Sentences with phrase «people in that particular churches»

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If we possess a religious faith, we probably recall that it originated in some particular person or persons, in a particular church or place.

Protestantism in particular could not surrender the claim to be a Volkskirche, a true national church and the spiritual custodian of the German people.

Sean Doherty of Living Out (and my conversation partner later in this article) has reflected that: «People can have a particular sense of shame and wanting to hide this from God... I think secrecy is common in lots of parts of the Church.»

A church leader would have a good following of people in a particular town or city, and some other teacher would arrive in town, and begin to teach Scripture in a different way or with a different emphasis.

If people wish to go to church and believe in their particular deity, that is perfectly acceptable.

«The challenge», wrote Father Alexander Lucie - Smith in his Catholic Herald blog shortly after the Holy Father had announced his resignation, «will be in having to watch the airwaves fill with a whole load of people who are very marginal to Church life, and yet who will be invited to pontificate on all matters papal and religious, giving it their own particular slant, which they will advance as a mainstream view.»

The culture of moral laxity that has invaded the Church and that has born its fruits in the lives of particular people is at heart not a moral crisis but anintellectual crisis.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

All this means that the Church will often have conflicting understandings of what it means to live as God's people in a particular location or cultural setting.

Some vicars in Birmingham and St Albans Dioceses expressed concern that the cards weren't bringing people back to their particular church and wanted to do their own version of soul [food] cards to fix the problem.

In addition to these groups, the church can also provide group social relations to persons who are exposed to particular life stresses which make them emotionally vulnerable.

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very imporchurch, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very imporChurch), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

When people build churches, they are embodying their faith in their own particular social world and historical moment.

Such an affirmation, of course gives to the Church the responsibility to engage in the moral formation of its community — it is to «help shape both character and particular moral choices and action people take, singly and together.

Some of my Episcopal friends tell me that episcopacy is not a name for a particular kind of church constitution (as Presbyterians might suppose), but rather an understanding of representative authority and responsibility in ministry vested in a college of «sacramental persons» — an understanding compatible with a wide range of constitutional theories and structures.

While Orthodoxy has rejected the idea that the Church in any specific location should include only members of a particular culture or nation, it has asserted that the Church can so penetrate the inner moral and spiritual life of a people that all of them in some sense belong to the Church.

For many theologically literate people, the «place» of religious experience is a local church, a particular building on a particular street in a particular town.

So we've read the studies, often written in the spirit of Tocqueville, that American conservative Christians are distinguished by their philanthropic generosity and their voluntary care giving, and their churches, at their best at least, are attentive to the whole lives of particular persons.

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God «himself» from this person, from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicea, no place in the church.

The now Wilsons WERE members of this church, and people join churches because they feel at home in a particular church, they believe the doctrines taught by that particular denomination, and other reasons, so evidently this couple felt at home in this church.

Dogmatic Formulations The Catechism also presents the various terms used by the Magisterium of the Church with regard to the Trinity (in particular substance / essence / nature, person / hypostasis and fnally relation) and also the various key points of doctrine that need always to be kept in mind.

I know a lot of people who choose to marry in a particular church or location because of the beauty, the ambience, or whatever.

Scholars agree that the general structural form of what we now call the «ordained ministry» — according to which a particular person is given general oversight of all the activities of a particular Christian community — did not emerge in the church until early in the second century.

«For many if not most of the people I was coming into contact with in local churches, talking about their congregation meant citing statistics of one sort or another, or details of particular programs.»

We further observe that sometimes parts of our churches have subjugated the spirit, mind, will and voice of our people, particularly when Christian media initiatives invade other countries and cultures without an understanding of the life, realities and involvement of the local churches and Christian councils in a particular nation.

The kid is right in a way Religion is a way to enslave people to the thinking of that particular religion Jesus didn't come to form religion but to give us a way to get to Heaven through him The only mission of a church is to teach you about God's love to help the poor to love one another to do things that Christ would do There is a penalty for not being saved by the blood of Jesus There will be a separation from God for all eternity God made us for one reason to love Him the Creator of all The meaning of life

When prophecy (self - styled) is institutionalized in modern organizations, the end result is that the only people who are eagerly awaiting the next solemnly launched position of a particular church organization are the bureaucrats in the other organization down the block.

Craig maybe the definition of teaching men under authority is limited to that particular area within the church.But that does nt stop God from working outside those constraints.Mother Etta and no doubt other women felt compelled to preach the gospel such as women missionaries.Mother Etta preached the gospel and many were saved people were healed just as in the day of the disciples it is the same Jesus that saves and delivered from from sin and disease not the fact that it was a man who spoke behind the altar.Why do you find it hard to see that God can use women just like he uses men to witness for him.The call to witness for Christ is for everyone not just men and not just in a church situation.When we limit God to a narrow view it limits the effectiveness of the gospel.

