Perhaps, what you mean is that people
run church like businesses.
Leave the Church if you do not like it, this american nuns are radical feminists, that have their own agenda that is to become priests, and
run the Church like they own it.
Like todays mega church pastors
he ran his church like a cult.....
If you're
running your church like a family, then I suppose there's no need for vision.
Not exact matches
Go to your local Children's Hospital or any local nonprofit group that's well - respected and say you'd
like to sponsor a fundraiser - a 10K
run, a fashion show, a bingo party at the local
church or a «souper supper» to feed the homeless.
I'm curious to see what you have to say because you almost seem
like a cath defending computer bot that randomly logs in here just to say nice things about the gay peds
running your
church.
I hope the Vatican doesn't going back to their glory years or else I'm going to have to
run and hide out of reach from the catholic
church, probably to Argentina
like the Nazis....
It is an «open» practice I agree, but the people who call themselves Mormons and practice Polygamy are NOT part of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, they would be part of the FLDS
church.I would know if I had 2 moms
running around right now.Arrests have already been made in Polygamy groups
like that.
When it becomes so easy for us to literally tune in and tune out of our weekly
church service — like we would our favorite TV show — we run the risk of forgetting that we have a role to play in the life of the C
church service —
like we would our favorite TV show — we
run the risk of forgetting that we have a role to play in the life of the
ChurchChurch.
No, it is not fair and does not look anything
like Jesus when they must have their way, and if they don't they bully and try to
run their victims away from their
churches and
church friends.
Second,
church bullies almost always
like feeling important and knowledgeable, be it about how the
church should be
run, what God and the Bible say, and how other people should think, live and vote.
if
churches around the country decided to use just 10 % of the money they bring in to help start and
run other centers
like The Genesis Project, we could start 5000 of these centers....
Sunday after Sunday, I slid into the back row of
churches with names
like «New Life Community» and «Zenith» only for them all to
run together.
Churches today are
run like business».
I am also not confused about what the
church truly is... my comment was that the
church should not be
run like a business.
It seems
like they are now
running the Catholic
church like an efficient modern business, not from a profit perspective (although they seem to be doing quite well thank you), but from a marketing perspective.
I do not believe that a
church should be
run like a business, Andrew.
Andrew came on, unidentified, and dogmatically stated that a
church should be
run like a business and challenged David with a veiled threat «does the vineyard know what you're doing?»
First of all a
Church should be
run like a business because if it is
run wrong it will not flourish.
He
runs the risk, then,
like the Apostle Peter, of denying the Lord, even if he is present to us and speaks in His name; the holiness of the hierarchy of Mother
Church is obscured, making it less fertile.
I've had some
run - ins with Westboro, though I don't
like to use the words «Baptist» and «
Church» when referring to it.
Episcopalians come from the
Church of England; which, Protestants
like the Indians
ran away from.
And
like a spoiled child, I
ran about the
Church, knocking down every theological block tower I could find, delighting in the destruction.
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.
It's
like a
church running a program for black folks — telling them that even though they are black, they shouldn't act on that blackness.
usually
run by some inept volunteer leader... I
like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in
Church it's something of a free for all.
Only once have been in a mega
church but apart from living faith, find that we don't do large well...
run things
like a business and the few who are active lead the many who get lost in the whole thing.
«Newman makes my blood
run cold when in one of the Parochial and Plain Sermons he says that Heaven is
like a
church because, in both, «one single sovereign object — religion — is brought before us.»
When some Korean theologians spoke of «reaching the unreached», Bishop Victor Premasagar, then Moderator of the
Church of South India, retorted, «This language of reaching the unreached sounds
like God is fast asleep, and we are
running around
like busy bodies.
It was true both of the religious sects
like the local
church and the pale thin - armed bespectacled atheists of the Larouchies, Randians, and other groups I
ran into when I did editing work at certain noted institutions of higher learning.
I fear that
churches in America are being
run like corporations.
If I was more the gung - ho type, I'd want to be
like a busy little bee in
church running around doing lots of stuff.
Haha — another one maybe could be of a Christian without their head (just as you drew the
church without Christ as head)
running around
like a headless chicken, wild, out of control and a laughing stock.
The Catholic
church is
run by a group of old men that
run it
like they want to.Do they care about anyone else, NO.
There's not much to say about me: I've known God for about 30 years, prayed and studied the Bible over the years, changed
churches when I've moved away (left town for work / study), or if the
church moved away (it happened twice — kinda
like having your whole family
run away from home!)
Like a great many missions, some of the shelters
run by
church groups make a point of managing without any government support.
An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might
run something
like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the
churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the
church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).
She is lying and holding up a few
churches and saying many there are no proliferation of
churches flocking to approve gay marriage and in fact are
running the other way
like when the Pres made health care mandatory and
churches are being forced to provided birth control but are now fighting it in court.
In the Presbyterian
Church (USA), one of our more recent confessions states that even though we rebel against God, God remains faithful, «
like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child,
like a father who
runs to welcome the prodigal home.»
Sometimes I still go to
church and feel
like running, pell - mell, tumble - bumble, into the fresh air.
Where a candidate goes to
church on Sunday (or Saturday for that matter) should have NO bearing on their ability to
run things, but when they wear it on their sleeve
like a badge of honor it smacks of pandering and favoritism.
George Weigel says we must ponder the Cross in order to reform the
Church: We would have arranged things differently; we would have chosen another kind of Messiah — that theme
runs like a bright thread throughout Lent, in the readings from the Old and New Testaments that the
Church....
Hell hath no fury
like secular parents who learn that the local
church -
run nursery school plans to start teaching about Jesus.
I left because I think many
churches are
ran like businesses and it is all about the show and not about the «go».
Well, for one thing Romney isn't in any
church leadership role currently, so basically he is just
like anyone else who is of a certain faith who also happens to be
running for office, so how does someone in that situation
run for office when it comes to the idea of separation of
church and state?
But without such things in place, you still do a lot of work in
church, and
like a hamster on a
running wheel, rarely go any place.
A nation who tolerates things
like «mega
churches» and religious figures who continuously seem obsessed with parting people from their money and generally
running scams, is harrdly qualified to answer what Jesus would do.
The Roman Catholic
Church is
run like an elected monarchy, and popes are supposed to rule until death; no pope has stepped down since 1415.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike literally
runs through the middle of the grounds, and there's nothing in golf exactly
like the club's famous
Church Pews bunker between holes No. 3 and 4.
There is no modern day Sen. Frank
Church ready to convene historic hearings about the intelligence community,
like the ones
Church ran in the 1970s, proceedings that radically transformed the U.S. intelligence services.