Sentences with phrase «many needy people»

You want to do them «someday» but they pale in comparison to doing something worthwhile, like helping a needy person or getting married.

Will stressed entitlement systems have to support a whole new group of needy people?

You can tell a lot about the Church by the fact that they are upset the nuns are too focused on helping needy people and not focused enough on gay bashing.

Whenever religion is eradicated from society in history, you see the resulting ungodly atheist ruling class oppressing the poorest and the neediest people mercilessly and callously.

However, there are some Christians who believe evangelism is the sole calling of the Church, and my hope is to highlight that caring about the whole person — particularly a desperately needy person — is part of our role as «salt and light».

Doesn't it make you wonder if all major religions started this way — a charismatic guy and a bunch of needy people?

Go help some needy people and get off your butt!

I would also, if possible, take some of the time, energy, and money that previously went toward the activity of attending church, and put that time, energy, and money aside toward loving needy people around you — neighbors, coworkers, homeless people, and the poor.

a needy person protests today.

Or it could be two wonderful Truths offered to a lost and needy people.

One reason could be that unhealthy and needy people that rely on the church are far easier to convert or at least get them to say they are believers.

Oh please more lip service, that is all religion is good for, oh and taking others peoples money (after taking a slice for themselves) some of it might go to needy people.

In the first instance, all that is usually accomplished is the mass of needy people become a mass of dependent people.

In the second instance, where individual relationships are developed in the process of helping individual needs, the mass of needy people are transformed through loving personal relationships, in which they are coached and trained to make any necessary changes in their life, or just provided with the means, resources, and personal accountability to climb up to the next step.

The problem is not only the riches which we pile up, and withheld needy people, but also the vast amount of time and physical energy which we sacrifice for Mammon, the God of Materialism.

If you think needy people do not exist in your community, your probably are not looking hard enough.

There is no chicken and egg question: Did they share everything because great grace was upon them» or did they receive great grace because «there was not a needy person among them»?

Gal 2:20 «I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me» The government takes care of needy people; does that make welfare love?

We accept LGBTQ people as equal, and accept that a significant percentage of people will leave, especially older and more dedicated donors, which will have results in closing seminaries, stopping mission to needy people, spending millions on lawyers, etc., etc..

We refuse to accept LGBTQ people as equal, and accept that a significant percentage of people will leave, especially younger and more educated people, which will have results in closing seminaries, stopping mission to needy people, spending millions on lawyers, etc., etc..

But he keeps sending us more needy people.»

From the Puritans to the Projects is a compelling history of the treatment in Boston of «public neighbors» — needy people unable to provide fully for themselves — from the early 17th century to the present, focused on the construction and management of public housing in that city since the mid-1930s.

He replied that when we gave something to someone who was conning us we were allowing them to steal the item from the truly needy person to whom we would have otherwise given it.

«There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were possessors of lands «or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles» feet; and distribution was made to each as any had need» (Acts 4:34 - 35).

All around the world, people are beginning to see that it is possible (and maybe even easier) to follow Jesus outside the four walls of the church and do so in a way that takes His love to the neediest people in our towns and cities.

Furthermore, I was also going to help the poor and needy people of Africa.

Although European countries resist the reduction of their services to needy people, their ability to afford these services indefinitely in the context of the new global economy is in question.

Labby said Tchividjian's job will be to develop further the church's «mercy ministries» in care for homeless, hungry, and needy people in the community.

On the flip side, as we write this, Christian organizations are providing immeasurable care and relief to needy people around the world.

And in helping them, I wonder how to create a relationship — not a religious one, but a genuine one — yet not a relationship in which they turn from a needy person to a leech; but share with them the genuine joy, trust, and faith I'm blessed to have received so that I have the strength in this dark world to keep pressing on and having hope.

The most needy people I have involved myself with have been people who have suffered sexual abuse from an early age on.

Many Christians are serving needy people around the world as we speak.

It is a spirit that seeks out the poorest and most needy people in the community, and assesses projects by the degree to which each will benefit them.

But what happened in the early Church, as you know, was that they began to share everything in common and it says, «There were no needy persons among them.»

Selfishness, greed, judgementalism, hate, etc. are not the sort of qualities I would suggest you can defend on that day by explaining that those poor, needy people were deemed unworthy by you & yours for breaking the man - made idea that crossing an imaginary line on his Earth to seek a better life makes one of God's children unworthy of compassion and help vis - a-vis the lesson of the Gospels.

Seems to me, there are more important things to do in life and more really needy people to help than making everybody an Atheist.

If the condition is permanent, the spiritual benefits of fasting can be obtained by feeding a needy person for a month.

, the Son of Man comes to judge people on the basis of their response to the Christ who confronts them now in the needy persons of their world.

One protection against some common misunderstandings is to keep clear this fact that the minister has his vocation only in dependence upon the whole community of faithful and needy people.

There are many examples where the religious frauds cared more about rescuing a cow on the Sabbath, but again not caring about hungry or needy people.

He commends these half breeds who take care of beaten, needy people by the side of the road.

Any government is obliged to provide this basic minimum for all its citizens; not a single needy person must be found in Islamic society.

Maybe not for every pastor who is out there, as many are not getting paid very well at all, but there are many more who are living quite well, and are using misused and abused passages from Scripture to justify their lifestyle, and to guilt more and more needy people into giving sacrificially from their income.

The more immediate danger is that many needy people will go unserved if we assume that most congregations are doing or could do something that they can not.

Charity can be a way of keeping people at a distance, especially needy people who make us uncomfortable.

I'm pretty sure that if someday God calls me to account for my actions, I'm not going to be chastised for being too generous, for giving too much money to the needy people around me, or for saying «yes» a few too many times to requests from my friends.

The needy people that believe his rhetoric are the fools.

There is nothing wrong with loving our country and wanting great things for it, as long as that desire does not come at the expense of other needy people.

Great men of GOD like John Wesley, Martin Luther, D.L Moody etc lived a very simple and humble lifestyle and gave away whatever they could to help the needy people.

Eric Bost recalls he was 8 years old when he saw his first needy person getting a free meal.