Sentences with phrase «in a conservative church»

If we had not been told one was given in a liberal church and the other in a conservative church, could we have placed them correctly merely from examining the two transcripts?

That's why breastfeeding rates are so low especially in conservative churches.

But since I am a leader in a conservative church, I have to be very careful about it.

A good example of this situation is found in some conservative churches where great emphasis is placed upon quoting and memorizing verses regardless of their contexts.

We see it in the Jesus movement, the charismatic revival with its speaking in tongues, the growth in conservative churches while others decline in numbers and influence, the turn toward Eastern meditative cults, the upsurge once more of belief in an imminent second coming of Christ to put an end to the distresses of our time.

Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in Conservative churches (and I am still casting off theologies that were biased).

The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.

Most of us who grew up in a conservative church environment are familiar with the texts typically associated with this question — found in Genesis 19, Leviticus 18 & 20, Romans 1, I Corinthians 6, and 1 Timothy 1 — and their interpretation from the traditional perspective.

I was taught, if a more conservative time in a conservative church, that the idea of Christ fulfilling the Old Testament was a confirmation of prophecy, and that there is a distinction between keeping kosher, etc., which was no longer necessary, and following the Ten Commandments, which I think even an atheist would admit, are transcendental teachings (after number one anyway).

I am a Christian that has always been taught abstinence in my conservative church.

Though we both grew up in conservative church cultures, Nadia spent much of her young adulthood battling addictions while I kept working the good - girl schtick, even when it wasn't working for me, even when it became shallow and untrue.

A combination of economic growth with the conservation of the dualistic worldview of Victorian America — especially attitudes related to sexuality — partially accounts for growth in conservative churches.

Like was drilled into my brain when I was in the conservative church, Lauren and Yen have been taught, among many other things, that masturbation and being gay (one which is a sexual act and one which is an identity) is wrong.

I've come to realize after growing up in a conservative church and then moving away from that environment that the majority of people that sincerely believe the Bible is to be taken completely literally have never read it all.