Sentences with phrase «interested in church»

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The video of the author describing this book, was very helpful in that it explained where how and why the author became interested in this church.

We keep people interested in the church even though they no longer worship its God.

The obtrusive reference to filthy lucre was apparently necessary, for the Didascalia makes it quite clear that the widows as a class were strenuously interested in their church doles, spitefully attentive to who got what — not widows but wallets, the Greek text puns.

Few of my LGBTQ friends are interested in church, based on previous experiences with churches and Christians.

I'm not interested in our church trying to become something or accomplish something.

He was an eloquent preacher, traveled extensively, and interested himself in the Church at large.

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

What determines this point is primarily how much the laymen are interested in their church, working in it, making of it a going concern.

In North America, where Orthodoxy is a tiny minority, it is often easier to learn about the faith through the Internet than from the nearest Orthodox priest, who may be a long drive away, speak poor English, or be baffled by the very existence of a «regular American» interested in the Church.

People are less interested in the church because there are football games on Sunday, little league games, and people who spend too much time condemning than being inclusive.

Not all of those who are interested in religion are interested in the Church, but some are; and since the war there has been a decided upturn in the number of those considering the ministry and other forms of Christian service.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

Before joining a legalistic Pentecostal - Charismatic cult in 1995, I was a liberal Roman Catholic who was anything but interested in this church's teachings.

The assumption we sometimes make is that only people who are genuinely interested in God are those who are interested in church and the way we do Christianity.

As many of you know, I am interested in church planting.

Many of you who read my blog are also interested in church planting, and so I want to introduce you to a friend of mine, Nathan Laughlin (and his wife Amy), who is heading to Vancouver, BC next year to plant a network of churches called «Open Circle.»

For example, my sister was interested in church and was confirmed and did all those formal things.

Many people who are interested in Church planting movements tend to ignore this reality.

I wasn't interested in church so I didn't participate in those things.

Granting that one of those meetings (as regulated by Paul) still didn't look much like your average Bible church service, Paul expects the results to be favorable, and he doesn't seem interested in the church discontinuing its meetings

My sister became interested in church through her friend.

There is increasing realization on the part of persons who have not been interested in the church in the past that the church has an important role to play.

If you are interested in church planting, or just doing things better at your church to reach out more effectively, many of these sites have excellent free tools and ideas.

The priest isn't a surfer but said he thought it would be a good way to get people interested in the church.

Yeah, Sheik, that may not be the best way to win people's interest in the church:).

All of us are interested in salvation, but all of us have interests in the church that frequently lie outside the church's chief purpose.

This was true even for those who had no interest in church doctrines or worship.

I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom.

Churches in inner cities and poor rural areas are closing, while those that remain are often composed of commuting members with little interest in the church's neighbors.

The survival of faith may or may not be identical with the survival of the Church — and the difference between broadly Christian and specifically Catholic science fiction may be measured by the varying interest in the Church's survival.

~ They felt that they had lost touch with their faith, expressed little interest in church attendance.»

According to the findings of a new research study, interest in church planting is on the rise, some of America's best and brightest ministry leaders choose planting as their career path and church planting efforts are much more successful and promising than anticipated.

We don't know, of course, whether group involvement was the source of their increasing interest in the church, or whether they were already becoming more interested in the church and this interest spurred their group involvement.

He takes great interest in the Church's teaching on homosexuality and from time to time, he is invited to give his personal testimony to groups around the country.

In most of these themes — the centrality of eschatology, a renewed interest in the church as theological locus, Trinity as determinative for all that is said about God, salvation as participation — Pannenberg is in line with much recent theology.

There are people all around us from different ethnic, cultural and religious (or non-religious) backgrounds who have no interest in our churches or our institutional Christianity.

I wish everybody knew how many 14 - year - old girls are losing interest in the Church because they think Christianity is chauvinistic.

It is not hard to see why those with a vested interest in the church — any church — would respond to Barth's rhetoric with consternation and reproach.

Or perhaps there are those who have lost interest in the church and who either follow Altizer or take religious studies as their context.

Schönborn Continued If the evidence of Reuters» 20th - November interview with Cardinal Schönborn is anything to go by, the media still continue to show great interest in the Church's understanding of evolution expressed by the Cardinal in July in the New York Times.

We should work out how to generate greater interest in our churches so that more people can share the Good News that God loves them.

Thereafter no question was raised about it among orthodox Christians, though it was often neglected in periods when there was little interest in church history.

No one can not get around that fact; however what happened to the concern, just take an interest in the church folk who really try and help, be active in attendance, who are outgoing... but again if you are not in the clique or married you are ignored!!!

Before long, however, Carol's kids lost interest in church school and the youth group to which few of their best friends belonged.

«Without question there has been an increase in interest in the Church over the past several years,» church spokesman Michael Purdy told CNN.

By the early 1970s, huge baptismal services were held at the ocean — «happenings» which attracted considerable media attention and more interest in the church.

Then again, no other reason has ever worked for me... Finally, I haven't forgotten Jody's interest in churches, both beautiful ones and ones which must have really, really great personalities.

This concern is accompanied by great interest in the Church and its relations to culture.