Sentences with phrase «kind of church did»

What kind of church did you go to the «enforced» this kind of twisted activities?

The real damage these kind of churches do, especially to children, is they teach them to live their lives in fear.

So what kind of church does God attend?

But what kind of Church does this create?

Our research at the Polis Center leads us to be suspicious of much of what we hear about available resources or the kinds of churches doing urban ministry.

3) What kind of church do you go to?

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WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

You CAN still reproduce by having relations with memebers of the opposite gender, that is obvious, what you are missing out on is that to ensure that people didn't prefer same gender relationships over the opposite gender relationships, it was made a sin punishable by death to avoid any kind possible population reduction from members of the church.

The USA is a place that is free from any kind of religious classification and official religious sponsorship, primarily because the founding fathers didn't want the church to have control on par with that of the church in England.

I don't often hear any of George Carlin's favorite words in church, but I sure as hell * do * hear a lot of cursing of people, often in the name of Christ — exactly the kind of cursing shown by the men on the left and right in your cartoon.

Real gods don't need church leaders of any kind.

I don't agree with him, but I don't think he's delusional, and I think he's the kind of believer that all atheists would be pretty comfortable with as opposed to the «the church is always right» variety.

I do not attend any kind of church or social gatherings in regards to my non-religious beliefs.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

If these CHRISTians, as they like to be called, just stayed in their churches, helped the poor, stopped spreading hate — the kinds of things their boss said they should do, we wouldn't be bothered as much.

Still, Bonhoeffer's presence at what he called «quite a wonderful Mass» did bear witness to a kind of broken unity, a sanctorum communio not yet fully realized in the visible church of the undivided Christ here and now.

«Churches actually have an amazing opportunity if they would just turn their minds to it, and many are, and reaching people in the community with the kind of help that the Church has always done in the past.

That kind of fellowship does not happen in churches â $ «and anyone that tells you it does â $ «hasnâ $ ™ t been to church long enough.

YOU::: That kind of fellowship does not happen in churches â $ «and anyone that tells you it does â $ «hasnâ $ ™ t been to church long enough.

«He just doesn't get that aspect of theology because of the kind of church he grew up in,» my friend commented after a lively theology debate with a mutual friend.

This is not a church where they typically do that, but it's kind of a basic thing.

Because even though the phrase «going to church» kind of bugs me (we don't go, we are), and even though it's messy and imperfect, even though I've let them down and they have let me down, even though there are disappointments, even though I don't agree with everybody and they probably think I'm crazy sometimes, too, even though I don't think we need an official sanctioned Sunday morning thing to be part of the Body of Christ, because even though I think the Church crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope anchurch» kind of bugs me (we don't go, we are), and even though it's messy and imperfect, even though I've let them down and they have let me down, even though there are disappointments, even though I don't agree with everybody and they probably think I'm crazy sometimes, too, even though I don't think we need an official sanctioned Sunday morning thing to be part of the Body of Christ, because even though I think the Church crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope anChurch crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope and joy.

No sooner had I finished my piece for Faith magazine's last issue (in which, my readers may recall, I encouraged Polish Catholics to keep themselves at arms length from the secularised and indifferentist ethos of many English dioceses) than news emerged that one English bishop at least had done something to try to address the problem, and that he had in the process aroused the kind of secularist hostility which is, I strongly suspect, — certainly in this country — the only really reliable sign that the Catholic Church is being faithful to its vocation.

Jonathan: What do you think that we can and should do as Christians in the American Church to kind of heal the divides, understand each other and begin to repair the damage that's been done as a result of these political conversations.

«These ministers represent the kind of Christianity that makes me reluctant to say to people I don't know that I'm a Christian, and the kind of speakers for the faith that drove all my children out of churches because they would not put up with such judgmentmentalism.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

We can also ask: What kind of leadership do our churches need in a world heading for disaster?

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

There are many people who don't care too much what kind of music a church plays.

