Sentences with phrase «how little the church»

Something to add, the sentiment the shirt represents shows how little the church understands their «target market» because of how tightly they're wound up in their own mindset, many churches perform so much intellectual incest that they don't see how their viewpoints are malformed.

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The Catholic Church does a great deal of work to help the poor and needy and comparing them to rednecks shows just how little you know about the Church's work.

Amazing how many churches think you are damned to Hell if you leave their own particular little cloister.

There's no picture of biblical singlehood and little discussion of how married and single persons integrate into one larger whole in the Church.»

(CNN)- Although many Americans may have wondered just how much money Mitt Romney makes and how much he pays in taxes in the lead - up to the release Tuesday of his tax documents, there was little suspense around how much he gives to his church.

How did the early church do so much with so little?

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

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.

I obviously know very little about what goes on in your church but I would think if you are as authentic in church as you are here than how would there be any difference for a person?

On one Christian adopter's blog the blond adopting mother explained how she told her black african adoptee daughter that God had performed a little miracle, helping her pay for the adoption with donations from the church.

We former evangelicals LOVE to talk about our faith and are sometimes surprised by how little opportunity there is to do so in a Mainline Protestant church environment.

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).

Though 1 Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings, it has very little to do with the love between a man and a wife, and everything to do with how a church can function as the Body of Christ.

The «irregulars» have little clue how the church operates, the «regulars» sort of have a clue, and the «inner circle» knows that those who pay the bills and have the power decide how it operates (hoping to give the impression that the «doctrinal statement» has been given a nod).

How about placing all of these ignorant hateful bigot preachers behind an electrical fence and wait for them to die off... they steal money from dumb parishioners, abuse the little boys in the church, discriminate women, tell you how to vote for their own best interest, and worst of all spew prejudice, hateful ideology from the pulpit all in the name of JESHow about placing all of these ignorant hateful bigot preachers behind an electrical fence and wait for them to die off... they steal money from dumb parishioners, abuse the little boys in the church, discriminate women, tell you how to vote for their own best interest, and worst of all spew prejudice, hateful ideology from the pulpit all in the name of JEShow to vote for their own best interest, and worst of all spew prejudice, hateful ideology from the pulpit all in the name of JESUS.

There is no way of knowing how far this little leaven of ours will go in our big church, now in conspicuous confusion, or in a Christian community in the throes of world revolution.

The reason there's so little guidance in the New Testament about how to build a church (and the reason church builders today have to rely on business and sociological principles) is that God intended the church to be a one generation phenomenon.

At this church, here is how the Trunk - or - Treat worked: They had about fifty cars in the parking lot all of them weare covered by a cheap van insurance, and at about half of them, you had to stand in a line for about 10 minutes while kids played little games.

Dharius Daniels, a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the predominantly black Kingdom Church in Ewing, N.J., says the case was «a mirror that could show the country not just how much or how little we've progressed, but where — in terms of now, in terms of this point in history — our efforts and our focus and our attention needs to be.»

However, «Families 2000» had little to say about how the church can support the postmodern, dual - income, mother - father team in its task of raising children.

I will also leave you with two more Early Church quotes to maybe shed a little light on how they viewed these terms.

Evidently you find yourself able to judge how much he knew and what he did and didn't do with very little knowledge of both civil and Church due process, canon law, changes in rules, education, and procedures etc..

I think there is very little in Scripture about the how of church.

How can some little new Church be Catholic Churches?

Last week I wrote a post for the CNN Belief Blog about millennials and the Church focusing on how church leaders hoping to win twenty - somethings over with coffee shops and concerts may want to go a little deeper and consider substance over Church focusing on how church leaders hoping to win twenty - somethings over with coffee shops and concerts may want to go a little deeper and consider substance over church leaders hoping to win twenty - somethings over with coffee shops and concerts may want to go a little deeper and consider substance over style.

When she would probe a little about what they actually believed, whether they attended church, how they felt about certain examples of moral permissiveness in society, they tried to be politely evasive.

It is precisely because they knew how to silence themselves before God that women like Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena were able to have so much influence over the Church in times when women had little voice.

I think about this little online community through every stage of the writing and publishing process, and I am so grateful for all the ways in which you have influenced how I think about the church.

I get a little uncomfortable when my church tells me how I ought to vote.

For instance, it is remarkable how little attention is given to the effects of alcohol, drugs, and tranquilizers on the lives of church members.

When I had surgery for my cancer last March, my brother in Texas who is a fundamentalist «christian» who preaches at how his little group has the Truth & the rest of us need to fall in line with what his church teaches sent me a small note saying he was praying for me before the surgery.

By appearances, the book is little more than a long, historical survey of the doctrine of the atonement, showing how various views of the atonement have been developed over time and in response to various events within the church and the surrounding culture.

Chapter 11 of Close Your Church for Good looks at some of the forms of evangelism today, and how they amount to little more than talking at people.

CNN: Romney tax returns shine light on Mormon tithing Although many Americans may have wondered just how much money Mitt Romney makes and how much taxes he pays in the lead - up to the release Tuesday of his tax documents, there was little suspense around how much he gives to his church.

In her recent critique of «hook - up» culture, Lauren Lankford not only provides a concise overview of how the church links beauty and sexuality, she throws in a little Biology 101:

We cry foul when wealthy lobbyists in Washington unfairly wield their power to the detriment of the «little people,» yet we seem blind to how deeply wealth and power have corrupted the Church.

Interesting how what the church defines as our duty as Christians also happens to be mainly what benefits the church as an institution and little else.

A pretest asking students to identify various biblical books and the people and places mentioned therein, and to complete a few well - known quotations, showed how very little biblical knowledge most teenagers possess — even those who have attended church schools for years.

I have said little about how changes in our society, the church and my own life have forced me to think about things differently or to think about matters I had not imagined when I began.

To be sure there is for the most part little evidence of this in our churches, a sign of how little the Holy Spirit is alive within them.

Jesus offers more commentary on how to deal with wealth than on how to handle sex — a fact ignored by today's church, which is preoccupied by matters of sex while it says very little about money.

The history of how the early church came to adopt and defend the doctrine of inspiration is a little hazy, but a few things are certain.

Everywhere we go, a line has to been drawn establishing parameters for how much or how little we are permitted to do within the church.»

In regard to the comment about how Herd Evans provides little guidance in this critique, I would encourage readers not to seek step - by - step guidelines for what to do next but to exegete the situation on their own by engaging the tension through ongoing dialogue with millennials (or anyone who has become jaded with church).

Denominations were formed to help assure the integrity of each group's creed and way of life, yet on most vital issues one learns little about what people believe and how they act by learning to which church they belong.

Pastors considering a call to a congregation often complain about how little they learn about the church from a «parish profile» in which answers of members to long questionnaires have been quantified.

Oh my, you look gorgeous... but how does one manage a train that doesn't involve little kids holding it up in a church, without having it rip?

How about a gorgeous old castle villa set in the rolling green hills, its terraces blessed with panoramic views, a playground in the gardens for the little ones, and even a church on site, so you can invite your nearest and dearest to see you wed among the fruit and olive trees.