Sentences with phrase «never been in a church»

I have been encouraging friends to attend — I've never been in a church that felt healthier for me or the people around me (okay — my kids are resistant, when we don't go regularly, but it seems very healthy for all the people I know and love who attend).

Mostly because in speaking with a coworker about church, he said he was raised in the church and believes in God, but has never been in a church where the leaders weren't greedy — and he gave this exact example, and said that the same pastor drove a luxury car.

The only people I can think of that would be shocked by this... would be those who've never been in a church or ever picked up a Bible.

I've never been in a church in my life.

Many high achievers (whether in church or never been in church), are intense, sometimes volatile.

Not exact matches

It was a scene that the Wesleyan Methodist congregation of Toronto's Berkeley Church, last convened in the 1950s, likely never envisioned.

My problem about Obama support of Gay marraige is with the churches in America, People kill people you never see the Churches come together and dischurches in America, People kill people you never see the Churches come together and disChurches come together and discuss it.

I have a couple of young adults in my church that were so excited to know that God could actually HEAL THE SICK and had never really experienced it... they drove all night to florida from Brantford Ontario for 1 day and then back (this was between school and their summer classes).

I met my spouse in Latin America and I was introduced to a church I had never known before — a happy, festive place where people gathered to share family.

When a church puts its focus on spiritual subjectivity, or on moral living, or on performing works and rituals with a promise of certain results, the result is a congregation that never gains assurance in their salvation, and they will gradually drift away from God's truth.

I would be lying if there weren't issues in the past regarding the priesthood, however the church has always been an advocate for civil rights and has never thought that blacks were cursed.

I was amazed at first, then after several hours, my amazement turned to disappointment, disappointment that — I had never known that what I was experiencing was experienced by every man in the church, including the leadership.

I believe the man, Jesus, who's story is recorded in the 4 gospels — would never recognize the American christian churches as anywhere near followers of «love one another as I have loved you» and «do to others as you would have them do to you.»

I've never been to one of those Unitarian Universalist churches, but I'm wondering if it could be helpful in these times when there is such a big divide.

But chances are you've never seen this level of expressive faith outside the church, at the mall or in the office.

@justtheweighiam, I've been by that (I'm not going to use the word church) building many times, but never in it.

What is more interesting to note and is never clarified in articles like this, is that this cermemony baptizes people into the Mormon Church.

Jesus was never a republican and would have lost his temper in the modern day churches with politically infused teaching.

Though I am not a church goer and never felt guilty for not going to church in my church - going days, nonetheless, I think guilt can be a valuable emotion.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Paul makes mention of people in the Corinth church doing it, but NEVER does he say it is to BE done and NO WHERE in the Bible does it say someone can be baptized in place of a person who has dieBE done and NO WHERE in the Bible does it say someone can be baptized in place of a person who has diebe baptized in place of a person who has died.

Generic brand theological statements in low churches will never be enough and nearly all such churches end up amending the statements, producing white papers, or announcing at some level new conclusions about pressing theological concerns.

All other Church are corrupt and either lost the Priesthood authority thru corruption (think Catholic) or never had it, but took it upon themselves to administer the audiences of the Gospel as in baptism, marriages ect...

Morals aren't decided by the members of the church, which is the mystical body of Christ that you are correct in stating but wrong in stating «too bad you never learned about.».

I have gone to evangelical churches who considered Democrats to be literally pure evil and would never allow one to worship openly in their midst.

But I suspect Smith is giving up a bit more than he intends in the admission that the Church was never without Scripture.

But, unlike this cartoon, the church is never fined for going too slow or taking too long dealing with abuses, inequalities and injustices within it's own ranks or in the world.

katfish - Although I am no longer a practicing Mormon (I disagree with many of their beliefs), I was raised in the church and we were never taught to hate other religions.

To quote you: «The Church also recognizes the possibility of salvation for those living in invincible ignorance, i.e. those who have never heard of Jesus or been evangelized.»

By establishing a ministry that fosters excellence in the arts and gives community members a chance to engage in the arts, you can not only connect with people who might never darken the door of a church, but you can also create art that glorifies God and is truly inspirational.

Almost never will helpful theological discussion be fostered in this way; almost always the church will be harmed.

She was a deeply religious person who served as a deaconess in her church but never mentioned God in the end; I think that was assumed.

The Church also recognizes the possibility of salvation for those living in invincible ignorance, i.e. those who have never heard of Jesus or been evangelized.

I know I have a gift for leadership of some sort — my personal opinion is this will never be realized again in the church environment — because of theological differences alone.

What Newman discovered in his new Church was a religion that was never off - duty and never afraid of vulgar piety.

All the years of being in church never got me closer to God.

I never felt free to be who I am in church because according to what they teach in the Bible I am cursed, have a demon, or something else.

This country was founded on a belief in god, the whole premise of separation of church and state was apart of the formation of this nation so that we would never have the problem they encountered in England, that the head of the Church being able to make changes in the Nchurch and state was apart of the formation of this nation so that we would never have the problem they encountered in England, that the head of the Church being able to make changes in the NChurch being able to make changes in the Nation.

And of course the congregation for centuries never questioned the Church as that was considered a sin in itself!

Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the church leadership say more than a sentence to when he did go with her to church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.

I will never forget the horror when I realized as an adult convert during the schism in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that, if it weren't for the protection of the civil government, there were people in that Church who would probably kill me for what I believed.

Thus, Scripture never exists sola; rather, it is understood and interpreted via the collective wisdom of the Christian church in all ages and communions.

As a proud atheist, this is a point that hits home hard for me, as I know that even a finely qualified atheist would never be elected because of the lack of separation between church and state in this nation.

Civility is always in short supply and one can readily agree that «we need to keep in mind the common humanity that we share with those with whom we disagree,» and that «we should never lose faith in the power of reason,» and that the Church should never be used «as a partisan political tool.»

There has never been a time in the church's history when a person could not become a member because of they were black.

This isn't really news in Lincoln's case, though the memos never seem to reach those of dimmer wits who drag their knuckles to church every week.

CONVERSELY, I recently experienced a church CLOSURE (it died) where there was NEVER an opportunity for folks to express themselves, either in worship, in meetings, amongst themselves, with the pastor, with the elders... etc etc — strangely, eventually, it died.

Actually, the idea of reuniting with loved ones in Heaven was never a part of church doctrine until relatively recently — the afterlife was all about being united with God.

Priests in the pulpit never inform church people how a person can be born again, or have everlasting life upon their death.

My commentary on this post is this — Having been raised in a Christian Church, I have never been able to understand why White people (meaning folks from Aryan population groups from Western Europe) insist on making Jesus out to be White.