Sentences with phrase «other side of the church»

I remember once a young woman came to church with another man and her husband was sitting on the other side of the church.

«When we started 11 years ago, we found ourselves sitting in between [the] European headquarters of multinational companies based in Hammersmith and, on the other side of the church, social housing and tremendous amounts of disengaged youth who were a long way from jobs.

On the other side of the church stands the rectory, where in a basement room the five children gather every evening at 7:30 to pray the rosary and listen for the Blessed Mother's voice (the local bishop won't let them use the church for these vigils).

I wasn't sure how long I sat there before the DeVille finally gunned its motor and sauntered insolently away, turning toward downtown on the other side of the church.

Not exact matches

As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered at the door of the church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.

I can't easily offer face to face meetings being on the other side of the Atlantic, however, these «celebrity» preachers impact people in the Churches and communities I serve.

They are increasingly being forced to struggle, however, with problems on the other side — the side of their relation to Christian faith and the institutional Church.

This lady hasn't done any real homework — 1 Christian ever 4 minutes was killed in 2009 I believe, on the other side of the planet - Hindu's kill Christians in India, the Chinese church is underground because of it's ban on Christianity, Russia killed thousands in it's atheist conquest, Indochina the Muslims decapitate Christians... Do your own homework, find out, and look for sources that don't share your bias

The subtlety of the Second Vatican Council's statement in Nostra Aetate that the «Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [other] religions» has often been missed by Catholics on both sides of the ecclesial aisle.

During this time, he has not said a word about the heavy political engagement of the churches on the other side of the conflict.

François offered to drive us to St. Therese Church, on the other side of town.

Maybe you could bring in Christians from another church tradition or from the other side of the world to come and find fault with how your church is accomplishing (or not accomplishing) your mission.

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

I think that true and deep discipleship is not happening in a church unless the needs of the congregation and the community are being met, and I think that one of the best ways to disciple believers is to get them serving in the community along side each other.

We are obligated to listen to one another, and to discuss our differences across denominational lines, theological persuasions — and even across the center aisle of the sanctuary (where one side of the church prefers Paul Tillich, the other side, Left Behind).

He no longer even thought of commissioning altarpieces for the parish church that included himself on one side panel and his concubine and son on the other....

I see it as a book about the Kingdom of God, and what life looks like when you live into the «other side» of so many of our missing - the - point gender debates in the Church.

But even if we are thus reconciled in the «idea», this does not mean that the actual separated Churches are united, those Churches which for 450 years have lived side by side, fighting and contradicting each other, or, worst of all, indifferent to one another.

You know the type... the ones who THINK Jesus would like them... the ultra conservative type that make business deals at church on Sundays, drive a Buick, gossip about the «bad» people on the other side of the tracks.

When explaining why they ended up on different sides of the Reformation's dividing lines, both inevitably end up criticising the other's Church stream and doctrines.

Long - range planning for preaching can be assisted by formulating an annual grid listing the months of the year along one side and three sets of factors along the other: (1) human factors (personal and public) relating to the seasons of the year beginning with spring; (2) congregational factors relating to the church life cycle usually beginning in September; (3) theological factors relating to the Christian Year, to lectionary selections or lectia continua, and to spiritual and theological themes needed by the church in its life and mission beginning with Advent.

One side of a familiy not showing up at a family function just because the event is held in the wrong church or because the other side has the wrong take of the same damn religion.

The argument from the other side is that the state can not begin business tomorrow, close churches and other houses of worship and declare that we are one religion or another.

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheisof crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but 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One of the wonderful things about the Episcopal Church and other mainline traditions is their affirmation of reason and their willingness to see both sides of an argument and be open to ambiguity.

Dr Morgan said: «The Code of Practice we have produced has not been produced for the benefit of one side or the other in the debate but for the whole Church.

David, one of my favorite cartoons of yours ever... Reminds me of my other favorite, where «God» is contained in the church building, side by side with not being.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

The other side argues that a female in today's «liberated» society is still a «woman» and as such should fit into God's ordained and orderly creation, fulfilling her role of submission and dependence in church and family without impatience on the one hand or servitude on the other.

On the other side of this line would be hundreds of reports on Christian church life and American culture.

On the other side, the party of continuity is «the Catholic center,» or simply «the Catholic Church,» which «remains the continuing community to which Jesus promised he would send the Spirit, and the Spirit will lead us into, and keep us in, the truth....

I've been applying to churches and organizations all over the country, and even a few on the other side of the world.

On the other side are the liberal intelligencia (within the Church) that make the Bible over into an irrelevant book of an ancient era.

As a kid in Missouri, I was a Baptist, and that identity said not only that I belonged to an important church but that I was on the right side of the great eternal divide, ready to defend my salvation against the other contenders around me.

I might admire the conviction of the believer and the good deeds of the church, and crisis - of - faith stories still had their appeal, but faith lay on the other side of a mental wall.

Had Paul been put in his place at Antioch, and Gentiles been required to accept the Law in order to be Christian, then the Church Fathers would have selected different books, ones supporting that view, when they canonized the Bible hundreds of years later, and you would very likely be arguing the other side now, right?

The church used to stand on a hill on the other side of town.

At the same time the church is a community of the present, so that the inherited tradition and the social and biographical situation of the moment are always enmeshed with each other, Insofar as the tradition side retains the «gospel,» it has a certain primacy over the contemporaneous side; that is, Christ should transform culture.

In her view, congregation al studies are important for seminaries because the seminaries are accountable to the church, and important for congregations because understanding themselves better will enable them to hold up their side of the dialogue with seminaries and other church agencies.

Educational Guidance, like many other church discussions of homosexuality, seems dominated by a one - sided concern with homosexual behavior.

Well, by Mr. Bloomberg's logic, we should build a Pastafarian church on the other side of the wall from the shrine in Mecca.

Not just people I know, but strangers — for instance, my cousin had a mass said for me in her church on the other side of the country.

There will always be times when we would prefer other modes of expression but we need to bear in mind that the liturgy is a duty laid on us by the Church, and not some individual devotion; we owe it to the Church to carry it out as obediently as we can, and put our own preferences to one side, as Newman did.

Protestants use other terminology to recommend such accommodations to the spirit of the times — they speak of making Christianity «more relevant,» or of getting the Church «on the right side of history.»

If there is a local church where half the people want contemporary music and half want traditional hymns, both sides can stop accusing the other of cultural compromise or religious traditionalism and instead recognize that it takes all kinds of churches to reach all kinds of people, and that the two groups can either go their separate ways in peace.

This abandonment of realism by the educated elite has driven a deep wedge between a great deal of theology, on the one side, and the actual piety of the church on the other.

As white Christians have tried to move beyond the prejudice of their grandparents and second and third generation black British Christians feel less need for the safety of a culturally specific home church, the challenge is to find ways of reintroducing both sides to each other.

Leslie Newbigin, The Other Side of 1984: Questions for the Churches (Geneva: World Council of Churches Risk Book Series, 1985), p. 32 - 32.

We understand the pluralism of our social context in part because it reflects the variety of ways in which we understand our own experiences.The problem of being the church is acute for us not only because we must live side by side with those of other religious communities, but because the church is only one of the communities in which we live.

An appeal to the unchanging teaching of the Church does little justice to the Church Fathers who engaged their whole minds and souls in the defense and articulation of the truth, based on Scripture, reason, liturgy, peculiar strands of philosophy, and sundry other allies they mustered to their side.