Sentences with phrase «much church experience»

They too come with much church experience.

Not exact matches

As a one time out - of - church sinner I heard the good news, believed, repented and followed Jesus in being immersed in water and experienced much, much more.

I receive a full time salary from the church (less than $ 84k), but much of the freedom that you have described as a benefit I feel I experience, because I know if tomorrow things changed radically, I have my hands and my tools, and my knowledge.

Much of its recent membership gains have been drawn from charismatics who have left their former churches to find a place of worship more compatible with their new experience.

However, without a doubt, we can affirm that much wisdom about healthy family life, based on the experience of generations, has been taught by the churches.

More obviously than in other parts of the Synoptic Gospels there is much material which is evidently a casting back, in the form of a narrative about Jesus, of the thought and experience of the Church in later years, and of its controversies with opponents.

So for much, perhaps most, of the New Testament, the expectation of God's in - breaking is a present historical expectation; if in later writings New Testament authors appeared to alter that expectation from an outward, historical event to an inward, spiritual experience — in light of its lengthening delay — the church did not excise that earlier, more immediate expectation from the canon.

But they do not seem to count very much when it comes to the interpretation of North American religious experience, church attendance, theological education and missionary commitment.

And Holiness and Pentecostal churches share much in ethos, hymnody and social / cultural experience.

I do not have as much experience with Organic church as you do, or as many others do, such as Frank Viola or Neil Cole or Felicity Dale, and so might defer to them on this.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

When someone leaves a church for whatever reason... they finally decide it's no longer for them; asked or pressured to leave; lose much of the church due to something like a split; the churches ceases to exist; they move to another area and can't find another church to settle in; etc... they will often experience grief.

In its American experience, never mind the many previous centuries, the Church has hit rough spots much rougher than this.

A genuine philosophy of history regarding the beginning8 of genuinely human history, and a genuine theology of the experience of man's own existence as a fallen one which can not have been so «in the beginning», would show that where it is a question of the history of the spirit, the pure beginning in reality already possesses in its dawn - like innocence and simplicity, what is to ensue from it, and that consequently the theological picture of man in the beginning as it was traditionally painted and as it in part belongs to the Church's dogma, expresses much more reality and truth than a superficial person might at first admit.

When I started to go to church in the seventies the emphasis was very much on Jesus the carpenter who came to live as one of us and experience being human.

«In a church that has experienced much hemorrhaging of membership, tonight is a clear indication that young people are still willing to consider this Church their home,» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian priest who has been working with the Vatican communicationschurch that has experienced much hemorrhaging of membership, tonight is a clear indication that young people are still willing to consider this Church their home,» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian priest who has been working with the Vatican communicationsChurch their home,» said the Rev. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian priest who has been working with the Vatican communications team.

The details of my past are not important; all you need to know is that if there is a type of abuse that can be committed I've experienced it and much of it through the «church.»

Your experience at present is so much closer to Jesus» command to take up your cross and follow him than if you were living a comfortable life as a rich and famous pastor of a large church.

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

Glad we are both seeing that the church must go through a major crucifixion of our fleshly ways of coping before experiencing that much needed resurrection of the fruit of the Spirit.

Sorry about your experience, I spend so much time trying to help people recover from church - inflicted wounds.

You don't know me, you don't know the pain I have experienced (much of it caused by stupid church people), but you know how to condemn me.

Those who hear the proclamation may have full confidence in the God of which it speaks: If... how much more must... Luke, concerned with the ongoing life of the Church and experience of the Christian «way», understands the reference to be to confidence in prayer; but it seems more probable that the original reference was to the totality of the proclamation as it challenged the hearer.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

They want to be independent of traditional values, they are suspicious of Marxist parties (even if they vote for them) and of too much piety in church (even if they attend services) Yet they experience a crisis of moral drift.

By the time of Pius IX, the Church already had extensive experience of modernity's destructiveness, much of it deliberate.

A comparable situation has occurred in Ireland since the 1990's, and the Church in Poland generally for reasons particular to contemporary Polish history has experienced much of the same over the past few years.

MONKHOUSE: Could we consider it from another angle, not looking so much at St. Paul's experience, which might have been hallucination, but looking at it from the point of view of the Church, which is the only objective verifiable result of the Resurrection?

But this is not criticism of «the church» as much as it is the forms of church which we believe are keeping people from experiencing all that God has for them.

While much of my anger toward a prior negative experience has waned (since I started over with a new church 7 years ago), the negative experience continues to eat away at me.

Of course, much depends on whose experience does or does not match the presumed «truth» about American church attendance.

Few church people were able to identify much connection between the service and the sermon, which leads one to believe that few ministers plan the service and sermon to be two complementary aspects of one experience.

The loneliness Lisa and I experienced while in the church... because we felt limited in how much we could be ourselves... and the loneliness we experience now... because we are no longer surrounded by people... is somewhat remedied by our online community.

When the various mission churches came together, the governing polity was episcopal — in a society that did not nave much experience in democracy at the congregational level, in presbyterial collegiality at the regional level, or in diaconal services to the neighbor anywhere.

I am not a Church groupy that says this kind of stuff to defend my tribe, God has made an honest man out of me and so I can genuinely say I disagree with you fully in Jesus's name because I have experienced much better from God, and this is just the beginning.

The people who embrace that niche will be much happier with the experience and enjoy coming all the more, very much like the hard core of true committed Christians who still go to Church on a Sunday morning in the UK, they are proudly unfashionable.

An excerpt from Magnolia's description of the film says: «Following a long fascination with [Scientology] and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Louis Theroux won't take no for an answer when his quest to enter the Church's headquarters is turned down.

The Santa Maria degli Angeli is a lot quieter than many other churches, providing you with a much more spiritual and religious experience than you'll find at the more popular churches in the city.

or revive fallen comrades and check how much experience is needed to advance to the next level at churches.