I see this as part of a growing trend in the western world that is getting fed up with the ignorant, pretentious, number - crunching church buildings that claim to be preaching gospel when they're either preaching a list of do's and don'ts or they're preaching what's in demand, and im
not saying all churches are like that but a lot are.
I've never hung out with any fundamentalists — we do nt» tend to get many here i woudln't say my church has that view — it's a bit more realistic.
I am
not saying the church can stop a person from making bad decisions, but the church, despite its flaws, can help us grow and find wisdom without so much reliance on the school of hard knocks (an archaic term used often by my father).
Now, I'm
not saying all churches will always do this, but you asked what would be in it for the church and why a church would want to control, and I gave you the reason.
fishon — you may have misunderstood ttm's comment — we say «committed» to a mental institution ie they got sent there, to a hospital — because they cracked up — he's
not saying the church is a mental institution, but once who's pressure can cause people mental harm.
I'm
not saying Church isn't allowed to push it's beliefs but I do agree with others the practice of indoctrinating, via ceremony, children under the age of 14 is a horrendous practice.
I didn't say the churches don't do it... (though the Bible preaches that they should)... I said I don't need it.
I'm
not saying the church needs to be abolished or that kids shouldn't attend.
Would
you not say your church, and to be fair, others, have little regard for them, is that not bigotry?
He does
not say the church is the way.
Not exact matches
«It helps an employee to know they have a group of people supporting them and it leads to them
not being quiet,»
says Churches.
Churches says men who are in a position to hire should
not be afraid to add more women to their team.
Hala Moddelmog, who was president of
Church's Chicken in the 1990s and Arby's from 2010 to 2013 — two Atlanta - based fast - food empires —
said Goldman's announced expansion in Atlanta didn't come as a shock.
But that's
not how Lentz
says he views the
church.
Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas
church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy
said was
not doing enough to prevent the attack.
[Crafters] should
not be too proud to set up a table at the
church Christmas bazaar if, in doing that, they learn the information that will help them build a million - dollar business,» she
says.
The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved with The Birth of a Nation as
saying that Fox Searchlight does
not plan to change course on its promotion of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and
churches as the public face of the movie.
Said Sabido, «This is a movement that is growing and that needs the government's attention...
not councils,
not 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.»
It has gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84
says: «The
Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of
not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.
The thinking may go like this» why bust my hump for people in the
church who don't care when they
say they do?
«Lest you think it is too late for a miracle, I want to reassure you that it is
not too late for a miracle,»
said Schuller Coleman, the
church's director of ministry and mission.
The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) didn't endorse the change like the article
said.
If you don't do exactly as I
say (If you are unsure what that is, just ask Michlle here) then I'll keep knocking over
churches!
For one to
say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone
saying they don't want a Christian
church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to
say they don't want a Catholic
church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.
Why are you listening to black clerics over this issue, Blacks are having more kids out of wed lock than whites, they are also like white, living in sin, but the
church's
say nothing about having babies without a husband or sitting in
church and living in sin, talk about glass houses, and besides the marriages are Cival marriage
not religious marriage, what a bunch of hipocrites..
I don't agree that the LDS chuch should have a
say on my salvation if I choose in life
not to be a member of their
church.
I'll
say it one more time incase you still don't understand, THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
CHURCH, THEY WILL
NOT BE «FORCED» TO MARRY ANYONE THEY DON «T WANT TO.
Highlighting the importance of the
Church in
not shying away from politics Rev O'Donoghue
said: «Where there is wickedness, and where there is error, and where there are serious breaches of basic care, I think we need to be calling people out on it.
Last month, as
church halls and Mosques in North Kensington responded as one to the horrific disaster at the Grenfell flats, Tim Farron, ironically a leading liberal, stepped down from his post
saying that he couldn't do his job because of the hostility to his faith.
She's
not active in the
church, as I
said, even now, but we're still friends, and she told me recently just how significant it was for her that I did make that choice.
Stopping short of calling for cathedral governing bodies - Chapters - to be scrapped, the
Church of England
said at least two - thirds of members should
not be clergy, to ensure people with necessary skills are there.
But — caution is wise: Be careful a blog does
not become a theraputic enviroment for one to
say what they want to
say about the
church — even God — Jesus or whatever.
Doesn't Chaput realize, Reid
says, that the stagnation of the Catholic
Church in America can be chalked up to «the right wing» like Chaput himself that «has controlled the
Church hierarchy for some three decades now»?
I mean Rachel Held Evans is
saying that millennials are leaving the
church because the
church won't accept LGBT friends.
I came from Holy Trinity Brompton and I wasn't wholly familiar with the structures of the
Church of England I think it would be safe to
say.
preacherlady
said, on November 5th, 2009 at 9:35 pm Fishon... thats as prejudiced a statement to condemn something because it was written by a homosexual as it was to judge you because you are
Church of Christ -------- Alice, the Bible doesn't condemn being in or of the
Church of Christ, but it does condemn practicing homosexuality and as I
said before, calls it....
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.
How can you
say that because Obama takes one stance that doesn't match Christian values, the
church congregation must vote for others?
That
said, I'm always hopeful that people know that my novels are about questions from me,
not from New Life
Church.
There were many evil things done in the Name of Jesus Christ, but it is
not really to be as surprise, becaue Jesus
said that the evil one, which is the devil, will plant his seeds in the midst of God's
church, meaning here «The Christendom».
He will be
saying that to al those false
churches where you can't find all their teaching in the bible nor can you find «their»
churches.
I hope this applies to your question, many times, sitting in services in a particular
church, the Pastor would give a reprimand to the congregation,
saying: «If you feel the urge to raise your hands and do
not do it, then you are resisting the Holy Spirit.»
This is
not to
say that the
church is
not family for some.
If we
say it is, why can't we let that person work in our
church?
Meryn Thomas, Chief Executive at CSW - a charity which advocates for persecuted Christians -
said: «We reiterate our call for the patriarch's unconditional release and reinstatement and for representatives of sisterly Oriental Orthodox
churches to visit him,
not only to ensure his reinstatement and wellbeing, but also to verify the reconciliation process that is alleged to have occurred between the patriarch and renegade clergy.»
Given that there are more people enslaved than ever before... if the
Church is
not somehow engaged in the fight to rescue the poor and oppressed, can we really
say that we know God at all?»
Like de-funding Welfare, they think this will drive people into seeking help in the arms of their
churches where they can
say «worship or starve» or hadn't you seen that bit yet?
you don't attend a
church like rev.wright's for 20 years and try and
say he did
not sway your thinking.