Sentences with phrase «is that in our churches today»

He was in my church today... but I couldn't get that needed hug because of the clamoring, noisy throng.
For converts like my wife and «reverts» like me, the fact that contemporary American Catholicism is led by the likes of Chaput, Dolan, George, Lori, Cordileone, Gomez, and O'Connell, «JPII men» shaped by the theology of Benedict XVI and full of the joy of Pope Francis, is a large part of the reason why we are in the Church today and not in the wilderness.
Where is that in our churches today!
It is sad but that is just the way it is in churches today.

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There were some 267 million Catholics in the world in 1900; today, the world Church counts 1.2 billion members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the middle of the century.
In the ongoing discussion of Catholic literature today, the basic question is whether Catholic writers actually need the Church, and not just any church, but the full - on, countercultural Catholic Church with its magisterial teachings iChurch, and not just any church, but the full - on, countercultural Catholic Church with its magisterial teachings ichurch, but the full - on, countercultural Catholic Church with its magisterial teachings iChurch with its magisterial teachings intact.
Anyhow, I believe the emergent church faction has some legitimate beefs with organized religion today, but I also believe that it is mostly in error.
But Reid is quite sure, on grounds having nothing to do with this interview, that «right - wingers» like Chaput, in charge of the Church in the U.S. for three decades, are responsible for its allegedly parlous state today.
Today the Church does not tell you in very clear language that this act is a sin.
Today he's considered «first among equals» in the leadership of the Greek Orthodox church, and is the spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians around the world.
«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»
The issue of being gay in the church is a very real issue today, one I wish to address and deal with, and this video suggested to me that the Vineyard might be one of the places to do this well.
If anyone here is sick and tired of all the silliness and nonsense in religion today and want a real church, I invite you to check out mormon.org where you can talk (not to a paid professional), but to ordinary members who volunteer their time for free because they just believe in serving and want to answer your questions.
It's not * wrong * or «creepy» to spend a lot of time in church activities, especially considering how many people today lament the end of community integration, where people used to know each other and plan activities together.
The Church is currently undergoing a process of finding out the best way to respond to the issue of sexuality in today's society.
The issue of being a sinner, period, in the church is a very real issue today.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today over the weekend, Rev. Andrew White, the vicar of Iraq's only Anglican church, said that the situation caused by ISIS rebels is...
Arguably the foremost decision unanimously agreed upon at that assembly of church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians church heads was the convocation of a Great Council in 2016, tentatively planned to be held in the Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians Church of Haghia Irene — the site of the second ecumenical council of 381, which completed the «creed» recited by most Christians today.
If the catholic church were an international day care center,, the pope, cardinals and bishops would be in jails today.
I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.
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Even today, the most segregated place in Alabama is any given church on any given Sunday.
Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.
On its last day, a key figure in the hierarchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Paul of Chernobyl and Vyshgorod, led a blessing service for Yanukovych and his clique at the Kyev - Pechersk Lavra, notoriously assuring him, «Today you carry a heavy cross, and the Church will be with you to the end, just as Simon of Cyrene helped carry the cross of Christ to Calvary.»
These were values openly espoused by your church at one point and continue in one form or another against specific groups today.
I, being a lowly «closeted» Christian do see the immoralities of today's mega-monolithic styled churches whose upkeep and maintainence dollars would feed in the 3rd world countries and even in the US of A bookoo people!
For those of you who don't know, Mark Driscoll is pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington, who has become quite a controversial figure in today's church and Christianity, as well as curiouChurch in Seattle, Washington, who has become quite a controversial figure in today's church and Christianity, as well as curiouchurch and Christianity, as well as curiously...
Your church is a haven for those who want a deeper relationship with God without becoming one of «them» (Think pukey pollyanna Christians with a pasted on smile who declare with Jesus in your life everything is wonderful... sort of like the cartoon you posted today).
Maybe you didn't get the memo: The «inclusive» churches are in huge membership decline, have been for 50 years, still hemorrhaging today.
While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couChurch has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couchurch councils.
The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.
A few specific social issues have been selectively identified and put in the forefront of today's Christian church.
However, on Premier's News Hour, Natalie Williams, co-author of the books, «A Church For The Poor» and «The Myth Of The Undeserving Poor - A Christian Response to Poverty in Britain Today» said that some efforts of the church were going unrecognised stChurch For The Poor» and «The Myth Of The Undeserving Poor - A Christian Response to Poverty in Britain Today» said that some efforts of the church were going unrecognised stchurch were going unrecognised stating:
As powerful as these church commemorations are, other historical narratives compete with them in today's Russia.
Revd Steve Wild is President of the Methodist Conference joined Queen Elizabeth II and other church leaders to remember veterans in Whitehall today.
Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.
Yep — this is just more proof of the concerted lopsided media bias toward the Church by the liberal lefties embedded in the Media of today.
The Anglican Church currently runs 4,500 primary schools and 200 secondary schools in England and it is thought 15 million people alive today attended one of its schools.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today over the weekend, Rev. Andrew White, the vicar of Iraq's only Anglican church, said that the situation caused by ISIS rebels is so bad that it could be the end of Christianity in the regioIn an interview with BBC Radio 4 Today over the weekend, Rev. Andrew White, the vicar of Iraq's only Anglican church, said that the situation caused by ISIS rebels is so bad that it could be the end of Christianity in the regioin the region.
At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.
I think one reason the Reformation was so brilliant, so powerful, so swift in its spread, and still such an anchor — honestly: Luther and Calvin and Zwingli, et.al., but especially Luther, make me feel sane — for many of us today is because as it was taking shape and rescuing hearts, there was no Protestant Church yet to discredit it.
Elements of the church today have fetishized culture in general (and entertainment specifically) to a degree that is unhealthy, not only for the church, but for the culture, too.
Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15
It illustrates exactly what is going on in the Church today.
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Many in the Church today are frequently told we are sinful, awful, terrible human beings.
You can say what you want — but in my opinion, the Mormon church is the most racially integrated church in existence today.
Too many lies along with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are taught in the churches today (Christmas, Easter, Eternal torment in Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must go.
By contrast to what we previously knew of the Church in Roman Africa, today we are able to envision «an immensely wider landscape,» writes Brown.
I believe this is the worst doctrine in the church today.
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