Sentences with phrase «only went to our church»

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

I had visited DC so many times and only went to this church as I had «time to kill».

More specifically, 18 percent disagreed with the church's stance on political or social issues, 17 percent said they were only going to church to please others anyway, and 16 percent said they no longer wanted to identify with church or organized religion.

People who only go to church on Easter and Christmas are hypocrites, not progressive Christians.

(And I believe that this is a great failing of many people who say they have faith, but only go to church because they were «brought up that way» or «it is the right thing to do.»

They need to learn to be REAL christians and only go to churches that suck the joy out of religion and replace with judgment while focusing their sermons on gays and commies.

The Christians only go to church for a few ceremonies.

Why only going to Church?

I told him up front that my family and I weren't the very best Christians, that we only went to church occasionally, and it wasn't that big a deal to me.

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This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family sayTo become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family sayto consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

we stepped back, evaluated our religion / faith and promptly realized that the only reason we went to church was because that was what we were programmed to do.

Your article was the first thing I read this Sunday morning before going to church and I wanted to extend a special «THANKS» not only for the support you provide to those who actually need it most but also for your wonderful message for those family members who think they need to hear and understand it the least.

But that sort of behavior goes on in WAY too many churches for the case to be made that church community is the only place to live out a love for God in service with and for others.

For those posters who use this uplifting story to praise the decline of churches and religions in this USA, I offer that it is not only churches and religions going down the tubes.

These beliefs are apparently the ones set forth by Messrs. Johnson, Hoge, and Luidens in «Mainline Churches: The Real Reason for Decline» (FT, March 1993): (1) That Christianity is the only religion with a valid claim to truth, (2) that persons can be saved only through Jesus Christ and otherwise go to hell, and (3) that therefore one should try to convert others to the Christian faith.

Many of them go to church only if it's convenient, or only on Christmas or Easter (happy Easter btw) and a lot of them wouldn't go at all but for that nagging «just in case» feeling, but a lot of them are very quick to rant and rail at people who are content and secure in their acceptance that there is no God.

lIKE MANY CHRISTIANS i KEEP GOING BACK TO THE CHURCH FOR MORE only to find out things were getting worse in my lifTO THE CHURCH FOR MORE only to find out things were getting worse in my lifto find out things were getting worse in my life!

Tons of christians don't go to church, and at my church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us to even get into the place.

sacraments — true you probably don't need a church for them — baptism is commanded (for believers), it's special, but not neccesssarily a sacrament, it can be done by any believer, although possibly it was only the apostles who baptized (I tend to go with the baptist view on baptism, because that's what I read in the Bible.

If the cardinals keep going to the conservative side, the Catholic church will exist only in second and third world countries.

Are you only opposed to brain washing when someone voluntarily can choose to go to church and hear it or when you are forced to sit in a public classroom?

Mr. Green, the only other position this guy could be promoted to in the catholic church is to God — and that is not going to happen.

Only one group has gone so far as to say that the mainstream LDS Church, in banning plural marriages, is guilty of apostasy.

As the article said, it's about a block away from the White House — it only serves a few blocks; most people don't drive into town to go to church on Sunday.

I was feeling extremely discouraged last night, since the newest church I went to seemed to be the «one», only now every time the one pastor talks my spirit literally cringes at some of the things he teaches.

But to get me to ever go with another close friend to her church (Republican, women must obey their husbands, homophobic, they have the only correct interpretation of the Bible and Christianity), you'd have to kidnap my family and threaten to kill them.

When Peter is the one who recognized Jesus as the messiah, Jesus told Peter he was blessed because only His Father in Heaven could have revealed it to him, not a flesh and blood person, so Jesus told Peter He was going to build His Church upon this rock [Peter] and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

You put much faith in man's abilities to keep an inst!tution going for 2000 years... why is the Catholic Church the only Christian religion that has maintained this much history?

I knew another woman who went to the church and she said no one was bullying the other woman, who she said attended only part time, did not participate in most church activities and interpreted her lack of social connections to imaginary bullies.

After explaining that only if they had remarried would it prevent them, they went to Confession and were restored to full Communion with the Church.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

Many believers tell their children that non-believer children are going to hell, but they tell them to keep it a secret that should only be shared at church or during family devotionals.

I think so i know why but i am not sure you can type in google judgement day for cristians and also you can go to church and be batipized and also get councelling and also you can try praying to Jesus and also try to find ways to remove demons from your body and also for sings only then you can know wheather you are demon possed or not thank you

After 3 months of searching the internet and you tube to decide if I wanted to come back to religion, I finally found someone who preaches from the heart, the way my Mama and Papa used to hear when they went to church, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hchurch, DR John Collins with the Church of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back hChurch of Biblical Christians tells it the way it should be plus he does not accept donations, He preaches against todays prosperity preachers, My Papa said hes the only guy he has heard of lately not affraid to tell you what he thinks and use scripture to back him up.

The ark of the Church goes floating down the centuries, having only the task of staying afloat until the waters subside — certain to disappoint those who want the thrill of a speedboat trip.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

«Only wimps go to church.»»

He said he'll go to church with me, he was burned by a church once or he's really open to spiritual things, so it's only a matter of time, right?

How can we fulfill the Great Commission to go and make disciples of all nations if we all only seek churches that make us feel completely comfortable?

I challeng you to find a church that even comes close to that, there is somthing going on here in so cal that only GOD make happen.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

This is a difficult task, because there are so many diverse reasons for the separations, reasons going back to the time of the reformation, reasons which have emerged only later through the historical development of the separated Churches, doctrinal reasons, but also sociological, national, cultural ones which by themselves do not add up to a real denominational difference.

Rather than spending the majority of our income on buildings, salaries, and church programs, so that only what is left over goes to help the poor and needy, maybe churches could reverse this practice, so that a majority of the money that a church receives goes toward feeding the hungry, helping the poor, and serving those who are outcast and rejected in society.

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.

If you, as the pastor, used to do 90 % of the «ministry» functions of the church (however that is defined) during your 60 - 70 hours of work, but you can now only devote 10 - 15 hours per week to «pastoral work» (but see the point above), this means that someone else in the church is going to have to step up to the plate and fill in the gaps.

There are many Christians who go through life caring only about attending the next Bible study, going to the next church service, and reading the next Christian best seller.

It must be soberly realized that no human enactment, whether old or new, has advantages only and no disadvantages; that the old days were good only for those who enjoyed the benefits of them, but not for all without distinction and that for the most part they only begin to look splendid when they are past and gone; that even the new age will produce tribulation, inadequacies and defects, and that the reform of the Church is never at an end.

Such worried Catholics who are already going wild even when they have only to get up and sit down at Mass should really ask themselves quite simply and charitably: What has be - come different in the Church and what has remained the same?

But even if neither is accepted, we suggest that there are certain things which the Church ought not only resignedly to await but which she might well go forward to meet.