Sentences with phrase «in the church where»

«We love The Church of England but would like to end our days in a church where we can live and worship in anonymity and without constant fear.

Like being in church where everyone was singing and shouting in one voice.

I was brought up in a church where there was no one leader, pastor, minister etc..

Growing up in a church where I seen this all the time I always felt like the odd ball b / c I always found it awkward that we «must» worship.

8, If that can't happen in Church where is the hope for our world?

I also had a situation in that church where I was being sexually harassed by somebody who was an elder there for several years as a teenager.

I spent years in churches where people were always saying that, and I don't remember anything good coming from those people.

This is especially true in churches where children memorize scripture.

Brig, it sounds like you need to help your daughter find a youth group in another church where she will not be bullied.

If someone out there is involved in a church where sinners aren't welcome or shouldn't feel comfortable, then that's not a Godly church.

Keep religion out of government and in the church where it belongs.

Since then we're still the «bed guys» because we didn't stayed in a church where the pastor had affair with a church member and the leadership didn't know how to handle the situation.

In a church where I was minister of counseling, we gathered a group of six couples for a series of four two - hour enrichment sessions by simply mailing invitations to all the couples who had been married during the previous two years.

For example, it is an observable fact that it is in those churches where dramatic conversions during adolescence are highly rated and are expected, that they actually occur in significant numbers.

I was brought up in a church where no titles were used — but that might not work everywhere!

You see, I have actual experience of being involved in a church where Mormons, Buddhists, Atheists, and others were actively participating.

Attitudes have begun to change in churches where the senior pastors have made a regular and conscientious effort to use clergywomen as supply preachers, as workshop leaders and speakers, and as substitutes during pastoral emergencies or vacation times.

With great excitement, I started looking for examples in my church where that was going on.

Mostly because in speaking with a coworker about church, he said he was raised in the church and believes in God, but has never been in a church where the leaders weren't greedy — and he gave this exact example, and said that the same pastor drove a luxury car.

This is true both in churches where authoritative (and sometimes authoritarian) church hierarchies supposedly have great power to control what happens in the local church, and in decentralized communions in which the local minister has the final say.

Not the zany kind you get in some churches where the goal is to put the Psychic Hotline out of business, but the biblical kind.

I grew up in a church where basically, the by - line, the subtitle for everything was, «If the Bible says it, that settles it.»

And I don't want to worship in a church where I am not welcome because of my skin color anyway.

Niebuhr died serenely at his home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts — the same town where Edwards was once banished for his too - demanding theology — and his funeral was held in the church where Edwards had preached.

If you've been around Christian subculture for a while, you can start to feel worn out by the responses, especially if you're in a church where an RSVP is extended every Sunday.

From my perspective, that is the result of sitting in any church where the minister preaches the notion of «all have sinned», «all have gone astray», «all who do not (insert doctrine here) will spend eternity in hell»

If you are in a church where such spiritual abuse is taking place, just leave.

Why do you think that in churches where we claim to believe the truth of the Bible we've got away with ignoring parts of it for so long?

Sometimes (but not always) in churches where healing and miracles take place, there is also a lot of chaos, bad theology about God, and power struggles between leaders.

Why not ask to be married in the church where you are member?

Last year I offered extra credit to any students willing to overturn the tables in their churches where the selling of so - called goods was occurring.

Also, in light of the previous point, this sort of makes pastors and preachers the dealers in this transaction, which is why you will very often find the most Bible addicts in a church where the pastor and preacher places an heavy and constant emphasis on attending church, listening to sermons, daily Bible reading, and going to Bible studies.

We no longer go to church, because of the burns we have experienced being very involved in churches where the vision and the desire to control people's lives got out of control.

Is there another department in your church where his capabilities are needed?

The point is being reached in the Church where the only viable alternative for removal of automatically excommunicated 1 bishops, of various ranks, from office is for people of faith to take matters into their own hands.

Within a local area, numbers of churches will tacitly accept an ecumenical answer by simply pointing out that «signing» for the deaf is carried on at one or more specific churches in the city, and deaf members in a church where such signing is not practiced are in effect invited to the church where it is, even though that church may be of another denomination.

Respect others» freedom from religion and keep the sermons in the the church where they belong.

This is refreshing at a time in the Church where the option for and call to religious life can often be presented in a rather self - centred manner.

In fact, I was raised in a church where God's kindness was stressed more than anything else.

Have you ever been in a church where a leader quoted 2 Timothy 4:3 - 4, and then proceeded to show why most other churches are heretical or spiritually immature because they can not endure sound doctrine, but instead, heap up for themselves teachers who give them what their itching ears want to hear?

If you're in the Church where this stuff happens, you're responsible with everyone else.

Thankfully I survived growing up in a church where we unknowingly had 3 pedophiles priests.

As for celibacy, if instances of clerical sexual abuse, including homosexual abuse, are as frequent in churches where the clergy can marry» and the evidence is that they are» celibacy would seem to be, at most, marginally related to the problems that produced the scandals.

And yet, in the church where the major tither was having an affair everyone in the community knew about, there he was, in our neighbor congregation's «special music» time, singing «If It Wasn't for That Lighthouse, Where Would This Ship Be?»

If you are in a church where everybody seems to have devotions every day, their prayers are always answered in miraculous ways, and everybody seems to be talking about God all the time... you might be in a fantasy church.

Religion should exists in churches where people just want to feel better about the things over which they have no control.

More generally, it was the bishops who neglected to use their canonical power to create effective procedures to develop a climate and practice in the Church where such things could be more effectively prevented and identified.

But I have been in churches where it didn't matter that I had voiced them.

So I put them here, in the church where no one's around to read them.

Today I grieved very intensely at what happened in my church where dialogue was mercilessly cut down and a few of us had to leave.