Sentences with phrase «look around your church»

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

«I looked around the church and Mr. Lear was there.

But take a look around our churches, surely there are many within who are lacking as well.

I do think we are to inwardly focused as churches... be it this church blog, the mega churches, the legalistic churches, etc... What keeps me sane is looking around the church I am in... seeing all the people who struggle to live out their life as a Christian.

Look around your church Jonathan you will see greed (their houses, cars, clothes, etc), adultery (the divorced), gluttony (the overweight and obese, those that don't help the needy) etc..

But as I looked around these churches, there were no poor, no homeless, no prostitutes, no atheists, no drug addicts.

I looked around the church, knowing what I know of death: the death of mother, father, friends, the death of promise, of vision run aground, death of self, of all we might have been, death of that ideal other, the bitter end of all.

Not exact matches

Itâ $ ™ s okay for you to look at how that church expresses itself every day in the people and events around you.

Because, you know, with all the pedo - priests getting paid off and moved around, it's DEFINITELY the American nuns that are making the church look bad globally.

When I felt dissatisfied with the «church» in the past, I always looked around at all the people I know.

Too lazy to look into right now... but didn't capitalism form around the time Luther broke away from the Catholic church, with the Protestant Reformation?

even as a child getting indoctrinated at church and at sunday school I kept looking around puzzled, wondering if all the other children actually believed this nonsense they were telling us.

If it's not careful, the Church is going to find itself in the same predicament as they exclude so many people, both men and women, that there may come a day that they look around for capable leaders.

Today if you look around, you will see that another issue has become a problem for the church and the Bible believers.

Are you happy with the church you're at, or is it time to look around a little?

I think people (especially those in church leadership) could save themselves a lot of stress and heart ache if they would just look around at the evidence.

Looking forward to joining our choir in singing the mission's hymn «Jesus Shall Reign» with churches around the world!

There's a lot of this going around (i.e., Christians looking at their faith, at their Church and at their local churches & recognize they can no longer keep going through the motions of Business As Usual).

And so many of us move about to new churches looking for «community,» but remain uncommitted, continually bouncing around.

when he looked at the example of the Church in the New Testament and then at the Church around him.

Well, «you» personally may not be putting up signs, however, all one has to do is look around within a couple mile radius, pretty - much anywhere within the U.S., and you will find a Church, a billboard, an advertisement, a Cross, bumper stickers, let alone Christians wearing their crosses, and crucifixes, plus t - shirt and other clothing.

Our church looked around our neighborhood and looked for opportunities to serve.

I am becoming more and more convinced that if we look around at our friends and acquaintances, and none of them have any serious problems (more serious than what is shared in the typical church prayer meeting), we probably have not followed Jesus very far down the path of discipleship.

The third group among whom this book deserves the widest possible dispersion is young adults, cradle, converted, or just looking around, who are turning to the Church for its seriousness in a world where frivolity and idolatry are destroying so many.

Spending all their time and money trying to have huge churches and just the right clothes for Sunday mornings so they can look holier than all the others, all the while letting the world crumble around them...

When I look around I see people conforming to the definitions and rituals of the world (even in church).

When he said that, I looked around in the church.

I'm thinking of you when I sit in church and I'm looking for you when I'm preaching from the stage now, and I'm thinking of you watching the rest of us run around striving, and I'm not sure how to fix it.

I like to take Sundays off now and then from church, and I'm not sure that it's as holy as recognising that the Lord made Sabbath for us, not the other way around, or if it's because I'm just tired out from a full week of people - stuff, and I just want to go all pseudo-hermit, have a bit of worship that looks like soul - care.

The death of a radical giving of your all to Christ or the death of this hell we call personal preference that ensures us that the church around us will look just like us?

Look around when you next attend church and while thinking about various details or activities, ask «Why do we do this?»

I am by no means talking about skimping on materials, but I do have a hard time wrapping my head around these «complexes» that look more appropriate for the arena for a division one basketball program, than a church.

The problem is when I look to the church to «meet my needs» and shop around for the best product.

if anyone really needs to ask this question; «is jesus and santa white» seriously just walk around and look at all the stain glass paintings in churches, the murals on their walls, the pendants around everyone's necks... the guy is depicted white.

Look for more of these stories in 2013 as we spend more time exploring denominationalism and church trends and as we «visit» various faith communities around the country.

Brian went to church early, he's studying the book of John with a bunch of guys, so I loaded up the tinies early, so I could grab a Starbucks from the drive - thru, but it was too early so we drove around, looking at cows in the fields.

Taking the Old and New Testaments and the history of all that they contain - and looking at the behavior expected and spoken of, the notion of men being the leaders in church, at home, in the world is something that God speaks of as expected all around.

Last I looked, christ instructed the church and set the rules, not the other way around.

Consequently, when women begin looking around the society for employment outside the home, the church is very appealing.

It's very satisfying to look around and see the church doing what the church is supposed to do.

We need one another to be the Church, and we need lots of different people around us to remember that it can look many different ways.

Perhaps if you took a little more time to look around David's blog and see exactly what he means by continuing to use this blog as a critique of what he sees as all wrong with religion and the church, you might have a little better picture of the heart for people that this flows out of.

Look around at all the churches throughout history.

Look around at all the local churches throughout America.

Sometimes the missional / emerging church movement looks dangerously like the world around it, but at the same time, sometimes the traditional / (dare I say) less missional church looks dangerously separate from the world around it.

Do nt want to be around Geniune Christians... My question — we see all the problems in churchs, what would you like to see more of in the church if you were a leader, or what would you think Jesus would want the church to look like or be.

«I absolutely love the fact that churches are being used as PokéStops because it made more people want to come in and look around.

I looked around the room and thought, church should be like this.

Look for a BIG turn around with young Catholics coming back to the church with Francis as Pope.

Me: Well, you know there are lots of pagan religions around the world and throughout time that look remarkably similar to a house church.