Sentences with phrase «not hear the church»

If the principal offender will not hear the Church he is to be treated like a «gentile» or a tax - collector.

Not exact matches

I was taught as a child to pray to God and nothing / no one else and that I need not be in a Church or any building and that God hears all of our prayers, to have faith in following The Ten Commandments, to incorporate The Golden Rule, to be honest and true to myself and most importantly, to not judge others.

I don't spend time in my study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.

I can't really cite things I've heard said verbally in churches or at talks and I don't tend to read books by fundamentalist Christians — not many anyway.

A comment was made that most churches don't preach Jesus... I find that frustrating because in most churches we hear all day long about Paul, what he has to say about «Christ», all feeling one step removed from Jesus by name, preferring to speak of Him by His title.

MacIntyre is not naive about the tenacity of liberals to refuse to give Aristotle a hearing simply because Aquinas had so successfully baptized him for the Church: «It is safe to predict that to the vast majority of such protagonists it will seem preferable to remain in almost any predicament than to accept a Thomistic diagnosis.»

I don't often hear any of George Carlin's favorite words in church, but I sure as hell * do * hear a lot of cursing of people, often in the name of Christ — exactly the kind of cursing shown by the men on the left and right in your cartoon.

Same with many church - goers and ex-church-goers I hear from: you are not allowed to eat your own food and you are not allowed to escape.

Regarding numbers of men vs. women in churches — I've heard that more women than men attend churches but it is not my current experience.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

There are individuals, yes, who do hold beliefs not in line with Church teachings — I was stunned, for example, when I was 18 to hear the leadership chastising members for not allowing their children to play with «nonmember» children, because «they don't have our standards.»

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

I will answer that — no problems... after I hear you tell me if you would or wouldn't allow a gay person to teach in your church?

Your article was the first thing I read this Sunday morning before going to church and I wanted to extend a special «THANKS» not only for the support you provide to those who actually need it most but also for your wonderful message for those family members who think they need to hear and understand it the least.

Nick you must be one of those religious genius's that worship teh worship the church, the bible, because you don't hear what Christ says

There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay person) who went to hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted to hear in his church.

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

* Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: * Revelation 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; * Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: * Revelation 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple, and scarlet colour,..

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a hundred times: «We don't do church the same old way here.»

On the contrary, on the one occasion when Luther's theological proposals received a halfway careful hearing from a representative of the Roman Church, at his meetings with Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg in 1518, the conclusion reached was that his doctrine of justifying faith was not obviously heretical or in clear opposition to the tradition of the Church.

The NT says to preach the Gospel — why preach the Gospel to churches full (or not so full) of people that have heard it before?

I want to hear what he has to say, consider it, then judge whether it is beneficial to the Church or not.

And when they really needed to see and feel the body of Christ reaching out in love, all they saw were the high fives of the arrogant staff and mindless, heartless church members and all they heard was «Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.»

if you consider how when a crowd is laughing hysterically that it is easy to laugh too, even though you didn't hear the joke... the promotion for war in the church is exactly the same.

I've heard today's popular strategies to «grow» a church create a «visible» church (large numbers etc.), but does this mean such churches can be considered an «invisible» church, as in a community that is the church in ways that are not visibly discernable (loving as Jesus loves, servanthood, salvation, etc).

I never considered counseling and have not heard of anyone getting counselling for leaving a / the church.

The purpose of church should not be the «worship service» — it should be hearing the word of God.

The leaders of the Mormon Church / «Cult» are not paid is often heard from the Mormon peons which somehow makes these leaders good men.

«Once again, expressions of Christian faith that honor the rights of women to choose their own health care options and what happens to their bodies are not seen or heard,» wrote the Rev. Barbara Kershner Daniel, who pastors the Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ of Frederick, Maryland, in a message that she circulated via email.

Why are millennials and many others leaving the churches — Here is another reason Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice out of heaven say: «Get out of her, my people, if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues.

Satan will get churches to tell the pastor that people don't want to hear the Bible taught any more, and so if he could just tell them a bunch of stories, that would be better.

And it's also rare to hear in church — because there aren't enough working class men in our pews.

If the Church had had it's way we'd still be treating women as second class citizens and all of you Christians would not own a bible but rather would have to go to the Church to hear what it had to say on the matter.

However, Stefani said her parents assured her that the song was completely new and was not from a song she heard during a church service.

the scriptures do not claim as you state «infallible word of God» ------ Well, this is something I've been hearing for years, in church from pastors and in person from christians.

I've sometimes heard people say the awful words, «I couldn't go to church because I'm not good enough.»

It is commonly heard in books, and on blogs, and even from pulpits nowadays that one does not «go to church.»

John Mark McMillan doesn't write traditional church songs, but this recent performance (from this April) of «I Dreamed There Was a Fountain» is just as worshipful as anything you'll hear on Sunday morning.

I've been attending Christian church for most of my life and do not hear the phrases iin here.

Nakedpastor (and my online community The Lasting Supper) is a space where people can freely express their pain, where victims are heard and abusers called out... something many spiritually abused people did not experience in the church that promised them care.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

It would not do to promise to hear the input of an outraged church when the process had already proven its bad faith.

You have heard the saying, «Don't judge a book by its cover» but when it comes to churches, this is exactly what some people do.

If you only want to hear your preferred narrative then by all means don't read anything that isn't blessed by your pastor who drives that $ 70k caddy parked in his reserved spot in front of the church.

After 3 months of searching the internet and you tube to decide if I wanted to come back to religion, I finally found someone who preaches from the heart, the way my Mama and Papa used to hear when they went to church, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hchurch, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hChurch of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back him up.

If the churches can not groan, God shall never hear.

I bet you go and snitch on someone if you hear t hem saying things you don't think make your church look good and get a kick out of disapproving of people.

The unbeliever in churches I have frequented too often hear LESS of the truth (I heard the truth of my spiritual condition and was convicted when I went to church as an unbeliever) and too much effort is made NOT to offend.

I wish this weren't true, but when you ask Christians why they attend a certain church, you will inevitably hear, «I agree with what they teach.»