Sentences with phrase «many churchgoers»

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

«From my mouth to your ears, I am not guilty,» Caldwell told his churchgoers.

The long line to get in — and the churchgoers» casual dress — confused me; I could not believe I was walking into a church service and not a concert.

Fifty - eight music fans fall in Las Vegas; 49 club revelers die in Orlando; 33 students are killed on the Virginia Tech campus; 25 churchgoers meet their God in...

I spent a lot of time ostracized by fellow churchgoers because I dared question meanings and interpretations of biblical passages.

Much of the criticism - along with confusion about the propriety of evangelicals politically linking arms with Mormons - is less formal and more rooted among in - the - pews churchgoers than evangelical elites.

New figures have revealed the number of churchgoers in Scotland has dropped by over half in the last... More

This has caused him to be reviled and chastised by members of his family which are devout Southern churchgoers at a time when he needs the most moral support, as he is trying to turn his luck around through smart, hard work and to do right by his wife and children.

In Scotland, too, female churchgoers vastly outnumber male churchgoers.

What I was trying to say was that, in my opinion, most churchgoers are like Pharisees in that they don't see their own need for cleansing (because they persist in thinking they are already clean) OR fall into a second category of being denominationally competitve (not unlike the Paul - Apollos - Cephas leader / hero worship mentioned in Scripture.)

The thing is — most churchgoers today aren't very different than the Pharisees and the «I - follow - Paul - ers / I - follow - Apollos - ers / I - follow - Cephas - ers.

I've nothing against middle - class churchgoers — I am one of them — but it's also a warning that something has gone wrong in the UK Church.

You wouldn't have to worry about there being a time conflict for churchgoers, because they wouldn't be attending your meetings anyway.

---- I like how you phrase «most churchgoers.»

More significantly, these people tend to be less active churchgoers than the ones switching out.

Looking back at those many years as a still self - centered churchgoer, I thought I had to immediately make up time by feeding and clothing the poor, visiting the sick, welcoming strangers (Mt 25:35 - 36) and sharing the gospel with everyone (Mt 28:19 - 20).

Buddy Bolden, credited (by legend) as the originator of jazz, was a regular churchgoer.

We're also facing a crisis of discipleship — only five per cent of churchgoers have any devotional life outside of a Sunday service.

I saw a poll recently that suggested that about 1/3 of churchgoers do not believe in a theistic god.

A third of #Catholic churchgoers say their priest has spoken out on #religiousliberty issues at Mass #ACA pewrsr.ch / Mz3Ckr

The Barna Group recently ran a survey on the cities that had the highest percentage of churchgoers who attended mega churches.

My husband and I are life - long churchgoers who no longer want to be.

So amid all the parsing, the question becomes: Which evangelicals and weekly churchgoers can Pope Francis most likely move with Laudato Si?

The United States» large number of churchgoers makes it unique among industrialized nations.

Will black churchgoers be as loyal to Obama as last time?

Baptism and active membership there equipped Obama with an ability to connect with churchgoers he was trying to organize — and, years later, with religious voters he was trying to win over — in a deeper way.

Which way will frequent churchgoers go?

But I haven't been a churchgoer since I became too old for my mother to coerce me into a pew.

Skeptics might write off Obama's Bible talk as sanctimonious window dressing, aimed at no higher purpose than connecting with churchgoers in the purple and red states.

He says the phrase cuts to the heart of the genuine difference between being a churchgoer and a disciple.

Whereas Kaliayev crosses himself when he passes an icon, he is no churchgoer; he believes that «God can't do anything to help; justice is our concern» (C 278).

But today, regular churchgoers are just as supportive of Trump as those who rarely attend church:

Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's predominantly... More

The English and Welsh bishops abolished these ancient midweek Holydays of Obligation last year without consulting ordinary churchgoers, many of whom felt insulted.

White evangelicals are the most ambivalent on whether employers with a religious objection should be allowed to skip providing contraception coverage for employees (53 %); weekly churchgoers felt a little more strongly (62 %).

Some of my techies were devout churchgoers; others were scornful of organised religion.

About half of all black Protestants (48 %) and weekly churchgoers (49 %) said businesses should be able to refuse services to same - sex couples.

A new study has found one in four Cumbria churchgoers have experienced abuse in their current relati... More

According to ICC, last month a radicalised university student attacked a priest and churchgoers with a samurai sword at St. Lidwina Church in Yogyakarta, Java, injuring four people.

A few weeks into his ministry, one or two well - meaning churchgoers would ask him questions intended to gauge the «success» of his work.

Over 20 percent of Americans, half of them churchgoers, today practice the gnosis of astrology as a method of self - realization.

Witnesses said churchgoers were forced to escape through a hole made in the church wall by police.

-LSB-...] David Hayward on the two kinds of churchgoers.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

A gunman has opened fire with a hunting rifle on churchgoers leaving a service in Russia's Dagestan region,... More

A churchgoer has recalled how he received an insight into the faith of Margaret Thatcher when he wrote to her as an 8 - year - old boy.

The course itself is in secular mindfulness, though most people on the course are active churchgoers.

They were just churchgoers, going through the motions.

Not only did 91 percent of the non-Christians describe the Church this way, but 80 percent of young churchgoers did as well!