Sentences with phrase «love about my church»

Write down all the things you love about your church and all the things you don't care for.

There's a lot I really love about my church, but I'm still fearful of being perceived negatively; probably because of past experiences.

One thing I love about my church is they wouldn't put up with selling our souls to get, «butts in the seats».

One of the things I LOVE about my church is that you can be yourself, meaning if you are Rock & Roll you're welcomed to come along with your tattoos, body piercings, throw in some colorful punk hair and come to worship Jesus!

Not exact matches

Hello, you're entirely right to be very critical of harmful things going on in churches, this is what love is all about.

I actually love the ministries of the churches I mentioned above but am concerned about this part and the way they represent God's call on one's life.

to know how fellow [past tense] churchy people think about me, or judge me, to know im not loved when i go home into my church and — fucking hell, my family!

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

But when those who care about the community gathered together last night, all those phantom rumors evaporated in our mutual love for God, each other and the church.

I personally think that the Catholic church loves to poke their nose in areas it shouldn't worry about.

In the Church, we talk about loving our enemies.

But I would love to speak my peace about what I have learned in my faith with the church — but maybe God has «cut the strings on that idea»?

Neue editorial director Roxanne Wieman talks to him about the book, and his passion to see the church display a much deeper love for Jesus.

«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

As it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's good).

It's not about the nonexistent love of some «God» as atheists understand the term, but about the very real love of people in a church who help each other get through life.

I'd love to hear more from you about this as just now I'm wrestling with the whole issue of how to bridge the gap for our Christian prisoners from «church» in jail to church on release.

I will have to admit that I love myself 2x a day, but haven't been to church in 2 years... it is about setting priorities.

Not one word about the man, what he loved to do, how he lived his life, nothing... just promotion of the catholic church and the lead priest prancing around in his robes with a microphone like a freakin rock star.

Actually, the idea of reuniting with loved ones in Heaven was never a part of church doctrine until relatively recently — the afterlife was all about being united with God.

The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.

Firstly, I believe that we can never hear too much teaching about what it really means to walk in love, and if there is anything that the Church worldwide is lacking, it is probably that genuinely walking in love with everybody.

if you put a ring around the bottom part of the Z then that is all we know — we know the love we receive in the church and we know about Jesus on earth — he points to something else but that is all unknown, unproven, etc..

This particular instance feels similar to many of the other great «Christian Controversies» of the past 15 years — Rob Bell with Love Wins, John McCarthur with his comments on the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement, Don Miller's blog about church.

Michael shares eight of the reservations he had about institutional church and how grappling with these issues led him to see that church is not found in a building, but in all people who are saved by grace and follow Jesus in their day - to - day lives by loving and serving others.

I loved how he thought refreshingly and radically about the church.

Given that time after time the discussion of priestly celibacy in the media and in many Catholic journals and books begins and ends with statements about the marriages of the apostles and the attempts to impose celibacy in the 12th centurymotivated by a desire to protect the Church's property and by a dualist denigration of marriage, it was definitely good news to link priestly celibacy with Christ and his loving.

One of the things I love about the liturgical life of the church is the way that the Holy Spirit, quietly and gently, works on us.

As happy as I am about shorter sermons on Sunday mornings that pull the attention away from the pastor and onto the Table, I still long for the intense Bible study and training so common in the evangelical churches I've loved.

Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

And that's not a dodge, it basically means that most of these people don't feel welcome in church, they don't feel like God loves them, so before we even talk about those things — which by the way, the church hierarchy and LGBT Catholics are way far apart on — we have to talk about the basics: i.e. God loves them; God created them this way; etc..

Ask what they love most about the church, what they're most excited about for the upcoming year at their church or what their biggest prayer is these days.

Although I may never see her again, I hope those tears begin to tell her a new story about God's love for her and for his bride, the church.

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

what I appreciate about David's cartoons, is that he'll go on for awhile exposing the flaws in some of our churches, right up to the point where I almost don't want to hear any more and then * KABOOM * he hits us with the love and grace of God.

I have wondered about all of the arguments about the Church doing our thinking when there is no Church requirement to carry a card identifying yourself as a Catholic, no requirement to give money or do anything other than love God and travel as well as you can on your journey to heaven.

Specifically, he talks about how Christians can view war, love our enemies, live as the church, and pray for the world.

Our relationship has been a bit strained ever since, so whenever we get together to catch up, I make an extra effort to talk about church, drop some Christianese into the conversation, and mention my newfound love for liturgy.

We talk about the womanhood project, «Love Wins,» God experiences, and church.

It does not share the fundamental Catholic convictions about sacramental marriage: an exclusive, lifelong union of man and woman that is open to new life, a faithful and unbreakable bond mirroring God's love for humanity and, specifically, Christ's love for the Church.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

A church or other religious body which cares about human love will offer its service, its wisdom, and its ritual to those who wish to have them; but it will not control the legal foundations of marriage according to its own prescriptions.

The marriage relationship isn't exempt from the words of Jesus — and the teachings of the Church — about how we are to interact with one another and love one another.

We former evangelicals LOVE to talk about our faith and are sometimes surprised by how little opportunity there is to do so in a Mainline Protestant church environment.

Perhaps his famous declaration about preferring a «poor Church for the poor» may be interpreted to mean that he prefers a Church light in structure, and with limited emphasis on philosophical debate, but rich in pastoral love.

There is much to love about evangelicalism, but lately I've been receiving a lot of messages from disenfranchised evangelicals who, after a break from church, are looking to return.

It will be about God and his Church; to be called to serve them in love and humility through ordained ministry is a privilege beyond imagination for a Christian, and I hope and pray that my future service to all God's people will reflect that trust.

, but they have only very hazy ideas about what the Church really says on human dignity, the value of each one of us, the beauty of human love, the value of authentic family life, the mutual companionship of men and women.

When we finally acknowledge that books and lectures and sermons can not adequately contain what we want to say about God's love and God's mercy, we explode in doxology: «Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.