Sentences with phrase «people in that church environment»

The people in that church environment made it very clear that they did not care about people as much their church and what they could get from people.

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Large group gatherings or worship services are the place where the largest number of people within a church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a church.

Everything for me as a pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the church.

I've come to realize after growing up in a conservative church and then moving away from that environment that the majority of people that sincerely believe the Bible is to be taken completely literally have never read it all.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can...

I certainly have not done any sort of scientific research into this segment of the population, but I work in an environment where I get to interact with a lot of religious and non-religious people, and I have had countless conversations with people who probably count as one of the 35 million people who used to attend church and identify as Christian, but no longer do.

People make a lot of assumptions about women pastors — that they have to be aggressively ambitious, that they can only survive in a liberal and urban environment, that they can't serve in Reformed churches, that they must devote all their work and writing to defending their call.

Because of all the differences in people from their perspectives of environment and the differences in abilities and talents such as artistic and philosophical perspectives, it is only natural that they would seek to worship god in different ways in different churches or at home by themselves.

In my role as a «public Christian» who leads a church and who values spirited discourse about the issues of our time, I want to nurture environments where people can openly wrestle with their beliefs — but without the fear of being caricatured, labeled or demonized.

It appears rather that the Bible views the history of the Hebrew people, the life of Jesus, and the life of the Church as sharing in one continuous working of God in which every aspect of human life and its natural environment has its necessary and fruitful role to play.

People from our church have gone on to become home group and worship leaders elsewhere because they had training in a small environment.

As soon as your daughter's belief in fairies and leprechauns starts becoming a threat to women's reproductive rights, people's marriage rights, separation of church and state, and even the environment we live in, then we'll start caring about her idiotic beliefs as well.

Moreover, at a time of increasing specialization, local churches can be the meeting place for a genuine exchange of views, a marketplace of ideas and values, a place where — within an environment of Christian love and support — people can deal with controversy in realistic and productive ways.

I mean, according to Scripture, it is the parent's responsibility to raise up their children and teach them about God, but our modern way of doing church relinquishes these things to 45 minutes on Sunday morning and Wednesday night, in a building with a (generally) controlled environment, and to a person we don't really know.

As I have make strides in my own church to provide safe and helpful environments for these precious people, the road has been difficult.

The environment «poisoned by ordinariness, mediocrity and clear agenda to destroy talents» is from you, your fellow pastors and your churches that have condemned the people to such mental slavery that they are unable to think as creatures of a God who created us in his image.

This is politics not a church organization, leaders are supposed to work for the people in diverse ways which include ensuring and providing safe financial environment.

I'm a person who love to go to church when not at work, I also like to be in clean environment I hate dirty places.

Church and community members are invited to bring cats, dogs, birds, reptiles and other well - behaved animal companions to celebrate the important roles that animals have in people's lives, as well as to honor St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals and the environment.

When Caribbean migrants arrived in the UK in the 1950s and 60s, their reception, generally lukewarm at best, was such that rather than ingratiating themselves to their white British counterparts, they felt more comfortable creating there own social environments — including black churches, black bars and dancehalls, and black barbershops, often in people's homes.

When Caribbean migrants arrived in Britain in the 1950s and 60s, their reception was such that they felt more comfortable creating their own social environments — including black churches, black bars, and black barbershops, often in people's homes.