Sentences with phrase «of leaving their church»

Instead of leaving a church to do this, why not try doing it while still in the church you want to leave?

We appreciate your articles about the difficulties of leaving the church, as that's what we have done.

After suddenly losing my father - in - law to a tragic car accident and my mother - in - law just two years later, all in the midst of leaving the church my husband had been on staff at for ten years to move to a new church in a new town with new friends, I had let my overwhelming circumstances crowd my heart and mind.

By mid-November, 14 percent of them left the churches they attended in September.

So when the thought of leaving Church first surfaced, my first thought was: But what about the kids?

And while he toyed with the idea of leaving the church to follow Jesus, he decided to stay and rebuild the church from the inside out.

I was Catholic all of my life, but b / c of this Pope I think of leaving the church

I remember the lonely, isolate feeling of leaving the church and loosing all supposed friends.

Not all methods of leaving the church are entirely voluntary.

Even with the sadness of leaving your church, I'd think having the freedom of not being an official pastor might feel wonderful!

I'm sure in times past, people wouldn't dream of leaving their church for anything short of serious fundamental differences.

David N. with «What Unity Means When You Have No Other Choice» «In our rural small town of Greenville, Ohio we don't have the luxury of leaving a church when we don't agree with its teachings in favor of going to the trendier church across town.

# 2 was because they said I left my previous church of 25 years before leaving this one after 7 years, so that means I am in the habit of leaving churches every few years.

Not exact matches

Prince Jaime de Bourbon Parme and Viktoria Cservenyak leave after their wedding at The Church Of Our Lady At Ascension on October 5, 2013, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

As for revenue, Augustine estimates that the church collects annual receipts of about $ 200 million, which he bases on conversations with former Scientology officials who have since left the organization.

French actress Clotilde Courau looks over the shoulder of her new husband Emanuele Filiberto, the head of the Royal House of Savoy, as they leave their wedding, which was held at Rome's elite Santa Maria degli Angeli church on September 25, 2003, in Rome, Italy.

Her decision to leave the church comes the same week the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction barring the Obama administration from implementing a policy of deferring deportation actions against more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

I am 54 and left the church many years ago because I was so sick of the hypocritical parishioners and the exclusion of anyone who wasn't just like them.

The world has moved on, leaving these elements of the Christian Church that can not adjust to new knowledge or a new consciousness lost in a sea of their own irrelevance.

I left the RC church (under the counsel of a charasmatic priest), studied in the ministry's program, and four years later was ordained in a pentacostal church... pastored by a woman.

Assemblies decide little and often leave the churches in some confusion, but they are always taken as milestone events, reference points for organized «Ecumenism» and the cause of Christian unity.

Just leaving the doors of any other church I feel myself relax, back on friendly turf.

And in this short period of time, the Church was left in the hands of a few indigenous priests.

Things are askew, there are reasons people leave the church, and there are reasons for atheism, for distrust of «christians».

One of the long - term factors that has left our culture unable to understand the kind of claim being made by Hobby Lobby has been the failure of so many churches to teach that business is a vocation.

Shamgar, is your claim that, if the church was under greater persecution, we would all agree about these things because the people holding to one side of each of these debates aren't true believers, and so they would leave under persecution?

I hope the nuns leave the Church, enmasse, and suggest that the guys who remain do all of the hard and often grunt work which the nuns have done for generations.

Back in the late 1920s the finger of God touched Victor Houteff, and he left the Orthodox Church of Bulgaria to join the Seventh - day Adventists.

One prominent pastor personally committed to the position of the revisionists stated in a pastoral letter to his congregation that were the revisionists successful, those opposed to the legitimization of homosexuality would be forced to make a painful decision: they could either remain within a church that would stand for an agenda they found incompatible with obedience to Christ, or they could leave the church.

Last Friday night, one of our members shared her story of how she left a very male - dominated church.

The left's entire agenda is go after Conservatives on the misinterrupted grounds of spearation of church and state.

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.

I was left to wander anonymously in churches full of other anonymous worshippers.

«Restoring Faith in the Safety Net», published by Church Action on Poverty, documents eight key holes in the safety net, many of which are leaving large...

I am glad I left when I did so things did not get ugly as I had a position of significant influence within the church and I had no desire to tear it down.

Two years later I became the son of a preacher man as our family left the confines of Ft. Worth, Texas, to plant a church in the rain of Vancouver, Canada.

One of my best friends in high school left the church when she was 17.

I'm not on the left, and I can tell you that there is no misinterpretation (I'm assuming you meant misinterpreted) regarding the separation of church and state.

If this is going to change in the church it will take a lot of leaders brave enough to look at people first and willing to leave the 99 to save the 1.

The Catholic Church's cover - up of the Child Abuse cases and now their anti-Nun bias, makes me appreciate leaving the Catholic Church to become a Luthern.

People leave their church when they are not fulfilled by the teaching and fellowship there, and they are pulled instead toward the distractions and concerns of the world and self.

The Church that Jesus Christ left us is here to stay and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

When leaders of a church are in it for themselves, for their self - promotion, and for their enrichment, then members will see through that and leave.

The reason I left my last church started with a conversation this with a female leader (and it is important I think that I mention she was female in the light of this conversation).

Bernice had left the church in profound humiliation when, as a little girl, one of the more prominent ladies in the congregation insulted her in the local general store, but near the end of her life she had reconnected with the church of her childhood.

When a church adds to, isolates, distorts, and ignores the entirety of Scriputre, members are left without a desire to study God's Word for truth.

But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

Some of the same churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.

Then you get to be a church deacon and help make decisions that «true believers» are left out of.