Sentences with phrase «measure up to christian»

Of course, many writers, after experiencing the editing process, learn to simply adjust their writing with the first draft to measure up to Christian bookstore standards.

To be sure, there were many admirable statements confessing how far short the churches have fallen from measuring up to the Christian ideal and calling for equal treatment of all races in policies having to do with immigration, citizenship and economic opportunity.

Not exact matches

I just don't think going to church for an hour every once and a while, and even living in a Christian country, quite measures up to brainwashing.

But while one Christian will feel inspired to campaign for a living wage to be paid, another may see the same situation and campaign for measures to strengthen family life, or to free up entrepreneurs to start small businesses.

Christian Labour MP Emma Lewell - Buck, whose bill urging the Government to measure food insecurity will be read in Parliament on Friday, said: «Now is the time for the Government to sit up and tackle the growing issue of hunger in our country.

Many grew up in church or had Christian parents but their adult lifestyles did not necessarily measure up to Biblical standards.

Many, however, have received practically no instruction in Christian doctrine; many fail to measure up to the norms of Christian conduct.

It is therefore at its best more inclusively Biblical rather than evangelical only; it is directed indeed to sinful men who need to be reconciled to God but also to men who need in all things to grow up into mature manhood in the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and who are to interpret to others the meaning of Christian faith.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

To the outside world and those who fall victim to this behavior it seems that Christians have no love for those who don't «measure up»To the outside world and those who fall victim to this behavior it seems that Christians have no love for those who don't «measure up»to this behavior it seems that Christians have no love for those who don't «measure up».

Even if his statements about faith don't measure up to a traditional Christian standard, the fact that Kanye is making them should be seen as an opportunity to talk about real biblical truth in honest ways and be a part of the cultural dialogue.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

I may have «picked up» the wrong notion from your earlier reply, but would it be fair to say that certain schools of Christian teaching were at least in measure responsible for the «heaviness» of the spirituality you encountered?

In its breadth and depth this meditation on love measures up to the universal intercessory prayer which is firmly rooted in Christian liturgies as well as in the individual prayer of the great Christian saints.

I resonate with the general view that many Christians tend to approach movies either by measuring them up to their preconceived notions of what is Biblical or by consuming (and dismissing) them as mere entertainment.

In this article, Michelle Kilroy and Christian Carlyle, discuss the new measures which aim to speed up what has been a regretfully slow process in Ireland over the past number of years.