Sentences with phrase «in a church which»

Can someone please understand why so many catholics stay in a church which takes positions they can not either support or live?

There is a bit about religion in there too, mostly about unhealthy perfectionism in church which only increases the shame as no - one is perfect yet nearly every - one is striving to be (or pretends).

A clergyman functions as a preacher when he proclaims Christ, the significance of Christ for men, and the need for acceptance of Christ as bringing wholeness of life; he is to preach for repentance and for participation in the Church which is the setting for the gospel.

Just as the Virgin Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the human scene, so also this type of development to which we appeal can not take place, except in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.

They believe in a Church which knows of a natural law and which aims at subjecting not only the sentiments of men's hearts but also the concrete reality of life and history to the law of the Gospel.

The same question can be raised about women becoming equal to men in a church which has lost its way, or in a political system which is no longer responsive to people.

They believe in a Church which has the courage, not only to proclaim an eternal life as God's gift and the hope of men, but also to declare that, and how, man has to shape this world of his and its conditions according to the will of God.

The traditional doctrine of the communion of saints had heavenly members in the church which had an influence upon it.

The essay was a reply to the measures already taken by the Nazis against Jews, particularly the introduction of an «Aryan paragraph» in the churches which barred non-Aryans from the ministry, religious teaching and theological faculties.

You, Dave, have identified a potential problem in your church which is more than just semantics.

How would you encourage people who are in churches which are not really involved in their communities?

I am a priest in a church which, like most churches, threatens to collapse under the weight of a perverse notion of a sexuality that is to be neither celebrated nor related to other issues of love and justice.

One example of the evidence for the Indian apostolate of Thomas is Didascalia Apostolorum (Teaching of the Apostles), a book probably written around AD 250, which says, «India and all its countries and those bordering on it, even to the farthest sea, received the Apostle's Hand of the Priesthood from Judas Thomas, who was Guide and Ruler in the church which he built and ministered there.»

â $ ¦ the churches are so debilitated and apostate that a Christian can hardly bear to remain in a church, and yet, on the other hand, no Christian can leave a church lest he fail to confess his own part of the responsibility for the very conditions in a church which provoke protest

This is true even in the churches which give little or no emphasis to baptism, the Lord's Supper, or the other five sacraments recognized in Catholicism: confirmation, penance, marriage, extreme unction, and, for priests, ordination.

I was aware of a crisis of teaching in the Church which seemed to me was sapping the spiritual lives of the people in the pews.

There are many so - called Christian «spirits» now at work in our churches which deny that «Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.»

It is the notion of the ministry as representative and functional, standing for, and acting on behalf of, Christ; yet standing for Him and acting in His behalf as Christ Himself acts in the Church which belongs to Him.

Nor is he impotent in a church which doesn't have a vision statement and a list of goals.

There are many in leadership in the church which do a great job as indicated by Teague, surely if abuse is to be addressed, empowering leaders that do good in the church is as important as addressing issues with wayward leaders.

These ministers were relating with disturbed persons in churches which were stable in membership, with regular worship and a moderate to full program each week.

Finally, our position is in the midst of that increasing group in the church which has heard the command to halt, to remind itself of its mission, and to await further orders.

It is quite another matter, however, to accept membership in the Church historic, for this means sharing in the Church which witnesses in the New Testament and to which the New Testament witnesses.

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

Our faith, our worship, and our life are all knit together in the fact of our Christian membership in the Church which is the Body of Christ; they are all part of our total response to the revelation of God in Christ and so they play, each one of them, an indispensable part in our movement of return to the God who is our Creator.

While the classical concept emerged in a church which understood itself as a communion of churches, it was nonetheless a united Church.

The language of the passage is thoroughly Pauline, and we should, perhaps, not have suspected that the matter of it was traditional, but that it clearly alludes to regulations for the treatment of offenders in the church which are to be found in Matthew 18:15 - 17.

There are groups within the sects on both sides which disagree with the stand taken by the majority: there are total abstinence groups in churches which do not stand for total abstinence; there are «moderation» groups in churches which stand for total abstinence.

This is not to deny that there are elements in the church which remain constant throughout history.

In a church which understands itself as God's pilgrim people, called to confront new challenges, church leaders have a double duty.

The Petrine office must change its form once more if it is not to become an obstacle and a foreign body in a church which is itself evolving.

«The power of God,» writes Charles West, «the reconciling work of Christ, operates not in a church which meets on Sunday morning and perhaps once or twice during the week, not on the edge of the world, but in the middle of daily life, and thought.»

He was interpreted in ways which partly obscured him — as all interpretations must — but the most authentic records of his teachings, life, death, and resurrection were preserved and honored, and he was given chief place in the Church which was declared to be his body.

I have spent the majority of my life in churches which used such questions in a way to suggest that there can only be one possible conclusion.

Beth Redman remembers a moment growing up in church which further emphasises this: «When I was very young I saw a song on the overhead was written by a married couple [Noel and Tricia Richards] and something about that really impacted me... Even as a young child I knew God was speaking to me that one day I would do that with my husband too.»

Linguistically the word evangelical is rooted in the Greek word evangelion and refers to those who preach and practice the good news; historically the word refers to those renewing groups in the church which from time to time have called the church back to the evangel; theologically it refers to a commitment to classical theology as expressed in the Apostles» Creed; and sociologically the word is used of various contemporary groupings of culturally conditioned evangelicals (i.e., fundamentalist evangelicals, Reformed evangelicals, Anabaptist evangelicals, conservative evangelicals).

Rather they have been happy to suggest, - more often by subtle implication and spin than with straightforward candour - that (i) the priesthood is fairly riddled with abusers, (ii) there is an international culture of cover - up in the Church which (iii) goes right to the top of the Church, and (iv) that Catholic institutions such as celibacy and hierarchy are to blame — even that Catholic teaching of children about its sexual morality is a form of intellectual abuse of large numbers of children.

«Beset by an advancing Islam in the East, having lost the larger proportion of its wide - flung communities in Asia, and suffering from corruption and indifference in the church which represented it in the west, in AD 1500 Christianity did not seem to face a promising future.

But rumbling in the background since late February has been a crisis in the Church which suggests that our searching for an accommodation with contemporary British culture may have seriously over-reached itself.

However I patron David because I think there is a place for what he does here and how he goes about doing it that perhaps does give encouragement to those who are on the margins in church which change agents there commonly are.

These, however, will be refuted by none other than the Spirit conveyed in the church which the apostles were the first to receive.

There emerged a strong national consciousness in the Church which is reflected in its theology and witness.

Can we create support groups in the churches which will help people work through the many conflicts they face every day between their Christian values and the requirements of their jobs?

«It is surprising to see that people are reluctant to pray for the President in the church which is non-political body.

I'm a deacon in the church which means alot to me.

There has already been a publicized case of a man living in a church which was considered a landmark and ended up as a Pokémon Gym.

Not exact matches

Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.

French actress Clotilde Courau looks over the shoulder of her new husband Emanuele Filiberto, the head of the Royal House of Savoy, as they leave their wedding, which was held at Rome's elite Santa Maria degli Angeli church on September 25, 2003, in Rome, Italy.

According to Jeffrey Augustine, author of the blog The Scientology Money Project, the church has a book value of $ 1.75 billion, about $ 1.5 billion of which is tied up in real estate, mostly at its headquarters in Clearwater and in Hollywood, Calif..

Daniel Neyoy Ruiz, 37, spent 27 days in the church before he was granted a one - year deportation reprieve, which was renewed in May.