Not exact matches
I have spent 40 years
in those
Churches in lay ministry, I know the the real psychology at play, it comes clear
in everyone of your posts and
how you present it.
The way the LDS
church «council» stick's it nose
in everything and feel that they should dictate to
everyone how they will live I'd sooner vote for Mickey Mouse.
Daniel Singleton explains
how the UK
Church is leading the way
in giving
everyone a place to belong More
One of the big problems we have
in the American
church is
how comfortable we are picking fights with
everyone.
As a writer and English teacher perhaps I can share some information about
how we can improve upon the language we use
in churches so that
everyone can understand it and be moved by it.
How about a candidate that very correctly holds the Consti.tution as the authority of this nation (not any religious book) because our founding fathers very deliberately separated
church from state
in order to protect the beliefs of
everyone?
My life is not summed up
in those things: my life is also still cleaning toilets and making supper, showing up at
church and going for walks, texting
how - are - you - really to friends and sitting
in my husband's lap at the table, praying with now preposterously tall children at bedtime and making sure
everyone brushed their teeth, for heaven's sake.
Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the
church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered
in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith
in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger
in our weakness no matter
how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as
in our strength we can do nothing.
In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows
everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.
A friend who was a counselor before she retired and who knew from work one of the main problems
in that
church, sat me down one day and talked to me about what it had been like to work with that woman and
how everyone saw that woman, and then my friend gave me this article to read that she had learned and used while she was still
in practice before she retired: https://glynissherwood.com/12-steps-to-breaking-free-from-being-the-family-scapegoat/ This article speaks about family, but my friend told me it can be applied to any dysfunctional group of people.
Instead,
everyone hunkers down, ignores the problem and hopes it goes away, defends the attacker, and / or tries to appease the attacker
in hopes he or she won't turn and attack them (there was even an article about
how to appease a narcissistic
church leader
in Christianity Today's Leadership Journal this week).
I have some personal thoughts on your comments: «Thats why God made
everyone responsible for the upkeep of his house so the world would see
how we loved his
Church and
how he loved us
in response.
Grant, the posts Jeremy and I wrote that talk about loving our neighbors, being the
church in the community, and loving and helping the poor, homeless and needy are very much about
how to live
in community with our brothers and sisters
in the Lord, as well as almost
everyone in our community.
Ironically, at the
church I visited
in LA Sunday, a member of the Singles ministry got up and before the offering, told
everyone about
how his small group had committed to «living like the poor» for one week.
So no matter
how much
everyone on this comment list wants to modernize the
church to their standards, they will still have to live up to God's
in one way or another.
When I left The
Church, I began to study other religions and began to see
how divisive religion truly is... even though
everyone says they «believe»
in God.
Now it is no way apparent
how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the
Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is
in everyone as his own.»
Having previously served
in churches where the presence of the Spirit of the Lord can be measured by
how awed and humbled
everyone is, it was all the more terrible when I ended up more recently
in churches where the gross inflation and elevation of
everyone's ego is mistaken for the Spirit of the Lord....