Any real faith (meaning the kind that actually does move mountains) died out of the «Christian Church» when the Bible was canonized, with little exception, and most of the exceptions were exterminated.

What kind of church is it if you don't mind me asking?

And, no, I'm not a sneaky, prissy, telltale kind of bloke and I don't snitch on people if I hear them saying things I don't think make a church look good.

I do believe spiritual abuse is rampant, that systems perpetually pull towards inhumane policies and treatment of people, and that all kinds of harmful ideas, attitudes and behaviours run rampant inside systems, including the church.

For the church, this kind of liability insurance has to do with, say, a pulpit falling on a teen or an elderly woman slipping on ice.

The ABC was kind enough to send transcripts of the programs it did on these giants of modern Catholicism, so I was able to read what others had to say about the Church's two newest saints.

David does a lot of good work on this blog, he is absolutely a compassionate, kind man... but he also leaves a lot to be desired for those who don't see church thru his lens or church experiences.

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

Of course, he also has admitted to driving his truck through several churches and doing jail time for drunk driving, but that just the kind of guy Jesus chooses as his propheOf course, he also has admitted to driving his truck through several churches and doing jail time for drunk driving, but that just the kind of guy Jesus chooses as his propheof guy Jesus chooses as his prophet.

Even if you don't specifically believe in God or go to church every sunday, there is nothing wrong in believing in some kind of «greater being» that you can rely on and that will guide you down the right path.

I heard more of their intersecting stories, and when Idelette was done talking about her book, about her passions, I wanted to see her on every stage of every slick Christian conference, to bring some mama - truth, to preach the Gospel of Being With Each Other, but then I kind of had to shrug because part of Idelette's power is that she's outside of that system, outside of that church - marketing world, too busy living the truth of it to package it.

I am sure they were kind - hearted and loved the Lord deeply, but I wondered if what we were doing, whether we knew it or not, was worshipping at the altar of our American - defined ideal of success, only in the setting of a local church.

If the Church alters laws of that kind and to that extent itself changes, it does so only within the immutability of a fundamental principle, namely, that the Church has the right and duty to make changeable regulations for the spiritual good of its members.

What kind of job has the church done addressing those inequalities up until now?

Every clergyperson — bishop, pastor, minister, elder, and deacon — knows what kinds of concerns reign in church business meetings, and those concerns DO NOT focus on «righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.»

You don't join a church or do any kind of religious works or rituals to be saved.

In response, I wrote and distributed throughout our church a little pamphlet called «Attending the Church that God Does» explaining that if Jesus were walking planet earth today, ours was the kind of church He would achurch a little pamphlet called «Attending the Church that God Does» explaining that if Jesus were walking planet earth today, ours was the kind of church He would aChurch that God Does» explaining that if Jesus were walking planet earth today, ours was the kind of church He would achurch He would attend.

But if that is done by the Church's magisterium, it can only be through propositions which are not themselves absolute dogma but serious and valid items of knowledge (in varying degrees, of course, and of very many different kinds), but knowledge which in principle is subject to revision and capable of improvement, and which can be deepened, clarified, given greater discrimination, improved in this or that respect, or even abandoned.

In short, anyone who appreciates the rapid change in historical circumstances and does not flee from this into a ghetto; anyone who knows that there is and always has been a mutable, human law of the Church, and that this kind of change has always been practised; anyone, moreover, who reflects that the Church not only has the right but the duty of shaping its canon law in accordance with changes in the times, will not be surprised at the change in many legal regulations which he is living through at the present time, but will recognize and accept this as a sign of the vitality of the Church and its pastoral care.

I doubt that they'll do much of a funeral for him - other than maybe some kind of ceremony down in their catacombs (church basement).

We want to be firmly planted in the Word, like a tree by streams of living water, that bears fruit in season, it's leaves don't whither in the drought, it doesn't blow over with all kinds of trends and false teachings, it is there through thick and thin, when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring, that is the kind of church we want to be.»