Sentences with phrase «older church people»

A few weeks ago I was in a discussion group with a bunch of mostly older church people and the discussion topic was prayer.

Not exact matches

«You can't have a musty church basement or whatever space people used in the old days.»

The Church = the oldest and largest organization through which people get saved physically and spiritually.

You don't start a new church because the people in the old one were mean, and little is accomplished by labeling winners and losers.

The little old lady the gives out hugs at church The sunset that takes your breath away The person that tells you that he appreciates you The lady that brings your family dinner because you are tending to a sick child The friend that prays with you and cries with you when someone you love lies dying.

The church = Oldest criminal organization in the world; Accepted because people can not accept their own death; Still people are going to be dead when dead; No religion will get you past that fact.

He must mean people on the fringe, whose attachment to today's living Church is fragile or tenuous — folks drawn to the SSPX, or grumpily nostalgic for the old Mass, or not altogether reconciled to Vatican II.

The 10 - year - old church, which says in its materials that more than 2,000 people attend its weekend services, planned to disperse that same amount - $ 30,000 - on Sunday, with congregants getting envelopes containing $ 10, $ 20 and $ 50 bills.

I had the option of converting to Catholicism when I married my husband and chose not to because of what I saw as a church run by a bunch of old, white men out of touch with the needs of women and people of diverse backgrounds.

Most churches are predominantly full of and focused upon old people.

Most people do not like admitting they were wrong when making a change, so the churches will need to create roles for the old guard without making them feel marginalized.

New research has found older people are more likely to live longer if they're part of church clubs.

In a small, steepled church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterward.

The Church of Jesus Christ today has a prophet like Moses, 12 apostles who represent the 12 tribes, and 70 men who also serve the people, just as in the Old and New Testament.

Just as our previous 30 year olds were sick of traditional church and moved us to what so many people are now wishing we'd do something else.

If you read the details, despite belonging less to churches and praying less «young adults» beliefs about life after death and the existence of heaven, hell and miracles closely resemble the beliefs of older people today».

I think all the author was saying was that it isn't «the great apostasy» or even mere self - indulgence (we want an in - church barista type thing) that is turning some people of faith — both young and old — away from corporate «traditional» gathering.

When I walked into the church, there was only one person inside - an elderly man wearing an old wool coat that had holes in the elbows and thread handing from the sleeves.

Young local Churches begin as «mission territory,» and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what's now called the «Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples» (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, «Propaganda,» or simply «Prop»).

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

With all of this in mind, and in response to common questions I receive when speaking at mainline churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013 with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainline:

«We follow the ancient liturgy of the church (chanting the Kyrie, readings from scripture, chanting the Psalm, sermon, prayers of the people, Eucharist, benediction, etc.) We also sing the old hymns of the church.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

The Catechism again says that the Church is «already present in figure [in the community of our first parents] at the beginning of the world, this Church was prepared in marvellous fashion in the history of the people of Israel and the old Covenant.

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

Thousands of people gathered in Hull's historic Old Town at the weekend to celebrate the city's Holy Trinity Church being bestowed a special status by the Archbishop of York.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

It is Christ's special strengthening of the person to face serious illness and the frailty of old age, to enable them to unite their suffering to the Passion of Christ, the sanctification of the individual and the Church, and a preparation for the final journey.

The older Orders of the Church were situated in remote parts of the countryside and no longer served the needs of the people as they had in the past.

Though Hauerwas and his collaborators realize that not all old people are wise, and that we can not expect them to be, «there is no substitute for some old people in the church being wise.

Only in the church, the writers argue, do old people find their rightful role and place.

This view of aging and the place of the church aligns well with Vaillant's finding that organized religion is especially attractive for lonely old people, those with a tendency toward depressive illness and those whose childhoods were lacking in hope and love.

I am 60 years old, grew up in a very legalistic cultic church, been part of several church leaderships, served as pastor of a start up church, read and went to many, many, many church growth conferences, wanted to reach the lost, always trying to find the best structures, the best form of church, and what type of bells and whistles will attract people to church.

We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of God and men.

You are going to have to remain upset, old sock, because I was indeed saying that Christ only died to save certain predestinated, elect people (His Church; Eph 5:25) and that all the others are damned long before conception.

The Old Testament tells of his people, Israel, and the New Testament of the possibility that we all might enter into God's chosen people, the Church, by way of baptism and faith in Christ.

Imaginative, passionate, faith - filled people are enacting a new - old faith with Jesus and are working to change wearied churches.

They show that the Old Testament can, and must, be read as a Christian book, prophetic of Jesus; that the paradox that the Messiah should suffer death can be understood in the light of the scriptures; and that the risen Lord's presence, even if it is not recognized at other times, is to be discerned when he encounters his people in the breaking of bread (the Church's Eucharist).

I think about that old accusation of a Jezebel spirit when people talk about feminism or women in the church or whatever - term - you - want - to - call - it - now.

I am haunted by the Old Testament statement that «without a vision, the people perish,» and by the early Christian contention that «the church is the soul of civilization.»

A typical message I heard while listening to radio broadcasts in northern Nicaragua accused the Sandinistas of «burning churches, kidnapping Nicaraguan children and sending them to Cuba, stealing land from campesinos, creating internal food shortages by sending Nicaragua's food to the Soviet Union, and killing old people in order to make soap.»

Then five - year - old Ryland Ward was part of a Sunday morning service at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in which a gunman stormed in and killed 26 people, including an unborn child.

I remember how people talked when the rector at my old church started using the «s» word in his sermons («sin»).

It is a good thing indeed that men as well as women, young women as well as matrons, and talented older people of both sexes have also been engaged in the teaching enterprises of the churches.

But most people leave seminary these days without the slightest notion as to what is essential and what is fluff in a eucharistic prayer, even though the church has no older form of proclamation of its faith.

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)

I have seen all too often where churches work so hard to put on their salvation shows by manipulating people down the aisle so like a old western gunslinger they can put another notch on their belts.

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

Just because you knock up all the 13 year olds at your church's sunday school doesn't mean people with brains aren't getting any.