Sentences with phrase «run this church think»

And these people that run this church think they are on their way to heaven.

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I don't think you are generally disgusted with all churches — in fact, through Lasting Supper you are again running your own sort of Church with doubters and not those clamoring for certainty.

I am a Catholic (by Catholic I mean, regularly attend church, send my children to Catholic school, and work in many ministries) I also use contraception, but I don't think that organizations the church runs should have to pay for anything they oppose — even it I don't oppose it.

The Anglican Church currently runs 4,500 primary schools and 200 secondary schools in England and it is thought 15 million people alive today attended one of its schools.

«I think there's a meme out that the church is a dysfunctional bureaucracy,» he said, then rejected it: «It does make the trains run out time.»

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.

She says the residents «think somebody owes them something,» and complains that they spend money on expensive hairstyles, makeup and leather coats but won't pay a token fee to send their children to a weeklong summer camp program her church runs for the benefit of inner - city youngsters.

Throughout Catholic thought over the past hundred and fifty years, there have run two entirely distinct conceptions of modernity and two quite different uses of Thomism — a combination of four threads weaving in and out of the Catholic Church's response to the strangeness of modern times.»

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

Letting marketing techniques and vocabulary dominate church thinking, without critically assessing how needs will be met, is a good prescription for driving «customers» away and running the enterprise into the ground.

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.

If you think that you can't follow the teaching of God via the Catholic Church run by the Vatican, there are plenty of other churches that you can go to.

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

The GOP runs a Bishop of this church for President and they still want us to believe they don't think women are second class citizens?

«In the long run, I think the church will be stronger and will be a strong gospel witness in Lexington.»

When we hear it read out loud we don't think of a dark comely maiden running off with her lover for an afternoon tryst; we think of Christ coming to celebrate the Church in a situation in which its warts have become the occasion for descriptions of its glorious beauty.

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.

I'm thinking of you when I sit in church and I'm looking for you when I'm preaching from the stage now, and I'm thinking of you watching the rest of us run around striving, and I'm not sure how to fix it.

I think at this point I'm more wondering why ignorant, prideful people run denominations / churches.

Having grown up in the disproportionately Christian state of Kerala in southern India and studied at a church - run school, Narayanan condemned the Hindu nationalists thought to be responsible for violence against Muslims and resisted efforts to shift the secular education system.

It is truly frightening to think that our country could be run by the morman church.

This is an institution of a human sort; it may come and go; and we are not to be conservative in the false sense of thinking that the various ways of the Church's organizing its business and running its parishes, are eternally established.

I think we can have a Mosque or Islamic center at ground zero when we can build a Christian church in Mecca or when Mullahs issue a fatwa against the Taliban for murdering a pregnant women for «adultery» or killing doctors trying to help the Afgan people or for cutting the ears and nose off a young 13 year old girl for trying to run away from an abusive «husband».

Prior to post-natal depression happening I somehow thought that if I had a problem I could run into church and pray about it and that God would not let me reach a point of complete brokenness.

Calling the church to serious thinking runs deeply counter to the trends of the past half century or so.

It is only when we die to ourselves and die to the ways we think the world should run and the church should function and just seek to live life with our friends and neighbors that the Kingdom of God really begins to break forth.

But because I believe that the entire Church, including the hierarchy, benefits from honest challenge and critique, I have not avoided what might be deemed «controversial» when I thought it important: during political campaigns, when grave moral issues were at stake; during the Long Lent of 2002; in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run - up to the Iraq War; in response to challenges to religious freedom in America that couldn't have been imagined in 1978, when «work for religious freedom» meant «work for prisoners of conscience behind the iron curtain.»

I think it's rude to jump out of bed, toss on a sloppy tshirt and shorts, slip on some sandals and run to church when if you were going to a nice restaurant for dinner or on a cruise ship to the Captain's table you'd put on your best clothing.

If someone is in the middle of mowing their lawn and they hear the voice of God telling them to go to church and they drop what they are doing to run to church one would think the pastor would be happy to have them there?

When you embark upon this process, you'll notice that once you are able to discard everything you think you know about church, and begin the adventure of reimagining church (step 1), your life begins to spiral upward in some new and interesting ways (step 2), which then causes you to both seek more from Scripture (step 1) but also desire to run from risk and return to what is safe and known (step 3).

He torn the church up and basically ran off all the leadership who were forward (growing up) thinking.

Catholic, to Mormon, to Baptist - I'm not a theologian man but it seems that he could be an expert in differences between theologians after than run - It seems they let their geography pick their church - oh I think I see they selected their church noy based on theology but based on their economic growth,

I left because I think many churches are ran like businesses and it is all about the show and not about the «go».

The old ways of the rich and privileged old men who run the RC church are numbered and don't think they're going to go down without a fight.They are much akin to a komodo dragon.

nonetheless, in my current thinking, the reality is that churches are run based on the uglier motives disguised as products, propositions, and purposes, and with the makeup of the scriptures applied on top of it all.

What do you think of this idea — Income the church receives that is used to help the poor, run homeless shelters, alcohol treatment programs and so on (rather than pay for church buildings and that sort of thing) would not be taxed?

You've always gone out for brunch so you think that will help, but you run into a couple of groups who are at brunch after church and you almost break down in tears.

I made this after all my running around after church... oh was this the bomb diggity good and I think the garlic made the dish fabulous!

It appears that religious liberty, for the conservative fools running the legislature, only matters when it's the «liberty» to be as oppressive and cruel as you can think of, but doesn't matter one bit when all you want is the religious right to marry the people your church loves and supports, regardless of gender.

I wore these to church again yesterday, and as I was chasing the 2 - year old around to make sure she didn't run out the door, I thought to myself how great my feet felt.

Moving, starting a church, running a business, jetting back and forth across the country four times, being a mom, having a life threatening surgery and a whole bunch of other stuff in between all of that — wow, I think I'm ready for a little nap under my covers for the winter.