Sentences with phrase «return to another church because»

But I don't think there will be a mass return to church because of it.

Ultimately, I think we keep returning to church because we are part of the body and there is an innate spiritual need for fellowship and worship that keeps bringing us back.

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Right... because the good christian right would much rather have a man whose church supported polygamy, believe that Jesus popped over to the US after the resurrection, and will return again in Missouri.

In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

I think that Pope Francis is revitalizing the Catholic Church, giving lapsed Catholics, who left the Church because they were disenchanted by its hierarchical structure and penchant for lavishness, a reason to return.

My dad's response was that if I didn't want to go to church because I didn't believe any more, then he guessed they would be returning the bike they had already bought as my Christmas present and that there wouldn't be any point in me participating in the family Christmas celebrations.

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

With all the talk about Catholics leaving the Church because of the crisis, I'd like to go on record as one ex-Catholic for whom the crisis has been the occasion to return to the Church.

English Puritanism developed an anti-absolutist ideology because it found a relatively strong popular base among the laity but was opposed by the state church, which was closely linked to the king who gave it patronage in return for ideological support.

Megachurch pastor Dino Rizzo returned to ministry — but at a different church — barely a year after resigning because of an extramarital affair.

Tom Peterson, president of Catholics Come Home, says some worshipers who've returned to the Catholic Church report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be weChurch report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be wechurch officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be welcome.

Does an agnostic house painter in New Orleans who was considering returning to the church decide now to stay away because of the accusations against Eddie Long?

This is because such prayer would call down graces of conversion that would lead to lapsed Catholics returning to the practice of their faith, and to a general revitalization of the Church.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

Didn't church people applaud Washington Gladden for returning to John D. Rockefeller a gift to missions because «the gift without the giver is bare»?

In return the Vatican chastises them because they want to see the church more instep with society.

I have seen too much: — an arrogant pastor that told me to leave the grounds and slammed the church door behind him; another that told me «all bisexuals are promiscuous» and thought this was not bigotry nor prejudice; — a young well - meaning pastor that was my bodyguard once, and never returned to feed the poor in their tent - villages; — a wonderful older brother that helped feed the poor but was scolded by his church too many times for being corrupted by his friendship with me; — an elder with weight identity issues that had medical intervention who talked down to me since I had gender identity issues and medical intervention (I laughed during the meeting because the hypocrisy was amazing...); — an elder that was like Jesus without condemnation towards me, and amazing... but we had to meet in my home far away from his rejecting church.

i walk up to you tell you that you have problems with you mouth because you haven't prayed and been a dedicated christian, instruct you to return to church and your mouth will be healed.

Why Milennials are leaving the church: Because a 21st century education inscience leaves no logical room for: men made from mud, 6000 - yr - old planet, talking donkeys, talking snakes, talking shrubbery, insects that wear hats, water turning to blood, corpses returning from the grave, flying men (winged and not - winged), or prophecy.

They are not involved in the workings of the church and on sundays after service they are sent to the womens learning area while the men do all the church business.Also if Miutt is hoiding his tax returns it's because Mormans are held accountable fore their earnings and are supposed to give 10 % to the church, along with other requirements, or they can not enter the temple.

Baby Milk Action suggested to the URC's Secretary for Church and Society that it would be more appropriate to return the matter to the URC Assembly as Nestlé had been accepted into the index because the FTSE4Good criteria had changed, not Nestlé.

Dexter, who returned to Syracuse from Florida several years ago and leads a church at 516 South Ave., has accused Mayor Stephanie Miner and Police Chief Frank Fowler several times of harassing him because he is an outspoken advocate for civil rights.

It was a Sunday, a fact I'll never forget because we had to wait for the man to return from church.