Sentences with phrase «much about churches»

I don't know much about churches over there.

The problem remains that not much about churches has changed since young people abandoned them during the «60s.

I learn so much about churches that cause this kind of damage, and it's opened my eyes.

Now I do know that you know much about church history but I would like to remind you that the Church formulated many of its doctrines, such as the Trinity, Jesus» divinity, etc., by way of combating heresy.

And finally, «we worried too much about the church / state issue,» says Terry Toth.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, he gives far too much credit to the ELCA churchwide offices, and his claims about the Lutheran Church «Missouri Synod schism are far too simplistic.

Seeing as the last time Malachy's supposed prophesies was correct was in 1590, I don't think Pope Francis or the church have much to worry about.

Already there is much talk about the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church.

I do think you hate much about Christianity and its various Churches.

«none of them seem to care much about the roman church of their grandparents.

The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more than the child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.

Neue editorial director Roxanne Wieman talks to him about the book, and his passion to see the church display a much deeper love for Jesus.

Mr. Kurtz, as is usual in these discussions, makes no complaint about black churches that are much more overtly political, nor about other religious organizations on the left that frequently come much closer to «electioneering.»

HEY NICK WAKE UP, I WAS IN THE MORMON CHURCH FOR 36 YEARS, and when i went to the BISHOP AND STAKE PRESIDENT, He Was his words» I do nt process to know much about the curse of Cain, nor do i need to know», OR TRY THIS ONE ON FOR SIZE, THis Nick comes from my former Bishop,» i wont allow now or in the future QUESTIONS TO LEAD ME ASTRAY» IAM NOT MAKING THIS STUFF UP, YOU DO NT QUESTION MORMON LEADERS, FOLLOW AND KEEP YOUR EYEE SHUT

There is much to be said about Beth's influence in the Church that I believe male and female leaders need....

In some respects, the Reformation was as much a debate about the church fathers as it was about the Bible itself: «Whose Cyprian?»

If it is a gift that our age (including the church) has misused, then its misuse is the result not of caring too much about entertainment, but of caring too little.

You must not know much about the workings of the Mormon church.

First, you're incorrect about Romney: he is very much a mainstream member of the LDS church.

Hey LMB123, I'll make you a deal: I won't claim to know much about Mormonism and you don't assume to know anything about how the Protestant churches operate.

But even the local church could be much more conscientious about allocating their financial resources in accordance with biblical priorities.

Firstly, I believe that we can never hear too much teaching about what it really means to walk in love, and if there is anything that the Church worldwide is lacking, it is probably that genuinely walking in love with everybody.

One of the more surprising things I discovered (or maybe it's not so surprising) is that while many of the churches did a good job talking about their services times, children's programs, and upcoming events, few wrote much about opportunities for -LSB-...]

Everyone knows Francis's statement that the Church can't be «obsessed» about abortion, Terry Mattingly notes, but pretty much no one — no one who reads The New York Times, say — knows about a statement he made a few days later to a group of Catholic gynaecologists.

For all churches, large or small, my exhortation is to think biblically about how the church might make much of Jesus, multiply and grow disciples, and, ultimately, die and be forgotten.

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

This is very much a part of some Pentecostal and Fellowship Churches, who talk in terms of the gifts of fasting brought about «through the enabling of the Spirit» (including the Daniel fast - Daniel 1:12).

The world has too much to criticize the church about as it is.

While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of God's presence in the world, we sometimes wonder if the church's early theologians invented this connection as an explanation of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead to orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality, much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the real joy and meaning of sex.

But given the post-Benedict turbulence in the Church, which begins to resemble the chaos of the post-conciliar 1970s that Ratzinger rightly deplored (and did much to repair), it would have been useful to get some clearer answers from Last Testament about the months that led up to the papal transition of 2013 — and the reasons why things had come to such a state of affairs before Benedict XVI took the decision to step down.

However, some are uncomfortable speaking openly about such things in the Church, much less with his or her pastor.

I ALREADY know the answer... that's why I said what I said earlier... at MY place of worship (CHURCH by the way) pretty much everyone is liberal about that... cause they have recognized they have ability to tune people out

Fourth, if I understand your comments about the church and you are being critical of the church, this could be said about much of the church at the end of the first century.

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

The church, too, can learn much from AA, both about alcoholism and the healing power of creative religion.

It all could have been pretty much ignored until mustard seed decided to defend him... I will reserve my feelings about that... I was able to discern just who / what they were... he basically a non church goer who thinks he knows everything about church and she a whiner that can't see that just because it was time to move on it wasn't necessary that someone be in the wrong.

It's so very interesting and mildly disturbing that there's so much misconception about the Catholic Church, and / or Christianity in general.

much less have all those present... second... I still sick and tired of this abuse of separation of church and state... you people need to get a history lesson in how it all came about and the intentions..

This will require that the greater body of Christ no longer be complicit bystanders, but instead tell the truth about the standards of pastoral and church behavior that have been violated and discontinue endorsement and promotion of ministries when there is so much public evidence of violation.

Strictly speaking, I have no right to feel anything at all about the way the Church is going, and no right either to remember as much ecclesiastical history as I do or to buy and read paperbacks on theology.

I keep my faith seperate from church & all the terrible things I hear about organized religion (much of it here).

Among other controversial teachings of the Church, he developed a much needed line of thought about the sacramentality of the sexes in the plan of God (more fully outlined in Sexual Order and Holy Order, Faith Pamphlets).

Church leaders have long struggled talking about sex, much less pornography.

There is much to love about evangelicalism, but lately I've been receiving a lot of messages from disenfranchised evangelicals who, after a break from church, are looking to return.

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

Every Sunday morning while the rest of the world is snoozing, you're up scouring the web for a children's message or talking to Ol' Edith Barkley who calls to beef about the bulletin or the cookie crumbs in the church hall or how much her bunions hurt.

Of course, as you say, being the church is about so much more than just reading, teaching, or singing songs.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

Slightly improved doctrines about the oppressed, about women, about the body, about community, or about the whole of creation will not change the church much.

So there is much to be worried about, especially with regard to the continuing pressures the Church faces to conform to the perceived wisdom about how to respond to problems such as early sexual activity, teenage pregnancy and STIs.