Osteen is creating a TV show... events to brag about
how wonderful his church is.
Not exact matches
They go out of their way to tell me
how impressed they are and what a
wonderful change he's brought into the
church.
Jesus did what he needed to do for then... but we need to do what we need to do for now, so we just have to move on with the times, tell everyone just
how wonderful they are, and have a world class drama team, and maybe start an online
church where you can click on a button to accept Christ.
Over at iMonk last week, Chaplain Mike wrote a lovely post about
how, after a period of wandering through the denominational wilderness, he found a home in an ELCA Lutheran
church «with a simple liturgy,
wonderful music, a healthy and grounded pastor, a hospitable congregation, and an emphasis on Christ, grace, vocation, and other Lutheran essentials that answered questions I had been turning over in my mind for years in my evangelical settings.»
I my last two
churches the pastor was fond of saying
how wonderful the «staff» was and what a blessing they were to the congregation and
how much we all should appreciate them.
If you are honest (I know this since we did this) people will smile, nod, pat you on the back and tell you
how wonderful and refreshing your authenticity is and then go to the other
churches that have much better bands, seating, air conditioning, coffee shops, parking, sunday school, etc..
Note that Lutzer twice used the word «
wonderful» when asking his audience
how wonderful it would be to use spiteful pride against the only «rapture» view found in all theology books and organized
churches before the year 1830: the posttribulation view!
i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of
how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him in my life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so
wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to
church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....
While on one hand this is a
wonderful thing, it often poses a whole new set of complex issues and
churches are often a bit lost as to
how to deal with them.
He argued that if the sufferings of two billion people in Vietnam, South Africa and other places excited the imagination and compassion of the
church,
how much more should the spiritual sufferings of two thousand millions move her to bring multitudes of them out of darkness into God's
wonderful light.
how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire
Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this
wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!
It is so much harder for those of us who were raised in the
Church to see
how wonderful it is.»
Some of the most popular activities in Puebla include taking a walking tour of the historical center to admire its
wonderful architecture (including the not to be missed Baroque Rosary Chapel in Santo Domingo
church), visiting the first public library of the Americas, shopping for talavera pottery (and seeing
how it's made), and eating some of the
wonderful traditional Poblano dishes, including mole poblano, chiles en nogada, and several different kinds of sweets.
We were blown away by the history of the couple who built the
church (with their own hands — the pastor is a carpenter), the
wonderful people we met and
how much we came away with.
How wonderful they are attending
church together!