Sentences with phrase «most other churches»

Probably to a greater degree than most other churches, Wiltshire conducted its affairs and generated its problems without reference to any larger church, society, or deity.
Have you ever been in a church where a leader quoted 2 Timothy 4:3 - 4, and then proceeded to show why most other churches are heretical or spiritually immature because they can not endure sound doctrine, but instead, heap up for themselves teachers who give them what their itching ears want to hear?
However it is considered as such by most other Churches.
Most other churches would cut them loose to society where they would by a house in a neighborhood next to you and you wouldn't even know about it because with the statute of limitations they would not be convicted and not have to register as a s - e-x offender.
We - call it genuflecting when you enter a pew in a Catholic (or most other churches).
My blog, nakedpastor, was gaining reputation but for the most part my church and most other churches were largely unaware of what I was saying.

Not exact matches

Closed department stores will most likely become other businesses that could benefit from the large square footage, such as fitness centers, churches, offices, public libraries, and even medical clinics, Williamson says.
I was taught as a child to pray to God and nothing / no one else and that I need not be in a Church or any building and that God hears all of our prayers, to have faith in following The Ten Commandments, to incorporate The Golden Rule, to be honest and true to myself and most importantly, to not judge others.
Most churches don't want him unless he changes the minute he walks in the door, and then there is the exposure to the Fred Phelps bunch... they're just great at the funeral of an AIDS victim... or other less famous hate mongers.
It is a big conference with dozens of other featured speakers, most of whom are outspoken critics of the Church's teaching office.
There were no official meetings with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Kyev Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, or other churches that suffered most from the annexation of Crimea and in the conflict in the east of Ukraine.
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.
The survey suggests that while church attendance patterns over the past three and half decades have been most influenced by changes in how often Southerners, Catholics and women go to services, other factors may play a bigger role in the future, Schwadel said, noting how church attendance had stayed mostly steady despite the demographic changes.
I was raised Christian and I know my Bible, my father and grandfather were both ministers and, most other Sundays, I attend a «real» Church with my family.
In many areas of belief (probably the majority of areas) Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (Mormons) believe the same as most other Christians.
Other possible dates are May 18, John Paul's birthday, or October 16, the anniversary of the date he was elected pope in 1978, Tornielli said, suggesting the last date is most likely, to give the church time to prepare what will be an enormous event, even by the Vatican's standards.
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.
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.
Most disagree with the practices, interpretation and doctrine of the other sects and many consider anyone who isn't in their particular church as «not true Christians».
Oh wait... Ive got it wrong this isn't for believers, Atheists no the look foolish to us, This is so Atheists can find other atheists, So they can eventually form a Church, its going to be a weird Church, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wChurch, its going to be a weird Church, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wChurch, because for the most part Atheists are so full of themselves they really don't have room for anyone else, And How do you build a church without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to wchurch without compassion... O well this ought to be fun to watch!!
3rd, It's a little confusing that the adult entertainment industry, one of the most socially destructive industries there is, is highlighted but foster and adopt ministries, hospitals, schools, relief organizations, homeless ministries, special needs ministries, nursing home ministries, pregnancy crisis ministries, prison ministries and a host of other ministries, most often sponsored and run by the organized churches of multiple denominations, is ignored.
But I don't think that most people on the membership rolls of churches truly have this connection with others, nor will signing on a dotted line get it for them.
I had a friend who is a professional (and a Kenyan) tell me that other professionals state categorically that the most profitable business to be in, in Kenya, is the church.
Jesus was a man; the Catholic Church is the Bride of Christ; Priests are married to the Church and most love their Spouse and would want no other; Marriage is between a man and a woman, making a covenant with Jesus Christ.
Sadly, I've also noticed that even at church most bullies learned their craft, as they say, «at their mothers knee», meaning that they watched their parents bully others.
For the last 2000 years most of the churches tithes went into church buildings themselves before going into chapels and now a variety of other ministries that take care of sex trade workers for example.
I knew another woman who went to the church and she said no one was bullying the other woman, who she said attended only part time, did not participate in most church activities and interpreted her lack of social connections to imaginary bullies.
The church USED to shun evolution, however, these are all things now accepted in most churches --(among many other transitions that I haven't named here) because to refuse to adapt to a changing society is asinine and detrimental to the growth of the church.
The most important has to do with the structure of the play, which turns the story of the Passion into a melodramatic clash between on the one hand the good Christ and his followers (including by implication the entire Christian Church), and on the other the evil Sanhedrin and its followers.
-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.
Interestingly, the bullying behavior was by two women were limited to a group that participated in a single church service, and when I left that service, stopped volunteering in the ministry I enjoyed the most, and stopped attending on anything other than Sunday morning, the bullying stopped.
At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.
The most tragic result is that countless young people who have sensed the despair of the musicians in their churches have never considered a career in church music even though in other respects it appeals to them.
Whatever the merits of other religions, it remains an undeniable fact — explain it how one will — that the most ardent and most massive blaze of collective love that has ever appeared in the world burns here and now in the heart of the Church of God.
Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.
THe church, and most other religions, are about power and control
Second because most of the people thinks that the church - goers are as screwed as everybody else with a delusionary disturb associated with religional habits... Only church members think they are better than others.
I believe that one of the reasons the local church is weak is because most believe that you have to be seminary trained to minister to others.
Furthermore, it has become increasingly evident that although seeker sensitive churches do grow numerically, most of their growth is transfer growth from other churches, rather than actual evangelism growth.
The Sun King, Louis XIV, revoked the Edict of Nantes (1598) in 1685, prompting Bishop Bossuet to boast that France, «the eldest daughter of the Church,» had reverted to being the most intolérant state in Europe, setting a model of religio - political propriety for others to follow.
Most of their work is done by them partnering with other faith communities and churches in the metroplex.
While there is wide spread pedophilia sadly throughout humanity, the issue with the Catholic church is that they purposely hide the peds away... most other groups will happily turn these people over.
In a new industrial district, for example, only a single church can be built for all, yet it has to be used by people of the most heterogeneous artistic taste, so that to one a crucifix may seem blasphemous which others find a most genuine expression of their religious feelings.
-- Most (if not all) «happy - clappy», evangelical churches act in extroversion... but they will be quick to close borders and associate themselves only with «certain» other people.
When I pastored a local congregation I was well aware of the fact that most often the visitors were disaffected members from other churches.
He and Other remarkably popular visionary leaders caused the period of the early republic to become, according to historian Nathan Hatch, «the most centrifugal epoch in American church history.»
Unfortunately, due to the rise of the more evangelical - style, «southern U.S.» baptist imports, along with other varieties of Baptist churches that are very much untraditional, the traditional Baptist style appears to be dying away and only a few traditional churches remain, most of which probably existing in metropolitan cities.
If most of my nights are consumed with spending time at church and with church people, am I really being Christ to others in my community?
I've visited other ICOC churches across the country, and noticed those of us numbering less than 300 are most successful in living as a church like you've described.
In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.
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