Sentences with phrase «listen to the church in»

Religious indoctriniation does instill some good values, but I feel that it lacks the component of personal integrity and responibility, and defaults to an unquestioning and unwavering defference to an outside authority, «god», but since «God» doesn't really interact with people, they tell you to listen to the church in his stead.

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After a while I could not listen to a sermon in a PCA church without wondering which parts did and didn't apply to me, since I'm female.

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?

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.

Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the church's say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..

And yet, familiar disappointment in the Church rises to the surface as Helene says, «Enough that I don't listen to what the priests blabber in their sermons.

It's a conference in Washington titled «Future of the American Church: From Impasse to Opportunity; Listening to the Voice of the Whole Church.»

I don't think God would think less of them... I don't have to go to church every Sunday to have a relationship with God... I can sit in my backyard and listen to the birds and the wind and have peace and serenity and a conversation with him... The whole point is, we are not the ones that are supposed to judge anyone... that's his place... not ours... when judgment day comes, he will be the one to say welcome, or turn us away...

Just out of curiosity, do you go to Bobby Thieme's church in Houston, TX, or listen to his lessons on dvd?

When they take back all the death and havoc they've caused, and finally get rid of all the «in church» pedophiles, MAYBE we'll listen to what they have to say.

«I think that's a great opportunity for the Church to go in, be the hands and feet of Jesus, and really meet that community where it's at, just being the presence of God, being a listening ear and being able to help people.»

«Lear's counterpart in the contemporary Church,» writes Mankowski, «is a certain segment of clergymen which has made it a practice to vindicate its prejudices by affecting to consult with the faithful, to listen to their concerns, only to announce with astonishment that God's Little Ones are pleading for precisely those changes for which the Listeners themselves have a deep and discerning sympathy.»

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They just want to know if he listened to the message for the twenty years that he sat in that church....

If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue - signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity's impact on world history were embodied by «the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,» why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever's being offered there by way of I'm - OK - You're - OK therapeutic balm?

«Maybe it's time to not elect the smartest man in the room, but to elect someone smart who will listen to all the other smart people in the room, and not just in the room but in the church - someone who brings people together, who builds a team,» Reese said.

The man also sat in another church, if you recall, for OVER TWENTY YEARS, listening to Pastor Jeremiah Wright... but one afternoon in a fresh pew, and he's reborn??? This is responsible journalism?

What Thom Rainer doesn't seem to understand or recognize is that just because someone stops sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon, this does not mean that they have left church.

But at the same time, I see Paul and John and Peter in their letters telling the churches to not listen to certain people because they teach incorrect doctrine, and even sometimes having them remove people from the fellowship.

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.

A number of young adults from The District Church explained that in the often - polarized culture of DC, they've learned that they need to earn the right to be heard before assuming their neighbors will want to listen.

Look, being a church member has nothing to do with sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, listening to a sermon and praying for your pastor, giving your money to support a local church budget, and making commitments to serve on a church ministry program.

Like the Church in Jerusalem listening to Paul and Barnabas, we must listen with a certain humility to what God has done.

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sChurch (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a schurch in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

At a leadership conference in Oslo, Norway, where I was speaking, a pastor there shared how a well - respected businessman in his church was healed while listening to one of my sermon CDs.

If we in the Church don't commit to being transformed into the likeness of Christ, why should anybody listen to us when we talk about the amazing power of the Holy Spirit in our lives or in our church gatheChurch don't commit to being transformed into the likeness of Christ, why should anybody listen to us when we talk about the amazing power of the Holy Spirit in our lives or in our church gathechurch gatherings?

Theresa keep what you were doing when you reached out to the homeless lady that was the right thing to do that was motivated by the holy spirit do nt follow what the church does do what the Lord wants you to do and it will bear fruit.Let them do there thing you just keep following the Lord and listen to him in your heart and let him lead you.People do things for different reasons to please others for power to be seen to do the right thing all those are the wrong reasons they are just dead works without the Lord we can do nothing.Dont let others turn you away from what the Lord wants you to do its him we need to please always.Be encouraged that the Lord used you to touch a life that is awesome.And do nt take the rejection personally because its not you they are pushing away it is the Lord the yare not listening to him but doing wha tthey want to do it will bear no fruit.May the Lord bless you and your family in your ministry step out in faith and trust him he will not disappoint you because he is with you.

Church doesn't mean sitting in a pew anymore, listening to you talk like a high priest.

But Abraham speaks over the head of the rich man, over the heads of the Pharisees, in what sounds like a direct address to us church types who claim faith in a certain Galilean raised from the dead, «If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.»

Actually, my favorite thing about church was playing / listening to music for the service and hanging out with friends and family.Fast forward to the present... I haven't gone to church in years.

Maybe we find the words out there, in the marketplace, a coffee shop, a stadium, where people aren't dressed for church and can speak their own true words (if we'll listen) about the flesh, their fears, the blessing and curse of family, the craziness, not to mention dreams, fantasies, habits and memories.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

When, in the history of the church, has someone like me ever had anything remotely resembling a voice that people can listen to?

While it is not possible in most situations to sit all day in church and listen to seven sermons, we can give the majority of our time in church to the study of God's Word.

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

The Portuguese forbade the public worship of Hindus and Hindus were forced to assemble periodically in churches to listen to preaching or to refutation of their religion.

And may it be a summons for men in the Church to speak less and listen a lot more.»

I promised myself that I wouldn't fully participate in a church unless the pastor or a significant staff member could listen to my story and offer me compassion.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

And after all, what can I expect when, as a church leader, I quit and tell the pastor I can't stay and listen to him preach because it makes me want to throw up — and refuse to preserve the image of the church by lying to protect a sexual predator in the pulpit.

Men of every nationality, in all churches, listen to the same gospel, sing the same hymns, read the same Bible, and revere the same Lord.

Just 37 years having a saving faith in Christ... reading a lot about church history... reading books by spiritual giants such as Tozer, Ravenhill, Finney, Spurgeon, Chambers, etc... reading and listening to such teachers as Winkie Pratney, Ravi Zacharias, etc... and just trying to read the scriptures and asking God to guide me on a right path.

At his new church, several hundred worshippers showed up in jeans on a recent Sunday to listen to high - decibel Christian rock from plush stadium - style seats.

Preparation for preaching, therefore, should include time spent studying the human and social implications of their pastoral and community relationships; reading papers and magazines; listening to radio; watching television; attending the theater and movies in order that the church's preaching may engage the meanings that influence people with the meanings of the gospel.

On 3 March, Dolan wrote to President Obama to express his concern at the Administration's action, and in a public statement offered to any who will listen a clear and confident presentation of the Catholic Church's position on the question of the treatment of persons with a homosexual orientation in the civic sphere.

All my life I was seeking the truth, I did not find it in church, and I started listening to various spiritual teachers.

«Thinking Catholics, who knew what had happened in Rome before the encyclical, who had absorbed all that Vatican II had to say about the Church as the People of God, had assumed that their concerns would be listened to and change in the Church's stance on birth control was inevitable.»

Most nonbelievers are defensive and not open to listening in a church or Bible study.

-- you know, a guy who will listen to any perspective but a Catholic perspective, join any group but a Catholic group, read any book but a Catholic book, and worship in any church but a Catholic Cchurch but a Catholic ChurchChurch?