church members must meet in order to be in good standing with the Lord.

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

I am currently a member of a progressive Baptist church whose affiliations include: American Baptist Churches USA, Alliance of Baptist, Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, as well as the North Carolina Council of Churches.

If you're a member of his church, there's a good chance you'll see your name up there when you go in for a counseling session.

As a straight - A student at a Baptist high school, a member of an award - winning Bible Quizzing team, and a substitute church pianist, I thought I knew God pretty well.

The couple say that many people, including members of their church who they didn't previously know well, have been very supportive.

Second because most of the people thinks that the church - goers are as screwed as everybody else with a delusionary disturb associated with religional habits... Only church members think they are better than others.

Though they were willing for all good citizens to have a hand in electing those who were responsible for government, they too insisted that only church members could be in actual positions of authority.

His father, a faithful church member and a good citizen and a hard worker, could not understand his son's passion for God's kingdom.

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

I have always understood the Gospel as being Good News for everyone, and that our role as believers and members of the Church is to welcome strangers, newcomers, and outsiders.

It is better for denomination or network leaders to be prepared to respond to dying churches rather than to react to the despair of confused churchless members as churches move toward closure.

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, and it has been the best thing to happen to my life.

What is required must come from the Church herself: courage, good leadership, faith and commitment on the part of the Church's members and especially her bishops.

Transforming Lives for Good (TLG), a Christian charity which trains church members to offer regular one - hour mentoring sessions to youngsters in difficult circumstances, told Premier that «injustice» plagues the education system.

Most churches want to be good contributing constituent members of their local communities.

Tales in a local church tend to travel in packs: one good story evokes another, one member's account of an illness, for example, is usually reciprocated in kind.

Folks, you can't get around it: The first profit of the LSD church, Joseph Smith, put it in the pillars and tenant of faith, said «You can tell a lie as long as you don't offend a church member»... Well, lets see what the other non-members think of the Mormon religion and its trust in the Romoney / Ryan ticket now.

If the Church alters laws of that kind and to that extent itself changes, it does so only within the immutability of a fundamental principle, namely, that the Church has the right and duty to make changeable regulations for the spiritual good of its members.

When the Catholic Church determines that someone that was a member of Hitler's Youth Group would be their best choice as their Pope you really got ta discount pretty much everything they do.

Dominic recognised that the Church needed an Order that could be where the people were, with members well trained in the Scriptures and in the Church's Tradition, who could speak directly to them.

But the larger incongruity for me were the stickers professing affiliation with churches and Christian schools bearing names like Good Shepherd alongside the oval sticker on the rear window which read «Proud Member of the Angry Mob.»

I have done both and conclude that evil is HIDING in my church, that they are not capable of expelling it and that members of the judicial branch have made a coup on, not only the rest of government, but the church as well.

If it can be said that the Church is a sinful Church because of the sins of her members (cf. Decree on Ecumenism, arts. 3 and 4), even though this sin contradicts her own nature and spirit, then we must attribute ecclesial importance even more to the good, inspired acts, hence also to all the prayers, of her members.