Sentences with phrase «pastors questions about my faith»

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As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

After some playful banter with senior pastor Joe Champion - who asked the former Florida Gator to don a football helmet from his alma mater, Louisiana State University - Tebow began answering questions about his faith and how his openness about it has become a frequently dissected topic in sports and society at large.

One of the most common questions I hear as a pastor is: «How should I speak about my faith to my friends?»

Lay leaders responding to these new developments pummel their pastors with questions about creationism, faith healing and the verbal inspiration of Scripture, and are overtly suspicious of the historical and critical interpretations of biblical texts.

The «Troeltschian» questions that I have raised — about historical and cultural relativity, about the relation of Christianity to other faiths, and about the relation of Christianity to the methods and findings of modern science — are not foreign to pastors and members of their congregations.