Sentences with phrase «open our church doors»

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

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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.

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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.

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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.