Lauren, if this is what you meant by needing to provide answers,
well churches are really good at providing these types of answers.
the better church is the one who Rocks it best!
Our Spirit led initiatives have been replaced by
best church practices from around the country.
I'm getting an education; I have a job; I'm attending
a good church; I have an internship, and I have people in my life that I care about and a boyfriend that thinks I am pretty sweet.
Good churches (centered on the external Word of promise) are few and far between... but they are out there.
I think I've been lucky finding
a good church, but it seems there's so many bad ones out there.
«many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are
good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.»
I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are
good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.
I pray you will find
a good church community.
Simply having diverse congregations without addressing the weightier matters of social justice and structural racism is not
better church practice.
No, I've never said there are
no good churches.
It has always been a challenge to develop
a good church — even in New Testament days.
In case you hadn't quite spotted the link — I could easily be describing the worshippers in a really
good church.
We left
a good church behind and were looking for a new one.
Such
good Church in the «you, too?»
Everything Christianity purports to do and all
the good the church is to perform will be in the name and in the spirit of Jesus Christ.
All the stained glass and [fill in the blank here] does not make
a good church.
I know there are a lot of
good churches that take care of people.
A good church is one that has Jesus inside.
There are tons of
good churches.
Since I chased money by leaving my first church, I now decided I needed more education so I could chase money into a bigger and
better church.
Mankind must have
better churches, and you can help.
But whatever you do I pray the best for you find
a good church I myself go to an Apostolic Pentecostal Church and have for years.
I have learned, for example, that good sabbaths not only make good Christians; they make good pastors and
good churches too.
He will help you find
a good church because he does want good healthy fellowship for you with other believers.
I have to say all you RV people, I never had
a better church experience in my entire life then when I came to visit you guys for a year.
The Episcopal Church was perceived in that era as
the best church for educated, cultured and refined people to attend.
Good churches can go bad.
A good church family that's doing their best to love and follow Jesus, can be that.
The «just» (ordinary
good church members) will get to heaven, but those who cultivate the «church of the heart» are the «perfect».
God's given
me a good church family that blesses me.
That's why being involved in a solid community, seeking accountability and mentorship and finding
a good church are so important: They all can help us recognize and work through our flaws and to become the people we want to be — no matter who we are right now.
Doctrine alone does not make
a good church.
The teacher turned this discussion over to the students and, like
good church kids, we ridiculed, rolled our eyes, and dismissed evolution as ignorant, liberal propaganda.
In the Philadelphia area, there are really no
good churches.
There was no hope in that place, but thankfully, God brought me into a church family where a radical pastor was deconstructing a pretty
good church and we found true love.
If I just loved the church with all its blemishes and wrinkles, then saying, «You are a really
good church!»
I don't plan to give up on Christ, but to all those who are in
good churches and are indignant at me relating my experience and feelings («how dare you insult the Bride of Christ!»)
Why would I say of a church, «You're a really
good church!
In church, well in
a good church, I find love and mutual support, I find great kindness and social concern, I find tireless workers for the God they love.
Some of the best of
the best church planting bloggers are allowing some noobs like me to go head to head with them in a blogging blowout!
It occurred to me that
a good church model is found in Isaiah 53:1 - 5.
Well your church hasn't been proven to be good for them either.
C S Lewis (in Letters to Malcolm, I think) wrote about how
the best church meetings were those most like a hospital, where we first recognized our needs, gained that which brought remedy and then worshiped our God and Saviour as a result.
A pastor can be a skilled professional in ministry, a fine theologian, a knowledgeable Bible scholar, and
a good church historian.
A good church leader storms the gates of hell.
I attended this Church for thirty years, would tell you it's still
a good church even though its members have always gone out the back door as fast as they come in the front.
leave it to a non religious person to judge churches and pastors as evil when they know NOTHING of
the GOOD a church does for the people... it's kind of like saying ALL government is corrupt when that isn't true either!!
Why do I need to have disposable income and the ability to travel to get access to the best teaching and the best preaching and the best music and
the best church experience, arguably to the best Gospel, money can buy?