Sentences with phrase «not high church»

The lessons and carols service we attended earlier in the evening, which included a Neil Young song and a breathy jazz rendition of «Christmas Time Is Here» from «A Charlie Brown Christmas» — that was not high church.

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This time, the rampage happened at a high school in Broward County, Florida, but no place is safe — not baseball fields or movie theaters or concerts or even churches.

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

The divine head of the Christian Church is the invisible Jesus Christ and every local bishop or pastor should be directly responsible to Him (in the true Church even every ordinary member of the Church or Christian has a high responsibility, not only the pastor).

I just think as Christians we should have a higher standard than what we are portraying in the media concerning this issue... I can not find the reason why gay people can not be our equals in our churches — if they can be my neighbors then they can also be my friends — and if friends — then they shoud have all the access to whatever it is I do.

In her book, Melanie Ross has provided us with an affectionate framing of evangelical liturgical practices that will surely bring a greater and much - needed clarity to the conversation between evangelicals and high - church Christians, if not a greater sympathy.

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

Given that its figures do not include Cardiff where rough sleeping is highest, as well as other parts of Wales, the 18,000 hours is just a snapshot of what Welsh churches are doing for people who don't have anywhere to live.

Also, if you don't pay into the church you get excommunicated and / or can't go to «temple» proceedings and won't get into the «higher» levels of Heaven.

Well if it's a wakeup call from a higher being a big part of his message seems to be he doesn't like churches.

But that's not really the point of the yarn theory (or spaghetti theory as I seem to remember it from my high school days in the Methodist Church).

- Pope to Mass of millions: Get out of church — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitchurch — What we learned about Pope Francis in Brazil — Massive crowd attends prayer service with pope — Why millennials are leaving the church — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitchurch — Pope Francis tells youth that faith cures discontent — «Slum pope» visits Brazil's poor — X.XX Church pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near sitChurch pastor: Weiner is an addict, not a joke — Security raised to «high risk» for pope in Brazil — A nightmare day for the pope's security detail — Explosive found near site pope

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 they Pope said jump, I guarantee you the vast majority of Catholics wouldn't even take notice (I'm one of them, 4 years with Franciscans, 4 years with Dominicans), but if the LDS Prophet said jump, you better believe every church going Mormon is jumping — and they won't ask why, just how high and how long — they'll do it blindly like robots.

Unlike Romney, he was not a high ranking official in the church.

The «old high church traditions» are not necessarily the best ways.

So no, Romney's «rank» in the LDS church is not very high.

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

Catholic universities adopt many of their practices from the general context of higher education in the United States and around the world; since they emerge from the Church and draw from the heritage and teaching of the Church, it should not be surprising to non «Catholics that the Catholic universities also relate features of Catholic heritage to the university.

Church doesn't mean sitting in a pew anymore, listening to you talk like a high priest.

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

«I am not saying that I wish to be considered for the papacy, but the fact that the Gospel is to be preached to all peoples, languages, and races means that the highest leadership of the church should be open to anyone from any race, language and nation.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

The complainant did not pursue the allegation again until 2012 after several high - profile cases of historical sexual abuse by church figures had broken in Australia and the US, as well as the Jimmy Savile scandal.

And from this it is becoming ever more clear that the saving of many Jews was not only permitted but also co-ordinated by the highest leadership of the Church.

There is a rough - hewn cross, 12 feet high, at the front of the church and we all flood to the altar, covering it with sunshine coloured daffodils and pink hued tulips until the entire cross is covered in a bower of spring flowers and I can't even look at it without wanting to shout out loud words like «Hallelujah!»

I just have to wonder why it is okay to delve into the President's faith but not report on the fact that Mitt Romney is still a high priest in the church!

Something must be lacking in our church services and programs when a high proportion of members find religion dull, if not empty.

I'm sure the high percentage of Catholics who currently use contraceptives wouldn't mind, since the Church says it's a sin.

So, in answer to your question, church attendance is high after the meetings, maybe 50 % but depending on the follow up of each church, it may or may not last.

I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.

Despite all the fear driven presentations you've heard, not every young person is walking out of the church the moment they finish high school and never coming back.

I agree Sam, my family are going through terrible abuse by manipulation in the church at present but now irs been exposed and its not us who is the problem we can fight the battles with head held high.

Where the church has failed is not in its high standard of fidelity, but in its tendency to treat sex as incidental to the fulfilment of marriage, or as at best a minor element in fulfillment.

Furthermore, if you get a job, but the pay is not comparable to what you were getting in the church, the church should consider supplementing your income while you gain more experience and knowledge and works your way up to a higher salary.

He was still for practicing and following the laws, but didn't need to high priests and church to do so.

Churches lose a lot of their high school graduates when those graduates begin to realize that they don't fit the mold.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

And now that I was beyond the age of high school idealism, church didn't seem to help much anymore.

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

The observable world was much smaller, and the penalty for not kowtowing to the church was much, much higher.

As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube of cherry - red lipstick and my first pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other eighth - graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.

I can not describe the depths of despair I endured watching my family so hurt by those who declared love for us.8 years on and the pain still lives on and my faith is non existent!The church has grown and the pastor travels all over the world preaching and being feted by everyone.He is now high up in the G12 organisation doing very well thank you!!

To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.

Especially given the fact that Rmoney is a HIGH RANKING PRIEST who knows the true nature of the Mormon «church» and will not give up his position in his «church» if elected!!!! He will rule as a Mormon High PrieHIGH RANKING PRIEST who knows the true nature of the Mormon «church» and will not give up his position in his «church» if elected!!!! He will rule as a Mormon High PrieHigh Priest!!

And you can not vote for the high priest of a church that teaches Satan is the «Son of God»!!!

You are not so moral... and the recent events with in the catholic church, and the amazing silence from its adherents to the pope to clean house, is proof that the church holds society to a higher standard than it is able to meet itself..

Dogma doesn't say that women shouldn't have higher positions in the hierarchy, or that decision - making in the church should not be shared with female religious.

Renewal of worship is not given a high priority in most Protestant churches in this country.