Sentences with phrase «one's experience in the church»

From my 40 years of experience in the church all over the world attending each week, to say otherwise is a lie.

I am sorry you had a bad experience in a church.

It's wise to not underestimate the profound affects negative experiences in the church can have on you.

I am sorry about the pain your are experiencing in your church setting.

Is our church doing everything possible to provide a positive, security - giving experience in the church school classes for these children?

You don't know me or my own experiences in church.

I can not begin to count the number of church musicians who have told me about the despair they have experienced in churches where they are regarded merely as need - fillers.

Funny enough I've been thinking about writing a post for my own blog about the amount of mental illness I am / have experienced in the church context.

Just today, I started writing my horror story of experiences in church and ministry.

Maybe they had a bad experience in another church, or as a kid when they were growing up, but things are different now.

You help me get rid of these negative voices in my head that have been placed there via all the negative experiences in churches.

One of the significant things that small group experiences in church settings have demonstrated is that a group can be inspirational without being repressive.

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Cynicism begins because we've had limited experience in the Church.

They have the right to turn to their bishops questioningly, complainingly, even accusingly if they are justly scandalized in their conscience by what they see, hear and otherwise experience in the Church.

Hopefully, adult education experiences in the church school will help rectify the distorted views held by parents.

So that is exhasteding to for you and it pisses me off that you have acted in a way that reminds me of a Vineyard pastor acted in making frustration I was experiencing in the church culture I was in being abuot something to do with me and not the church.

Fred, I'm truly glad you are having a positive experience in your church.

Its intention is to affirm and explain the faith, life, and worship of the Catholic Church, and the fact is that - historically and theologically - the disputes with Lutherans, Calvinists, Zwinglians, and others in the sixteenth century is far from being the most formative experience in the Church's understanding of her faith, life, and worship.

You have put in words what many experience in church...

Further fall out from my decision to stop taking his abuse occurred as I was the music minister, and, if any of you've had experience in the church music ministry you may agree with me that the enemy — that old serpent — is heavily involved in wrecking havoc via the music ministry.

Note that we are not looking for abstract theological treatises about church, but nitty - gritty stories about your real - life experiences in church.

Though many people have painful experiences in church, some people choose to stay at their church and try to work through them, reforming the church from the inside, and being the change they want to see.

Chad, I actually have had a fantastic experience in the church.

As I was raising my own family, I gained much experience in the church with several personal help ministries.

Having been subjected to some of the worst that fundamentalism has to offer, Justin has managed to emerge from his negative experiences in the Church as a man of wisdom, grace, and love.

It's nothing compared to what many other people experience in the Church, but it's painful.

Various chapters in this book, as well as other reading and my own experience in churches, persuade me that all these kinds of knowledge and more really would be helpful for contemporary ministers.

In evaluating its group structure, a church's leaders should ask themselves these questions: Is it possible for persons of every age, with a wide range of interests, to find meaningful group experiences in our church?

When someone opens up about the pain they've experienced in a church setting, only to be met with eye rolls, sighs, and accusations of selfishness, why on earth would they ever want to return?!

This no doubt expresses the fact that many people have not been liberated and empowered or deeply touched inwardly by their experience in churches.

Not just for women in the church but for a lot of people's experiences in the church.

And yes, my experience in church was to absolutely hide my intellect, not question, don't be sarcastic (the most recent church that I went to defined sarcasm as «the tearing of the flesh» regardless of the tone and nature of the sarcastic comment.

In Canada, we have an entire generation that hasn't had a bad experience in church!

It speaks to how many atheists have too many hang ups about their past bad experiences in the church...

The same dissonance that we experience in church is the same dissonance that we feel towards ourselves when we fail.

Theological praxis as distinct from theory alone should take seriously all experience in our church and our culture, critically examine them and reinterpret them if necessary.