Sentences with phrase «other church activities»

While you might have similar interests such singing in the choir and engaging in other church activities, it doesn't mean that the spark will be there instantly.

Niebuhr insists that both poles are thorough - goingly theoretical: «Whether its function as the exercise of the intellectual love of God and man or as the illumination of other church activities is stressed, in either case the work of the school is theoretical».

Members of one church in Florida not only led the fight to exclude three hemophiliac boys with AIDS from public school but also decided not to admit persons carrying the AIDS virus into Sunday school, worship or other church activities (Florida Baptist Witness, September 17, 1987).

Certain correlations appear between a member's world view position and other church activities: a. Constant attendees highly correlate with the mean orientation of the congregation.

In my research to date, certain correlations appear between a member's world view position and other church activities.

Not exact matches

Lichtenfeld covers all the basics: stay active and healthy, exercise, play sports, eat right, socialize a lot with family and friends, meet new friends, keep learning, do volunteer work, be involved in your community, run for office, attend church or other religious / spiritual activities, read books and newspapers, check your email and text your friends.

It's not * wrong * or «creepy» to spend a lot of time in church activities, especially considering how many people today lament the end of community integration, where people used to know each other and plan activities together.

Why aren't you in church, having dinner with your families, reading the bible, out for a walk, getting together with friends, visiting the shut - ins who aren't able to attend services, or any number of other activities?

Lucas is happy spending time with others at church and that is probably a healthy activity for him.

«Over half of Christians say it is fine to play sport then, as long as they find other times to engage in church activity.

It is a very helpful guide to the formation of conscience with respect to questions raised in voting and other political activity if, in fidelity to the Church's teaching, one recognizes the «intrinsic evil» of taking innocent human life in abortion.

«churches like that», being predicated upon the fraudulent activity as they seem to be, could be «banned» but that would not really change much of anything... other than repackaging the criminal activity under a loosely - defined label... meh.

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.

the reminder that Orthodox theology continually refreshes its thinking by reference to the early Church Fathers, who were much concerned with the question of God's activity in the other sects and traditions and in the wisdom of humankind.

The «Yarovaya package» requires missionaries to have permits, makes house churches illegal, and limits religious activity to registered church buildings, among other restrictions.

When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behaviour to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational eruptions increase.»

Maybe to say «that is a good question but I cant give you a satisfactory answer» maybe put the ball back into his / her court by offerring an invitation to the Alpha course or to come along to a small Bible study group st your home or an invitation to a non Church tyoe activity with other Christians, walk, bike ride, five a side football or other sporting things, befriend them and truly love them without an agenda.

Others, led by theologian Thomas Oden, call for a return to «classical» theology, the great systems in which the thinkers of the early church took all of reality, including their own salvation, into a comprehensive understanding of God's activity.

No authentic pastoral programme will include organisations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral... All support should be withdrawn from any organisations which seek to undermine the teaching of the Church, which are ambiguous about it, or which neglect it entirely.

Other churches support group activities designed specifically for ex-patients who can meet and share experiences and problems with others in like situations.

Make no mistake: when I critique the church and ministries going on in her name, when I critique other people's ideas and activities, when I let loose on the goings - on in religion, this doesn't mean I hate the perpetuators.

We will here not discuss in detail in what sense and with what reservations the liturgy is to be called the first and neces - sary source of the Christian life and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the liturgy.

This policy, called Josephinism, held that the state has not only the right to defend the Church, to reform it in the case of harmful activities, and to inspect it, but also to convene councils or synods, to end theological controversies, to censor theological books, and to tolerate other religions.

New research released by a Christian insurer has revealed that three quarters of UK adults can not name any of the activities that take place inside their local church other than regular services and religious festivals.

People spend far more of their time and money on just watching sports than in Church, or any other communal activity.

Usually, the church also has games and other activities for the kids.

To this imbalance we shall need to address ourselves in other connections For the present we must only point out that whatever just criticism may have been made of theological schools in other countries and times because they were too remote from parish and national church activities and because they overlooked their responsibility for training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this direction.

Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.

Meanwhile, United Nations human rights experts have issued a statement, urging Iran to ensure «a fair and transparent final hearing» for three Iranian Christians who have been sentenced for «conducting evangelism» and «illegal house church activities,» among other charges.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

These and other less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its sechurch, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its seChurch, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its seChurch is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.

Evangelism can not take the place of worship and all the other activities that are concentrated in the local church.

(2) Churches engaged in much political activity, though generally in the same manner and with the same weapons as other voluntary associations.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

Were she to understand her church by the first perspective that extracts recognized piety from other behavior, she might identify Communion as specifically Christian and the other activities as the unavoidable, self - oriented burdens of corporate life.

Because it defines missionary activities as religious practices to spread a faith beyond its members, «if that is interpreted as the Moscow Patriarchate is likely to, it will mean the Orthodox Church can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the rChurch can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the rchurch will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the region.

We argue for the bodily resurrection of Christ, but the body of Christ's resurrection is none other than the body of Christ which is the church, understood as that emergent community of love guided by the dynamic activity of Christ's Spirit.

Thus evangelism (the proclamation of the message of eternal salvation to the lost and the incorporations of converts into the church) tends to receive priority over every other activity, including, of course, seeking church unity.

That they are many in number is clear from the statements of purpose made by schools when they define to what end they are training ministers, and by other church organizations — denominations, councils, conferences, et cetera — when they justify their activities.

It would be tremendous if they would be faithful to the Gospel, live in full communion with the Church, and fully commit themselves to teaching and sharing ALL of the teaching of Christ instead of using a portion of His teaching to justify other activities.

The national survey used an index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor, including contributing to or attending church, participation in community activities, income, age or sex.

The Sunday worship service brings a larger percentage of a church's members together with some degree of regularity than any other activity.

The gay campaigner Peter Tatchell, for example, predictably praised the Bishop of Killaloe for calling on the Church to drop its objection to homosexual activity, along with other moral teachings.

Sometimes I felt some pressure from others to be more available for the «daytime ladies activities» because many churches like to schedule their ladies» Bible studies for Tuesday mornings but overall, I didn't feel much pressure or inclination to change the way things were for us.

Additionally, the commission wants to see more pressure put on Russian officials over repressive application of other laws, including its «foreign agents» law — which restricts missionary activity — and a 2016 anti-evangelism regulation (known as the «Yarovaya law»)-- which keeps non-Orthodox Russians from sharing their faith outside official church buildings.

Sociologists have spoken of the «privatizing» of religion in the West, by which they mean that religious adherence has become a leisure - time activity — some people go to church on a Sunday, other people go sailing or shopping Religion is seen as a personal choice and should not interfere with politics or business.

I would love to be included in a few of the activities I hear them talking about at church, activities that they do with each other.

The other example I wish to mention in this context concerns the effects of government activity on church membership.

The national survey used the «literalist / charismatic» index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor — including attending church, contributing to a church, participating in community activities, income, age, or sex.