Sentences with phrase «ideas about church»

I have some crazy ideas about church that might get me labeled as a heretic again.

, and so am thinking about posting some of my ideas about church that come to me at 3 am (along with the monkeys), and let you weigh in on the subject.

My Ph.D. is in missions and my ideas are shaped by the historic ideas about church and mission.

I'm not aware of his ideas about vision, but I am sure he would seriously question modern ideas about church, which vision would fall under.

In this respect the report can not be «objective» but must remain a somewhat personal effort to clarify and organize ideas about Church, ministry and theological education that seem to be «in the air» or that seem to be developing in «the climate of opinion.»

I think people who pity those who've left the church have unrealistic ideas about the church, and that it is unquestionably required and beyond question.

So I have to suspect that when he praises the Empire, this somehow relates to his ideas about the Church.

Thanks for helping to perpetuate a false idea about a church full of nice people.

Not exact matches

Allen follows up about these newer, more unexpected enthusiasts, and Chaput suggests that maybe some of them «would prefer a church that wouldn't have strict norms and ideas about the moral life and about doctrine, and they somehow interpret the pope's openness and friendliness as being less concerned about those things.

The striking similarities to the Church and the «cult but not a cult» portrayed in the show conveys to us an idea about how people outside of the Church might actually perceive the Church.

But I would love to speak my peace about what I have learned in my faith with the church — but maybe God has «cut the strings on that idea»?

Maybe the idea of trying to keep the secular outside the doors of religion and church needs to get turned around, that division between religious and secular torn down, stop worrying about the secular creeping into the sacred, the religion, but rather, taking the sacred, the religion, out into the secular.

Most people have no idea what the Mormon church is about and the influence it has over its members.

I really dislike the «big box» churches and mega-churches, the seem to so fundamentally go against what the whole idea is about.

Actually, the idea of reuniting with loved ones in Heaven was never a part of church doctrine until relatively recently — the afterlife was all about being united with God.

I have NO IDEA about his own sins but he is personally responsible for the sins of the church.

«Well the idea we originally talked about was setting up cameras in the church and I'd attended church and it was a church I wanted to go to, the first church that I really wanted to go to and I didn't want to turn it into a church that I didn't want to go to.

I have written similar ideas before about how the church spends money it receives from tithing, and what could be done with this money instead (e.g., How the Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Minchurch spends money it receives from tithing, and what could be done with this money instead (e.g., How the Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and MinChurch Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Ministry.

Here's an idea, why don't you strip down the vatican and all those churches that are filled with gold items, artwork, marble, and other precious metals and sell the items to feed the poor if you are that concerned about them.

When the church forms an idea about itself, and the church serves that idea, then it has been taken over by the principalities and powers Paul talks about.

It might then be helpful to gather together those principles and ideas about priesthood that have been distinctive within the Faith Movement while being rooted in the theological tradition of priesthood and its practice within the Church.

Heresy and Doctrine in the Early Church In the first few centuries of Christianity, teachers taught wildly different ideas about who Jesus was.

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

If the dogmas of the Christian Church from the second to the sixth century centuries express finally and sufficiently the truths concerning the topics about which they deal, then the Greek philosophy of that period had developed a system of ideas of equal finality.

I am asking theologically about the relation of the ideas that seem now to constitute at least the beginning of a theology of nature to the ideas by which the church is accustomed to living.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

I have so many ideas about what I want church to be, and it's tempting to assume that The Mission will fulfill all those dreams.

, but they have only very hazy ideas about what the Church really says on human dignity, the value of each one of us, the beauty of human love, the value of authentic family life, the mutual companionship of men and women.

This last sentence especially, I believe, helps to contextualize Newman's opposition to building a Catholic church in Oxford, or at least it allows us to cast light on his reasons for diffidence about the idea.

It is about the big things: Inviting people to church but loving them just the same if they say «no,» actually making it a priority to participate and serve in the ministries of the church, financially investing in the mission of the local church and yielding to God's direction of my life over my own ideas of how this life should go.

«In my own experience, I've seen men deposed from ministry, and then a month later I've inquired about them and other church leaders have no idea where they are,» Labby told CT..

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rChurch's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

It doesn't matter to me if the Western Church has «inherited» the idea of original sin and refers to it in its councils; I was talking about your everyday Christian now, what they really believe in an active day to day sense.

First, he believes that in the modern era, the Church Fathers» ideas about divine attributes, traditionally dear to Catholics and Protestants alike — such as divine perfection, simplicity, eternity, and immutability — have to be evaluated anew in light of a narrative reading of the Gospel.

It is worth noting that that New Urbanists derive their ideas about public space and formal order in large part from traditional cities in which churches and their ancillary institutions have been key players.

It is easy to promote the idea that because the church will endure, so ought everything in and about it.

But I'm not sure about just ditching the idea of a vision that the Body has (I'm talking local church)... I mean, although I want sometimes to ditch it, I can't find justification in Scripture.

People of goodwill do not take umbrage at the claim that such elements are «gifts belonging to the Church of Christ [and] are forces impelling toward catholic unity,» although they have their own ideas about what form that unity should take.

The whole idea of dogma — timeless, nonhistorical facts about God, Jesus, the church and so forth — had been completely undermined by the study of history.

It nonetheless raised some disturbing ideas about our «we - are - a-Christian-community» slogans (since we were to apportion salary solely according to performance rather than also, say, on need) and about our endorsement of responsible family and church involvement (since the new system would tempt people financially to neglect these other responsibilities in order to work harder at school)

The catholic Church took a long time to wipe out the idea if they truly have, since we're still talking about it.

«Since I have been coming to church, I have been thinking a great deal about the idea of a transcendent, something that is other than this world.

I was going to ask what possessed you with the idea of going to a mega church anything, but then I read your comment about having good experiences with something similar in Texas.

During the Protestant Reformation, as certain church leaders began to break away from the Catholic church, some of them dropped the idea about the mystical presence of Jesus within the bread and wine, but kept the practice the same.

Based on this idea of the church as a family, Richard Jacobson goes on to talk about church elders as facilitators, on how to carry out conflict resolution within the family of God, and a whole host of other related topics.

Sadly, her illusion about the Catholic Church and critical thinking will shatter as well: «The great thing about a lot of the atheist and skeptic community is that people talk more critically about ideas and want to see proof provided,» Libresco said.

Abandoning a belief in God will cause some resentment towards those who have been telling you about God, sharing the idea of «God» with you, and participating in «church» or «prayer.»

Pietism in Wurttemberg took a politically passive turn because it was largely tolerated by the state church, which was somewhat independent of the king and capable through the involvement of the aristocracy of incorporating new ideas about the nature of the polity.

Yet when the Church's and the minister's idea about his work is uncertain it is not unlikely that some of «our calling's snares» are more than usually difficult to understand and avoid.