Sentences with phrase «most about the church»

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.

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While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

Most blasphemy must be 90 % correct to infiltrate the Church... Its not mentioned on your two intro lines, and is only mentioned in half a line at middle but, its gays at church that this is aChurch... Its not mentioned on your two intro lines, and is only mentioned in half a line at middle but, its gays at church that this is achurch that this is about..

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

Percy was asked what would have most surprised another major Catholic literary figure, Flannery O'Connor, about the post-conciliar Church she did not live to see:

To be honest, most Christians in the church don't care about you unless you go to church, act and think like they do.

I am skeptical about most of the bureaucratic trappings of organized religion, and I constantly pull and push to improve the church I attend.

We also talk with Matthew Soerens, the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief and the co-author of «Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis,» about how you can help some of the world's most vulnerable communities.

Yesterday, a little Twitter feud (the best and most official sort of feud) started when A Year of Biblical Womanhood author Rachel Held Evans tweeted about The Nines — a very popular annual online church leadership conference.

Most of the students, I among them, knew almost nothing about him, hut he was quickly to become a central figure in theological controversies that were raging within the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod» controversies centering especially on the seminary in St. Louis.

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).

I myself am Mormon I have always been a mormon ever since I was born, most of you don't even know what you are talking about, you just listen to what other people say about us but don't even visit he church.

Most people have no idea what the Mormon church is about and the influence it has over its members.

The positive response to the video's challenge about where the Church is investing most of its energy has been overwhelming.

The church has become one of most the influential young congregations in the country, regularly engaging in conversations about race and social injustice.

Christian aid workers have told Premier about the most challenging aspects of their roles and urged churches to take an active interest.

Knowing his religion raises a red flag that make most cringe once they learn the truth about this church, they believe in overpowering others and controlling the community.

Even though most Christians aren't angry people, the loudest voices — and the ones that shape perceptions about the Church — tend to be the ones that are the angriest.

It is not without interest that such dissenters are frequently most enthusiastic about the Church taking official positions on innumerable issues in political dispute.

If it is evident that Christians are not held to fulfilling the most momentous vow they will ever make to another person, young people and others may be forgiven for thinking that the churches are not entirely serious in their moral teaching about other matters, especially those related to sexuality.

As the article said, it's about a block away from the White House — it only serves a few blocks; most people don't drive into town to go to church on Sunday.

It's easier to understand what you guys are talking about if I change MOST of the word «church» to «synagogue.»

Thinking about cancelling the church service is terrifying to most church leaders because we depend on the people to fill the pews and pay the bills, one of which is our own salary.

Yet throughout church history, this is what most churches have seemed to believe Paul was condoning when he wrote about handing someone over to Satan.

But the bottom line is that I'm nervous about saying that mutual edification is the purpose for the gathering of the church because this is not a far step away from saying that mutual edification is the purpose of the church, which it most definitely is not.

These middle - class, idealistic church people entered a tangled world of hate and oppression most of them knew little or nothing about.

When churches seem closed to dialogue, young adults often look elsewhere for more palatable conversations about issues that matter most to them.

However, some of the smaller institutions affiliated with the church may be in position to bring about change, and theological seminaries are among the most important of them.

Either Danielle Shroyer is the worlds most unobservant person ever, or she's lying about what went on under her nose, in her church with those two.

Whenever I feel restless about Church — both the universal Church and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moChurch — both the universal Church and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moChurch and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact mochurch — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moments.

Obviously, such groups can be less - than - helpful when they divide everyone up by age group and marital status, but I've also seen them represent what is most powerful about church as members become deeply invested in one another's lives.

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..

Perhaps the most annoying assumption mainline church leaders seem to make about millennials is that we require a dumbed - down, inoffensive, and unobtrusive faith.

I don't know about your church, but that's a similarity between this community and most churches I've been a part of - more people gather than speak out.

Most churches retain the belief in the Second Coming — the Church of England Communion service includes the words, «Christ will come again», which everyone is expected to say — yet there is no great expectation that the second coming is about to take place.

As you may know, one of the most talked - about debates between the traditional church and the emerging church has to do with the gospel.

The reaction to this announcement has been about what you'd expect — loud and unhinged, perhaps most of all from people who might be called the «Kasperites» of the LDS church.

There are of course a lot of things about church life (in most churches and maybe all churches) that could use serious improving.

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THe church, and most other religions, are about power and control

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

For various reasons, most United Methodists have redefined evangelism as inviting their neighbors to go to church with them, and even this kind of evangelism is spoken about more than it is practiced.

This time has been a critical moment of transition and momentum for me: as I look to publish a book this year that God spoke to me about eight years ago, as the church we serve in begins to feel momentum and grace for a new season, as my wife and I close out our seventh year of marriage, and enter what I believe will be our most fruitful season yet.

But the Bible talks way more about divorce, greed, gluttony, pride, most of which are overlooked in our churches.

Most of what is recorded about Christ's «church» is about parties with tax collectors, women, military occupiers, et al, who were effectively excluded from the synagogues.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.&church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.&Church has.»

Among the criteria that scholars use, one of the most problematic is, paradoxically, also one of the best» the principle of embarrassment, which claims that those traditions about Jesus that would have been most embarrassing to the early Church have the greatest possibility of being true.

Most young people do know that the Church teaches, for example, that abortion is wrong (sometimes it's about the only thing they do know about the Catholic Church!)

Not only was the most primitive kerygma soon seen in the light of the varied patterns of thought found in wider areas of the Mediterranean world, but the inevitable contacts of the Church with the culture of that world brought new intuitions and perceptions about the kerygma itself.

The point that most excites me about Father Heisig's essay is the new and revolutionary meaning that he appears to bring to the ancient image of the church as the body of Christ.