Sentences with phrase «local church because»

The CBN study of its partners found that only 2 percent of its partners reported becoming less involved in their local church because of their viewing of CBN programs.

In a survey of its partners, CBN found that 36 percent of its partners with a church affiliation reported increased involvement with their local church because of their viewing of CBN programs.

I'm going to interrupt my little series on the problem of God's jealousy and whay that matters to the local church because I'm about to review a book here on apologetics, and that review will, undoubtedly, start the inevitable attraction of internet atheists to this site.

I have a son who is gay and have ended up leaving the traditional local church because it didn't seem like a safe place for our family.

Seculars may be fine with you being a part of a local church because you find meaning there.

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Because of the success of the event, a local church asked Burden to head their Gen X ministry.

I will devote as much time and energy to my local church as possible, because if I don't, I am letting Jesus down.

Because it was my pastoral experience that congregants rarely supplied at least 10 % of their income to God - be that through their local church or to other worthy causes.

Local Republicans complained about a local church feeding the homeless because the homeless were fiLocal Republicans complained about a local church feeding the homeless because the homeless were filocal church feeding the homeless because the homeless were filthy.

Giving to one's local church is much more preferable than mailing money to some TV or radio ministry because (presumably) the local church will actually provide an annual financial statement that accounts for every dime received.

Judge: So are you trying to tell me that because of this voluntary, one time gift by Abraham, that may not have even consisted of money, all Christians everywhere are obligated to bring 10 % of their weekly paycheck to a local church?

So there are many orgs like World Vision, and missionary societies dotted around the place — is this because the local church is not doing it's job and therefore there is a gap that these orgs fill?

They're not off the hook for accountability simply because what they do isn't within the confines of a local church.

Because of the plentiful supply of priests at Faith movement activities use of Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion is never appropriate, even by our local Church's, creative interpretation of the relevant recently updated norms.

Roberts's idea (that a local church must be a global church — thus «glocal») may indeed transform American church life, because it is timely: We live in the age of the flat earth, when we can not only communicate around the world, but more Americans than ever have enough disposable income to travel the world.

If you can dismiss me because I didn't go to Yale or Fuller, because I'm a non-American woman, because I'm a lady - preacher, because I'm charismatic, because I still love the local church, because you don't like my tone or my face or my age or my race, because I'm too much into All That Grace Stuff, then I'm not worthy.

The Catholic Church can not refuse to hire a nurse who is Muslim, e.g., because of her religion, even if they know the employee's salary is going to be donated to the local Mosque.

Both need to be structured into the musicians» routine because they are among the most critical things that happen in a local church.

I believe that one of the reasons the local church is weak is because most believe that you have to be seminary trained to minister to others.

Very seldom has anyone within a local church treated it as a field of study and reported out its patterns of culture because they constitute an important disclosure of the symbolic nature of the group.

Yeah, because local governments all over the country tell Christian congregations they're not allowed to build churches or wear vestments in public all the time, right?

Sigrid Peters, the 73 year old church organist, told a local newspaper that the «bell should be detached» because it's not right that christenings and marriages are marked by ringing a bell celebrating the far - right party.

I honestly don't know what to think because I see mainline Protestantism in America declining fairly rapidly, and yet [in our local church] we have to almost send people away — we have too many people coming.

«Because there isn't a Baptist church anywhere near her in Texas that allows women to lead, she and her husband attend their local Methodist church, where she reports that they have been «welcomed with love and acceptance.»»

But Roman Catholicism is a little leery of context, because context bespeaks local church, and local church is always in tension with universal church.»

For example, I know that on Fridays and during Ramadan, every day, there tends to be heavy traffic around mosques, particularly at sunset, and similarly on Jewish holidays around synagogues, and on Saturday afternoons around Catholic churches (because most have a Saturday afternoon service in addition to Sunday services); similarly, I keep a copy of the local pro and college sports team schedules handy, even though I only actively follow one sport.

I think that the local church is dying because it has allowed culture to permeate and that is the same reason that mega churches do so well.

CNN: Celebrating Easter in a temple Grace Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina had its Easter service in a local Jewish temple because of an earthquake centered in Virginia.

I have hope because of my own beloved church and community and the thousands of other healthy and imperfect local churches all around the world (I am a local church girl, can't deny it).

But they get the most attention because of the scandal, rightfully so, and because of the huge amounts of money involved because Catholic Church structure allows a diocese to be sued instead of just a local church as the protestant churches wouChurch structure allows a diocese to be sued instead of just a local church as the protestant churches wouchurch as the protestant churches would be.

The local congregation rarely helps people see it because the church as world reality is not tangibly present there.

Even though the Church of Rome acquired particular respect because of its association with the apostles Peter and Paul and eventually became the point of reference for the whole Church, the relationship among the local churches and with Rome was not understood in the sense of jurisdictional superiority or subordination.

The primary reason apostles were so important in the early church is because they did not have an accurate account of the life of Jesus which they were to follow, or reliable examples of what other local churches were doing, or precise guidance from teachers on how to live and apply the life of Jesus to their lives in their cultures.

For that reason, I don't go to church anymore... and, because I wouldn't wish what happened to me on any friend or foe, I too often catch myself being a vocal «church anti-witness», undoing the work towards increasing attendance that so much effort is put into by local pastors.

I've often sat there thinking about it, but in the end I always get up and go in, because there's enough love, enough need and enough of Christ in my local church community for me to put up with the damage that institutions do to everyone in them.

The local church is, further, because it speaks an idiom of human language, an instance of human society that distinguishes itself from many other kinds of societies by the high proportion of language it spends on struggle and grace.

This doesn't make sense, because the book of revelation says» and no one could buy or sell unless they had they had the number of his name»» the number is 666 ″ how can you buy or sell going to a local church on a Sunday?

This is hardly a utopian idea, because the local church already functions as such a community.

Sow into the right local Church and the right Church / Ministry Organizations where the Holy Spirit leads you to because they are more resposible with money then the government, and above all, God will bless you for your giving!!!

And it will be so because that artist had the undeniable support of their local church from day one.

The reason is because many poor - yet - deeply - religious people ti.the (10 % of their income to their local church)..

The vice of local church, is when one has to accept whatever the preacher says, because he is the preacher.

Many Christians are not involved in evangelism because their local church neither encourages it nor has an effective program for dealing with the new convert.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

In part because of declining budgets, and in part because of a deep commitment to the church, many persons involved in campus ministries are convinced that local churches must be engaged in carrying out this ministry in higher education.

Even within a local church, there are little groups that have very little to do with each other because of disagreements (whether voiced or not) over minor doctrinal or procedural beliefs.

In reality, it is often just because campus ministers are there that local churches are involved.

«There are other people like me doing the same thing because of Compassion and the local church and sponsors investing in a life in poverty,» he said.

Congregational researchers also use contextual, mechanical, organic, and symbolic approaches to assess the local church, because congregations are also dwellings, but for a different kind of household.

Matthew 18 is important for local church life, because Jesus commands us there how to deal with sin.