Sentences with phrase «of church experience»

We want part of our church experience to be about building community.

When I read David's piece, I was struck by the seriousness of this kind of church experience.

Our view of the church experience was shaped by personal choice, as we went to Sunday school engaging in a variety of activities, while the adults experienced church service more as a spiritual discipline.

Many young families were in retreat from certain kinds of church experience and the refreshing secularism of the new approach was welcome.

You are right though, that blogs and interacting with people online can be part of your church experience.

I think it is obvious that the social aspects of the church experience are what draws this unfortunate person — not the spiritual.

(And given the nature of his church experiences, some Christians might find themselves sympathetic.)

Also for the health of anyone who has suffered as a result of their church experiences.

You have quite the array of church experiences!

Not exact matches

I couldn't help comparing this church with the rollicking, regular church experiences of my youth.

A young woman strides through floodwaters on her way to church on a Sunday morning in Igbogeni in Bayelsa State, one of the 14 states affected between July and November 2012 when Nigeria experienced its worst flooding in half a century.

Phil... so sorry of your experience within the American Baptist Church.

Benedict XVI is adamant that the strength - and weakness - of the Church is found first and foremost in the dioceses, -LSB-...] He studies every dossier prepared for the three candidates in each diocese, he examines the course of studies and professional experience of potential future bishops and finally takes a decision.

@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?

In my experience as a worship leader, there are two kinds of silence in church.

Notwithstanding that I consider that there are some such flaws in the approach adopted by the Judge, I consider it is important that the church does acknowledge, as I do, that we were, and I include myself, at that time only at the beginning of learning how to deal with disclosures of abuse, and leaders such as myself did lack experience and training.

An evangelical caucus, formed early in the Assembly, issued programmatic recommendations to the policy committee, and, at the conclusion of the Assembly, released a letter to churches and fellow evangelicals regarding their experiences.

I have a couple of young adults in my church that were so excited to know that God could actually HEAL THE SICK and had never really experienced it... they drove all night to florida from Brantford Ontario for 1 day and then back (this was between school and their summer classes).

That is not true in my experience as everyone I know who quit going to church did it because they think the bible is complete nonsense, and that Jesus was not the son of god.

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.

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.

You would think that would be the end of the experience but no we watched as Rev. Shuller was driven to the church in a very lavish, very expensive Limo and during a commercial break... Best Part!

i am learning that fundamentalism is quite a broad church... but something i notice in common with many fundamentalists is a lack of willingness to enter into conversation with other viewpoints and experiences.

Jesus lived and died so we could go to church and experience the revolving door of blessing and salvation?

You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

The only reason I suggest it is because you can witness the demonstration of the power of God in the preached word and it is a very good place to be if you are seeking your own experience, but you don't have to be in church to be saved.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Justin Brierley tells the story of his grandfather, Geoffrey Mowat, whose prisoner of war experience under the Japanese led to his call to ministry within the Church of England.

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (he?

Gay rights campaigner Dan Savage said the idea that churches send out an anti-gay message «totally jibes with my experience and that of millions of other gay and lesbian people.»

«I have experienced true communion, fire - like transformation, unbending faith, white - hot hope, and resurrection of the soul all outside of sterile church walls.»

Although I was raised in a Christian family and charismatic, fundamentalist church, attended a Bible college, and had professed the Christian faith for years, it wasn't until this experience that my intellectual assent of God's truth became deeply personal.

It has been the trend of American churches for some time to venerate marriage as the holy grail of human experience — in spite of the obvious preference of New Testament teachers — including Jesus — for singleness (Matthew 19:10; 1 Corinthians 7).

This is theological exegesis at its finest: informed by historical - critical scholarship, but going far beyond the biblical dissecting room to show how the experience of the Risen Christ both formed the Church and impelled it into mission.

One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience to the life of Christ's Church.

His experience is a reminder of the twin church bombings in Lahore in March 2015 which killed 70 people - mainly Christians.

If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.

We need to stop defining our churches by what people experience in the doors, but rather by whom people become because of Christ inside those doors.

At a church we once attended, we were assigned a new pastor, a middle aged man who had not pastored before, but felt his experience in leading home bible study groups well - qualified him to lead our church, a congregation of about 80.

So, with this incredible promise of healing why are our churches still so outnumbered by those who are hurting and defeated compared to those who are experiencing hope and some measure of health?

My experience has been those believers that listen among any of these: the ex-ex-gay departing religious «therapy programs», the believers departing from religious belief, and those leaving church - sponsored patriarchy,... in time, these people see the commonality of humanity....

In the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culture.

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

According to this version of historical remembrance, Russians will experience national renewal today if they honor the Church's great sacrifices under communism.

In Pentecostal circles, theology and practice are inseparable, so I would like to offer some observations drawn from my own experiences «on the ground» in Pentecostal churches, which may help corroborate and clarify some of Smith's insights.

Every single person has the ability to contribute to the health of the Church, and your corporate experience and gifts might be exactly what the Church needs.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

There is also the question of history and systems of legality — the church has no formal legal system that can invoke prison sentences (in my experience); the military system does have a legal system and the ability to invoke prison terms.

If Pannenberg's theology has latterly become more concerned with churchly matters, it is because he has gained experience of the Church as herself a proleptically universal community.

Ten months into our conversion journey, and still wondering how we could be experiencing the grace of God while in an objective state of sin, we decided to petition the Church to investigate the validity of my first marriage.