It stood for «
open church doors every day and all day, free seats, a plurality of Christian workers, the personal activity of all church members, [and] a ministry to all the community through educational, reformatory and philanthropic channels... «20
Not exact matches
This Tuesday, Houston's Lakewood
Church — one of America's largest and most prominent megachurches — announced plans to
open its
doors to evacuees of the Harvey flooding, following several days of criticism over its pastor, Joel Osteen's, response to the crisis.
Lakewood
Church apparently bought countless air mattresses and are prepping to
open their
doors.
For me it was primarily a matter of my changing theology... at least that is what
opened the
door and allowed me to honestly critique the
church.
If they
open the
doors to other people to borrow the schools, why can't they lend the schools to the
churches?»
His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First
Church of God in Christ
opened the
doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.
The
church didn't
open its
doors, people did.
According to Estes
Church in Tennessee, which supported her ministry, Ms Roberts was driving to a petrol station when armed gunmen drove in front of her to stop her car, before
opening her car
door and shooting her dead.
If he is convicted, a precident will be set that
opens the
door for future conspiricy charges against the
church itself.
I Glasgow here in Scotland in the 1860's the minister of Cambridge Street United Presbyterian
Church in Glasgow led wealthy merchants and manufacturers to a more palatial church in the west end, a scribe chalked on the door of the new building on the openin
Church in Glasgow led wealthy merchants and manufacturers to a more palatial
church in the west end, a scribe chalked on the door of the new building on the openin
church in the west end, a scribe chalked on the
door of the new building on the
opening day:
I realize that when we resist this misconception, we may be perceived as
opening the
door for the death - knell to toll over the
church.
I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the
church doors with an
open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.
Among other things, St. Philips Episcopal
Church in Joplin has offered to
open its
doors to the mosque's members so they have someplace to pray, KYTV reported.
But Vatican II nonetheless
opened the
door for a future affirmation of the radical equality of all people in the
church and in the world.
I was born and raised into a Christian family, going to
church each time the
doors were
open and eventually came into a genuine relationship with God.
Thus liberal theology in Germany played a role in
opening the
door of the
church to Nazi ideology.
The story is told of a
church whose members were appalled when a nightclub
opened up next
door, bringing with it a variety of attitudes and habits that collided with their practices and convictions.
Do they somehow research the parameters of belief for a given
church, or just look for
open doors?
I don't miss having to be there every time the
church doors are
open.
Let
church projects arise naturally out of the ministry to neighborhoods and
open up your
doors for community activities that have nothing to do with
church.
«One of the reasons we call ourselves
Open Doors is we fundamentally think there are no
doors closed to Jesus, and we know that the
Church is everywhere.
I enjoy it better when
church institutions talk about the
open arms of Jesus, and the narrow
doors of their
church group.
Why doesn't the
Church opening her
doors automatically lead to reconciliation?
When I have led or participated in conversations in
churches and Christian organizations about the desire and challenge to keep growing in both numbers and multiethnicity there is always a moment when someone throws up her hand to say, «But our
doors are
open to everyone!
My disappointment is that the
church has been slow to change, reluctant to seek unity, afraid to identify with the poor and hesitant about
opening its
doors to spiritual explorers who may have questions about traditional beliefs.
The head of the
Church of England has said it's a church's duty to open its doors to homeless people..
Church of England has said it's a
church's duty to open its doors to homeless people..
church's duty to
open its
doors to homeless people... More
But, as studies attest, Sundays remain a very culturally, racially segregated day despite every
church having an
open door that allows anyone to walk in.
I think many
churches open the
door and then expect people to walk in and make themselves at home.
«A multiracial team of sociologists and a minister of the
Church of God argue that multiracial Christian congregations offer a key to
opening the still - locked
door between the races in the United States.»
And it has required a constant reminder, personally and broadly in the
church, that an
open door was just the first of many steps living out the Gospel.
My Baptist
church over here in London, UK has a policy of «
open doors for all who wish to enter»; by leaving the sentence «
open - ended», they are willing to allow anyone of any faith, belief, or no belief to enter.
For many years I was in
church everytime to
doors open... actually I had access to the
church at all time but after some 30 years I saw how corrupt the Baptist organization was I forgot this phoney theory.
Preachers usually preach the scripture about «not forsaking to assemble yourselves together» meaning that is a command to attend
church (every time the
door is
open)..
The temple should give to the poor the rich should give to the temple God says bring the whole tithe into the store house that there may be food in my house then he will bless us the tithe is used to keep the
doors open to the
church where we can get true food spiritual food that's the reason for the tithe we will always have the Poor amongst us Jesus will one day come back and leave for the finale time Come to Jesus while you still can
And the
churches that
open their
doors to refugees are blessed too.
When an Egyptian Christian pastor
opened the
doors of his
church to become a field hospital for Muslims... More
Churches are often the first places to
open their
doors to them, offering practical support and love.
Churches have been
opening their
doors to residents evacuated after a massive fire engulfed a block of flats in west London early on Wednesday morning, leaving at least six people dead.
If you owned this, this, or one of these, then you're a
Church kid; one of those select few whose parents shuttled you off to your local house of worship whenever the
doors were
open.
When the divine meaning of the event is made to depend upon views of Jesus» divinity and when the presence of Christ in the
church is made to depend upon a belief in the Resurrection, we cut the solid ground out from under the whole Christian position; we invest the purely speculative with an importance it does not possess and rely on it to perform a function it can not perform; and we
open the
door to discord and division.
«The present volume,» the editor writes, «is intended to contribute to the further
opening of the
doors of silence that have blocked a healthy discussion of sexuality and homosexuality in some
church circles.»
Until the day he died he was either drinking or in active ministry or at least in
church or a prayer meeting any time the
doors were
open.
The Dean of Southwark Cathedral has said «Evil is not stronger than good», as the
church opened its
doors... More
Seems like their are enough creative way put for to denegrate God every time the
church doors are
open.
Angela DesAustels started attending the Foursquare
church when it
opened its
doors 2 years ago.
Happily I was minister of a
church where the
doors were and are wide
open to a man like that, for about three years later he said to me, «No words can estimate what this has meant — each year clearer insight, deeper assurance, and life more and more worth while.»
On Tuesday Lakewood
Church tweeted that its
doors were
open to anyone needing shelter and it was seeking volunteers and collecting shelter supplies.
It was necessary, Barth felt, to write «Ichabod» over the
door to such a
church precisely so that the gates could be
opened to let the King of Glory enter in.
The temples are so sacred that the
doors are not even
open for all Mormons; only those deemed sufficiently worthy by local
church leadership are granted a «temple recommend» or an entry card.
More small
churches are joining big ones in order to keep their
doors open.