Sentences with phrase «questions about the church»

Late one night a few years later, while the snow was coming down I started asking questions about the Church and about Jesus.

Well he can expect to be compleatly immune from any questions about church child molestation, he will fade into the background free of responsibility and prosecution from such matters... well done catholics, i am sure jesus would be very proud

He doesn't want to be questioned about his church because once he is in the White House he does not want anyone to know that his church elder will be running the country.

Mark Driscoll's fall has led many to ask questions about the church.

And the only reason Romney is deflecting questions about his church is quite simple, like the rest of us he feels it's irrelevant to the fact he's running for president.

So when asking a question about church, the term church needs to be defined.

It's been a real struggle for me to change, especially when Elaine starts raising questions about the church.

The more that books like this get published, the more chance there is that people will read them and begin asking some important questions about church and how to follow Jesus into the world.

Both approaches to the church service end up failing because both have failed to ask the correct questions about the church.

This post itself was from 2007 when I first began to ask questions about the church.

But if you can get past that, the book will encourage you to ask questions about church that you may have never asked, and to see certain church practices from new perspectives.

The author closes with a chapter stating that while he does not judge or condemn those who see things differently that he does, he hopes such people will not condemn him either, but will allow him (and others) to face the difficult questions about church that need to be asked.

Sometimes it is wise to ask questions about the church.

All your questions about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) can be answered for you at http://www.mormon.org.

You are asking some great questions about the church and the gospel.

Answering the question about the Church's relationship to the civil order, at any moment in history, requires us to begin with ecclesiology and to remember that the Church's first obligation is to be the Church: the communio that witnesses to the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and the in - breaking of the kingdom of God, here and now.

This is a question about church doctrine.

As with Berg's film and HBO's television documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012), which explore similar cases in Northern California and Wisconsin, Spotlight raises questions about Church - run «treatment centres» and the role of wider celibacy issues on its attitude to self - preservation.

The question about churches and religion particularly challenges the political tolerance of students in religious schools, since it confronts them with an opinion they will almost certainly reject.

He even has dreams, he says, about outlandish scenarios where he asks a long question about church - state law on his environmental law exam or accidentally writes one of the questions in a foreign language.

Not exact matches

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

And questions being asked about how to attract men to church.

That said, I'm always hopeful that people know that my novels are about questions from me, not from New Life Church.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

The question of women's ordination is regarded as church - dividing, at least from the Orthodox angle... Consequently I think we on the Lutheran side have to think about whether progress in dialogue is to be expected at all.»

It's about the question of how the Church will participate in that conversation.

Over the next several months, I'm going to end my posts with introspective questions about us as individuals as well as our church communities.

But, to be specific about your question, only a bishop of the Church can excommunicate her, or say that she is not a Catholic.

If someone has a question or wants an explanation about the church then ask a member of the church.

So here's my question — now that everyone is talking about the economy and feeling the pinch of unemployment and financial ruin, can we have an honest conversation as the church around what an economy in Christ could actually be?

HEY NICK WAKE UP, I WAS IN THE MORMON CHURCH FOR 36 YEARS, and when i went to the BISHOP AND STAKE PRESIDENT, He Was his words» I do nt process to know much about the curse of Cain, nor do i need to know», OR TRY THIS ONE ON FOR SIZE, THis Nick comes from my former Bishop,» i wont allow now or in the future QUESTIONS TO LEAD ME ASTRAY» IAM NOT MAKING THIS STUFF UP, YOU DO NT QUESTION MORMON LEADERS, FOLLOW AND KEEP YOUR EYEE SHUT

People have the right to leave church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused), churches that are not practicing social justice.

I recall being «called to a meeting» and questioned about my «agenda» in attending a Vineyard (protestant) church.

Forty - nine percent said they think churches should have a say in public debates about political and social questions.

As a child, Bergquist began attending church when her agnostic grandfather found that he could not answer her questions about God.

This issue is about the power the church has had in this country for decades without being questioned or challenged.

Questions about the nature and mission of the Church as it relates to political responsibility are shunted aside as energies are consumed in the contest to capture the Church for partisan advantage.

hmmmmm... perhaps an agenda to help people think about, question, improve the church, or leave it... lol.

There is a scripture in the new testament that says «God is the same yesterday, today, and forever» Mormons do nt spread lies about other churchs they say is you want to know if the church is true the only person you should ask is God himself and he will answer that question for you...

is a nonsense question, and actually betrays numerous misunderstandings about church and about worship.

He also relates how he had to grapple with important lifestyle questions even at a young age: «At about 13, 14 years old, the question arose: Can I actually kick on Sunday morning, even though I was supposed to go to church?

A reader of my blog sent in a question about the fear and pain he feels after he left his church.

I was at a church retreat where one guy suddenly said in response to my asking a legitimate question about how they were interpreting scripture that Satan was in me and got the whole group to pray that Satan leave.

Our friend set up a phone meeting with the lead pastor and asked questions about the vision and mission of the church.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

This post deals with Bible and theology questions about attending church, tithing, and....

There are bigger questions here about discipleship, leadership, and the purpose of the church, of course, but I'll leave it there.

These matters include God, Jesus, the church, creation, salvation, and so forth, but they also include questions about how these beliefs are related to the human and natural sciences.

We are both seminary students looking toward pastoral ministry, and have a lot of questions about how to be leaders in the church without abusing it with our demons.

As a white, privileged male, I especially have questions about whether the church would be better off without me.