Tell that to the ex-Mormons who are kicked
out of the church for questioning doctrine.
Mr Faure was ordained by Richard Williamson, who was kicked
out of the church for denying the extent of the Holocaust, around two weeks ago.
I got kicked
out of a church for not jumping through their hoops.
This has been the most helpful response I've encountered since being attacked by the ugly side of Calvinism a few years ago (and being kicked
out of church for refusing to repent of «my pride in believing that I accepted Jesus as my Savior»).
I finally stepped
out of the church for good.
What's wrong when people can get kicked
out of churches for getting pregnant or being gay, but not for being unloving or prejudiced?
«A Georgia woman named Nirvana Jenette claims she was kicked
out of church for breastfeeding, the pastor ordering her to nurse the baby in the bathroom and calling her behavior «lewd,» comparing her to a stripper...»
I have been
out of church for about a year now and what you said is so true.
I had been
out of church for about a year and was really in a dark place.
I am a pious apostate, an atheist shocked by the faithlessness of the believers, a fellow traveler of moderate Catholicism who has been
out of the church for 20 years.
I've been
out of the church for a while but I always felt as though people expected God to show up too much, like God was their personal Genie - in - a-bottle.
Churches ASK for 10 % but don't DEMAND 10 % nor do they kick
you out of church for paying 0 %... however, the federal government TAKES 30 % + and threatens jail... geez... love love love the new liberal ANTI CHARITY... just so incredibly insightful to the hate on the left...
We were thrown
out of a church for standing up to it, but that's one of the best things that ever happened to us.
People don't get kicked
out of their churches for struggling with pride or for not wearing head coverings when they pray.
I flounder'd in and
out of churches for decades only because I didn't know there was another way!
I haven't been a boy, or lost part of my leg to diabetes, or had a vision of God as a woman and gotten thrown
out of church for saying so.
Not exact matches
Abbott's comments come a day after one
of the pastors, Robert Morris, told news outlets Abbott had reached
out to him and nine other
churches to build support
for the legislation.
During a practice at the
church, my aunt shouted at my sister
for walking
out of time.
«I accompany with prayer the positive success
of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders
of the two parts to carry
out a path
of sincere dialogue
for a Korean Peninsula free
of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic
Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.
Though what you say, may stereotype some actual people in the «
church» today, I think most people attend
out of love
for their God and spiritual nourishment.
It's the final sentence
of this paragraph, though, that explains why so many
of us in the
church find ourselves
out of sorts with Catholics
of the Dionne type, and why the expression «cafeteria Catholic» is such a just appellation
for them.
When you see younger people enter your
church for the first time, do you go
out of your way to introduce yourself and ask them to sit with you?
I got booted
out of my chosen
church (
for being queer) and tried shopping around.
The conservative wing
of the
church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but
for the moment lean to conservatism
out of convenience and traditional piety.
You are looking
for them to just be accepted in this life, mine would be to get them saved and
out of their sin ----- just like the couple that have attended the
church I pastor who are living together in sexual sin.
It lays
out a «theology
of creation,» elaborates an «ethic
of economy and ecology,» and ends with specific demands
for action from
churches.
If anyone here is sick and tired
of all the silliness and nonsense in religion today and want a real
church, I invite you to check
out mormon.org where you can talk (not to a paid professional), but to ordinary members who volunteer their time
for free because they just believe in serving and want to answer your questions.
et
churches out of their social activities that are only a mask to raise money
for the
church.
Don't miss read this note, the issue
of female pastors is not
out of date — I have several female pastor friends who struggle
for acceptance in the
church at large.
Deliberate assaults on civilians, the murder
of religious figures, indiscriminate bombings in markets and buildings, hijacking and ramming planes full
of civilians into buildings occupied by civilians, attacks on and destruction
of churches and mosques — all carried
out by al - Qaeda, IS, and Boko Haram — violate the clear limits set in Islamic law
for the conduct
of a jihad.
Only five
out of 100 people gave
churches generally an A
for their handling
of «the issue
of homosexuality» in the Public Religion Research Institute survey, while 28 percent said their own
church handled it well.
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?
This is just perfect «Kyev Tatum, pastor
of Friendship Rock Baptist
Church in Fort Worth, called The T Board's vote «a dangerous precedent» because it only took a matter
of days
for religion to be taken
out of public policy.
This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (
out of more than forty thousand
churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation
of a pattern
of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well
for more than a century.
There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419 to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic
Church went to war against followers
of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master at Charles University in Prague who had tried to reform the
Church, condemning its sale
of indulgences, which were the equivalent
of a «get
out of jail» card in the game
of Monopoly in that the
Church sold them as a means
for believers to get
out of Purgatory.
Sympathy is in order
for the immutable rebels who must now seek
out the company even
of the declared enemies
of the
church in order to vent their bitterness about a vision
of Catholicism that was not to be.
Kyev Tatum, pastor
of Friendship Rock Baptist
Church in Fort Worth, called The T Board's vote «a dangerous precedent» because it only took a matter
of days
for religion to be taken
out of public policy.
The secularization
of the
churches hollowed
out mainline Protestant denominations, but it did not end the American thirst
for genuine contact with God.
My great grandfather was a pastor
of the
church who was taken
out of his house in the middle
of the night and executed
for his believes.
Justice
for Sister Margaret McBride was swift; she was
out of the
church within months.
Joining the Catholic
Church merely
out of an affection
for morality is like joining the Nahzee [sic] Party because
of one's affection
for order and uniforms: you can get all
of it elsewhere, and your participation only makes one complicit in a variety
of hate crimes, and physical and civil rights abuses.
But that sort
of behavior goes on in WAY too many
churches for the case to be made that
church community is the only place to live
out a love
for God in service with and
for others.
They still have to comply with federal and state laws, which means gays are
out, but everyone else has to be considered
for employment by the company (the only exceptions to the law are where your religion or other protected status are essential
for the job...
for example, a Muslim couldn't sue an Episcopalian
church who wouldn't hire them in an administrative role because their faith clashes with that
of the
church — things like that don't apply to a fast food chain).
Similarly, mistranslation
of the greek and quoting
out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the
church God's original design
for man (including the restoration
of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work
of the cross.
Writing as a devil, he pointed
out with grim savvy in The Screwtape Letters, «If a man can't be cured
of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking
for the
church that «suits him,» until he becomes a taster or connoisseur
of churches.»
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
For instance, an attempt to root out modern elements in the church ought to be viewed with the same suspicion we should have for any systematic program of destructi
For instance, an attempt to root
out modern elements in the
church ought to be viewed with the same suspicion we should have
for any systematic program of destructi
for any systematic program
of destruction.
Sometimes you can be in a
church that thinks the only legitimate reason
for leaving is moving
out of town...
HOWEVER, if this person was running
for public office, instead
of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this
church for some inane belief that they would take wildly
out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme
church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.
A 1922 letter to the Politburo sets forth Lenin's view
of the campaign against the
church: «
For us this moment is not only exceptionally favorable but generally the only moment when we can, with ninety - nine out of a hundred chances of total success, smash the enemy and secure for ourselves an indispensable position for many decades to com
For us this moment is not only exceptionally favorable but generally the only moment when we can, with ninety - nine
out of a hundred chances
of total success, smash the enemy and secure
for ourselves an indispensable position for many decades to com
for ourselves an indispensable position
for many decades to com
for many decades to comes.