Sentences with phrase «run a church as»

The problem is, you can't run a church as a business, and also follow the teachings of Jesus.

He made a plea for what he called pioneer religion — in which God the trail boss and Jesus the scout lead the church, a covered wagon always on the move, as the minister dishes up for the pioneers fresh meat brought in by the Holy Spirit — over settler religion in which God the mayor and Jesus the sheriff run the church as a courthouse and the minister - banker protects the interests of the religious establishment.

Virtually all of the income was for the expense of running the church as you say... of and of course building more buildings.

Not exact matches

Church concedes that MacroFab charges more per unit than overseas manufacturers, but his model allows for production runs of as few as one unit.

It is the same philosophy behind the health / wealth gospel that runs rampant in the churches, only we apply it to business as well.

If you want churches to use school buildings, then you have to be «for» some weird satanic church just as much as you are «for» a run - of - the - mill church.

The church is not run as a democracy, and its members chose to follow the doctrine or not — or pick and chose as this young lady has chosen to do.

I had the option of converting to Catholicism when I married my husband and chose not to because of what I saw as a church run by a bunch of old, white men out of touch with the needs of women and people of diverse backgrounds.

HOWEVER, if this person was running for public office, instead of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this church for some inane belief that they would take wildly out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.

I'd say my own experience with a God - connection at church, as one who is «up front» leading worship, runs the gamut.

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

Tom, And the Catholics that ran the Holy wars were Catholic, And I am pretty sure that Hitler was as well, except the catholic church didn't want to be associated with him in the end.

I don't believe in state run marriage but as long as that will never happen let them marry who or as many as they want a church that don't believe same as me should never be forced to mary them though

Christians are still the dominant religion, the wall of separation is still in place and, as Doc pointed out below, for countries where gay marriage is already legal, «NONE of those countries has a church been mandated to perform ceremonies that run counter to their doctrine.»

Anyway, they ran a survey and found that most of those who stop attending church still view themselves as followers of Jesus.

For example, if their USA school was one run by the Westboro Baptist Church, it's likely that Christian children would not be representative of Christian children as a whole!

Spoke - tell that to the majority of Christians who are quick to hate Muslims and other religions... tell that to the Christians who still falsely believe that America was founded on Christianity — tell that to allthe Christians who are still in denial about Pedophile running around in the Catholic church — Christians are as silly as they come

There are some great organizations at work within the Catholic church that are run by women such as:

And I speak and have helped with organizing Christianity21 — a conference Tony runs — because I hope to help create a place where people from diverse Christian camps — such as Tony (who came from the Congregational Church and now blogs for a progressive platform) and me (who grew up in the Southern Baptist tradition who identifies as a moderate) can come and share ideas and interact respectfully.

I don't mean just being a safe haven to run to when their churches and homes are destroyed by violence, but whether we as a nation are pursuing the policies and diplomacy that give them the greatest chance of surviving and flourishing where they are — so they don't have to flee their homeland.

He continued: «Despite the claims of some, that religious freedom will be protected, all proposed legislation to date has been totally inadequate to safeguard people who work for church - run institutions such as schools, hospitals and universities.

Places of convenience, such as the grocery store, where you happen to run into someone, or the church lobby five minutes before service starts, are never places to have intimate conversations.

And, no, I also do not think the church should be run as a business.

Many outside the church view us as modern day Puritans — social control freaks who want to impose our morality on them and to oppress people by running roughshod over human rights.

Has he made his people feel that he is really interested in them as persons and not just as means of running a church machine?

In parallel with the demolition of the right to life runs the destruction of marriage and family as defined in the Catholic Church:

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

Mormons believe that the Latter Day Saint «church» is destined to run the USA as a theocracy... time to move to Canada if Romney becomes POTUS.

All of this ran counter to the historic Baptist doctrine of the universal church, invisible and indivisible, the one Body of Christ scattered throughout time as well as space.

In addition, if seminary education were informed more by theologia as he conceives it, ministers would be better equipped not only to run their churches but to relate them to the major issues being debated in the public realm.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, who traveled last week to Brazil with the pope for World Youth Day, said the massive turnout - estimates ran as high as 3 million - and ecstatic crowds likely gave Francis hope that he would «revive the church on his home continent of Latin America.»

i think steve martin may be best keeping away from any church i go to if your preaching rot someone needs to say it, and im sorry but waiting till a mid week bible study to voice that so as to not ruin the smooth running of your show do nt work for me, preaching needs to create room for doubt for questions etc. still room for a passionate shared vision.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

But this is not the same as someone CLAIMING to be a Christian, or someone who was raised in church, or someone who agrees with all your doctrines, or someone who runs to the alter, or someone who reads their bible, or even someone who you call «pastor».

Just as the Catholic Church ran afoul with power so to Iran, Stalin, Mao etc..

Hays was succeeded by Joseph Breen, a devout Roman Catholic layman who at times ran the office as an outpost of the Catholic Church.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

Just ask any Republican candidate about the separation of church and state... or try to run for a political office as an atheist.

(I Corinthians 11:26) And so the Church does still, reviving continually the living memory of the event — a memory that runs back to the time before there were any written records of it, when men spoke of it as they had seen it.

But in my experience, the Church has been extremely supportive and generous... not just with the home I run, but with other organizations I know as well.

Every year churches across the country are asked to sell poppies as part of The Royal British Legion's fundraising campaign in the run up to Remembrance Sunday.

Blame government if any for allowing churches to run as businesses under the 501 3c tax exempt status and government intertwining themselves with corporate cronyism.

Khoo, who represented the Council of Churches of Malaysia in the long - running «Allah case,» explains how it affected Malay Christians, as well as the overall religious freedom situation under current Prime Minister Najib Razak.

They all are branches and thereore trace back to the same origins, this is a PR line the church runs as its fallacious «argument fom authority».

Ran across many interesting quotes from our founding fathers who are so oft cited today as deists who believed in separation of church and state...

I'm guessing people want to make their church (or computer) work as intended rather than be told that the devil is really running it.

While taking refuge in a nearby church, Ethan Spieby told the BBC: «You just run in that situation... We turned and ran as quick as possible.

While on fire, the worst thing we can do as the church is cut and run for our lives, thinking somehow the fire will be blown out by our running away.

After reading the comments, this is the overall impression I get: Why would I leave Christianity and the Church * with all its exclusivist dogmatism simply to run into the arms of another community that is just as exclusive and dogmatic?