Sentences with phrase «life in churches»

Paralleling the leadership of the British Isles in the Industrial Revolution, the world's commerce, and the rapid expansion of the British Empire, surges of life in the churches made Protestant Christianity more widely vital in Britain than at any earlier time.

I have spent the majority of my life in churches which used such questions in a way to suggest that there can only be one possible conclusion.

This is not a recent development, although the disintegration of an intellectual life in the churches is accelerating today.

This new life in the Churches resulted in the establishment of a number of colleges and other institutions.

LaBoda, for example, lived in a church gym, where 40 bunk beds were lined up end to end, and the team's «office» was the gym stage.

It seems to me that active life in the church forces one to cross all the fine lines without knowing it.

No, I can't... I feel like I live in church.

We are gentiles, living in the church age under the new covenant.

The kingdom of heaven here means its anticipatory stage on earth, or life in the church, the community of those who belong to the kingdom of heaven.

First, all Christians, whatever their state of life in the Church or the world, are called to be missionary disciples.

In a sense we are all making a living in the Church — we stand and recite creeds, but which of us can put our hand on our heart and honestly say we follow creed and gospel to the letter?

The people who are in power and make a living in the Church as it is now do not want change.

On this point we will only remark that Christ gave his Church such a plenary power and duty because without it a common life in the Church and concrete pastoral care by the Church for the salvation of the individual would be quite impossible.

Both conservatives and progressives ought to understand that the reality which is lived in the Church in love and humility is better than a possibility for which both parties rightly fight, so that one thing may become reality which will then be the truly Christian thing for both.

He spent practically his entire adult life in a church that taught black liberation theology.

Rev Tinnings said: «We're fortunate to own a flat that just coincidentally had a tenant moving out at the time, and we felt inspired to put our money where our mouth is... and invite the family to live in the church's house.»

If you can't stand watching your religion being criticized in a free society by free thinking adults, go live in a church without any access to the public or something.

Lydia, another Open Doors representative, recently visited a church in Erbil that is supporting 260 families, with 216 families living in the church courtyard.

I have lived in church circles too long... ALL the «true believers» TM believe that «I can tell you that the God of Scripture is exactly as I described Him» is a common comment, and when the great true believers disagree, then they get into theological fights over who is the greater «true believer» to listen to.

So, what is the meaning of life in the church?

If Christ lives in His Church, then love shown to the brethren is a part of that communion with Christ which is life eternal.

preacherlady said — «Bob... if you didn't see changed lives in the church you were in, maybe you were in the wrong church.»

Evangelicals must eliminate homophobia if the Bible is to remain the sole norm of faith and life in the church.

(By the way, I'm an LDS bishop familiar with life in the Church in many parts of the country and the world, so I'm not just speaking from experience in my local neighborhood.)

If they were to really follow the teaching of Jesus for instance, they would have no possessions, live in the church and rely on the congregation to feed them.

I am grateful for the many volunteers, those many Bishops, Young Women leaders, Counselors, Sunday School teachers, Primary leaders, Coaches and friends I have had throughout my life in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

I am not interested in the narrow issue of who was to blame, but in suggesting to you that the present crisis of faith and life in the Church is not an incidental confusion, but the culmination of a long, slow crisis of truth and error in theology, perhaps the greatest since the rise of Arianism, and that we may no longer refuse to admit it, and to meet it.

The sermon that fosters prophetic living in the church is one that connects preaching, liturgy — especially the celebration of sacrament — and the corporate life of the church.

«At Atonement, Alpha has been a revitalizer for those with some previous life in the church.

In spite of these seeming exceptions, a certain amount of freedom from state interference appears a prerequisite to a renewal of vigorous life in the Church.

where Christ commanded us to do something (with respect to our life in the church).

Living in a church isn't much of a life, but it beats getting deported.

Throughgrace and through nature (for God has made them one economy and one identity in the humanity of Christ) Christ (whether passible on earth or impassible but living in His Church, His Sacraments, and His People) is an «ecological» influence if you like, which reaches, especially through us men, into every aspect of creation.

If you don't feel the freedom of God's life in a church, it will be hard to belong.

The banality of much modern religious life in the church is ultimately what wears us down.

I have been fortunate enough to grow up in a loving and Gospel proclaiming inspired (liberal, many people call it) diocese of the Episcopal Church and have always felt very included in every aspect of my life in the church.

There are signs of new life in the church today.

This most certainly includes the forms of life in the Church, the community founded on agape.

It is noteworthy that here and in other passages the encyclical refers not simply to the present state of the teaching of the Catholic Church but to the tradition of the apostles as still taught and lived in the Church today.

Theological schools and pastoral initiatives came to dominate which, either in principle or in practice, downplayed the transcendent divinity and the incarnate authority of Christ as literal Godhead made Man living in his Church as the source of truth and life for humanity.

Man's inability to put himself beyond «the pale of God's commonwealth» underlines the «everydayness» of life in the church — which is in Christ.23

Cobb is clearly raising the issue of what used to be called piety, a spiritual quality of life in the church.

Questions about whether Jesus laughed and joked have had a subterranean life in the church.

Why do so many Christians, after spending their early lives in the Church receiving proper teaching, leave their childhood faith behind?

While I had read some physics before that, no one had ever suggested that it had anything to do with my life in the church.

Ergo I am not wasting my life in church praying for longer life when instead I could be at the gym extending my life for real.

The pause before the turn of the prayer comprises Christ's Passion, Death, Resurrection, Ascension» everything that we recall in the other thirteen, er, eighteen Mysteries of the Rosary» as well as two thousand years of his life in the Church since then.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church emphasises that «for all the baptised, faith must grow after baptism».17 Faith is nourished by the sacraments, by living in the Church and in love and service of God and neighbour, and by prayer.

What does this situation say about our life in the church and the spirit of our theology?

He sent two, one of whom was retained in Portugal to quicken the life in the Church in that country.