Sentences with phrase «how good the church»

C S Lewis (in Letters to Malcolm, I think) wrote about how the best church meetings were those most like a hospital, where we first recognized our needs, gained that which brought remedy and then worshiped our God and Saviour as a result.

We need the crosses to remind children how good the church can be, when the priests are not raping them.

Not exact matches

Yet, I think that the Holy Spirit's heart is broken, and that the Trinity is «discussing» how best to replace that dying Pharisee - church structure with minimal collateral damage.

Think of how much better not only our church services would be if we all waited for God before going inside, but how much better the rest of our lives would be as well.

But I am game to hear how you defend such a position of being anti-gay rights in the church (and it seems in society as well — ie: marriage).

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

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...

... 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?

These 4 women... well... five actually... are generally marginalized by a large segment of the church, and I wanted to show how, by the remarkable diversity represented in one family, that they could model love, acceptance, and unity.

If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?

The problem with most of the mainstream churches is that we do not even know how to join an argument — better, we think, to create a committee to «study the issue.»

If the issues involved in the seminary struggle — how to read the Bible and how to locate authority within the church — continue to trouble church bodies, we do well to consider carefully whether it can be of any benefit to tackle them via the news conference.

The next time you go to church, see how many of your fellow Christians think that's a good PUNISHMENT.

poor this rich that church here politics there why argue about church an politics its the same funny how people loose there jobs but churches an politicians pockets keep getting bigger but nobodys crying about bet that new guchi shirt impressed the preachers wife you wore on sunday but you argue for the poor, ol lutz says 25 k die a day well then why worry about charitys they collect 10,25 % just like churches an line thier pockets, so why argeu you stoopid sheep

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...»

I know, it's very ironic for a lie to protect liars, but «a house divided against itself can not stand», so that's how Satan (who rules the world) is protected by the Church as well.

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.

Without Empire «the church» may very well not exist anymore and we would all be talking about how the Mystery Cult is opposed to empire.

@ GFreas... how ironic that at the very time the RCC is making a great effort to woo the Episcopalians back into the RCC, they're doing their best to create a new schism in the American church.

If they Pope said jump, I guarantee you the vast majority of Catholics wouldn't even take notice (I'm one of them, 4 years with Franciscans, 4 years with Dominicans), but if the LDS Prophet said jump, you better believe every church going Mormon is jumping — and they won't ask why, just how high and how long — they'll do it blindly like robots.

However, you make a good point â $ «about attending church to see how this really is 2008.

Maybe it's a good idea for American Christians to take a sabbatical from traditional church for a few years and focus on how how each individual relates to the teachings and example of Jesus outdisde the influence of ecclesiastical thought control.

Oh wait... Ive got it wrong this isn't for believers, Atheists no the look foolish to us, This is so Atheists can find other atheists, So they can eventually form a Church, its going to be a weird Church, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wChurch, its going to be a weird Church, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wChurch, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wchurch without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to watch!!

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

There is no better place to learn how to do this than at church.

How many folk get pressured to leave a good SS class or Bible study where they are receiving the meat of the Word so «they can get busy for the Lord» and «helping His church to grow»?

The chapter covering this period is one of the best in the book, with its careful account of how Bonhoeffer's censorious judgment of the superficiality of American religious liberalism gradually gave way to admiration for the central place of social justice and for the vital religious faith of the oppressed black Christians whom he met at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.

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.

At a leadership conference in Oslo, Norway, where I was speaking, a pastor there shared how a well - respected businessman in his church was healed while listening to one of my sermon CDs.

To the contrary, when it is recognized that in Paul's surviving letters to the Corinthians, he nowhere addresses elders, this section is best seen as a description of how a church could get it's teaching when there are no trained and qualified elders to perform the teaching.

I have the growing, reluctant, and disappointing certainty that the church (no matter how lousy or how great that church is) can ultimately only do one thing well and that is to traffic in death.

Weird how well Evangelical churches have carefully preserved everything that was wrong with the 19th century.

They always said how me and mine would be much better people if we were catholic and went to church.

But what makes Jesus Feminist so fantastic, so challenging is Bessey's ability to be both the friend who tells us the truth about «womanhood» inside our churches and the sage who shows us how Jesus embraced equality and how we can do it better.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

I love how churches in our area work together so well, so often particularly when it comes to major events or causes.

«The most important book published by the Holy See in this generation for Catholic education,» says Bishop O'Donoghue, «is theCatechism of the Catholic Church, and its summary, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church»; he says that «it is vital that both the Catechismand the Compendiumare used by teachers in our schools and colleges, who can guide pupils in how to make best use of them»; that «the key to unlocking this treasury of Church teaching....

Also, whether you «attend» church or not, I do think that some of what is said in this article still applies for how best to follow Jesus into the world.

How can seminaries prepare church leaders to better address the problem of spiritual fragmentation?

For those of us in the church, how do we respond well to those who leave our midst?

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

So I thought we might benefit from «Ask a pastor's wife...» and «Ask a pastor's husband...» to learn how we church folk can love our pastors and their families better.

Williams wants a mode of discourse that is better suited to healing a contingent world in which «contestation is inevitable,» in which the church is not in fact so «dramatically apart» from other ways of realizing the good, and in which there is a need for patience in tracing how the Christian contribution to history is «learned, negotiated, betrayed, inched forward, discerned and risked.»

I said that they had better bask in the glory while it lasts because sure as one breathes, there will soon be others walking through those doors with their own ideas of how the church should operate and it will no doubt start up all over again.

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I love how an author named Gordon MacDonald put it, «The world can do almost anything as well as or better than the church.

To be the church means to think not only about individuals and their personal crises, but also the way in which these crises affect families and communities, as well as how they may represent broader struggles in the society at large.

How little they are confined to the events of the first Good Friday is amply illustrated by the words which a disciple of St. Paul puts into his master's mouth: «Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church» (Col. 1:24).

I was reminded of just how different our experiences can be after I came home from a day with the family to find in my Google Reader a lovely, celebratory post from Sarah Bessey, «In which God has restored me to church,» as well as an honest reminder from Kathy Escobar, «When Easter is Hard.»

I described being uncomfortable at events like the Cowboy Olympics, my fears that I would never marry as I was often the only black single in the church, how at times I felt strange or like an alien as well - meaning friends would ask questions about my hair and skin, etc..