Sentences with phrase «introduced him to the church»

I met my spouse in Latin America and I was introduced to a church I had never known before — a happy, festive place where people gathered to share family.

So, I had him stand, introduced him to the church and said, «It is Alton's 52nd birthday and he could not think of a better place to spend it at First Baptist.»

Many were introduced to the church when they attended one of the 12 - step groups that meet in the church and make up its entire small - group ministry.

And as far as the Jerusalem controversy, I would suggest that that debate was a good display of God giving a view of how men bring in false teaching, only to have God use his voices to make right a wrong view being introduced to the Church.

Not exact matches

I was introduced to Erbert & Gerbert's when the owner of the second ever location attended the church I pastored in St. Cloud, Minn..

When you see younger people enter your church for the first time, do you go out of your way to introduce yourself and ask them to sit with you?

The Reformation introduce a wave of man - made false doctrine (the most degenerate of all being Calvinism - TULIP) It is IMPOSSIBLE to be in a church and practice Christian faith.

i beleive there is good out there, and as a Mom i want to make sure i live me life in a way that will make my daughter proud of me so i will introduce Church to her and i will teach her the commandments because whether or not Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets in his hands they are a good starting point to instill good morals.

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

His son has taken steps away from his daddy dearest and raised up a good number of churches to yes fleece his sheep by introducing state of the art issues such as holographic imaging and stage lights and props made to «impress» his emotionally dysfunctional masses all seeking a little societal excitement!

The message comes as he introduces new cost - cutting measures to church offices and has encouraged reforms at the Vatican Bank.

While Greene's project is an ideal way to reinvigorate one's Bible reading (as I hope will be the case with my copy) or introduce readers to Scripture for the first time, it won't ultimately prove as effective in helping us read Scripture theologically and spiritually, with and for the Church, as the editions you and I already have on our shelves.

During his period in Strasbourg, Calvin served as a pastor to a local French «language church at the invitation of Strasbourg's great reformer, Martin Bucer, who also introduced him to the widow who would later become Calvin's wife.

Before the Scotts end their second visit, the people they talk to introduce them to Donna Hardwick, a children's program leader, and to Frank Chavez, who plays on the church's baseball team.

The greeters then introduce them to a couple of families in the church who share some common interests and who the greeters know will spend some time getting to know them.

When I thought about how I would pay for my sins, I finally went to a church on a dare at age 33 and was introduced to the person of Christ.

How then do we present the Church's teaching to the modern world in its orthodox meaning, yet without introducing any sense of arbitrariness or incoherence into God's works, which is what the thinkers named above were all rightly keen to avoid?

But here's the good news: Just as it was the Church that introduced me to patriarchy; it was the Church that introduced me to equality.

They introduced us to the various new movements in the Church such as the Emmanuel community, the charismatic renewal, Opus Dei, and many other initiatives that have kept the Church alive.

When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behaviour to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational eruptions increase.»

At the 11 A.M. worship service, each guide introduced his or her confirmand before the congregation and described one thing that this young disciple was bringing to the church — some aspect of personality or talent.

I had spent a semester at Bethel some years before when I gave the Menno Simons lectures there (The Church Struggle in South Africa), and I remain indebted to that vibrant Mennonite community for introducing me to the writings of John Howard Yoder, with whom I later became well acquainted.

The Emergent movement always struck me as a way to introduce mainstream Protestant theology into the Evangelical church, without all the baggage of a larger church structure and oversight.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Leaders of big churches are very careful to not rock the boat by introducing doctrine that disturbs the status quo.

I think that there are many ways to introduce the issue of sexual violence in a church environment that is not very receptive to it.

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

The Catholic Church introduces a new translation of the Roman Missal throughout the English — speaking world, making the first significant change to a liturgy since 1973.

The distance between the moral principles which the Church proclaims and — leaving aside for the moment the question of the Church's pastoral office — which alone can be propounded doctrinally, and the concrete prescriptions by which the individual and the various human communities freely shape their existence, has now increased to an extent that introduces what is practically a difference of nature as compared with earlier times.

Today I want to introduce you to a pastor and a church that might be characterized by some as «nontraditional,» but that seem to me to be modeling a very ancient way of doing church.

Pentecost would be the time to introduce and reinforce the idea that the church must gather in small clusters in order to mature.

Justin's Sunday school teacher connected him with Rick, and assistant pastor at Justin's church who introduced him to a group called Homosexuals Anonymous.

The Church of England's General Synod is to consider whether to introduce a way to allow transgender Christians affirm their new identity in a church seChurch of England's General Synod is to consider whether to introduce a way to allow transgender Christians affirm their new identity in a church sechurch setting.

I was endeavoring to introduce a new way of being a church, and it was an incredibly difficult time resisting the incessant demands to legislate peoples» spiritual lives.

This is maybe just one more reason why it is important to not «invite people to church» but to introduce people to Jesus, our friend.

I also agree it is more important to introduce people to Jesus than try to force and guilt them in how they should be in church.

Although my studies at these two schools introduced me to the scope and depth of Western thought on the issue of evil, the way in which the problem was defined was quite different from its definition in the black church.

How can the Church claim to speak for eternally valid truth unless it has some means to correct the errors that its less - than - perfect members inevitably introduce into its life from time to time?

No, what American Catholics are happy about, or should be, is that the pope is bringing Christianity into the dialogue with secularism in a way that doesn't alienate the people he would like to introduce to Christ via grace and mercy AND that he is doing so while maintaining the firm teachings the Church holds on moral matters.

It takes a confident church to introduce testimony, I suspect — one willing to face the unpredictable and to release some control.

At the same time, he (1) carefully introduces sections which are to come in his book; Revelation 1:12 - 20 prepares the reader for the letters to the churches already mentioned in 1:11; chapters 4 and 5 lead up to chapter 6; and (2) on the other hand, introduces various matters without explaining them until later (the «morning star» of 2:28 is not explained until 22:16; the «seven thunders» of 10:3 are never explained).

It's another man made tactic introduced by religion to intimidate and frighten people into donating money to the Church (s).

Test 2: «He [Joseph Smith] also introduced the church to a full accounting of his First Vision, in which two heavenly «personages» (LDS interpret them to be God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ) appeared to him at age 14.

In Christendom he too is a Christian, goes to church every Sunday, hears and understands the parson, yea, they understand one another; he dies; the parson introduces him into eternity for the price of $ 10 — but a self he was not, and a self he did not become.

He claimed he was first introduced to Christianity in China in 2005; he first joined a church while he was in Canada.

The methods of form criticism help us to pick out aspects of the gospel accounts of Jesus» conduct and teaching which are in sharp contrast to the current practice and teaching of his day, and which it would not have been in the earliest church's interest to introduce into the material: for example, Jesus» attitude to women, his table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners», his refusal of the epithet «good», and Mark's comment — altered by Matthew — that in Nazareth «he could do no mighty work».

Recently denounced by both the American Jewish Committee and the National Council of Churches, the movement has seldom been out of the public eye, whether at its own instance as in the blitz of pro-Nixon demonstrations which effectively introduced the group to the U.S., or as the target of lawsuits, legislative investigations, and parent - employed «deprogrammers.»

«Over the last three decades I have had the pleasure of standing on a church stage and introducing women teachers, knowing that the congregation was about to hear a message inspired and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

However, this book will introduce the Neocatechumenate to a readership in the wider Church: despite its poor style, it is an easy read and has an appealing message of joy and encouragement.

The church took further precautions against religious enthusiasm: for my catechism I was introduced to New Testament form criticism and to Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, John Macmurray.