Sentences with phrase «painful church experiences»

After being burned by a string of fiery, painful church experiences, I understand the common struggle.

A painful church experience is magnified in a digital age where gossip and slander can spread through social networks faster than ever before.

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I love it because of your honesty, and I love it because I think it echoes what a lot of people experience in churches when they suspect abuse, but don't say anything - the ignoring of the intuitions, the pull of «belonging» to the greater group, the shame associated with telling, the pain when they * do * tell and then are immediately ostracized (so painful, when I'm guessing you thought you «belonged» at the table, and were only participating as you thought you had right to?

You see, I've gone through extremely painful experiences, not only in the church but at the hands of the church.

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

There is a kind of painful humor now about their early experiences in the Catholic Church.

I have an on - line friend in the USA, miles from me in the UK, but we both suffered similar painful experiences of friends being forced out of the church we called home at the same time.

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

It was the highest (and most painful) emotional experience the church could provide me.

As the church in India prepares to enter the new millennium, it is high time that the rich insights, the detailed discussions, the joyful and painful experiences, are all harvested, winnowed and sieved, so that a return to the sources, a reaching back, can truly be the means of moving forward toward an uncertain, yet challenging future, as a church grasped by the vision of unity, in this multi-cultural and multi-religious land of ours.

If you have been a follower of Jesus for any length of time, you have probably experienced some difficult and painful situations in church.

Though many people have painful experiences in church, some people choose to stay at their church and try to work through them, reforming the church from the inside, and being the change they want to see.

The most painful experience of my life happened during a time when I was in leadership at a church.