Sentences with phrase «not change in our church»

Pardon the expression... However, that won't change him in his church's eyes.

The basic theology does not change in our church and that is what is attractive to people.

Not exact matches

Most churches don't want him unless he changes the minute he walks in the door, and then there is the exposure to the Fred Phelps bunch... they're just great at the funeral of an AIDS victim... or other less famous hate mongers.

I've known since I was 18 that I couldn't have kids and, during the years I spent in Pentecostal style churches, often did feel condemned, although it is something which is part of who I am and which I can not change.

I know of several straight couples who were not allowed to marry in a certain church for whatever reason that church decides, that will not change.

The adversaries of Humanae Vitae also could not have foreseen one important historical development that in retrospect would appear to undermine their demands that the Catholic Church change with the times: the widespread Protestant collapse, particularly the continuing implosion of the Episcopal Church and the other branches of Anglicanism.

Those things in the Church that can not be changed, because they are of the divinely ordered constitution of the Church, must be reformed when necessary so that they contribute as they ought to the mission.

I wish I were not one but nothing can change it as I was raised in a Baptist Church by a brutal bigot of a woman.

I think there are some problems in the church and we best be addressing them â $ «for change â $ «then pretending they do not exist.

Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of authoritative teaching.

Now maybe I am griping about something I want to see in churches â $ «as a bigger communal focus â $ «but why not bring it up â $ «maybe more will change one of these days?

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

26, page 635... Now, in all fairness, their has been a Public Relations campaign recently to remove the «cursed» references to Blacks in the ever changing Book of Mormon / and Covenants and Doctrines — «specially since they have a chance to rule the world through Mitt Romney (gggrandson of one of the LDS church founders, Parley Pratt arrested for murder and treason for attacking and killing members of an army battalion)... Don't look in up in Wikipedia — the Mormons have deleted that part of Pratt's history.

Stop The Traffik campaign is a reminder to us not only of our calling as followers of Christ to participate in bringing transformational structural change to our world, but also what could be a defining moment of inspiration for the church.

The numbers may reflect not only the changing roles of women in the church over that time period, but in society as well.

I used to wonder why I was so «weak» and would get so emotional when the people would leave and even mad at myself for not being able to just become tough and stay more emotionally distant with the people but a few close friends in the church told me not to change because my reaction simply shows what a caring shepherd I am.

«What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.»

Instead, they want the church to change its position on some very controversial and contentious issues (a key example is the gay / lesbian push for acceptance of a sinful behavior), and that's not going to happen... most especially not in the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodox Cchurch to change its position on some very controversial and contentious issues (a key example is the gay / lesbian push for acceptance of a sinful behavior), and that's not going to happen... most especially not in the Roman Catholic Church or Eastern Orthodox CChurch or Eastern Orthodox ChurchChurch.

It is not accidental that Barth's recovery of Anselm precipitated the change in his program from «Christian Dogmatics» to «Church Dogmatics.»

It changed me forever and I have not been comfortable in a traditional church since.

In not belonging to an official «church» this past year and a half it has changed my perspective in ways that I never thought possiblIn not belonging to an official «church» this past year and a half it has changed my perspective in ways that I never thought possiblin ways that I never thought possible.

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

You can point out the sin without being judgmental, you can love the sinner but you can not agree with societal changes in ordr to be popular with culture... just to get people in church.

The church USED to shun evolution, however, these are all things now accepted in most churches --(among many other transitions that I haven't named here) because to refuse to adapt to a changing society is asinine and detrimental to the growth of the church.

I have had some changes in my theology regarding church, and I now believe that we don't plant churches or go to church, but we ARE the church by loving the people around us whom God brings into our lives.

In addition, if / when the church is presented as a / the way to help people with their problems, what happens when people don't get helped, and / or feel like things should have changed in their lives but didn'In addition, if / when the church is presented as a / the way to help people with their problems, what happens when people don't get helped, and / or feel like things should have changed in their lives but didn'in their lives but didn't?

Not least of the factors in play was a sharp decline in anti-Catholicism due to a changed perception of the Catholic Church.

He is proof that despite recent changes in church teaching, the traditional stereotypes have not yet disappeared.

It seems that proponents for change aren't interested in the deeper reasons for the Church's unique vision of celibate love, dismissing it as merely a pragmatic discipline.

I think we often don't make enough room in our churches and lives and families for the death of something, for the navigating of the loss that accompanies deep change.

They would only believe in the Church's sincerity if she changed in ways she believes she can not change.

And like this excellent post says and cartoon suggests, I join you in hoping to see the Church change to be a place someday where adultery (abuse) survivors — i.e. faithful spouses — are not presumed guilty of some sin that «caused» their spouse to cheat (and abuse them).

I hadn't intended it to be a comprehensive piece on the faith of millennials, just a commentary on how — generally, based on multiple surveys and my own experience — millennials in the U.S. long for change in the Church that goes beyond worship style and marketing.

I've often watched in services as my fellow worshippers have chosen not to sing certain words, while the Presbyterian Church in America dropped the song from its hymnal after Townend and Getty denied its request to change the lyric to «The love of God was magnified».

I agree with the model in principle only, it is totally based on traditional church model and not on scriptural basis, not all churches fall into that category and even if they do we as Christians need to change the way we have our religious eyes.

My definition of «church» has definitely changed over the years, and I find myself leaning more and more toward the idea that the true bride of Christ is a group of living breathing people — not a building, not an organization, not a set of doctrines, etc. — just people who continue on the path toward faith in God.

(Matt 28:19, 20) Why are they content to speak in their church but not go to individual's homes, as Jesus did, to assist them to make changes in their personality that conforms to Jesus life pattern,» stripping off the old personality» and putting on the «new personality»?

But it's telling that the first comment from, you, Steve, when David suggests not even cracking down on, but simply not being apethetic to abuse of people in churches, is that there is no utopia, so just accept it and don't bother trying to change anything.

The people who are in power and make a living in the Church as it is now do not want change.

It is not by sequestering ourselves in our churches to say little prayers that we fight, but by changing human lives.

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

The Church is not a finished, solidly built and furnished house, in which all that changes is the successive generations who live in it.

A Church That Can and Can not Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching by john t. noonan, jr. university of notre dame press, 280 pp., $ 30 Doctrinal development follows a different course in social ethics than in the realm of revelation.

For life within the Catholic Church, the stumbling - block as regards change in the Church's doctrine is not so much the question of defined dogmas as other doctrines of the Church in dogmatic and moral theology which are taught authoritatively but which in principle can not count as defined doctrines of faith or as irreformable dogma.

The movement, called «Jesus for NZ» released a statement, in which Pastor Ross Smith said: «We feel that the Church does not have a voice in this change and we are here to change that.»

It does not mean that anything has changed in terms of the theological and ecclesial distance between the Catholic Church and Pentecostal or evangelical ecclesial bodies.

In this view the Church is not a stable, immutable institution that has existed since the time of Jesus, founded by him and protected by him from the changes of the world.

And it should at once be noted also that as long as such a Church law is in existence, the character of its obligation, the possibility of being excused or dispensed from it, the possibility of discussing its expediency or the need to change it, the possibility of knowing oneself not bound by it in a particular concrete case etc., are of quite a different kind from any case in which an immutable divine commandment is involved.

We are concerned with the change which the Church itself actively undertakes in its law and doctrine, and in which the Church changes itself, and is not merely subjected to change, though of course both sets of changes mutually affect one another.

Moreover, it has almost changed its nature today because in human life it has widened so enormously, whereas the Church, being simply the teacher of the universal natural law and of apostolic tradition, can not do more than proclaim general principles.