Sentences with phrase «past church experiences»

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He denied, attacked my personality, blamed my past experiences for my perceptions, blamed behavior within his church on things like deaths and illnesses, and threw in some non-apologies like «I'm sorry you feel that way.»

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

He and his wife Lyndie have experienced some changes in their faith over the past few years, and are currently in the process of leaving (on good terms) their Reformed church and looking for a new one to call home.

and i agree with your thoughts on a name change, to me, not having any past experience with the term «elder», good or bad, it impies to me spiritual maturity and experience, and the people in our church that i would go to in time of crisis model that spiritual maturity and experience whether or not they are on the team.

It speaks to how many atheists have too many hang ups about their past bad experiences in the church...

Those» saving facts,» the death and resurrection of Christ, are not merely particular facts of past history, however decisive in their effect; they are re-enacted in the experience of the Church.

The details of my past are not important; all you need to know is that if there is a type of abuse that can be committed I've experienced it and much of it through the «church.»

In the recent past lay the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; the experience of the present attested His power in the Church through the Spirit; the near future would bring the final revelation of the meaning of the whole.

There's a lot I really love about my church, but I'm still fearful of being perceived negatively; probably because of past experiences.

Since a history of Faith Church had just been finished a few months before he arrived, Landry invited the committee to begin its work with a study of this history; the story of the church's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important persoChurch had just been finished a few months before he arrived, Landry invited the committee to begin its work with a study of this history; the story of the church's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important persochurch's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important personages.

When Alex Harris arrived in Stafford, he was sceptical about pushing the Beacon Church towards a multisite model (he was put off by a past experience where the strategy had «crashed and burned»).

Also, one book my wife and I read this past year which sounded eerily familiar to what we have personally experienced, was the fictional «novel» by Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore.

A comparable situation has occurred in Ireland since the 1990's, and the Church in Poland generally for reasons particular to contemporary Polish history has experienced much of the same over the past few years.

Churches and missionary organizations are analyzing the experience of these past centuries in order to correct their ways, precisely with the help of the new churches which have come into being in those coChurches and missionary organizations are analyzing the experience of these past centuries in order to correct their ways, precisely with the help of the new churches which have come into being in those cochurches which have come into being in those countries.

The more faith becomes a present experience, the more we are willing to let the outward forms of past generations die, that the living church may show itself for what it is — the community of faith.

While criticisms of this nature have come primarily from mainline churches, which have experienced decreases in membership and financial giving in the past 15 years, in recent years criticism has also come from evangelicals.

I think a lot of our criticisms relate more to our past experiences with people in institutions (a church) rather than what really is.

In the film, Thomas Haden Church Justin's father, a blue collar worker with his own wounds from past military experience that complicate his emotional connection to his two sons, and their dog.

Church also brought plants from a past trip to South America to heighten the viewers» experience.

Two new issues, related but readily distinguishable, have arisen in the past few months, about the residential school experience, neither of which were public knowledge at the time of the apology and certainly not at the times of the out - of - court settlement that was negotiated against a class action law suit brought against the Government and the churches.

She has past experience serving as a volunteer counselor at a local church in Minnesota and at an international church in The Hague, Netherlands, where she lived for 4 years.