Sentences with phrase «people abandon the church»

I experience why so many people abandon the church and religion.

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People in my generation abandon church because of how cold and unloving it is.

The church can avoid offending people or appearing stupid only by abandoning the gospel.

«many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.»

What saddens me is that church leaders think that people who «leave their church» are forsaking Jesus, abandoning the church, and living in rebellion against God.

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communChurch Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communChurch Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His discchurch, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His discChurch, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.

Their efforts range from planting a flower to helping hundreds of homeless people not get evicted from an abandoned church.

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communChurch Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communChurch Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communchurch, not because they have given up on church or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communchurch or are abandoning Jesus, but because they want to be the church and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communchurch and follow Jesus in their neighborhoods and communities.

The Pastor was trying to get someone to join the church and this person wouldn't join because he said The most so called religious or Christian people will abandon you when you are at lowest.

What recourse does a church - goer have when they've been shunned and shamed and abandoned by people they ought to have been able to trust?

They seem to think that people like me, who no longer make «church» attendance as part of their weekly routine, have fallen away from God, abandoned the faith, or have given up on following Jesus.

When Hitler bombed Guernica, the RCC abandoned the Spanish people, who more than any other defended the church.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

While people within the traditional church often complain that those who leave their «church» are abandoning God's church, the ones who leave actually feel that they are finding church for the first time.

The church, she insists, is not a voluntary arrangement that we can abandon just because we do not happen to like some of the other people in the group.

I have seen it in some of the members of every church I have served; and when people with that expectation run into problems, they often abandon «their» church in the (false) hope that the church was the problem, and if they just find one that believes right and believes enough, God will dump $ $ $ $ into their laps.

If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for «abandoning Jesus and the church.»

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

I believe this is true whether the person worships each week in a Christian church or a Jewish synagogue, or abandons all organized religion.

You are right, things have not always gone as they should; people sin; but Jesus Christ has not abandoned His Church.

I can't imagine anyone sitting around thinking to themselves: «Gee, I wonder whether I should choose to be straight, which is considered normal and acceptable; or perhaps choose to be gay, which is roundly condemned by a large percentage of otherwise intelligent people, considered a sin by many churches, was once illegal in most states, will likely result in my being shunned, abused, ridiculed, abandoned, abused, and beaten — possibly killed; will deny me many rights and advantages available to married people; may cost me jobs; and which in general will set me outside of society, marginalized and ostracized.

The problem remains that not much about churches has changed since young people abandoned them during the «60s.

Karl Rahner, in his «Meditations on St. Ignatius» Exercises,» states: «The crucified Lord is betrayed and abandoned by his friends, rejected by his people, repudiated by the Church of the Old Testament» (cited in AJCT).

People want the Church to abandon scripture and become a political tool to advance their ideas, not Gods ideas.

In the most challenging, daunting, frightening times in my life, even when I was a pastor's wife (my ex husband was an Assemblies of God minister), my «church family» were the first people to abandon me.

For people isolated by stigma and fear, it's powerful to hear an acknowledgement that this kind of suffering exists, that it doesn't mean God has abandoned them, and that people in the church might be willing to walk through it with them.

You must understand that this is my concern, which for the sake of the Church and for the sake of my people, I shall not abandon, that no one should lose the chance for forgiveness which still is being offered to us, perhaps for the last time in the history of our people.

The void left by abandoning the Church contributes to what scholars refer to as seeker spirituality wherein people shop for religion and are open to finding spirituality in otherwise secular spaces.

He warned that young people will abandon «orthodox» Christian churches that teach that homosexuality is a sin for fear of being called haters.