Sentences with phrase «just going to church»

It looks like I might end up just going to church again today because I don't feel like arguing with my wife about it.
As more Christians understand that following Jesus involves not just going to church, but caring for the needs of the poor and oppressed in our world, the hierarchical boundaries in the church start to melt away.
They are BEING the church, not just GOING to church.
They're just going to church with their friends, unaware that their congregation is a model for how to be «post» many things (postevangelical, postliberal, postconservative, postmodern) precisely by sinking its roots deeper into the local, the particular and the church catholic.
That's why you come here instead of just going to church and praying.
I was around many people who said they were Christians who in reality were just going to church but it wasn't a reality in their lives.
But just going to church and hearing sermons — sorry, Dr. Colletti — doesn't get me very far.
Like all humans, they are as full of hypocrisy as the rest of us, why don't they just go to church if it pleases them, or not, and let the rest of us deal with our own spirituality.
No, you can have bad greedy Catholics who just go to Church to sort of check it off their list.
These are the people that just go to church and are «culturally» Christian.
This is Kyle's and my first Easter away from home, so we'll probably just go to church, watch some movies with Nala, and enjoy an obscene amount of mimosas.
Most weekends / Holidays are pretty chill for us so we just went to church and spent time with family.

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Even if you believe God is vanishingly unlikely to exist, the consequence of being wrong (Hell) is so great, and the benefits of being right (not having to go to church on Sundays) so comparatively miniscule, that you should probably just believe in God to be on the safe side.
So, if you are supposed to start a church or plant something, do you have to wait to be assessed, or do you just go?
she is just a bit sold out, otherwise she would understand that there are 300 million different people and not a one goes to every church.
Without casting stones at churches that are just trying to see their businesses make it through the recession, I want to point something out here — going on mission trips should not...
Science teachers wish they would just go back to church where they belong.
Without casting stones at churches that are just trying to see their businesses make it through the recession, I want to point something out here — going on mission trips should not be optional.
But consider too that being LDS is not a Christmas - and - Easter religion; we don't even go to church for just one hour sometime over the weekend.
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 sayTo 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 sayto consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.
In just a few weeks I have learned more than I did in 30 + years going from church to church.
Now why don't you go talk to the thousands of ex-Mormons who have been shunned by their family and friends for the rest of their lives just because they disagreed with certain church teachings.
I wonder what would happen if our churches were to recognize our role in showing people the future, not just in our teaching and in our going but in our being?
As far as the donating goes, if they want to donate to a church organization then that's fine but to donate to groups that stand against my right to live free and have the same rights as everyone else is this god for sacking country then that's just wrong.
We were just going to press with an issue that included an outstanding article by Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., on the second draft of «One in Christ Jesus: A Pastoral Response to the Concerns of Women for Church and Society.»
It's about common decency and respect for all the victims, not just the ones who went to the same church as you.
Maybe she just chose the wrong church to go to.
As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.
Also, you might like to pretend you're an «adopted jew» but please, I beg you, go to your church tomorrow and or just talk to any christian and call them an adopted jew, see how they react and then report back here, I would love to hear the reaction you got.
oh, FYI, you won't save yourself just because you go to church and there's no one in this world who's perfectly «good».
Just out of curiosity, do you go to Bobby Thieme's church in Houston, TX, or listen to his lessons on dvd?
Then every time we go to church we're just making him madder».
Just because I don't attend your storefront church doesn't mean I'm going to Hell.
Many of them go to church only if it's convenient, or only on Christmas or Easter (happy Easter btw) and a lot of them wouldn't go at all but for that nagging «just in case» feeling, but a lot of them are very quick to rant and rail at people who are content and secure in their acceptance that there is no God.
«I think that's a great opportunity for the Church to go in, be the hands and feet of Jesus, and really meet that community where it's at, just being the presence of God, being a listening ear and being able to help people.»
Couldn't he just have decided to go to church???? Why is it about august polls and what Americans think.
I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.
I just refuse to be a regular church - goer anymore and you can thank Father Louis Toma who molested the brothers of my father who were alter boys and also the Catholic church for protecting them.
These are just the items that I know about, and I don't go to church with her but once every couple months.
There is alot of debate out there about Christians, but just forget that debate, and take it from me, a person who says prayers, goes to church, has trouble destroying ants on the doorstep... this is how I would describe my faith... its a country song, but give it a chance, its a good song.
I became a Christian at age 13 when I went to a well - known church camp in upstate New York and was threatened with the imminent — as in «all the signs are there; it may just happen tonight» — return of Christ.
I just don't think going to church for an hour every once and a while, and even living in a Christian country, quite measures up to brainwashing.
I guess most Christians think Obama went to church just for appearances because that is what most Christians do.
I think you're right as far as the general thrust of recent CDF statements goes (think of Dominus Iesus, or the recent clarification on the meaning of the word Church), I guess I just found your exclamation» Take that, Karl Rahner» to be a bit....
I just couldn't take it anymore and stopped going to church.
Question: When you or a family member or co-worker or friend go to church of a Sunday, are you «parading yourself as being a Christian» or are you just... oh,..
Perhaps one of his daughters wanted to go, or his wife, or he had a dream that made him miss church, or he finally had some free time, or he just missed going... you have NO idea.
The fact that this «church» has been around so long and has been able to get away with all of its MANY atrocities just goes to show you how high up the corruption goes.
It does become culture just to turn up at church on a Sunday; you can go through worship time, sing the songs, and then you're out the other side without even knowing it.
I had to beg my parents to let me quit Sunday school when I was about 13, going to church just isn't fulfilling to me, its frustrating.
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