Sentences with phrase «open the church without»

Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the Church Without Christ.

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It is hard to believe that either new development — the widespread open rebellion against church sexual teachings by the laity, or the concomitant quiet rebellion against church sexual teachings by a significant number of priests — could have existed without the other.

If by dialogue one means that a settled question is, in fact, an open question and that the Magisterium's answer can be rejected without consequences for one's communion with the Church, the statement is correct.

Okeechobee, FL, routinely closes and hands over entire public side streets to allow expansion of church campuses / At urging of local monied «fundamentalist believers» including major insurance agency heads and realtors, city just approved a full scale commercial restaurant open to public on COG campus without changing tax status or collecting fees.

Now will he try to get the church into the 21st century, and help prevent the spread of disease, open schools without the religious bias, and go completely transparent as to the criminal activity the RCC has been doing for many, many decades?

I've found my people without the striving and organizing, without the Official Sanctioned Church Programs, nope, we just all came into each other's lives, right at the time when we were meant to be there, we stayed open to finding each other, a part of me was always watching for the hints of my people, and so when I found them, I recognised them, I did.

This stereotype is too big for one person to overcome, and I need the Church to open up a safe haven to discuss divorce and remarriage and step - parenting without judgment.

It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

Taking the role of an open - minded skeptic, Berger asks probative questions about religion without being bound by tradition, church, scripture, or personal experience.

... then if the dead are being prayed for the living keep paying for that too... then those who are left behind will continue this vicious cicle of the churches all over again... with the next generation... because those who are left behind are obligated to teach the next generation into opening up their billfold... and that is why the people without knowiledge go under!!!!

And Open Doors ranks Saudi Arabia at No. 14 on the World Watch List because of its strong official and unofficial pressure on everyone to be Muslim, calling it «the only country in the world without any church buildings.»

But church needs to be a place for the hurting to go and be accepted as they are and a place where the truth is spoken both theological but also in an emotionally open way where the burdens of life can be expressed without fear of rejection.

There is a link to an mp3 audio (in a previous comment I made) to show that a church can be open and the people can question and discuss matters of the Christian faith without fear of reprisal.

I am not sure there is a way to embrace both systems (institutional church and individual religious experience) without creating tension between the two systems: those that need a heavy anchor and safe harbor; and those that need only an emergency sea anchor and the open seas.

-- Will This Rock in Rio by Ken Lottis — Attack Upon Christendom by Soren Kierkegaard — Plan B by Pete Wilson — Electing Not to Vote edited by Ted Lewis — The Sacred Journey by Charles Foster — Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card — UnChristian by David Kinnaman — Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright — Church Without Walls by Jim Petersen — Repenting of Religion by Greg Boyd — Spontaneous Expansion of the Church Roland Allen — Unlearning Church by Michael Slaughter — The Open Secret by Lesslie Newbigin — When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert — The Ministry of the Spirit by Roland Allen — The Mission of God by Christopher J.H. Wright — An Emergent Theology for Emerging Churches by Ray S. Anderson — Provacative Faith by Matthew Paul Turner — Transforming Mission by David Bosch — The Roman Empire and the New Testament by Warren Carter — I'm Fine with God; It's Chrsitians I Can't Stand by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz — Jesus and Empire by Richard A. Horsley — Simply Christian by NT Wright — Jesus, the Jewish Theologian by Brad H. Young

What needs our especial attention in this matter, however, is that every experience, with or without the high commission of the Church's ordination, opens the question of authority to interpret the Gospel.

As the first step in evangelisation, we must try to keep this search alive... I think that the Church should open today a sort of «court of the gentiles»... to dialogue with those for whom religion is something foreign, to whom God is unknown, and who nonetheless would not like simply to remain without God, but at least to approach him as the Unknown.»

As the church faces another critical moment in its complex history of self - reform, its members therefore seek greater unity through open communication — through listening and speaking to one another in mutual respect and without fear of reprisal.

It's a good model for today's situation of people wandering into the church with open minds but without being sure what they believe or why.»

He concluded that though the San Miguel model «meets a clear and urgent secular need,» it was an open question whether «a faith - based group of competent, licensed educators» could run a publicly funded school without crossing the church / state line.

The opening sees Lila standing outside the game's church, inside of which is the only safe place without battles.

In medieval times a squint was a small opening in the wall of a church that provided people with leprosy a way of peering in to see and hear the sermon without touching any of the congregation.