Sentences with phrase «perfectly good churches»

I was introduced to perfectly good churches where the belief that women were below men was present throughout their teachings and ministry in a subliminal way.

Not exact matches

Yes, the church can make whatever rule or decision it wants, but the rest of the world is perfectly well allowed to point out when those rules are ill formed, and unnecessarily harm the members.

The Church, on the other hand, knows perfectly well that diseases all affect only sinners.

oh, FYI, you won't save yourself just because you go to church and there's no one in this world who's perfectly «good».

The Oxford Conference in its report on «The Universal Church and the World of Nations» caught perfectly the deduction to be drawn when it affirmed, «To do what appears as relatively best is an absolute» duty before God, and to fail in this is to incur positive guilt.

But it is a work done by a few in the Church for the sake of all» a perfectly sound New Testament concept, and in the end soundly democratic as well.

But as I sit in my office and stare out the window at the Lakewood Church palace to Joel Osteen... and think about the brand - new multi-million dollar Catholic Cathedral in downtown Houston... and think about the fact that the University of Houston is about to tear down their perfectly good 35,000 seat football stadium to build a brand new $ 100M 40,000 seat football stadium... I really wonder why those three projects all qualify as «Charity.»

Since churches are made up of people and people are fallible creatures at best, it never does this perfectly.

It may well be true that no church perfectly embodies all I have suggested (though, looking back at the article, I do not think I set the practical bar very high: decent liturgy shaped by theology, helpful catechisms, good preaching, baptism, Lord's Supper, a basic grasp of history etc.).

One thing I can say from experience is that my believe in God and what's been tolled about him has had many hits from other people surrounding me from church to good willed friends and atheists who perfectly can point out why there is no such thing as a god.