Sentences with phrase «own ideas of church»

The idea of Church being anti-science is a myth.

Any historian of theology would know that at the time that this fragment was written, the idea of the Church being the «Bride of Christ» had not yet been created (let alone the CATHOLIC church which originated the idea, as this was a COPTIC fragment).

Since this is so, how is it that the idea of the church being a Body became so prominent if it is not found throughout the New Testament, but only rarely in Paul's letters?

Whether supernatural or human, the germ idea of the church, I claim, is that global unity and community is not only possible but necessary.

Perhaps, all the hullaballoo around the idea of church is created because words have been mistranslated or replaced with others to promote an agenda.

I think he has a pretty decent idea of church planting and organic church growth.

If this positive view of celibacy is conveyed, «then we shall see the most distinguished among the younger generation fired up with the inspiration to feed the flock of God... and their deep hearts will grasp the whole idea of the Church and accept it into themselves as a living power» (p73).

My ideas of church have really changed recently.

The idea of church as storyteller may seem to diminish its importance, but this function has utmost significance.

I wonder whether it is possible... to regain the idea of the Church as providing an understanding of the area of freedom (art, education, friendship, play)?

I love the idea of a church with no vision.

Based on this idea of the church as a family, Richard Jacobson goes on to talk about church elders as facilitators, on how to carry out conflict resolution within the family of God, and a whole host of other related topics.

I was going off a the idea of church as a «gathering.»

This gave it a distinctive social space a term Burgess uses often, though he does not cite the literature that developed this idea of the churches place in society generally or in East Germany specifically.

In this context Burgess discusses the ideas of church leader Heino Falcke, a former assistant to Karl Barth.

I struggle with the idea of church.

The experience hasn't killed my love of the church and I do feel naturally defensive when it is attacked, however, my idea of church has changed to a gathering where Jesus is present and Lord which the visible church may or may not represent in varying degrees.

But because the church must learn to be the community of faith, we must abandon the idea of the church as an institution of power.

Paul probably invented the idea of the church as the «body of Christ.

From my personal experience it seems that without going to church people stray off the path and their own ideas of church reign.

However, soon, the idea of the church for others became the focus of debate.

The piece was largely concerned with showing, once again, that the Gospel did not need the papacy, and giving an affirmation of the Reformers» idea of the Church.

I love the idea of churches playing a role in building this wider communion, just as I yearn for the day when half our steeples boast windmills to catch the breeze that God sends across the land.

I've been working on a bell choir arrangement of Be Thou My Vision, and of course, the word «vision» in there got me thinking about your perspective on the idea of a church's vision, which got me thinking again about the hymn — one of my favorites.

What can we assume about one another's ideas of the Church?

I am finding that i really like Luther's idea of church these days.

Lastly, I feel that like Joan, we too must be firm and be able to stand up against all forces that are against God's concern for human liberation and justice, even the church if we are to be in obedience to God, for though the church is God's many a times, the churches have and tend to practice things which are against God's idea of church, like possessing wealth.

His idea of church and communion was just having people gather together in love and spirit.

It is hard not to conclude that the basic idea of the Church was, «Look, they believe us.

To explain this we need to explore the idea of church leadership.

It's surprising to me how many Christians struggle with the idea of church attendance.

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The idea of church planting has bounced around our brain, but we're scared and feel unprepared.

Not exact matches

Allen follows up about these newer, more unexpected enthusiasts, and Chaput suggests that maybe some of them «would prefer a church that wouldn't have strict norms and ideas about the moral life and about doctrine, and they somehow interpret the pope's openness and friendliness as being less concerned about those things.

Answering directly to the Pope would be like going back to the days of Galileo, when all other ideas outside of the church or bible would be considered heresy and an attack against the church.

When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

Neither I nor my colleagues were seeking to supply a secular expression of «moral community» that would supplant «a theological definition of the Church» (Bischoff), or promote a «society modeled on the idea of a city of God» (Marr).

The striking similarities to the Church and the «cult but not a cult» portrayed in the show conveys to us an idea about how people outside of the Church might actually perceive the Church.

it wouldnt surprise me if the idea of christian compassion is being changed in the church into pure individualism.

While i don't agree 100 % of everything she said, i agree with her general idea that we need to stop chasing after what's cool and what will draw the most church members and start chasing after serving the poor, following Christ, doctrine, outreach, santification, and, specifically, God.

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.»

you mean if one ignores the «prejudices and false ideas» of the catholic church, one may be willing to call it home.

Similarly, those in the Church often have the idea that true sanctity means waving bye - bye to the enjoyment of life's good things, and learning to love things which are painful, boring, or painfully boring.

It wasn't until Constantine «tickled the ears» of pagans to get them into the church that the idea of going to heaven or hell entered.

His idea of balance was to give equal time to opinions supporting and opposing the Church's teaching, leaving readers with serious doubts as to which side America was on.

Maybe the idea of trying to keep the secular outside the doors of religion and church needs to get turned around, that division between religious and secular torn down, stop worrying about the secular creeping into the sacred, the religion, but rather, taking the sacred, the religion, out into the secular.

another example, a small percentage of Christians are called to sacredotal celibacy, but 99.9 % are encouraged to marry - there is no discrepancy involved, and they are not just some ideas in the bible that we pick and choose between to believe - there is one consistent and variegated holistic understanding off the whole bible to those who can reason well and who have minimal training that churches should be doing in sunday, but mostly are not.

All of the church's heresies can be traced back to that one idea.

The church is committed to the idea of protection of life, from conception until natural death.

Another 5th panel idea... Camera zooms out a bit and shows sign above: «Yet another church of yet another doctrinal distinctive.»