Sentences with phrase «like other church»

«We recognized that our church, just like any other church, is made up of sinful - redeemed but flawed - saints who intentionally, at times, choose not to follow the Lord's will.

They do not expect to be just like every other church or to appeal to every person, and they do not expect that their tradition will survive without effort.

He tried to plant a church with some others that would be different from other churches, but soon found himself in a place full of rules and policies just like any other church.

Just like any other church, temple, mosque, synogogue, etc..

The Catholic Church is made up of human beings that sin, like every other church in existence.

Any religion that teaches hate of anything but what God hates such as fornication idolotry or murder is not a true Christian there is only one Christian faith that has never been accused of doing nothing but teach people the bible going door to door but this is why people ridicule them for doing what the bible says they do nt charge for their material they do nt have communions they do nt pay their members for 2 years or send them to a college for doing so they do nt pay the speakers like other churches and they do nt hate anyone based on any reason they only give them bible knowledge then once they know the knowledge its their choice what to do with it.

I was a long time ago... things have changed and yes, Catholics have bible study like other churchs... no priest required to be present!

In doing so, there are many occasions in which my church, like other churches seeking to serve those who are hurting, works together with local counselors and other agencies to bring healing to people.

We are taught NOT to listen to any other doctrine... there are false teachers out there... don't compromise your faith... don't ask questions... God has appointed us to teach you... WE have the truth... we're not like those OTHER churches.

im awful i know but sex for me has to have an element of decadence and not be scripted and no i do nt wan na hear a minister or church «friends» (those who shake your hand and give ya the «we love ya brothers / were not like other churches here we r real BS) talkin about lovin or sex.

Rather it was supposed to make the Church of England more like other churches (while still preserving its establishment).

Not exact matches

LOL — that sounds exactly like the Catholics — the Pope is the only vehicle through which God speaks, his word is infallible, and no other church on the planet can lead you to salvation.

Like was drilled into my brain when I was in the conservative church, Lauren and Yen have been taught, among many other things, that masturbation and being gay (one which is a sexual act and one which is an identity) is wrong.

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

While I respect Rush's right to speak his mind (without people like him, we would be like other totalitarian governments that don't tolerate dissent), I am with the Pope and the church in their efforts to reach out to the world.

Certainly we can tell others at the water cooler and in our churches what we believe about issues like this, but it's important that we talk and listen and trust God to help us wrestle through the seeming contradictory pros and cons involved.

My reaction to your posts and in talking with some other people has been «There are really churches like that?!

Answering directly to the Pope would be like going back to the days of Galileo, when all other ideas outside of the church or bible would be considered heresy and an attack against the church.

And what local churches do sometimes when they treat each other like businesses competing for tithing customers.

Some will be justified; like other patriarchal institutions, Orthodox Churches are not....

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

Either we prove several verses in the Bible that deal with the gay issue are false; we declare, like the Pope does, infallibly that those pages will be struck from Bible; we add new verses so the other verses are neutralized; we stop reading it, prohibit its usage, like Catholics, and have: idolatry, Popes, idols, saints, priests, infant baptism, purgatory and gays in the «christian church»!

There are imperfect people in the church striving to become more like Jesus in many ways including helping others.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

2) Make it clear in public that if you don't like the rock and roll, there are plenty of other churches, with hints that this decision is a moral choice which reflects badly on you, not the community.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are out, but everyone else has to be considered for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential for the job... for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that of the church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).

Just like others have a right to speak up when the Church holds positions (that the Church wants to impose on non-Catholics) that the others disagree with.

The priest claimed the Church of England didn't necessarily view the cathedral and others like it favourably because of the independence they might exert financially or theologically.

The woman claims to be Catholic yet condones fornication, contraception, and probably other things like abortion which the Catholic Church clearly states are against the faith (and teaches that they are, serious, mortal sins that unrepeated of before death, will put one to hell).

We all need to meet at the Coptic Church and protest peacefully just like the Muslims are doing in Egypt, and all those other ME places.

I think a lot of things could be glossed over in this story... what was the real relationship like between John and James, did Lucas» other church reject him or did Lucas do the rejecting, and how much shame from the parents had to do with that decision, the issue of race, the issue of disability... I'm a pessimist so I think of these things.

we can have it all if we choose, sadly folks like you and me will never be free from «believers» chanting our damnation, the likes of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church and other religious fanatics.

I was asked the other day by a copier salesman (who was calling the church to sell me paper), «What was it like growing up as the son of Joel Hunter»?

The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate how very different the actions of the church are from the claims it makes about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.

Your church, like probably every other church, doesn't practice EVERYTHING that the Bible says.

Thus, the Mormon Church, like virtually every other non-Christian faith, requires that individuals work off the residual karma.

Like this article seems to be saying, the Christian church has dropped the ball on compassion and caring for others.

The historic Black church and the Catholic Church in America, though allies in many struggles, have been too much like strangers to each other for toochurch and the Catholic Church in America, though allies in many struggles, have been too much like strangers to each other for tooChurch in America, though allies in many struggles, have been too much like strangers to each other for too long.

I checked all the boxes, in other words, the ones the Church says you need to check to become more like Christ.

People, PLEASE do a google search on what Mormons REALLY believe - and not on one of their church - sponsored websites - just like you would not do research on any other cult by reading their cultist material.

I do not like preaching and I don't even have a church home but I do have a personal faith that I seek to make stronger and share with others.

Second, church bullies almost always like feeling important and knowledgeable, be it about how the church should be run, what God and the Bible say, and how other people should think, live and vote.

Church, like the Sabbath, is a means of helping others, delivering those in bondage, releasing captives, and letting light shine in the darkness.

«churches like that», being predicated upon the fraudulent activity as they seem to be, could be «banned» but that would not really change much of anything... other than repackaging the criminal activity under a loosely - defined label... meh.

Which again is is right, but not a priority of the church over matters that affect everyone like poverty and other areas of community service.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

Ask them if they feel like they are valued, honored, respected, loved and invited into the lives and homes of other families of the church.

The largest body, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), generally looks and acts like any other mainline Protestant denomination.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.