Sentences with phrase «often go to a church»

Show me examples of your good Christian values not by how often you go to church but what you do everyday.

A recent poll indicated that the more often you go to church (or synagogue or mosque) the more likely you are to vote Republican.

Most dating profiles include factors like denomination, but these services go beyond that by offering a more religion - centric profile that can include how often you go to Church and how religious you actually are.

Research also shows those Americans overstate how often they go to church by about half.

Not exact matches

All too often people act like if you don't do something the church says you're going to you know where.

The survey suggests that while church attendance patterns over the past three and half decades have been most influenced by changes in how often Southerners, Catholics and women go to services, other factors may play a bigger role in the future, Schwadel said, noting how church attendance had stayed mostly steady despite the demographic changes.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

And yet, so often thats all there is... we go to church and all there is is fluff and we need to hear from God NOW.

I think why you didn't see people move from the church because they are «Presbyterians» People who go to the main line churches are often there because of tradition within their families.

Lay Church - goers seeking consolation rather than understanding from their religion often form «lord of the flies» packs to silence they fellow lay persons who refuse to drink the KoolAid without an explanation for why they should do so.

You don't think there's a correlation with the fact that people who are going through tough times tend to attend church twice as often, and if catholic, are 3 times as likely to give confession than they would be if something wasn't bothering them.

In his post, Piper says, «submission does not mean you do not try to influence your husband» and suggests that a good test of proper male headship in a relationship is to examine who says «let's» most often — as in, «let's go out to eat, let's try to get our finances in order, let's get to church on time next Sunday.»

The pope remains popular, but hasn't inspired people to join his church — or even roused Catholics to go to Mass more often.

The unbeliever in churches I have frequented too often hear LESS of the truth (I heard the truth of my spiritual condition and was convicted when I went to church as an unbeliever) and too much effort is made NOT to offend.

People often say, «You need to go to church to be in community.»

Too often people go to church to be scolded rather than to experience the liberation of the divine.

The difference is often detectable in the very way that a church member may express her congregational affiliation; «I go to that church on Brady Street» is very different from «I belong to a great community of people, and we call ourselves St. Paul Lutheran Church.&church member may express her congregational affiliation; «I go to that church on Brady Street» is very different from «I belong to a great community of people, and we call ourselves St. Paul Lutheran Church.&church on Brady Street» is very different from «I belong to a great community of people, and we call ourselves St. Paul Lutheran Church.&Church.»

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

Too often the church goes to the social scientists who can describe communities and who may be very helpful to Christians as they think about society but who, because of their analytic language, can not create or reinforce community.

In general, house churches consist of 12 to 15 people who share what's going on in their lives, often turning to Scriptures for guidance.

When I go through David Kinnaman's research, which reflects just about every concern I express in my «15 Reasons» posts --(young people are leaving the church because they believe it is too exclusive, too combative with science, hyper - political, out - of - touch when it comes to sexuality, and an unsafe place in which to wrestle with doubt)-- I am often met with blank stares.

A key challenge faced by the Church one which often goes unrecognised is that the Bible does not provide the final answer to a whole number of spiritual and moral issues with which society has subsequently wrestled.

But in my experience, these stewardship sermon series often result in «So give lots of money because we are going to add a youth wing onto the church.»

The age old problem of SELF often is manifest in a false identity such as; «we are children of Abraham» (therefore I am righteous), «I go to... «church»» (somehow this «church» makes you something) or «all you say we will do» (the people of Israel saying they in themself can meet God's standard), «I give to the church» (not personally meeting others needs), «I do this program or that program» (though you do not desire to glorify God but rather there is some intrinsic value in doing a program).

This effort often goes under the same banner of inclusiveness that justifies the church's outreach to members of different races, classes and ethnic backgrounds.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

If non white people start going to church more often then that is GREAT.

If non white people start going to church more often then that is AWESOME.

Pioneers often go it alone or with a much smaller crowd and if you think about it, we probably wouldn't have much of the advancements we have in the world today (even some of the changes in the Church) if pioneers listened to the naysayers.

