Sentences with phrase «many people in our culture»

What we can't forget is that these analogies were chosen in order to explain things that are constant (God's character, God's love for the church) in ways that people in those cultures would understyand (gendered relationships).

It seems that most people in our culture think that being Christian simply means being a good person.

Tragically, a majority of people in our culture, and even in our Church, have used contraception.

In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

People in every culture known to us have had experiences that seem overwhelmingly to them to be experiences of the Sacred.

I would accept the notion that most persons in our culture, Christian and non-Christian alike, function in their daily lives, perhaps unconsciously, on the basis of the assumed absence of God in history.

In some recent surveys (reported in books like unChristian and They Like Jesus but Not the Church), it appears that most people in our culture believe that Christians are about as trustworthy as car salesmen and lawyers.

The god in the OT is a direct result of a desert warrior culture, when he did these great smitings at first, people in that culture admired power and warrior spirit so no one could care less about the atrocities that god committed because those were valued traits in those days.

Unfortunately, many people in our culture, including many Christians, have adopted Hollywood's definition of love as feelings.

If we really follow Jesus, He leads us to love those that many of the religious people in our culture hate.

The culture of the «freedom to choose», channeled by the Internet, movies, television, music, fashion, slogans, publicity, education programmes, NGOs, seduces ever more young people in all cultures, mainly in urban areas, but it manages to filter down to the local country areas.

Most people in our culture turn to the internet.

Well, in our culture, the law says this partly because the Bible says this, but even without the Bible, people in our culture believe that in general, a man who has two or more wives can not properly love them both.

Beyond this, a gospel - centered approach to culture can encourage Christians to recognize that the Spirit of God is at work within culture even before the people in that culture hear and embrace the gospel.

If we understand baptism as a «full identification» then passages like Romans 6:4 can have meaning and significance for all people in all cultures at all times; not just for the segment of the world that practices burial.

Lots of Christians fail to recognize that «presenting the Gospel» to people who didn't grow up in church has very little chance of getting a positive response, especially for the many people in our culture who have a negative impression of Christianity.

Their resolution of these conflicts becomes a kind of universal drama that gives meaning to many people in their cultures.

To some extent, and this is a point sometimes missed, arguing simply for the limited freedom for the Church to act as she desires in her own limited sphere is unsatisfactory, because it appears to abdicate the Church's responsibility to proclaim the truth for all people in all cultures.

In so far as people in our culture act in segmentalized roles are defined and required by organized groups able to apply social and economic power, the church that makes no demands upon its members, gives them no stronghold from which to fight, and is afraid to use its own institutional power when it is necessary is simply eliminated from the struggle.

It must be done in such a way that it is understandable to any interested person in that culture.

While it would take an empirical study to solve the issue, my hypothesis is that most persons in our culture — liberal, postliberal or what have you — interpret their experiences and «the universe» primarily in terms that are neither biblical nor theological.

Yet, many people in our culture claim to be Christians but have never heard a comprehensive gospel message.

The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is.

First, my post does not refer to arranged marriages or forced marriages or any of the terrible abuses of marriage as an institution to harm or enslave people in any culture throughout history.

Each serves as a positive example and an inspiration to their co-workers and family members who need to overcome complacency that often leads to poor eating habits, inactivity and obesity that so many people in our culture fall victim to,» Picente said.

People in every culture cook at least some of their food, says Richard Wrangham at Harvard University.

Most people in our culture are riddled with fear, and it's running the show in our lives, taking the wheel in most of our decision - making.

Both books delve into the work of Dr. Weston A Price, a dentist who studied the oral health of people in cultures around the world.

It may not seem that way because you see lots of other people in your culture consuming such high amounts.

Beautifully rendered and assuredly directed, the film raises a lot of questions about the nature of damaged people in a culture of excess and non-stop barrage of information, capturing the zeitgeist in ways that no other film this year has done.

«From birth, through every interaction a child has with people around her, she is picking up ways of doing things from other people in her culture, ways of acting, ways of talking, ways of thinking, through all the tiny, everyday lessons of living.»

My best guess is that the vast majority of people in any culture, developed or developing, aren't really in favor of (much) more than that.

Most people in our culture would probably think of that.

So many people in our culture are giving up on marriage and we are glad not to be the only ones saying, «Marriage is for life.

It doesn't keep us warm at night and it has little practical use, yet people in every culture in the world value their history.»

Rituals involve intentional and often formal behaviors that communicate social information.1 For example, people in some cultures wear torn clothing to communicate their grieving.2 Rituals provide people with a sense of control because they provide a script.3 To give you an example of what I mean by a script, I'd like you to imagine that you are at a restaurant.

I watch the parade of people in our culture marching through their lives on the quest to get thin, fit, beautiful, calm, centered, smarter, more productive, more emotionally intelligent, climb higher, run farther, find more success, live longer, look younger.

Each person in our culture does experience «heavy doses» of shame -LSB-...]

There are so many registrants at the brokerage, the salesman doesn't even know who owns the brokerage and doesn't care, stating that if people in his culture can't get a real job, they go into real estate; hundreds of them, perhaps thousands now grand - fathered, many well - educated.

Not exact matches

American culture, I explained, judges extra-marital affairs very harshly, so a senior official caught in such a position could easily be subject to blackmail - something that a CIA director, of all people, must avoid.

Just as I might take a closer look when I see something in the world I like (from artwork to stylized writing to a company culture): When I run across people I like, I talk to them.

When you understand their priorities, motivations and strengths, you can plant each person in a role that fits his or her personal «culture» as much as possible.

Setting up a company and culture that allows people to do what they do best (Mastery), in the way that they think will bring about the best results (Autonomy) focused on something that is meaningful (Purpose) as part of group aligned in values (Connectedness) is what drives a great and powerful culture.»

Dining in the U.S. can be a challenge for people from Eastern cultures as well.

«It's what's behind that fortified entryway in terms of the school climate, the culture, the training, the people side of school safety that makes school safety different and more important and meaningful.»

The huge numbers of Dutch people working less than 30 hours a week I met in Amsterdam stirred me to think critically about work culture across the Atlantic.

Zillow Group's culture is one that's not just words on posters but something that comes through in the people candidates meet, the experiences they share, and in our office space and our benefits package.

But when times get tough and people are work long days, culture plays a huge role in sustaining excitement around your vision.

«Just as the IRS performs audits of people all the time of their tax returns, the same purpose here is to ensure a culture of compliance in this area,» he said.

When you build a strong culture and vet for this in the recruiting process, that naturally happens - great people attract other great people, and collectively do great things.