Sentences with phrase «other free churches»

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«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

I love it that in our church people feel free to be sad and cry and others come to them and offer comfort.

This is not something unique to the catholic church, there are some other churches that also encourage their participants to examine themselves before they take the communion, some of them clearly tell the congregants that they free to avoid the communion upon self examination.

It can only be met by a robustly evangelical Catholicism that proposes the gospel in a compelling and courageous way, and that insists that public authorities permit the Church the free space to be itself, make its gospel proposal, and offer the service of charity to others.

«Unfortunately, this new action can not be seen as anything other than an attempt to muzzle the church and subject our right of free speech to government review and regulation,» he added.

we can have it all if we choose, sadly folks like you and me will never be free from «believers» chanting our damnation, the likes of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church and other religious fanatics.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Maintaining separation of church and stat s leaves everyone free to practice their own beliefs and not have government forcing other's religion down our children's throats at school.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

I was also in a number of other church camps for extended stays, i.e., Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Evangelical Free, Calvary Chapel when I was moving around the country.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

The law forbids Church of England and Church in Wales churches from conducting same - sex weddings, but other denominations are free to do so if they wish.

Oh, and by the way, we will eventually be considering all of these items (and others) in the theology forums over at Free Grace Churches.

Father Neuhaus» argument is to read these reprobation texts as «suggesting a destiny of separation from God,» while reading other texts (Colossians 1:19 «20, 1 Corinthians 15:20 «28, Romans 5:18, 11:33 «36) as «suggesting the redemption of the entire cosmos,» leaving us free to choose between these mutually exclusive alternatives, since the Church in her wisdom has not pronounced on the matter.

For Christians, then, to recover and understand the meaning of the command to have «no other god,» it is necessary first to recognize that the victory of the Church in history was not only incomplete, but indeed set free a force that the old sacral order had at least been able to contain; and it is against this more formless and invincible enemy that we take up the standard of the commandment today.

It has been incredibly freeing and I'm doing more ministry than I ever did as a full - time vocational pastor — that is, I'm ministering «with» others to those who are not - yet believers rather than ministering «to» and «for» people in the church.

This alone is an element of freedom and democracy in the fundamental essence of the Church which does not, indeed, render the question of democracy in the Church superfluous, but which makes it much less vital, as is also the case in other free associations.

This, of course, does not mean that there; is, avoidably as well as unavoidably, much that is «undemocratic» in the Church, if for no other reason than that the baptized children must slowly be led by the Church to a free and responsible decision of personal faith without which no adult can be a member of the Church in the fullest sense.

I left the established churches twenty years ago and an Evangelical free church ten years ago.I think I have always been kind to others, others say so but i became very ill, still am struggling with health issues, and church people lost interest and in fact then through neglect made me worse.

usually run by some inept volunteer leader... I like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in Church it's something of a free for all.

The black church, on the other hand, has a moral obligation to free its people from the despair and powerlessness that grip their bodies and souls.

It's startling that Volf neglects to consider the theological dilemmas associated with locating a congregation (free church or other) in specific and variegated sociocultural contexts.

While students of ecclesiology will recognize in these perspectives an unflagging congregationalism, Volf is sensitive to areas in which the free church tradition is especially vulnerable: the unity within the Christian communities; the bonds that connect one congregation to others; the accountability of congregations and clergy; and the ever - present threat to neglect or abandon the apostolic tradition.

On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

He is obviously doing viarl marketing trying to generate a bunch of free publicity for his church all the while dragging the name of Christianity through the mud like others have done so often.

Tom Raabe, an editor and free - lance writer, ponders church growth and other topics in Aurora, Colorado.

The last time I witnessed and experienced severe abuse at the hands of the Christian religion and its ministers in 2002, I vowed that if ever I would go back into ministry again, I would work to resist this power, teach others to do the same, and work to free people from the dehumanizing oppression of religion and the Church.

The churches would continue in such a plan to have much diversity, but with freer passage back and forth for both ministers and members, a far higher consciousness of Christians representing traditions other than one's own, an arena for mutuality in mission.

In the earlier years of broadcasting, broadcasters promised Congress to provide churches and other public groups with free air - time for the broadcast of their programs in exchange for favorable legislation which did not bind them to such a compulsory arrangement.

Why is it that God will punish his own people, sometimes for doing minute things like not going to church or reading their Bible, yet others can do things like commit murder and get off scot - free?

Rather than answer his question on the spot, I told him that I would love for him to attend our church's race class, where he'd be free to explore his questions in community with others.

It is natural that, by reason of the exceptional contacts which have enabled me, a Jesuit (reared, that is to say, in the bosom of the Church) to penetrate and move freely in active spheres of thought and free research, I should have been very forcibly struck by things scarcely apparent to those who have lived only in one or other of the two opposed worlds, so that I feel compelled to cry them aloud.

A court empowered to judge a statute's constitutionality by that court's own inference of the animus of the statute's sponsors is a court set free from any limitations on its power» its power, on the one hand, to strike down any law enacted with the political aid of believers, and its power, on the other hand, to move directly against churches and denominations that display a perceived animus in their teaching toward certain behavior.

In other ways also the churches in the New World seem to be «American» or «democratic» and to participate primarily in the common life of the «free society.»

Certainly the Methodist case fits this trajectory; other dissenting sects, brethren groups, and free churches seem to as well.

Although some free - church denominations have been ordaining women for over 100 years, they have done little to help place women in other than small, out - of - the - way and marginal pastorates.

secondly he was not the only one in the church who was a «non believer» many others do not «believe» as well as myself and yet non of us saw a problem with something that was being done out of respect and unison for the majority not for just one person opinion, and last, no one ever said he «had» to pray the only command was to bow your head and stare at the ground counting how many toes you had for all we carried, do what you want if choose not to pray but just bow your head in uniformity not cry about it blow it up and change the way events happen — if you have and complaints or questions please FEEL FREE to contact me [email protected]

According to the logic of the Court, the Free Exercise Clause does not protect churches in these circumstances, unless some other constitutional right, such as Free Speech or the right of parents to control the upbringing of their children, is violated by the governmental intrusion.

we teach him kindness love and the belief that it through G - d that all things are possible and thus we should be greatful... beyond that I expose him to church so that when he is a man and has free will w / the ability to reason that he will have someone other than me to turn to in time of need and celebration.

What I'm hearing here, and forgive me if I'm entirely off the mark, is that your vision of church is a very comfortable, pointless place where you can sink in, lay back, have no purpose or goal or agenda, and congratulate yourself that you're free to navel gaze while all the other busy beavers are working their way into a frazzle, helping those poor people.

However, when science began to discover certain realities that were contrary to the church's teachings (ie, the world is not flat or at the center of the universe), science and religion began to break free of each other.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Don't think of your free time (time outside of your job, sleep, church and other obligations) as simply free time.

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

«Believing... that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.»

From a national population sample, the poll found that those who watch religious television programs compared to those who don't watch religious television programs are more likely to have had a conversion experience, to believe that the bible is free of mistakes, to believe in a personal devil, to read the bible more often, to talk to others about their faith more often, to attend church services more frequently, and to hold to or engage in beliefs and practices characteristic of evangelicals as a whole.

Lots of people in the church will gladly help others in need — hack even paint the church if asked (for free).

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

The modern Protestants are divided between hard Scottish Calvinists that emphasize «the GOS - pel» to the exclusion of all else and large charismatic churches whose names all begin with the word «grace» or «free [dom]» and look down on denominationalism and other churches in general.