Once in a while I feel a speck of guilt to go because it is expected of me or my youngest daughter tells us that
we never go to church and that it's not good....
What again does it mean to say of someone, «
She never goes to church, but she's a good Christian»?
My dad
never went to church, but one day he started coming with us, and I said, «Can I ask you why suddenly you're going to a Christian church?»
Many people consider themselves Catholic in name only,
never go to Church, either due to time constraints, or laziness.
People who say
they never go to church backed Gore 61 - 32, as did 70 percent of those who support the unlimited abortion license and the same percentage of those who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
Those from non-Christian religions (56 %), religious nones (53 %), and those who rarely or
never go to church (52 %) were more likely to agree that churches should lose their tax exemptions.
Well, most of you atheists assume that I was raised in a religion, which I was only told that I was a Catholic, but
never went to church, prayed, or even practiced it.
In Onondaga County in 1971 Solt found that 18 percent of all regular listeners or viewers of religious radio and television programs were people who claimed they rarely or
never went to church.
Well, perhaps Hartnett is devoutly religious and considers a vow made for Lent as a holy pact, but it's all a phony facade from a man who
never goes to church and who can only make confessions to his brother who isn't even a real priest.
She never went to church herself, but on those few times T. Ray had let me walk to her house back in the woods, I'd seen her special shelf with a stub of candle, creek rocks, a reddish feather, and a piece of John the Conqueror root, and right in the center a picture of a woman, propped up without a frame.
«In fact, couples who
never go to church are 2x more likely to divorce than regular churchgoers.»
But couples who go sometimes to church are even more likely to divorce than couples who
never go to church.
Not exact matches
I'm
never going to align myself with Paris Hilton or the
Church of Scientology.
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).
Sometimes you would
go to church and
never guess that it was Catholic.
@justtheweighiam, I've been by that (I'm not
going to use the word
church) building many times, but
never in it.
A cult is a cult is a cult, folks, and the Mormons are
never going to be «mainstream» religion, no matter how big their
church gets — they'll always be a half - step away from scientologists.
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.
Lucas grew up
going to an Episcopal
church, but his mom says he
never liked it all that much.
I can say having had
to go to a white Christian
church during my childhood, they would
never had aloud that.
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.
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.
A person is
never going to fully agree theologically, in every way, with any community of believers however, when choosing a community for myself and my family
to be a part of, I certainly looked for the
church which had the most points of agreement.
Not every
church mind you, but enough
to make me look at the Bible and eventually understand that I
never believed, I was scared into believing as a child so I denounced my faith and
went to Buddhism.
The real question is will we continue
to at least strive for separation of
Church and State or
go down the slippery slope that leads ever closer
to a Theocracy - which
never had ended well in the entire history of mankind.
I've realized I'm
never going to find the
church I'm looking for.
But now I say unto you, report those who disagree with you
to the
church or denominational authorities, label them heretics or say that they raise «red flags» and let everyone know not
to listen
to them, criticize their positions without ever
going to them personally
to find out what they actually believe and are teaching, align them with other «heretics» without ever researching their books, writings, and messages, and above all, side with your friends against them even if you personally have
never been hurt or offended by them.
If a person
goes to church, reads their Bible, and calls themselves a Christian, but has
never believed in Jesus for eternal life (John 3:16; 5:24; 6:47), then they have not received the indwelling Holy Spirit.
The goal is
to keep people from being anonymous,
going from
church to church with needs, and
never connecting with a community of faith.
We realize that some people in the
Church have committed this terrible sin but I have
never considered leaving the
Church because of someone's sin... and I don't think anyone has left because they saw me waiting in line
to go to confession either.
I will
never again stand by a theology simply because it is what I am taught, or because the pastor of the
church I
go to believes it.
I
never went back
to church until I got much older and found out more.
In all the years of
going to that little
church, they had
never heard anything but «fire and brimstone.»
You being who you are are
never going to be a normal pastor with a normal
church.
There
never was a real separation between
church and state, it was a political lie used by the founding fathers
to con the people into submission, remember Washington would have been King but he said the people would not stand for it,
go read your history people
Let's face it: We are unlikely
to find a single party that truly represents a «culture of life,» and abortion will probably
never be made illegal, so we'll have
to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels of the Kingdom
to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our homes and
churches, reach out
to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute
to the abortion rate in this country, (especially birth control).
Guess who
never went back
to that
church?
Some people who would
never give $ 2,000, or $ 1,000,000 for that matter, for a
church to spend on a mission effort, will give that amount for the
church to build a facility that can attract and equip others
to give and
go.
The people God wants us
to go to never show up at
church, and the
church never goes to them.
As far as whether she and her fiance would ever return
to the
church, she said, «I won't say
never, but it's
going to take a while.»
It must be soberly realized that no human enactment, whether old or new, has advantages only and no disadvantages; that the old days were good only for those who enjoyed the benefits of them, but not for all without distinction and that for the most part they only begin
to look splendid when they are past and
gone; that even the new age will produce tribulation, inadequacies and defects, and that the reform of the
Church is
never at an end.
'» «I discovered so many of my friends were fellow
church goers,» he noted, adding that there were «many Catholics, many Protestants, many belonging
to churches you've
never heard of» with whom he began
to discuss his faith.»
This
church never bothered
to call me
to hear my side of the story on why I stopped
going and doing things for them.
She is the head of the
Church yet in her speeches she never tells anyone to go to c
Church yet in her speeches she
never tells anyone
to go to churchchurch.
I'm
never going to be reduced
to feel guilty because of 10 % the modern day
church make you believe you have
to pay.
I seen and heard the line of crap about helping your community while screwing members of the
church Also I did not have enough faith and thats why I developed cancer Never again will I listen to such bc again we went back to my original church a small Catholic Church and refuse to watch any mega churches or attend them Hypo
church Also I did not have enough faith and thats why I developed cancer
Never again will I listen
to such bc again we
went back
to my original
church a small Catholic Church and refuse to watch any mega churches or attend them Hypo
church a small Catholic
Church and refuse to watch any mega churches or attend them Hypo
Church and refuse
to watch any mega
churches or attend them Hypocrites
I do not agree with the catholic teachings so I don't
go to their
church.I
went to a
church for many years and when they
went a different way than what I believe I stopped
going to it.I didn't try
to change them.Government and a
church will
never agree on everything and its not the
church job
to change government and the government should not change a
church beliefs.If you are a member of a
church and do not agree with them anymore you should leave that
church.
Victoria
went out but really
never ate candy, and one year I brought it
to church, we were yelled at from the pulpit.
I
never went back
to that
church again.
One of my housemates started
going to this
church, though he
never joined, and after a few months dragooned the rest of us into attending a party for the younger people from his
church.