Sentences with phrase «liberal churches»

Those of us in liberal churches tend to explain this development by noting that people can not stand freedom, and therefore, in a confusing world devoid of community, seek authority.

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.

On the one hand, he says the door is now open for him to preach the gospel in more liberal churches.

And for many liberal churches this is way down the line, if it is still there at all.

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

At the moment liberal churches seem substantially to be yielding to the temptation to do what is easiest in the short run, even though this will finally prove disastrous.

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

At the same time liberal churches are appreciative of major elements in tradition as still valid, and they stress the importance of emotionally vital, personal religious experience.

But just how much community is there in the average liberal church?

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.

More liberal churches acknowledge many of the insights into human sexuality resulting from scientific research in this century.

Because the nature and needs of their constituencies change, both conservative and liberal churches now require programs different from those they presented in the past.

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

More liberal churches experiment with groups for singles to meet new needs.

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.

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

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

With two biographies of liberal church leaders under his belt (see his earlier work on Ernest Fremont Tittle [1971]-RRB-.

Fortunately, after 300 years of brave efforts by LIBERAL CHURCH LEADERS, SKEPTICS, and NON-BELIEVERS, we no longer have to fear being hauled down into the BISHOP»S PRISON and whipped for 1) not attending church 2) refusing to pay the church tax 3) refusing to believe in fairy tales.

Many liberal churches do.

This analysis of cultural trends further underscores the seriousness of the threat inherent in organized groups within liberal churches which aim to transform their denominations into more conservative churches, or at least to blunt their liberal witness.

Such churches are simply postponing the crisis of support which has already been felt by liberal churches — unless conservatives modify their traditional emphases.

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.

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

Today many who are brought up in liberal churches turn elsewhere because following Jesus has for them been reduced to conventional morality or sentimental feelings.

There are only a few liberal denominations with the potential to communicate persuasively with the growing subgroups at the liberal end of the social spectrum, and liberal churches which turn in a more conservative direction become disqualified for their indispensable and unique task.

In the prevailingly liberal churches for years now few books have been written, few sermons have been preached, few church - school classes have been taught in which sin as sin against God has been the central theme.

Ultimately, however, the difference between the new evangelicalism and the older liberal churches goes beyond differences in content, to differences in perception rooted in their parent technologies.

Only liberal churches do that.

These amendments thereby establish the more - or-less theologically liberal churches, which are willing to share institutions with other such churches.

The new liberal church rejects all methods of working with people which subject them to emotional duress.

Meanwhile, liberal churches pledged to sponsor troops disowned by conservative congregations.

Part of the reason that liberal churches continue to survive, according to Hayward, is because a proportion of the evangelicals who go to theological college end up adopting a liberal theology.

He spoke of his own liberal church's convictions about Scripture and its critical study, about Jesus and Christology, about God and the ways of naming God, about tolerance and prejudice, learning and science and religious truth, about racism, war, greed and service.

Niebuhr directed most of his polemic against liberal churches, possibly because he seemed to have despaired of theological fundamentalism and felt it was beyond redemption.

The more liberal churches focus more on people and their problems and a loving God.

Formerly, the only link between Cuban evangelical congregations and the North American Christian laity had been an ultra - liberal church bureaucracy whose liberation theology rhetoric had now come to sound extremely dated and passe to Cubans, with the result that communication had become rather disjointed between Cuban postrevolutionary Christian revivalism and American church bureaucrats.

Occasionally, my associates in liberal churches comment hopefully that the new evangelicals will mature in time and become «more like us.»

Perhaps liberal churches have made too much of the Calvinist work ethic, of salvation through works rather than salvation by grace alone.

Liberal church people knew a rat when they smelled one.

Thus liberal churches are counting on the subgroups in society that are declining in numbers and social influence, while they neglect the subgroups that in the end will grow in numbers and influence.

It is questionable whether liberal churches can change rapidly enough to continue to serve the subgroups in the cultural spectrum for which they have primary evangelistic responsibility.