Sentences with phrase «people visited the church»

Some people visited the church just to get the recipe.
There are three basic reasons: First, when people visit a church, they generally don't have someone there to answer their questions and refute their misconceptions.
We'll have people visit our church that haven't stepped into a church in years — and the change shocks them.
Most people visit the church to see the body of St Francis of Assisi, which is stored in a casket on a high - rise altar.

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A Christian care provider is urging the Church to do what it can to help elderly people in their homes, after figures showed hundreds of thousands of home care visits in the last two years barely lasted five minutes.
Don't you think that people who will read this will become interested enough to visit a church?
New Church of England statistics show 10 million people visited a cathedral in 2014 - up a fifth in the... More
Chinese authorities have detained a Catholic priest to stop people visiting his underground church, it... More
I myself am Mormon I have always been a mormon ever since I was born, most of you don't even know what you are talking about, you just listen to what other people say about us but don't even visit he church.
New Church of England statistics show 10 million people visited a cathedral in 2014 - up a fifth in the last decade.
Before the Scotts end their second visit, the people they talk to introduce them to Donna Hardwick, a children's program leader, and to Frank Chavez, who plays on the church's baseball team.
When I visited a young man who called the church to say he had AIDS and wished to be baptized, he told me that I was the second person in three months to have entered his apartment.
The Christian Post: Churches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in KaChurches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kachurches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kano City.
Most visitors want the people in the church they are visiting to reach out to them.
After visiting numerous churches in the town to which I had recently moved I decided that the employees at Home Depot were much friendlier than are the people in the churches I'd visited.
One thing I noticed while in church for years and years is that people expected the pastor to visit the sick.
We have visited so many «churches» where the people look absolutely miserable and unhappy and yet they're singing aloud how much joy they have..
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».
I am not about to equate visiting a church building with idol worship, but I do think it is important to recognize that people can worship and follow God just as well outside of the four walls of a church building than they can inside the walls — and maybe even better.
I can't go into all the details, but other people have visited our church and have left saying the message was sexist.
According to this story in the LA Times, each hour - long episode of the show — which will debut in 2014 — will «visit a different congregation at churches across the U.S. in order to find the perfect romantic partner for a preselected single person» (a person, who, presumably, has not kissed dating goodbye).
I have to say all you RV people, I never had a better church experience in my entire life then when I came to visit you guys for a year.
In São Paulo I visited a magnificent health clinic for low - income people that was sponsored by a Pentecostal church, and I visited another congregation that sends out 12 buses every night filled with members who offer soup and blankets to people living on the streets.
My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.
The World Youth Day is the best gathering for all the young people form all over the church to be united and to increase their faith ~ The visit of His Holiness is the presence of God, I think this person whom protest is a bit too sensitive or he doing this on purpose to make the situation chaos!
We visited a village where 10,000 people were slaughtered inside a church where they had fled for refuge.
As a result the church was forced to make a rule that the people should go to churches on Sunday and they should visit the monks only on weekdays.
You've told a story before about visiting a church with a community of people with Down's syndrome.
Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.
Idk about other churches but my church is like this, all white some black people come to visit and people say hello but they kinda ignore them and i think thats extremly wrong.
«We spent a little time with Peter to decide on the form of the sculpture - it was important that it offered something to reflect upon as people enjoy the open space of our church grounds, or as they visit to remember a loved one.
It would be interesting to see a study on how people feel about a church after one or two visits, in terms of «are they made feel welcome», or just stared at with incredulity.
You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!
The Papal visit had energised and revitalised the church in Poland and people were coming back to it.
While I've no interest in knocking churches, it needs to be clearly stated that older people are not a burden and ministry with them is not just about home visits.
But visit England he did - not in worldly or political triumph (the Spanish Armada tried that approach and failed), not in direct antagonism or opposition (Pope St. Pius V's excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I in 1570 was not exactly the happiest moment in the history of either England or the Catholic Church)- but rather in solidarity with Queen Elizabeth II, the Archbishop of Canterbury, secular leaders, and all English people of good will.
Visit churches in other countries and see how people around the world worship.
Players build their personal statements using locations such as «foodbank», «local estate», «school», or «home»; different groups of people such as «homeless people», «my mates» «work colleagues» or «prisoners» and varying actions such as «visiting», «helping» or «baking», as well as more traditional interpretations of mission such as «preaching», «going» and «church».
The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary tChurch and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary tchurch on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.
Furthermore, even though the missionary may be exhausted from working overseas, they feel compelled to visit people in their homes and go speak in a myriad of churches just so that they can maintain their financial support.
Venerating the mans blood so that people have something to come and visit and meditate on, is not the first act of sin the church committed in using John Paul's blood, because the worship of him when he was alive (if thats what it is) is where the sin began.
When she mentioned the pastor's visit to another member of that church, that person was flabbergasted.
Some people in the audience remembered the first visit of Tommy and Becky and their divorced mother to the Wesley Methodist Church's Parent Education Center.
At the end of the day churches like the one this particular pastor represents have a turnover of 50 % every two years, which means that if you visited his church every two years you would only find 50 % of the people had been there before.
I sometimes challenge the people of my church to go visit other churches just so that they can see that «our way» is not the only way.
Today Jews walk by it daily and when Pope John Paul II visited the Synagogue of Rome on April 13, 1986 and spoke within sight of it he called the Jewish people «our dearly beloved brothers» and said that in discovering her «bond» with Judaism the Church was searching into her own mystery.
The incident «didn't represent all the people of the church,» said Thompson, who visited the church after the incident.
Journey sent a five - person team to visit in early July to continue assessing needs and ways they can support Mission by Faith church and to continue deepening relationships between the new partner churches.
many many many churches feel the need to define a vision for people to follow that in the end detracts from what Jesus said was important - specifically in Matt 25:35 (feed, clothe, love, visit etc).
The visit of Pantaneus also tells us of the frequent travels of people between India and Alexandria at that time and the mutual awareness of the Alexandrian church and the Indian church of the existence of each other.
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