Sentences with phrase «people view church»

Troy: When David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons shared their findings of how unchurched young people view the church in Unchristian, one of the most jarring critiques was that the church is, in their words, anti-homosexual.

While loyalty may naturally increase with age, it may also reflect a shift in how people view church.

I was not aware of this history of the word, and you are probably right that it has led to people viewing church as an institution.

Not exact matches

In Altman's view, people who have criticized those ideas for businesses have cast the entrepreneurs behind them as «heretics,» like how the Catholic Church sentenced Galileo to house arrest for (correctly) saying the Earth revolves around the sun.

Now I'm involved with people who are trying to make sense of the way they are viewed by many churches.

Now the Church is viewed, particularly by people who are of age to remember, as the supporters of corruption.

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).

A study has claimed that the Church's views towards and treatment of transgender people are changing.

«The perception of the churches having perhaps a negative view towards gay people or transgender people - there are plenty of Christians who are gay, lesbian or transgender within our churches.

People just remember, over the1000yrs so many men wrote and rewrote the bible that it is not truly the original bible.Every one who wrote the bible put in there own thoughts.Plus people who are overly two religious are really the true (SINNERS) Forcing there own views on others.Plus its all for money any way to collect from the poor two build bigger and bigger chuPeople just remember, over the1000yrs so many men wrote and rewrote the bible that it is not truly the original bible.Every one who wrote the bible put in there own thoughts.Plus people who are overly two religious are really the true (SINNERS) Forcing there own views on others.Plus its all for money any way to collect from the poor two build bigger and bigger chupeople who are overly two religious are really the true (SINNERS) Forcing there own views on others.Plus its all for money any way to collect from the poor two build bigger and bigger churches.

My religious views aside... Think of how many people this church could have helped with $ 700,000.

Hence, part of the reason of the concept of the «separation of church and the government... or church and the secular,» so, no religion including Christianity can stomp on the rights of people to express themselves fully and in their own way... whether you agree, disagree or don't have an opinion one way or another on others view and comments... yes...?

We (church leadership) encourage each person to study the issues and determine which candidate best represents their views.

Young people are beginning to cast suspect on the church the way previous generations viewed corporate America.

Against your points of view are the traditions your church people believe in.

Calling a sin a sin is one thing, but when you cherry pick «the rules» to fit your view, then it is no wonder people walk away from the church.

If revisionists manage someday to recapture denominational offices and pulpits in large number, the churches will be less concerned to prescribe and implement theologically correct views and more interested in equipping people to do their own thinking about questions of economic policy.

Whatever your views on church might be, you will be challenged by these stories to view church a little differently, and to not judge or condemn those people who choose to be the church in different ways than you.

In face of the new challenge to the Churches their view of the ministry and the Christian faith was most successful in finding and holding the people of the west.

Try to ask a serious question with an open mind, acutally listen & try to imagine where that person is coming from... not just your narrow pious world / church view.

This person had no idea how much hell I've taken from people in my evangelical community for writing about my doubts, my questions related to heaven and hell, my views on biblical interpretation and theology, and my support for women in ministry and other marginalized people in the Church.

In short, in order to impose their views on the church as a whole they have insisted on centralizing authority in the national church and using that authority to demand that many — bishops, clergy, and lay people — act contrary to their consciences.

«In my view it is vital that people are given the opportunity to hear the magical language of The Book of Common Prayer in church.

Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans — social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.

«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.»

«If the Church does not regard Israel from a Christian point of view,» he remarked, «if it does not recognize the theological significance of this people, having a national destiny that can be cultivated only in Zion, the Church has no right to pass judgment on Israel.»

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

This view of aging and the place of the church aligns well with Vaillant's finding that organized religion is especially attractive for lonely old people, those with a tendency toward depressive illness and those whose childhoods were lacking in hope and love.

Some people need to learn to set boundaries but this girl's boundaries were no bigger than her view of life and church and faith at the time.

Scot McKnight was the first person to draw my attention to the fact that «anyone who thinks it is wrong for a woman to teach in a church can be consistent with that point of view only if they refuse to learn from women scholars» (The Blue Parakeet, p. 148).

Though the notion of an immortal soul is what pastors and priests preach in churches, since that is what people want so much to believe, many modern theologians reject the view that the doctrine of the immortal soul has always been part of Judaism.

It provides a totally new perspective from which black people can view themselves, others, Scripture, church, tradition and reason.

If we view the church as the Church (people, the body of Christ), then I think this illustration is spchurch as the Church (people, the body of Christ), then I think this illustration is spChurch (people, the body of Christ), then I think this illustration is spot on.

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

This view is sketched most clearly in the LCA's 1970 statement and the Methodist Church of England's 1976 statement which take a «relational» view of people.

DO listen to your own voice or the Church on social, political and economic issues, and allow people to justify their views on explicitly religious grounds if they want, as long as it's your religion with a monotheistic male deity.

Neither looking backward in the fundamentalist fashion, nor inward in the manner of the Reorganization, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints is looking forward and outward with a view to telling all the people in the world about their opportunity to live out their lives inside the covenant beneath the tent of Zion.

Our biggest problem is that the Church is viewed as something for posh people.»

Yet teaching people how to understand what the media are doing to them and helping them learn the techniques of media discrimination so that they can develop values and opinions and points of view which are their own should have a very high priority among educators and church leaders.

As a result, the traditional views still officially held by the churches seem to many people strangely out of place.

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheview has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheView has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.

Such terminology reveals a tendency to view church as a function and a place, rather than the people of God who follow Jesus into the world.

On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.

I have been extremely impressed with much of what they say in their sermons, what they tell their people about following Jesus, and how they view the building, resources, and money which is part of their church.

So if you don't want gay people to marry because of your church views, then don't let them get married in your church.

One study revealed that in a representative sample of 2,460 Americans, persons with more education were more likely to seek out a clergyman, and regular church members were also quicker to call on their pastor (54 percent among Protestants and 52 percent among Catholics)(Gerald Gurin, Americans View Their Mental Health, p. 335.)

People in and out of the churches were freed to express their radical views.

He rightly cautions against the excessive politicizing of religion, which has reached the point where people choose their church on the basis of their social or political views.

Carl Henry, for example, was able to respond to Jim Wallis's characterization of the communal, over against the individual, nature of the gospel by saying that he agreed with Wallis's communal definition.67» But Henry's individualistic view of people within human society, while allowing for the community of the church, the importance of the family, and a limited function for the state, remains largely atomistic.