Sentences with phrase «people at our church get»

I don't think that people at our church get «converted», they have never known anything else.

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The reasoning behind the McMass Project is that, while church attendance is declining, McDonald's has proved to be consistently successful at getting people to come through their doors.

So I have no concerns at all that people in the church are going to be involved in these discussions, get on board and help lead the rest of us forward in an age where there are intelligences other than the ones we associate with Adam and Eve.

Previously we had to rely on second hand accounts at best, the «I know a guy who prayed and it totally came true» or «I know this person who died and went to heaven and came back» or «this person in our church saw a Smurf doll get up and start trying to choke a baby...»

We will be doing our fellowship service tonight in a community hall, we were doing it at our church for seven years, but we got kicked out, because we wer n`t getting the people to go to the sunday morning service.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

Church is the one time a week Lucas knows he can get out of the house, and at Trinity House of Prayer people won't look away when he comes down the aisle.

Tons of christians don't go to church, and at my church we always joke about the C&E's — the people who pack the place on Christmas and Easter only and make it hard for the rest of us to even get into the place.

James Carne who works at CAP Job Clubs UK believes churches have an obligation to continue to help those finding it hard to get work, speaking on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «There is still a big gap in terms of opportunities or help for people who are seeking work.

I shudder to think at what Jesus would have to say about our multi-million dollar church buildings while poor people are living in cardboard boxes all over our cities and selling their bodies to get food.

I used to wonder why I was so «weak» and would get so emotional when the people would leave and even mad at myself for not being able to just become tough and stay more emotionally distant with the people but a few close friends in the church told me not to change because my reaction simply shows what a caring shepherd I am.

I see people get healed much faster at a witchcraft festival than I do at a church.»

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.

But any larger and more formal process could actually get way more complicated in part because, as best I understand it, most of that core list of people she's mentioned had at the time of the main events all kinds of «interlocking connections» via business companies, tax - exempt non-profit church (es), and a tax - exempt non-profit corporation.

One reason could be that unhealthy and needy people that rely on the church are far easier to convert or at least get them to say they are believers.

There's a sort of shared anticipation in the air as the days grow shorter, the breezes get cooler, and folks everywhere begin new journeys together — a new school year for teachers and students, new jobs for recent grads, new projects at work, new Sunday school classes at church, new shows on TV, a new session of Congress in Washington, new routines, new people, new information, new schedules.

What surprised me on this trip was that at every single event, one or two people would pull me aside and ask how I kept from getting discouraged by those big numbers that Mark Driscoll, and pastors like him, are always bragging about — the 10 million downloads, the enormous church planting network, the packed - out services, the hundreds of thousands of blog visitors.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

Hi Ed, The Pastor at the Church of Hosanna International Ministries (HIM), does not get paid he willingly shows his bank statements to the congregation, in hopes that they will understand where the money is really going and with that said he keeps 100 dollars in his account and lives off of that for a whole month and the rest of the tithes and offerings go to 13 different ministries, divided evenly and the Church helps out at least 3 - 4 missionaries and the youth group of the Church all in separate accounts, this is a Church of around 68 to 80 people every Sunday this is not a big Church but God has blessed this man beyond measure and continues to do so this Church can be found in Saint Joseph Missouri, Pastor Larry Gray.

One example: The head «elder» at a church we attended at one time told me I needed to be rebaptized (they counted how many people got baptized every year for some report or the other), and that I needed to submit to his authority.

When people get mad at churches, it is usually because of churches led by pastors like this.

Just because you knock up all the 13 year olds at your church's sunday school doesn't mean people with brains aren't getting any.

We were told a few people were occasionally getting saved at the end of a sermon at church, but that plan wasn't working well.

I would argue that it is not about getting people like this to show up at our church, but rather, getting the members of our church to show up in the lives of people like this.

What I find funny is that a lot of believers have been waiting for this exact story (or at least what it appears to be), a person actively trying to blow up churchs and then getting caught, it just makes it that much sweeter that this guy only wanted to blow these churches up in the name of his own church.

The story opened in a swank Protestant church where at the conclusion of the service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?

In spite of the protests I get nearly every day that my focus on abuse in the church is unbalanced and unnecessary because it is so rare, I continue to address it because millions of people are recipients of spiritual abuse at the hands of their spiritual leaders and their churches.

I'm in the Atlanta airport as I write this, and during this layover I've gotten three messages from people who asked me for advice because they are afraid of being «found out» at church.

