Sentences with phrase «other churches experienced»

The overthrow of the last emperor, Haile Selassie, by a Marxist - inspired coup in 1974 introduced a period of being in the wilderness for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which along with other churches experienced martyrdom and persecution.

Not exact matches

i am learning that fundamentalism is quite a broad church... but something i notice in common with many fundamentalists is a lack of willingness to enter into conversation with other viewpoints and experiences.

If you have these opinions due to a personal experience, maybe you ought to try another church... or several others for that fact.

Gay rights campaigner Dan Savage said the idea that churches send out an anti-gay message «totally jibes with my experience and that of millions of other gay and lesbian people.»

In other words, any alteration to who we are as a people, whether individually or corporately, is not experienced by us â $ œon a consistent basisâ $, but merely in those times when we remember it is not achieved through some attempt to â $ œreformâ $ the Church or, for that matter, ourselves, and sit down beside the oasis for awhile with Him.

There are many other patterns of prayer historically used by the church that may greatly enrich your prayer experience.

Because it was my pastoral experience that congregants rarely supplied at least 10 % of their income to God - be that through their local church or to other worthy causes.

Others see God through the witness of his Church, and decide from there if they believe in God (a good experience gets a yes vote, and a bad experience gets a no vote).

Through the internet, I've come to find that others have experienced cult - like or abusive practices at «Christian Fellowship Ministries» or Potter's House churches associated with Wayman Mitchell.

In my experience in the institutional church this rarely happens, people are expected to serve the institute not each other.

The purpose of the consultation was to share the experiences gained by the CNI through the above process, with other churches in India and also to learn from the churches in India their mission experiences.

I am associated with Julie and a few others here only by a common - type experience — being abused inside the church and then rejected for it.

It's nothing compared to what many other people experience in the Church, but it's painful.

The experience led Rachel — a therapist from St. Paul, Minnesota — to research how other queer women from non-affirming Christian communities have related to the church and how they've maintained their faith.

But to John the letters have always been ascribed, and we may think of the Elder John as sending them out from Ephesus, one to Gaius, one to the church to which he belonged, and one to that and other churches, in full assurance that the Christian experience and belief in Jesus as the Christ would save them from the mistakes of Docetism.

What I do want for them is a place / church to experience other Christians as the world is filled with other views and beliefs... it is nice to be around others who share a love for Jesus and want to serve him and are willing to walk the walk and take on battle scars to serve him in whatever way that shapes up for that individual.

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

They talk with each other and with people outside their own church circle about the experience they have had together and the ambivalence they see in all relationships.

What are your experiences with having conversations with others about God and church?

«In my own experience, I've seen men deposed from ministry, and then a month later I've inquired about them and other church leaders have no idea where they are,» Labby told CT..

My church actually facilitates my fellowship with the wider Church, and benefits from the insights and experiences our members gain in other conchurch actually facilitates my fellowship with the wider Church, and benefits from the insights and experiences our members gain in other conChurch, and benefits from the insights and experiences our members gain in other contexts.

More obviously than in other parts of the Synoptic Gospels there is much material which is evidently a casting back, in the form of a narrative about Jesus, of the thought and experience of the Church in later years, and of its controversies with opponents.

Various chapters in this book, as well as other reading and my own experience in churches, persuade me that all these kinds of knowledge and more really would be helpful for contemporary ministers.

Other churches try the same thing, and while some experience similar results, most fail miserably.

People who have left the church because they've gone down some sort of slippery ethical slope are not the ones talking about their experiences and sharing with other Christians outside the church or even making it known that they ARE still Christians, but there are a great many Christians who don't go to a formal church service.

For some churches to talk about conversion is to talk about proselytism, for others the experience of Jesus Christ as a personal experience is at the heart of conversion.

You see, I have actual experience of being involved in a church where Mormons, Buddhists, Atheists, and others were actively participating.

In my mini-documentary The D Word: A personal view of divorce and the Church, I and three other Christians talk candidly about our experiences of divorce.

I saw God more active there than in any other church I have ever visited, and experienced the love of Jesus and the Body of Christ in tangible ways.

I do not have as much experience with Organic church as you do, or as many others do, such as Frank Viola or Neil Cole or Felicity Dale, and so might defer to them on this.

Personal religious experience, the home, other religions, church membership, missions, the Scriptures, doctrine, Christian action, the ecumenical movement, church history, Methodist heritage, evangelism, and Christian education — each of these is considered and thoughtfully interpreted from the Christian viewpoint, book by book.

This constitutional disestablishment of all churches embodied the wisdom of Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson — the one from his experience with the Massachusetts theocracy and the other from his experience with the less dangerous Anglican establishment in Virginia — which knew that a combination of religious sanctity and political power represents a heady mixture for status quo conservatism.

On the other hand, I can testify from personal experience that to be raised in the Christian church as we know it makes loss of basic elements of one's Judaic background virtually inevitable, including elements that the church desperately needs for its own renewal.

To claim finality is to deny the basic religious principle implied by the experience of imperfection, and (as was shown above in connection with Church exclusiveness) to destroy the other basic elements in religious experience as well.

On the one hand all that the Church hoped for in the second coming of Christ is already given in its present experience of Christ through the Spirit; and on the other hand this present experience penetrates the record of the events that brought it into being, and reveals their deepest significance.»

Church members who bring their problems to the pastor may not realize how many other members in the congregation have had or are having similar experiences.

But in my experience, the Church has been extremely supportive and generous... not just with the home I run, but with other organizations I know as well.

But a church's smaller groups are the settings in which lonely people can best experience the reality of religion as creative relationships — with self, others, and God.

For many other Christians, the journey to faith is more gradual, although some of those who speak of a «conversion experience» were already, like John Wesley, active church members.

In other words: your rant against «the church» (your experience) is legitimate.

but through countercultural separated churches that will have and use freedom to experience separation also from each other.

Cynthia Anderson, who worked in communications in the corporate world and is now an associate pastor in Barrington, Illinois, says her corporate experience gave her a settled ego, an eagerness for teamwork, and the conviction that a senior pastor's authority must be respected in front of staff and other church members.

It wasn't meant to offend, correct or diminsh other Christian's experiences with church.

On the other hand, pentecostally oriented evangelical churches, such as the Johannesburg - based Rhema Church movement, as well as the African indigenous churches, such as the Zion Christian Church (whose worldview is an amalgam of Christian teaching and traditional African religious expression), have experienced an explosion of membership.

Or, to reverse the thrust of the argument, why should geographical particularism be honored in the church while all other specificities of human experience are relativized in the light of the gospel?

The church stands to gain by a critical awareness of both domains and by a readiness to accept what each can offer the other in the apprehension and evaluation of religious experience.

Active and positive inclusivity in which we share diverse thinking and experiences with our neighbors of other churches and other faiths is necessary.

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.

Having these conversations with other leaders in my children's lives has helped my kids have a more «normal» church experience.

In future posts we will look at various other ways we have sought to be the church in the community, will give examples of other people we know who are being the church in their communities, and will encourage you to give examples from your experience.