Sentences with phrase «question traditional church»

We are unafraid to question traditional church teaching; we value contemporary thought and recent biblical understanding.

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Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

There are renewed questions regarding the current status of Patriarch Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, after he failed to deliver the traditional televised...

If even Luther's question was impossible for traditional Christianity to assimilate, much less his answer, obviously his new faith demanded a new church.

Can you think of any other diagnostic questions that help determine whether a church is missional or traditional?

To help determine whether your church (or a church you are thinking of joining) is missional or traditional, below are ten diagnostic questions.

My disappointment is that the church has been slow to change, reluctant to seek unity, afraid to identify with the poor and hesitant about opening its doors to spiritual explorers who may have questions about traditional beliefs.

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional posiChurch People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional posichurch life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional posichurch's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

And now they have the impression that people are discussing anything and everything, questioning everything, that everything is collapsing, that their own perhaps hard - earned and dearly - bought rigid adherence to the doctrine, and above all the traditional practice, of the Church even to the slightest concrete detail of the style of religious and secular life, is disavowed and almost despised by the Church and its leading representatives.

Several months ago, at my small group, I asked the question, «why did the pastor decide to forgo the house church model and create a traditional church?»

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

Changes in relation to production, political organization, ideological struggles continue to raise a number of questions for which the traditional theological and ethical repertoire of the confessional churches may have little or nothing ready - made to say.

I teach some challenging ideas in my discipleship group, and question some fairly traditional church teachings.

The words used in traditional forms have become meaningless and have no performative value, or, if they have, it is open to question whether the evidence for their effectiveness can be found in church attendance or some kind of social action.

Many traditional Protestant churches in the late 1960s and early 1970s criticized charismatic beliefs as divisive and questioned whether the spiritual gifts described in the New Testament were identical to those practiced by contemporary Christians.

A closer examination of the role of anti-Semitism inevitably raises questions about traditional Christian teachings about Judaism and the churches» role through the centuries in sanctioning and, all too often, instigating measures against the Jews.

On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned».

I followed the word «traditional» above with question marks because although this view is traditional for me (it is what I have been taught for most of my life), I am not sure that this is the traditional view throughout all church history.

All of these ancient understandings of sexuality affect how same - sex behavior discussed in Scripture, and all of them should call into question the notion that people — and the Church — have a held just one single «traditional» view of same - sex behavior.

There are renewed questions regarding the current status of Patriarch Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, after he failed to deliver the traditional televised Geez New Year blessing on 11 September.

It is safe to assume that the next decade will see questions being raised in the CRC about the essential character of many of these traditional demands for the life of the church.

Participants rated their satisfaction with offline means of meeting people by indicating their response to the question «Overall, how satisfied are you with the traditional means of meeting people (i.e., through friends, bars or clubs, church, etc.?)»