People will use it for the purpose they wish and it is not of your business as long as they are not wanting to get married in your particular church.

It must be «a ministry of mercy, born of an act of Christ's own mercy» (in forgiving Peter's betrayal: 93) And it involves «the task, not of exercising power over the people — as the rulers of the gentiles and their great men do... [but of] «keeping watch» (episkopein)... so that through the efforts of the pastors the true voice of Christ the shepherd may be heard in all the particular churches» (94).

Two of them in particular outline the movement's methodology and objectives: Your Church Can Grow, subtitled seven vital signs of a healthy church,» and Our Kind of People, subtitled «the ethical dimensions of church growth in America.&Church Can Grow, subtitled seven vital signs of a healthy church,» and Our Kind of People, subtitled «the ethical dimensions of church growth in America.&church,» and Our Kind of People, subtitled «the ethical dimensions of church growth in America.&church growth in America.»

It also explains why we have prayers said by minister and people, hymns that are sung, movement from place to place in the church building for particular purposes, like the taking of the collection, or other necessary actions.

Your continued push that most people, if confronted by their sin of living together, would stay in that particular church is not even close to reality of the majority of those situations.

With the advent of the professional youthworker, there also came the danger that the church as a whole and parents of teens in particular would feel that they couldn't do the discipling job, that we needed people who watched the same films, wore the same clothes, could bear to listen to the same music, and could actually get as far as Level 2 on a computer game.

In a third concentric circle we may place those traditions which are peculiar to a particular grouping of people such as the Orthodox Church in the East, the Catholic Church m the West or one of the many Protestant denominationIn a third concentric circle we may place those traditions which are peculiar to a particular grouping of people such as the Orthodox Church in the East, the Catholic Church m the West or one of the many Protestant denominationin the East, the Catholic Church m the West or one of the many Protestant denominations.

Well, if they belong to the particular population she's addressing (i.e. people who want to belong to a church), then they will share in this belief.

The good people in the church are sent out to work in their particular vocation in a Christian manner.

The term is used in the Bible of Christ, and it is used of the gospel as preached by the early church before a canon of scripture existed, and it's used of prophecies received at a particular time for particular people to a particular prophet.

The «ex-gay» approach was the topic of our second discussion around Torn, and as I said there, I think this may be the most difficult reality for the Church, and evangelicals in particular, to accept — that we have to move beyond the default setting of trying to change people's sexual orientation upon learning they are gay.

They run the organization with a what's good for the organitazion in mind and often the people who want to ask questions, who struggle to meet performance expectations -LCB- the christian walk is reduced to performance giving, serving - the church organization, keeping sins off a particular list (ignoring the heart) and an ability to regurgitate spoon fed theology -RCB- the low performers are «disciplined» into performing outwardly regardless of inward conditions or are left in the dust of the organizations progress.

As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis spoke frequently of the missionary character of the Church» mission, that is, not as a particular work of a certain group of people within the Church, but as the very nature of the Church as the presence of Christ in the world.

In particular, both documents finish with a quotation from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.

Other new auction records were Lot 28, «Blind Man's Bluff,» a sensual sculpture by Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911), which sold for $ 1,439,500; Lot 10, «The American Sweetheart,» a good work by Robert Indiana (b. 1928), which sold for $ 614,500; Lot 8, «Great American Nude # 44,» by Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931), which sold for $ 944,500; Lot 35, «In the Beginning Was The Image,» a colorful and chaotic work by Asger Jorn (1914 - 1973), which sold for $ 2,099,500; Lot 46, «The Beach Series,» photographs of skinny young people of no particular distinction by Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959), which sold for $ 405,000; Lot 40, «Figure 11.23,» a rather bloody looking work by Jenny Saville (b. 1970), which sold for $ 537,500; Lot 42, «Mailander Dom (Fassade),» a handsome church facade photograph by Thomas Struth (b. 1954), which sold for $ 317,500; Lot 45, «Wand (Mural),» by Thomas Demand (b. 1964), which sold for $ 141,500; Lot 48, «Thanksgiving,» a group of 149 photographs by Nan Goldin (b. 1953), which sold for $ 284,500; Lot 64, «Adieu Batista,» by Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), which sold for $ 361,500; Lot 68, «A Certain Lunar - Eclipse (Project for Humankind No. 2),» by Cai Guo - Qiang (b. 1957), which sold for $ 229,500; and Lot 24, «Untitled (Fragments),» by Toba Khedoori (b. 1964), which sold for $ 65,725.

Bells have a particular resonance: for over 1,200 years church bells have called the faithful to worship in churches across the land, helping people to celebrate triumph and loss.