After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.

all I can think of today is what I saw in yesterday's news, about the former paratrooper turned preacher at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church just outside Ft. Bragg, N.C., that told his congregation they should break their sons» wrists if they catch them doing the «limp wrist», or give him a good punch... and all the kids that have committed suicide because other kids have picked up on messages like this and bullied them till they couldn't stand it anymore... we are the only bible some folks will ever read, and if they get this kind of message, well, who'd want to be with a group of people where you are grudgingly tolerated, if not outright hated, and all this in Jesus» name... it also says that the churches will do just about anything to keep people obedient and unquestioning, so they will continue to give, and so the big donors will continue to give, so that the doors at Monster Megachurch can be kept open, and the lights on... David, this is one of your «less is more» toons here... a minimum of elements that says so much....

I had been at the church for all my 57 years and it took 9 months for anyone to contact me; none of the people I thought were my friends got in touch and none of those involved in pastoral care.

I guess what I am getting at is unless I have a clear understanding from the Bible of what a church is, it will be impossible for me to lead a group of people into becoming a church.

I do know that God's love is expansive and amazing, and I've seen a lot of people get saved at Lakewood Church and through pastor Joel Osteen's preaching.

i am undergoing such a change in the way i think about God and religion and reading some of your articles has been very refreshing — right now i am part of a very fundamental church and i need to get out - i am tired of the judgement and looking at people as «saved» and «unsaved» (we recently had a church event where if you brought an «unsaved» friend they got to rollerskate for free - i wanted to vomit)- i just want to follow Jesus - do nt know where to go but i do want to stay part of a church (for the sake of my children)- i saw somewhere on your blog that you too are in the hudson valley — are there any churches you can recommend that fall in line with your way of thinking?

Dennis Bennett got through the 7:30 service without causing a commotion at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, which had 2,500 people on its rolls.

Odds are, there will be some people at your church will get into a social media argument about such a move by a team they probably don't like and would normally never pay attention to.

«So we've got a thing called «mountain pilgrims» which is sort of beginning to be a fresh expression of church which is encouraging people to make a link between natural beauty and the sense of awe and wonder which they feel at that and then a sense of awe and wonder at the Creator who created this wonderful beauty.»

One of the participants at the research conference, an electronic church broadcaster, summed up all of the data by stating, «It looks like the research is saying that all that religious TV is doing is to make people feel good and to get them to keep on doing what they're doing!»

I started speaking more regularly this year, which meant I got to meet more of you in person — at churches, conferences, and colleges from Waco, to Portland, to Minneapolis, to Lynchburg.

God is so mad at Haiti because they do voodoo hence the earthquake, God is mad at America so children got killed, God is mad at Nigeria so people who go church get bombed, God is mad at Africa for worshiping other gods so He sold them into slavery.

You got me from A to B — a flash of turquoise that people around town recognized as me, drawing friendly honks, waves, and the occasional gossip when spotted at the liquor store or the Catholic Church.

Sunday is the one day off a lot of people get, and a lot of them don't feel like waking up at 7 to go to church so they don't, and there are always people falling asleep or too tired to really learn anything from the sermons

At the press conference announcing the Annenberg - Gallup study, a member of the audience, himself an electronic - church broadcaster, summed up the report by commenting, rather wistfully, «It looks like the research is saying that all that religious TV is doing is to make people feel good and to get them to keep on doing what they «re doing!»

I think the great objective proof, if you can talk in those terms (and I'm not sure if you really can)-- the nearest, at any rate, that you can get to objective proof of the Resurrection — is the birth of the Christian Church, this community of people who live by faith in the living Lord, and the continuity of that community down the ages in that same faith.

J.John said he encouraged churches near the Grenfell Towner in north Kensington to get on board with the event, saying: «In response to that, we heard 300 people have signed up and want to be our guests at the Emirates - which is wonderful...»

Funny, a whole long article about how apologetic these people are, but I didn't see one thing about them offering the couple the choice of a symbolic marriage ceremony at the church to show both acceptance & tell the bigots there cries for hate won't be tolerated & they won't get their way.

Only in this way can they have a perceptible impact on such pastoral - prophetic local issues as how sick people can get better care, how the homeless can find decent housing, and how the voice of the church can be heard in the din of competing voices at city hall.

Its aim is to get church groups to hold in - depth conversations with people in their community so that they can understand their livelihoods and the way they use the resources at their disposal to sustain a living.

At another church, an elder told me, «We don't want people attending here until they get themselves cleaned up.

They look at churches today where people know a lot of the Bible, or where a lot of evangelism is getting done, or where the pastors have built a large following, get the sermons aired on the radio or published in books, and decide that these pastors must have figured something out about preaching.