Sentences with phrase «in church experience»

Some people believe because they have met someone who shines with New Creation, some believe because when they are in church they experience or once experienced something, some people believe because belief was inculcated in childhood and has never been challenged or the challenge has never risen to the level to breaking the belief system, some people believe because not to believe is too scary to contemplate, some people believe because they read, heard or saw something that broke through into their heart of hearts... There is no one way into or out of belief.

As as result it feels to me that a wall has gone up, just like I experienced resulting in the frustration I described in the church experience I shared.

See Leila Hendrix, Extended Family: Combining Ages in Church Experience (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1979) for an excellent description of the house - church as a model for spiritual formation.

In my church experiences I recognise there was some theology that I have welcomed that ultimately has been hurtful for me although I wouldn't have recognised it as such times.

Not exact matches

A young woman strides through floodwaters on her way to church on a Sunday morning in Igbogeni in Bayelsa State, one of the 14 states affected between July and November 2012 when Nigeria experienced its worst flooding in half a century.

While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

Benedict XVI is adamant that the strength - and weakness - of the Church is found first and foremost in the dioceses, -LSB-...] He studies every dossier prepared for the three candidates in each diocese, he examines the course of studies and professional experience of potential future bishops and finally takes a decision.

@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?

In my experience as a worship leader, there are two kinds of silence in churcIn my experience as a worship leader, there are two kinds of silence in churcin church.

Notwithstanding that I consider that there are some such flaws in the approach adopted by the Judge, I consider it is important that the church does acknowledge, as I do, that we were, and I include myself, at that time only at the beginning of learning how to deal with disclosures of abuse, and leaders such as myself did lack experience and training.

An evangelical caucus, formed early in the Assembly, issued programmatic recommendations to the policy committee, and, at the conclusion of the Assembly, released a letter to churches and fellow evangelicals regarding their experiences.

I have a couple of young adults in my church that were so excited to know that God could actually HEAL THE SICK and had never really experienced it... they drove all night to florida from Brantford Ontario for 1 day and then back (this was between school and their summer classes).

That is not true in my experience as everyone I know who quit going to church did it because they think the bible is complete nonsense, and that Jesus was not the son of god.

Regarding numbers of men vs. women in churches — I've heard that more women than men attend churches but it is not my current experience.

I was amazed at first, then after several hours, my amazement turned to disappointment, disappointment that — I had never known that what I was experiencing was experienced by every man in the church, including the leadership.

Large group gatherings or worship services are the place where the largest number of people within a church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a church.

You would think that would be the end of the experience but no we watched as Rev. Shuller was driven to the church in a very lavish, very expensive Limo and during a commercial break... Best Part!

i am learning that fundamentalism is quite a broad church... but something i notice in common with many fundamentalists is a lack of willingness to enter into conversation with other viewpoints and experiences.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

The only reason I suggest it is because you can witness the demonstration of the power of God in the preached word and it is a very good place to be if you are seeking your own experience, but you don't have to be in church to be saved.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (he?

Although I was raised in a Christian family and charismatic, fundamentalist church, attended a Bible college, and had professed the Christian faith for years, it wasn't until this experience that my intellectual assent of God's truth became deeply personal.

It has been the trend of American churches for some time to venerate marriage as the holy grail of human experience — in spite of the obvious preference of New Testament teachers — including Jesus — for singleness (Matthew 19:10; 1 Corinthians 7).

One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience to the life of Christ's Church.

His experience is a reminder of the twin church bombings in Lahore in March 2015 which killed 70 people - mainly Christians.

If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.

We need to stop defining our churches by what people experience in the doors, but rather by whom people become because of Christ inside those doors.

Cynicism begins because we've had limited experience in the Church.

At a church we once attended, we were assigned a new pastor, a middle aged man who had not pastored before, but felt his experience in leading home bible study groups well - qualified him to lead our church, a congregation of about 80.

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My experience has been those believers that listen among any of these: the ex-ex-gay departing religious «therapy programs», the believers departing from religious belief, and those leaving church - sponsored patriarchy,... in time, these people see the commonality of humanity....

In the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culturIn the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culturin the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culture.

In Pentecostal circles, theology and practice are inseparable, so I would like to offer some observations drawn from my own experiences «on the ground» in Pentecostal churches, which may help corroborate and clarify some of Smith's insightIn Pentecostal circles, theology and practice are inseparable, so I would like to offer some observations drawn from my own experiences «on the ground» in Pentecostal churches, which may help corroborate and clarify some of Smith's insightin Pentecostal churches, which may help corroborate and clarify some of Smith's insights.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ageIn this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the agein the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

There is also the question of history and systems of legality — the church has no formal legal system that can invoke prison sentences (in my experience); the military system does have a legal system and the ability to invoke prison terms.

In my experience, so many people demand credulity and it's what keeps the institutional church from being a place where faith can really grow.

Ten months into our conversion journey, and still wondering how we could be experiencing the grace of God while in an objective state of sin, we decided to petition the Church to investigate the validity of my first marriage.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good of the couple, unity, indissolubility, sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»

12 years later — there we were, driving away from our abusive house church and meglomaniac pastor in our clunky Datsun B210, near bankrupt, with our kids, our TV, our clothing, and my guitar... and a wealth of experience!

From my 40 years of experience in the church all over the world attending each week, to say otherwise is a lie.

As First Church Estates Commissioner, I will be able to build on all my experience both in financial services and at Christian Aid and that's part of what is exciting about it.

There's a fine balance that churches have to strike between impacting the in - person experience for the sake of the online viewers.

I've in Alberta for 16 plus years and in numerous evangelical churches and have never seen or experienced this, quite the opposite really.

Likewise, the relative ease with which the Church can speak publicly against embryo destruction is married oddly to the relative difficulty it experiences in explaining the prohibitions on certain assisted reproductive technologies.

I experienced a lot of good things in Christianity and the church that I still treasure.

As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

In our effort to curate a singular church experience for such a broad and multi-channel audience, we do run into a handful of obstacles.

CONVERSELY, I recently experienced a church CLOSURE (it died) where there was NEVER an opportunity for folks to express themselves, either in worship, in meetings, amongst themselves, with the pastor, with the elders... etc etc — strangely, eventually, it died.