Sentences with phrase «good churches out»

There are good churches out there with vision and good leadership and there are churches all over the place... It was I that had to decide, was I willing to sacrifice again by working extra hours and doing hard things — I made the choice to do it better than I did before... I went back to a work ethic I learned not from Christians — but blue collar guys in field.

Not exact matches

Before getting a good deal on office space from an out - of - business dotcom, Earl Mollerud's office was on the third floor of a wing of a church.

«If he's walking out in a wrinkled suit, hasn't eaten... and he didn't have a good night's sleep, then he's not going to be able to rally everyone in church the next day which means they don't come,» she told Massaschusetts» Bay State Banner.

We have a deal where if he behaves well at church, I take him to Blockbuster and let him pick out a movie or a video game.

Sacrificing the children to preserve the «good» name of the church is flat - out evil.

I am all in favor of music at a church, but starting out, why do we drop a full - time salary on a worship pastor salary when most church plants take a good year before they hold their first service?

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.

Why do you think that empty school buildings are better than having churches that are helping poor people that are helping people get off drugs, get out of crime and tutoring students of all faiths?»

The Church is currently undergoing a process of finding out the best way to respond to the issue of sexuality in today's society.

It was offered tongue - in - cheek and was directed at the speculation about whether anything of substance will come out of the Council, but it expressed well the hopes and concerns held by the scholars of the Orthodox Church.

How often do we walk out of the doors of a church filled with excitement, tingling with a feel - good energy that surely could change the world — if we could just find...

Only five out of 100 people gave churches generally an A for their handling of «the issue of homosexuality» in the Public Religion Research Institute survey, while 28 percent said their own church handled it well.

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

The message that Christians live well, on average, is glossed over because that's the opposite of what the teachers think gets kids out of churches.

Economy in Christ, has been the Good News for two thousand years and it's time that our churches rediscover that and live it out.

i beleive there is good out there, and as a Mom i want to make sure i live me life in a way that will make my daughter proud of me so i will introduce Church to her and i will teach her the commandments because whether or not Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets in his hands they are a good starting point to instill good morals.

Mankowski, who holds quite different views on ordaining women, agrees with Weakland that it would have been much better if the writers of the pastoral came right out and said what they mean by lamenting the sins of sexism in a hierarchical church.

Writing as a devil, he pointed out with grim savvy in The Screwtape Letters, «If a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking for the church that «suits him,» until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.»

«I love my church and have a lot of faith, but culturally we haven't done a good job in dealing with people who are gay when they face life challenges,» whether that be coming out, depression or struggles with suicide or illness, Fletcher said.

It is far past the time that modernists such as yourself exit the doors and go find a good protestant Church to hang out with your girlfriends at, and leave the pious and devout followers of the faith to represent it.

HOWEVER, if this person was running for public office, instead of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this church for some inane belief that they would take wildly out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.

So the lay need to either be good little sheep or GET OUT OF THE CHURCH Not so.

Because the Kids is afraid to report to the police or parents and those Stupid Priests have better chance to commit a crime inside of churches than out on the streets.We need undercover federal investigater to infiltrate in all of them.

«It does not reflect well on the messages that are coming out from the Church for greater tolerance of other faiths.

Better just to have snuck out to a small church requested no cameras.

So I asked the pastor one Sunday how he figures out what to spend the donations on around the Church and how much to keep for his own expenses and he said «Well, I take the money box out to the parking lot Sunday afternoons and throw all the money recieved that day in the air, I figure what God wants, he keeps...»

It's a good thing that these men are being outed, and that it reveals a very big problem in the Catholic church, namely that it maintains an environment where predators can hide and feed.

If you've concluded the church no longer serves you well, please check out my vibrant online community, The Lasting Supper.

My church reaches out to help the poor in America and other countries as well.

Good churches (centered on the external Word of promise) are few and far between... but they are out there.

There is alot of debate out there about Christians, but just forget that debate, and take it from me, a person who says prayers, goes to church, has trouble destroying ants on the doorstep... this is how I would describe my faith... its a country song, but give it a chance, its a good song.

People should practice their religion at home or at their church and leave it out of the workplace other than setting a good example of honest behaviour.

Then add all the towns and cities in all the other countries where the scandal has broken out — and then the third World countries where the Church is still powerful enough to keep a lid on it — and we've got to be well into six figures.

I think I've been lucky finding a good church, but it seems there's so many bad ones out there.

Another epic short film / music video mash - up, «Great God» finds Carman as both the cool teacher at a Christian school, as well as a heroic knight out to reclaim the good name of the medieval church.

Paul wrote to existing churches and to pastors on a variety of different topics, and one does not present an air of confidence if one is telling a lie when he knows very well that there are witnesses who saw the same things that he saw, and could call him out should he tell a lie.

In my experience, those who left our church family have either found another church body (the best result), dropped out entirely, or church - shopped until they found a church with lower expectations for serving, giving, and personal accountability.

Well, when you took religion out of America with the separation of church and state, no one particularly cares about religion any more.

Since Acts people have been trying out how to make church better and people for some reason are suprised when its not.

I «left the church» by being driven out, and it was the best (but most painful) thing that ever happened to me.

Churches should not sit back and let the criminals of the world (or our own country) walk all over us, our families, and our freedoms, but nor should we teach that the killing and murder of others is the best way out.

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

She confides in you that she actually «gets more out of the Tuesday night group and is developing good relationships there» but would feel guilty «skipping church» on Sunday.

The church is what's been holding us back scientifically and socially for thousands of years, and if religion (not just Christianity, but ALL of them) petered out, the world would be a better place.

Actually now is a very good time to get out of the fully leavened gubmint churches.

Good he has experience, he can start by bouncing all the pervert priests out of the Roman Catholic Church for a start.

Unfortunately, the youth group was run by a couple who were well organised and enthusiastic until anyone didn't agree with them when they would push out that person from the church by being unkind and cold shouldering them.

And whilst I understand concerns surrounding institutionalisation of the church we can't get away from the fact for a community to function effectively requires structure, strategy and systems as well as values and vision to carry out its purpose's.

Like me, many choose to live out what the Church has always taught about sex, namely that it is a good gift from God that is only for marriage between a woman and a man.

One of our young couples, good friends of mine and part of our church, found out earlier this week that the baby she was carrying had died inside her.