Sentences with phrase «numbers of church people»

Before the mission program could have real utility it had to have the support of large numbers of church people.

Growing numbers of church people, too, are thoroughly secularized and find their meanings in a technological pragmatic society, and, while continuing to observe the traditional expressions of worship, teaching, and sacraments, these people find their search for meaning more and more unmet by the church's teaching.

Three years ago a number of church persons along with experts from outside the church created the Healing Community, an action - research project designed specifically to discover whether the church really can respond to the various kinds of alienated persons of our society, and what some of these responses might be.

Not exact matches

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.

Large group gatherings or worship services are the place where the largest number of people within a church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a church.

People choose to go to church for any number of reasons.

According to the Oxford Times, she wrote in a newsletter: «I am not usually a grumpy person but I have been overwhelmed by the numbers of tourists coming through the church and the fact that so many of them seem unaware that this is a sacred space.

Fishon, you are probably right about the numbers of churches that specifically ban gay people.

The Catholic Church in Germany has redefined current diocesan boundaries and included more lay people in ministry and brought in more foreign priests in order to address falling numbers of Germans entering the clergy.

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

During this time, he discovered many people in Colorado Springs did not have a God context, despite the large number of churches and parachurch organizations in the area.

Police suspect the driver could have been drunk when she hit the people, including a number of children, outside St James Catholic church, Redondo Beach, last night.

Sheen was noted for, inter alia, the number of people he had helped bring into the Catholic Church, and our friend, too, was eager to win converts.

Here's the thing — you can find any number of Stepford-esque church members who will attest that they and the folks they know are «just good people», etc. (and I, too, know many very pleasant and admirable Mormons), but that doesn't address the creepy facts related to the administration of the overall organization (which is by no means a true non-profit, BTW).

More than 3,000 persons signed concurrence when the letter was circulated in a number of area churches, and it was later reprinted in a full - page newspaper advertisement along with as many signatures as could be fitted on the page.

If you ever need statistics and facts on churches, church attendance, megachurches, and numbers of people who attend church in the United States, I posted some demographic sites here.

This story about the fictional Scott family might give the impression that this «method» will increase the numbers of people in our churches.

This church focuses on the reality that the overwhelming numbers of people in Latin America live in day by day.

To be honest I am surprised as heck at the number of young people who do go to Church every Sunday.

If revisionists manage someday to recapture denominational offices and pulpits in large number, the churches will be less concerned to prescribe and implement theologically correct views and more interested in equipping people to do their own thinking about questions of economic policy.

There are any number of ways for people to assemble to encourage each other, it isn't as if it has to be church on sunday morning.

I am among a growing number of people who believe that there is an urgent need for a rebirth of utopian thinking within the church and in society at large.

That incoming number would undoubtedly change the lives of the people who were giving up their church.

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

The numbers of people who have come to Christian faith through the Toronto movement, through many different churches, are impressive.

It will run during the harvest and Christmas periods - when churches typically experience a swell in their congregations - to help ensure the maximum numbers of people are involved.

What surprised me on this trip was that at every single event, one or two people would pull me aside and ask how I kept from getting discouraged by those big numbers that Mark Driscoll, and pastors like him, are always bragging about — the 10 million downloads, the enormous church planting network, the packed - out services, the hundreds of thousands of blog visitors.

Some young people who travelled to see have formed a group and taking their anointing around the UK, a number of us from our Church are going to see and hear at a Church not far from this group on Saturday night.

There is both a state church and an outlawed underground church, and there are many people who belong to both, moving back and forth between them «beneath the radar,» including an unknown number of bishops and priests, who receive their holy orders publicly for the state church and privately for the Church ofchurch and an outlawed underground church, and there are many people who belong to both, moving back and forth between them «beneath the radar,» including an unknown number of bishops and priests, who receive their holy orders publicly for the state church and privately for the Church ofchurch, and there are many people who belong to both, moving back and forth between them «beneath the radar,» including an unknown number of bishops and priests, who receive their holy orders publicly for the state church and privately for the Church ofchurch and privately for the Church ofChurch of Rome.

There are two wonderful things that give me a positive wow factor every day — the increasing number of people I discover doing fantastically brilliant stuff, quietly and without fuss, living out the Gospel of Christ in gentle, caring, loving ways, most of which the church institution hasn't got a clue about because it's too dam busy running itself.

Can you imagine the number of deaths that will occur if Obama releases the terrorists presently held by the military?I only include these coemmnts because many people are misrepresenting the church's position (Doctrine) on capitol punishment, AND Obama is distorting the realities associated with terrorism and attracting a lot of Catholics with his lies and distortions!

In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal «supermarkets for the sacraments,» as some liberation theologians call them.

The number of people who say that they belong to churches is also down.

God's morality does not change, and as a church and a people we often have a lot of bigotry toward the increasing numbers of homosexuals in our midst — however!

Early Church leaders wrote about persecution: «The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed» for the growth of God's people.

We still have «relationships» with a number of people from each of those churches that we left.

A number of people outside of the peace church tradition seem to be quite interested in what these pacifists are saying and doing.

Unfortunately, the 1959 UCC Statement of Faith has attained quasi-creedal status for some UCC people, and functions in a number of churches as a kind of modern confession test.

So attendance waned as the number of people garish enough to wear furs to church declined through natural selection.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

The average church in America is from 70 - 100 members and in most churches, the number of people who pay the bills is around 20 % of that.

I am witness thru the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit of truth in seeing image of beast, his mark, and the number of his name in the people of churches on earth Revelation 15:2 - 3.

The immense mental health contributions of organized religion will be released only as increasing numbers of churches and temples become centers of healing and growth — centers for healing the brokenness of individuals and relationships, and settings where persons find stimulation for lifelong growth toward their fullest humanity.

When the focus became numbers, rather than the people themselves, the church ceased to be a people of God following Jesus into the world, and became a business that maneuvers for greater market share.

But more important are the changing patterns and attitudes of campus life, the enormously increased and still increasing numbers of young people who are on campuses, and the various kinds of movements that combine to make young people think of religion and the church as false, traditional, or irrelevant.

Findings on questions such as the number of people who go to church regularly vary over the years, but the remarkable thing is that the variation is very slight, usually within a matter of a few percentage points.

More than four out of 10 Americans say the message coming out of churches about gay people is negative, and about the same number say those messages contribute «a lot» to negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people.

The largest Pentecostal body, the Church of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known church groupings and thousands of free - standing congregaChurch of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known church groupings and thousands of free - standing congregachurch groupings and thousands of free - standing congregations.

Many people could tell you the obvious things: the provision of special care, the preparation of the church building for access, the sensitization of the pastor to the increasing numbers of the aging.