Sentences with phrase «lots of small churches»

Do think there are lots of small churches that have a goal but are not very successful in accomplishing it and just limping along, but actually doing okay anyway?

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Because even though the phrase «going to church» kind of bugs me (we don't go, we are), and even though it's messy and imperfect, even though I've let them down and they have let me down, even though there are disappointments, even though I don't agree with everybody and they probably think I'm crazy sometimes, too, even though I don't think we need an official sanctioned Sunday morning thing to be part of the Body of Christ, because even though I think the Church crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope anchurch» kind of bugs me (we don't go, we are), and even though it's messy and imperfect, even though I've let them down and they have let me down, even though there are disappointments, even though I don't agree with everybody and they probably think I'm crazy sometimes, too, even though I don't think we need an official sanctioned Sunday morning thing to be part of the Body of Christ, because even though I think the Church crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope anChurch crosses a lot of our self - made boundaries and preferences and gatekeepers, I keep choosing this small family out of hope and joy.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

Its not that we don't love our current church, but there is not a lot of relational connection due to the elders not leading the small group efforts.

In the West Brighton section of Staten Island, small groups of people walk across the street from the project buildings into the parking lot of New Hope Community Church, where they dodge basketballs whizzing by before congregating in a beautifully renovated building that was a staging area for an underground pit bull fighting ring up until a few years ago.

My home church, a big, flourishing congregation with lots of ministries, was once an old - style, small - town church.

And you keep hearing, years on end, even on thatSunday you sit in the parking lot of the small Episcopal church after the Baptist - based ministry you felt God call you to do has crumbled, and you are so vacant and so wavering that you tell God you're done, you're empty, and God tells you to walk into church.

And this I did, my friends; this I did, sprinting out of the house in the direction of church, mostly thrilled at the success of my devious plan thus far, but with a tiny dark roil somewhere near my spleen or gall bladder; and headlong went I through the little alley behind the Murphys» house, and toward the small bedraggled woods behind the firehouse, not even a forest but more like an overgrown vacant lot.

then we violate the very teachings of our lord... If u do not understand... I wont blame u coz lot of people are being mislead by money hungry small Chritian communities who do not come from the apostals of the lord and it is only the Catholic church which does and pls read well about our church before u criticise the Holy father coz he is not self appointed NOR he has contested a currupt election to be in this place today

A bright and beautiful small town girl named Charlotte «Charlie» Newton (Teresa Wright) is bored, bored with her well - ordered home in her pretty Norman Rockwellish little city of Santa Rosa, Calif., — where trees line the sunlit streets, everyone goes to church on Sunday, and lots of them read murder mysteries at night.