Sentences with phrase «own kind of church»

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

I do not attend any kind of church or social gatherings in regards to my non-religious beliefs.

All this, is a kind of church, too.

We think to ask what kind of church we should become is not only the wrong question, it is boring.

If you knew me and what kind of churches I attend, you would be foolish to label them as a dangerous cult.

Catholic teaching itself distinguishes different levels of authoritativeness for different kinds of teaching and different kinds of Church pronouncements.

The real damage these kind of churches do, especially to children, is they teach them to live their lives in fear.

He was probably right, but I couldn't help thinking that perhaps he also only felt so strongly about the issue because of the kind of church he grew up in.

«He just doesn't get that aspect of theology because of the kind of church he grew up in,» my friend commented after a lively theology debate with a mutual friend.

For one that is so eager to point out the nuances between individuals who leave the church and those who leave to follow Christ, you are equally eager to groups all kinds of church bodies and leaders together.

I say this no matter what kind of church you go to.

If that's the kind of church these «millennials» are looking for perhaps they should create a church of their own.

(CNN)-- When Pope Francis arrives in South Korea on Wednesday for a five - day visit, he'll get a look at just the kind of church he's been trying to create worldwide.

I think that Dave Ferguson was trying to provide guidance on what kind of church buildings we should construct, but I think that if we begin with the question, «Should we construct a building?»

So what kind of church does God attend?

I knew the kind of church I liked, but finding it was proving tough.

What kind of church is it if you don't mind me asking?

Most wars are religions that fight one another... Pray for Peace??? what the hell kind of church can say that and then say kill gays??? Let us remember there are those in the religious order who molest your children and hide under the sheets so nobody can find them..

The result will be a different kind of church community.

Which is why it was such a pleasure, a few days later, to find myself in a very different kind of church, this one compact, ultramodern, made of glass.

Church or no church or a certain kind of church only, whatever.

Truth at all costs... freedom at all costs... that's the kind of person I want to be, and the kind of church I want to lead.

What kind of church was this?

Eight hundred million Christians on earth are organized in churches — but what kind of churches?

In response, I wrote and distributed throughout our church a little pamphlet called «Attending the Church that God Does» explaining that if Jesus were walking planet earth today, ours was the kind of church He would attend.

We want to be firmly planted in the Word, like a tree by streams of living water, that bears fruit in season, it's leaves don't whither in the drought, it doesn't blow over with all kinds of trends and false teachings, it is there through thick and thin, when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring, that is the kind of church we want to be.»

Sounds like my kind of church.

I won't be a part of that kind of church again.

Both kinds of church goers — those who fulfill their weekly duty by attending the Sunday morning service, and those who gorge themselves on a weekly smorgasbord of services, Bible studies, and prayer meetings — have the same problem.

For me as an American Catholic theologian, that terminus a quo was the immigrant Catholic Church, the kind of church nostalgically memorialized in some of Andrew Greeley's novels.

For me, it simply means admitting that the kind of churches I found myself in embraced cult - like values.

What kind of church did you go to the «enforced» this kind of twisted activities?

I don't know what kind of a church you go but if you are unhappy maybe God is trying to lead you to a better place keep searching.

Confusion arises when people confuse that with any kind of church membership.

What an ironic stmt to hear from someone that represents the side that too often equates the character of a person with the kind of church they attend and how often they are in the pew.

«These kinds of churches aren't started because the fear is we're going to have really broken people here, and we're going to need some healthy people to balance them out.»

The kind of churches that would emerge would carry forward the best of the tradition of the oldline churches.

Long story short: decided to move to the church who hosted the event just to enjoy that kind of church life and community.

Many young families were in retreat from certain kinds of church experience and the refreshing secularism of the new approach was welcome.

If the argument here is correct, the two developments result from some of the same causes: The American kind of church - state separation meant no church monopolized religious symbols; courts were called upon to articulate ultimate purpose and justice; and judges felt little ambivalence in doing so.

The first explanation — that the Protestant doctrine of religious liberty led to the kind of church - state separation wherein clergymen, even while politically active, did not «compete» politically — is seen here in mirror image.

Here is a little comic strip which talks about what kind of church God might attend.

Then there are the KJV only, legalistic kind of churches.

Some of my Episcopal friends tell me that episcopacy is not a name for a particular kind of church constitution (as Presbyterians might suppose), but rather an understanding of representative authority and responsibility in ministry vested in a college of «sacramental persons» — an understanding compatible with a wide range of constitutional theories and structures.

tom: I do not try to be the kind of the church the bible tells me to be.

Plus over 20 years of experiencing and observing on the ground the kinds of churches I'm writing about.

My husband and I agree that this is precisely not the kind of church we want to go to, but I suppose it takes all kinds.

Maybe it's easier in that kind of church because people are there because they really love God and not just because it's a tradition.

But what kind of Church does this create?

That's the kind of church I want to go to — you let the pastor have his way with you and you end up with a car and who knows what else and then turn around and get a secret settlement out of him too.