Sentences with phrase «liberal church»

Liberal church leaders were disposed to look kindly on environmental issues, and global warming joined the list.

We have become so jaded in the church — most particularly in the liberal church — that we have forgotten what has been entrusted to us.

But the book also reveals why seminarians today have trouble picking Fosdick up, and why liberal church leaders will not find in Fosdick clues to revitalizing today's «oldline» (mainline) churches.

Even though I went to a pretty liberal church, the senior pastor did not like his ideas challenged.

I've always found that the more conservative AND the more liberal the church... the more they hate the idea of being challenged.

Indeed, in the 1960s the liberal church leadership grew careless in part because the opposition from the right was so bombastic and uninformed.

The liberal church must project an unambiguous and highly visible image of this sort.

To these ends a creative liturgy should be one of the greatest natural resources of the liberal church.

It becomes the mission of the liberal church to present the claims of the Christian faith to those who have been most impressed by the empirical approach of the sciences or by those critical social needs which call for rapid and thoroughgoing change.

In his inaugural sermon, «Music and Worship in the Liberal Church,» he spoke of the responsibilities of the arts to the church, saying that only the best is good enough.

Liberal church people knew a rat when they smelled one.

I might be somewhat comfortable at a more liberal church if I liked the people and they seemed to like me.

He supports me in raising them within my very open, liberal church community, and participates in prayer around the dinner table and at bedtime; but that's about it.

Despite all that liberalism has going for it, the liberal church approaches the threshold of a new century with haggard spirits and empty pews.

The liberal church's success in the future will depend very much on whether liberal clergy have a vision to express; whether they will be able to appeal to people's moral imagination.

To a point, however, accommodation to culture is appropriate to the liberal church, particularly in attempting to understand the Christian faith from the perspective and insights of the arts and sciences of the time.

I think it is possible to make some calculated guesses based upon current tendencies within the liberal church.

The liberal church's future depends on whether it can enable its members to be men and women marked by integrity.

Can the liberal church provide an answer to the basic human needs?

Another direction for the liberal church (these alternatives may, of course, overlap) is that the church will become essentially a social center.

1956: «Life and the Everlasting,» unpublished sermon delivered at United Liberal Church, October 28,1956.

This church is what some would call a liberal church.

I do not believe that the new liberal church should reject its obligation to share such grace as it has received.

On the contrary, the purpose of my manifesto is to say that it is now time for the new liberal church to come out of its corner fighting.

Five rejections of the old liberal church and five affirmations of the new are chronicled.

Representatives from liberal church groups in the USA have responded to the Nashville Statement, a document affirming the traditional understanding of marriage and sexuality.

Nevertheless, the new liberal church will labor to make people confront the issues in the context both of Christian community and of their own individual discipleship.

The proposition that because it is a liberal church, it should never stand for anything in particular.

That proposition is the terminal disease which is «doing in» the old liberal church.

The new liberal church will not forget its heritage; indeed, the hope is that it will do a better job of remembering that heritage than did the old liberal church.

So I stick with «liberal» but put before it the word «new» to indicate that, while there is a historical connection with the old liberal church, we speak of a church that finds itself in a different situation.

There have been exceptions: the prophets of Israel, the one who announced: «It was written of old... but I say,» even at times the leaders of the old liberal church.

In particular this means that the new liberal church will resist the temptation to confine itself to the private aspects of spirituality and morality.

Nevertheless, the new liberal church will stand as an opportunity for those people who could never enjoy such varieties of comfort even if they tried.

The new liberal church need not fall into the grievous error, so popular among tolerant Americans, of thinking that it doesn't matter what people believe so long as they believe something.

This development confronts the liberal church with some powerful temptations.

It is perilous to begin with rejections, especially since getting bogged down in negativities continually undermined the old liberal church.

To shift to another metaphor, and one more fitting to the ecclesiastical heritage, it may be said that the ship of the liberal church has been drifting aimlessly, calking up the leaks as best it can, and looking for some heavenly breeze to sweep it out to sea and on to the Western Isles.

More recently some liberal church leaders in Canada have established the Snowstar Institute.

Other pastors would have gotten a job with a more liberal church or started a church of their own.

I recall attending an adult Sunday school class at one liberal church where the diffusion of Christian identity and the dynamics of secular drift were almost palpable.

There's no Christian demagogue calling for the courts to shut down the liberal church (which is to say, the secular university).

This cartoon was inspired by an article from Chris Hedges, The Suicide of the Liberal Church.

Change belief to Bible is a good guide and go to liberal church.

The fact is there are already plenty of churches in America, arguably the majority of them in this country, that emphasize social justice, acceptance of LGBT, and «letting science to its thing» — I'm talking about the mainline liberal churches.

Many liberal churches do.

If millennials are only looking for alignment between their social views and the church, why is membership falling in liberal churches as well?

Liberal churches have trouble stopping the secular drift of their own members.

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

The far - from - impressive picture of liberal churches that emerges from these data is that they are inhabited by aging, not very committed members, many of whom are headed out the church door.