Sentences with phrase «much as churches»

But I don't think he hates his flock as much as churches say he does.

Sponsor homeless alcoholics and released prisoners, much as churches sponsor refugees from war - devastated countries.

Much as churches and synagogues foster and nurture communities, McGowan said he thinks atheists can do the same to gain clout and broader acceptance.

Defrocking (laicization) seems to be as much as the Church will do.

The reality, on the other hand, is that we need to wrestle with these questions profoundly and extensively, much as the Church Fathers wrestled with the wisdom of the Greek tradition.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North India.

And as much as the church may wish to see itself as the centre of the community, there has always been an entire world outside of it.

I don't think its a matter of failing to see urgency, as much as the Church is a large ship an it tends to move slowly on any matter.

Yet it's a more subtle, damning film for implicating the media as much as the church, the courts, the legal profession and other Boston institutions in the systematic, wider cultural cover - up it describes.

Not exact matches

He brought his background as an evangelical Lutheran to the Catholic Church and thought each had much to contribute to the other.

You conducted yourself much better this time Ranier as a Christian concerning the Pope and the Catholic Church, so I applaud you for finally acting like a Christian.

Indeed, many of your comments alluded to the so - called «contemporary» (as opposed to «traditional») churches starting in much the same way every week and employing the same general service flow and song selections.

Much as I would like to think otherwise, it would probably have been harder on people if she initially came to our church in a same - sex relationship.

Think of how much better not only our church services would be if we all waited for God before going inside, but how much better the rest of our lives would be as well.

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.

If you want churches to use school buildings, then you have to be «for» some weird satanic church just as much as you are «for» a run - of - the - mill church.

The Catholic Church in Spain allowed the dictator Franco to forbid the common people to own a bible because there was so much fear (not unfounded, as proven by fundamentalism) that apart from ecclesiastical it would be misinterpreted.

As Catholics become more and more concerned with their personal identity, the ideals and morals of the Universal Church begin to disintegrate when faced with the «subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.»

The study has found that being part of a regular social gathering like a church lunch club or a book club had nearly as much benefit to an elderly person's health as regular exercise.

I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.

If these CHRISTians, as they like to be called, just stayed in their churches, helped the poor, stopped spreading hate — the kinds of things their boss said they should do, we wouldn't be bothered as much.

It is has saddened him in as much as this is where the Church is now.

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.»

There is no such thing as a «perfect church»; but the Eastern Church has remained much closer to the foundational beliefs and practices of biblical and patristic beliefs and practices than the Latin / Western Churchchurch»; but the Eastern Church has remained much closer to the foundational beliefs and practices of biblical and patristic beliefs and practices than the Latin / Western ChurchChurch has remained much closer to the foundational beliefs and practices of biblical and patristic beliefs and practices than the Latin / Western ChurchChurch (es):

After much argument, the developing Christian church adopted this date as the birthday of their savior, Jesus.

But while our communities and churches certainly benefit from photographers, artists, writers, musicians, artisans, chefs, carpenters, fire - fighters, hard - laborers, entrepreneurs and small - business owners, those who have found themselves in a corporate gig have just as much to contribute to both the Church and the Kingdom as any other talented individual.

However much this move might cost in terms of philosophical clarity, it could be defended either as an accommodation to the power of the established church (in England) or to the necessary of popular enlightenment (in America).

They suggest, as a possible model for our own time, just how much can be accomplished when Catholics, confident in both their faith and the intellectual foundations of the Church, suddenly turn their attention outward on an unsuspecting world.

The picture of the Church that emerged was distorted by this apologetic context — too much emphasis was being given to points that were disputed (the authority of the pope, for example) and not enough given to other important points (such as the nature of the local churches).

Ya know, as much of an idiot as Obama has proven himself to be over the last four years, a Republican with a good head on their shoulders could easily take the office next year... that being said... these Republican idiots that are currently throwing their hat in the ring for the presidency have forgoten the importance of separation of church and state.

However, in defense of President Obama's religious beliefs, I suggest that maybe much the same as JFK, President Obama truely believes in separation of Church and State and does not want people to think that his religious beliefs in any way influence his political actions.

Going to a church makes you as much of a Christian as sittng in a garage makes you a car.

and as far as church goes, social reasons are pretty much the only thing keeping me around too...

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

As with much of church life, there is a great spectrum of what takes place.

I did come down fairly hard on church buildings here, but as the series on church buildings progresses, I pretty much end up somewhere close to what you have stated here.

Much as I would like to think otherwise, it is as if the Holy Spirit is guiding me to start a home church.

I will devote as much time and energy to my local church as possible, because if I don't, I am letting Jesus down.

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Weeellll, I wouldn't go so far as to call the Catholic church the whore and the Protestant church the false bride, but I do see your point and agree with you that much of institutional religion is not at all what God intended or wanted from followers of Jesus.

I hope y» all fall as much in love with this guy as you do with that Jesus» fella — the more of you in Church on Sunday the less folks on my golf course.

I have observed that many are really rejecting the church, as they know it, and the people they have known who identify as «Christians» who have been much less than kind and loving.

As a Roman Catholic, I see much that the church does not do to help.

«churches like that», being predicated upon the fraudulent activity as they seem to be, could be «banned» but that would not really change much of anything... other than repackaging the criminal activity under a loosely - defined label... meh.

As a pastor and a long term «member» of the Church, I pretty much agree with Jeremy, and you make exactly my point.

For most Christians, «church» has come to rule and dominate every aspect of our lives, much as «Sabbath» did for Jews in the time of Jesus.

Christianity isn't a religion as much it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.

Now is the time to look back on Benedict's papacy and glean from it as much as we can, as we prayerfully look forward to how the Holy Spirit will work in our Church under a new pontiff.

Obama is a Christian and his actions as president are very much in line with the teaching of the new testament, yet I couldn't dare say that at my Evangelical church where the ACA has literally saved the life of our pastors child but here is so much hate for Obama it's down right scary.

As one has read lots of «church history», I've long been aware of much of this, but Ray did a good job a putting it together in this paper.