It could well be that religious people in those areas (Texas, California) are genetically similar or that people who go to church weekly are more often morning people (a condition also correlated with lower stress).

For that reason, I don't go to church anymore... and, because I wouldn't wish what happened to me on any friend or foe, I too often catch myself being a vocal «church anti-witness», undoing the work towards increasing attendance that so much effort is put into by local pastors.

I've often sat there thinking about it, but in the end I always get up and go in, because there's enough love, enough need and enough of Christ in my local church community for me to put up with the damage that institutions do to everyone in them.

They often point out that if the Moscow Patriarchate loses Ukraine, and especially if Ukraine goes back to Constantinople, its pretensions to power and influence among the other Orthodox churches will be severely compromised.

In our church the guy who gets paid to speak with authority doesn't know the Scripture, and there is no chance to discuss or question anything afterward... I don't bother to go often.

This over-glorification of a man that Jesus often said missed his point is cause of countless wars and all kinds of suffering going all the way back to the earliest Christian churches.

Dala... Ever notice how once the tyrant is overturned that all of those that followed his cruel orders often go running back to their respective religions; the churches reopen and goodness and love return to their hearts as if the attempted genocides never happened.

Often they are hyper - sensitive to rejection and pick up immediately on the psychological message given by the well meaning priest while he explains why he is «deferring» the baptism of their child.The message is simple: «You (and your child) are not good enough to belong to this Church» — and they go away sad and humiliated, often never to darken the door of a church aOften they are hyper - sensitive to rejection and pick up immediately on the psychological message given by the well meaning priest while he explains why he is «deferring» the baptism of their child.The message is simple: «You (and your child) are not good enough to belong to this Church» — and they go away sad and humiliated, often never to darken the door of a church Church» — and they go away sad and humiliated, often never to darken the door of a church aoften never to darken the door of a church church again.

I know that being from the US Bible Belt that by and large homosexuals are greatly persecuted and often not allowed to be members of their churches... even going so far as seeing hate crimes committed against them....

Also, in light of the previous point, this sort of makes pastors and preachers the dealers in this transaction, which is why you will very often find the most Bible addicts in a church where the pastor and preacher places an heavy and constant emphasis on attending church, listening to sermons, daily Bible reading, and going to Bible studies.

In Christian culture, feelings of church burnout are often met with well - meaning encouragement like, «Going to church shouldn't be based on a feeling.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

Thankfully that doesn't happen very often at the church I go to, but the next time it does I'm going to crawl under my chair and hide.

I go to Church quite often, but I am not religious.

With young Americans rejecting organized religion in large numbers, the future of these Bronze Age mythologies is in doubt; therefore, thinking people in any part of this country are going to start attending church more often, isn't likely.

Protestants often assume that Catholics go to church only because of fear and ecclesiastical compulsion.

Phoenix went on to point out how the Church has often painted Mary Magdelene as a prostitute — in fact, Pope Gregory claimed she was a prostitute in 591 — and said he hopes the film provides a different lens for people to view women in the Church.

It's often been said that the fastest growing denomination in the UK is Christians who no longer go to church.

- don't sing from hymnals - don't go to church on Sunday (which they often mistakenly «the Sabbath»)- meet in a building that is lit with candles - preach wearing sandals and shorts - preach from anything but the KJV - allow homosexuals and prostitutes and drug addicts to come to church just as they are - have a pastor with facial hair (yes, I've heard this one!)

In his appreciative Foreword, the National Director of «Aid to the Church in Need», Neville Kyrke - Smith, calls the book fascinating and goes to the central issue in saying that Pope John Paul II's whole life and witness could be said to be like that of Our Lord Himself, often in the Garden of Gethsemane but translucent with the hope of the resurrection.

The non-Fascist, the anti-Fascist, was approaching a point at which he would have to ask himself whether the parish church was still his church; he was now having to go to mass early in the morning if he wished to avoid the sermon, which too often comprised a full - scale attack on all the democratic, masonic Governments which were opposing the providential plans of the Duce.