I frequently
hear church people say that people are poor and homeless because that's what they have chosen.
Not exact matches
I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the
church, how to get more money out of
people's pockets, how to promote this
church's ministry, how to enthrall our
people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my
people, how to get more
people to
hear about and come to our
church.
I don't often
hear any of George Carlin's favorite words in
church, but I sure as hell * do *
hear a lot of cursing of
people, often in the name of Christ — exactly the kind of cursing shown by the men on the left and right in your cartoon.
This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay
people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight
people getting married.
People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil
people really are.But these
people who are so into GOD, the Bible,
Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever
heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.
The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a
church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling
people who need to
hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»
I will answer that — no problems... after I
hear you tell me if you would or wouldn't allow a gay
person to teach in your
church?
For fun, I'd love to
hear one or two concrete examples of assumed, unspoken, undesirable rules
people have encountered in their actual
churches — and ones which you then broke.
And, yes, of course,
churches should contextualize the gospel, addressing
people in a language that can be
heard and understood.
It is hard when you
hear people have left your
church.
The Rev Val Duff, minister of South Shawlands Parish
Church close to where Asad Shah's shop was, said at the time: «Like many
people I am deeply saddened to
hear of Asad Shah's death.
There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay
person) who went to
hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to
hear in his
church.
Last I
heard in
church it was a sin to have relations with more than one
person.
wow thank you for sharing that!sadly stories like this are all to common and its ironic to
hear church leaders acting all confused why so many young
people are leaving organized religion in vast numbers.
The NT says to preach the Gospel — why preach the Gospel to
churches full (or not so full) of
people that have
heard it before?
Why are millennials and many others leaving the
churches — Here is another reason Revelation 18:4 And I
heard another voice out of heaven say: «Get out of her, my
people, if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues.
Satan will get
churches to tell the pastor that
people don't want to
hear the Bible taught any more, and so if he could just tell them a bunch of stories, that would be better.
When she delves into her own mystery, the
Church, the
People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish
People, 326 «the first to
hear the Word of God.
When you say «mutual edification is the purpose of the gathering of the
church,» most
people hear «mutual edification is the purpose of the
church.»
the scriptures do not claim as you state «infallible word of God» ------ Well, this is something I've been
hearing for years, in
church from pastors and in
person from christians.
I've sometimes
heard people say the awful words, «I couldn't go to
church because I'm not good enough.»
One of the things I
heard from some of the
church leaders here in Haiti is that the
church is one of the only organizations that is successfully delivering supplies and provisions to groups of
people and communities.
I also
heard from the pulpit»
church people are wicked too.»
Several pastors have told me that many pastors who
hear that someone who was bullied in their last
church assume that the
person (s) may have been part of the problem.
Nakedpastor (and my online community The Lasting Supper) is a space where
people can freely express their pain, where victims are
heard and abusers called out... something many spiritually abused
people did not experience in the
church that promised them care.
After decades of
hearing messages from high
church officials that lesbian and gay
people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.
Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a wonderful time with the good
people of St. Matthew's Episcopal
Church and all the readers who came out to
hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met in the bathroom of all places!
I still think we should still go to the
church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the
church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to
hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see
people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..
I have
heard enough about
people who say FG
churches deny the cross.
I also
hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant
churches precisely because they welcome LGBT
people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never
hear the leadership of the
church explain why this is the case.
You have
heard the saying, «Don't judge a book by its cover» but when it comes to
churches, this is exactly what some
people do.
And I preach once a month at Christ Fellowship in Florida — probably the largest
church you've never
heard of, with almost 10,000
people weekly at nine campuses across Miami.
«The
Church of England would say it's there to serve the common good, by enabling
people to
hear the gospel and to respond to it,» she says.
God bless you Pastor Joel, you
heard the
church called winners chapel international, the main
church is found in Ota Nigeria, and the
church auditorium is the biggest in the world a capacity of 50,000 and only a Sunday's service about 200,000
people gather in the
church and once in a month on Sundays take holy communion for all 200,000
people.
I bet you go and snitch on someone if you
hear t hem saying things you don't think make your
church look good and get a kick out of disapproving of
people.
And, no, I'm not a sneaky, prissy, telltale kind of bloke and I don't snitch on
people if I
hear them saying things I don't think make a
church look good.
From across our nation we are
hearing incredible stories of the kingdom of God breaking into
people's lives as God's
Church does what Jesus did.
Do you ever
hear stories of other
people feeling lonely after leaving the
church?
«In my view it is vital that
people are given the opportunity to
hear the magical language of The Book of Common Prayer in
church.
Despite all the fear driven presentations you've
heard, not every young
person is walking out of the
church the moment they finish high school and never coming back.
We believe simply that there were many
people that lived here who had they had the chance to
hear our Gospel would have liked to have been baptized in our
church!
A lot of
people, when they
hear this, look at me sort of skeptically, because they have
heard the exact opposite from most
churches and
church leaders.
I never expected my posts «15 Reasons I Left
Church» and «15 Reasons I Returned to The
Church» to make such waves, but I'm still
hearing from
people who loved them,
people who hated them,
people who resonated with them, and
people incredibly frustrated by them.
The early
church was a group of
people who gathered to
hear the stories of salvation.
Many LGBT
people recall getting bullied mercilessly in school, and I've
heard from several who report that they learned their first ant - gay slur from their
church youth group.
I also
hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant
churches precisely because they welcome LGBT
people, accept science, avoid aligning with a single political party, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc. but these new attendees never
hear the leadership of the
church explain why this is the case.
According to Las Casas, «There was not one
person in the whole city who could not be found in the
church, each inviting the other to go and
hear the friar who had to recant everything he said the past Sunday.»
Usually, of course, when the
person hears that we do not currently «attend
church,» they immediately invite us to attend theirs.
She had
heard that
church provides help to
people in need, esp single moms.
this guy just wants
people to go to his
church, so he can win in the profits and donations, hes a mix of time tebow and drake, tells
people what they want to
hear so he can get his profit
Her second point was that teenagers are already talking about this, so it is easy for Christians to engage with when we've got such an appealing alternative: «If the
church wants to be connecting with young
people, we need to be
hearing what their concerns are and this has been subject young
people have been really willing to open up about.»