Why do
we say going to church, when we should say doing church.
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«I always tease and
say I went to church that night for the purpose of being saved and I took two of my cousins with me, and said, «We are all going to get saved.»
I didn't
say I go to church.
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Sayings Going to church does nt make you a Christian, anymore than standing in your garage makes you a car.
I can't
say I go to church much (currently have an issue about that... ask me sometime I might tell you) but my fait is still VERY strong and He guides every single...
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.
It has
gone so far as
to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84
says: «The
Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting
to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.
Try
going to church some day and understanding anything they are
saying.
«When I
go (
to church) tomorrow and sing a hymn, I'm singing about that very fact that I have hated God this past week in my actions,» she
said.
Mr Hovan told the Press & Journal
said he had been
going to church during shifts throughout his 19 - year service at Middletown Police Department in order
to mark six Catholic holy days.
Yet when someone dies you all
go to a funeral at
church and the minister
says he is saved.
In response
to Pope Francis» message on the evils of love of money, Wasilla Barbie (aka sarah palin) stated she was «taken aback by the pope's liberal statements», rush limbaugh has called the pope a «Marxist» and stuart varney publicly rejected the Pope outright,
saying he simply has
to «
go to church to save my soul».
Its not like the
church is gonna bust in on a class and
say «get out, we need
to worship!»
Cletus from Birmingham
says «I like it «cos it helps me meet purdy ladies when I
go to church on sunday»
People
say they don't have time, but they have time
to go to church and all those other
church meetings and conventions.
I'm speaking about my own faith only:
To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family say
To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian)
goes deeper than just believing.You have
to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family say
to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their
church or family
says.
That is not
to say we should not take the journey for ourselves; it simply means that there are maps drawn by those who have
gone before — from the saints in Scripture
to the Fathers of the
Church.
Lucas grew up
going to an Episcopal
church, but his mom
says he never liked it all that much.
I can
say having had
to go to a white Christian
church during my childhood, they would never had aloud that.
If a
church can not tell its flock «what
to do with my body,» as the
saying goes, with regard
to contraception, then other uses of that body will quickly prove
to be similarly off - limits
to ecclesiastical authority.
Jesus is not
saying to the poor, «Come find the
Church,» but He's
saying to us, «Get out —
go into the world,
go into the prison.
All too often people act like if you don't do something the
church says you're
going to you know where.
There is a story of a churchwarden (senior lay person) who
went to hear a modern theologian speak — in the questions he got up and
said that he was disappointed that his vicar wasn't there because that was the kind of thing he wanted
to hear in his
church.
if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they
go to confession and
say 10 worthless and meaningless prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is not, I do not believe in god or wasting time
going to church to try
to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am
going to hell because that's where all my friends are
going and I don, t want
to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.
However, on Premier's News Hour, Natalie Williams, co-author of the books, «A
Church For The Poor» and «The Myth Of The Undeserving Poor - A Christian Response to Poverty in Britain Today» said that some efforts of the church were going unrecognised st
Church For The Poor» and «The Myth Of The Undeserving Poor - A Christian Response
to Poverty in Britain Today»
said that some efforts of the
church were going unrecognised st
church were
going unrecognised stating:
I don't think God would think less of them... I don't have
to go to church every Sunday
to have a relationship with God... I can sit in my backyard and listen
to the birds and the wind and have peace and serenity and a conversation with him... The whole point is, we are not the ones that are supposed
to judge anyone... that's his place... not ours... when judgment day comes, he will be the one
to say welcome, or turn us away...
for the drudgery of it) giving up whipped cream for lent fulfills a Godly obligation
going to church and dopnating on first Saturday make the Lady of Fatima powerful confessing venial sins is necessary (like you broke wind during communion) That
saying the Lords Prayer five times is a virtue?
This not
to say that the Western world doesn't have its own history of social upheaval, but at least we have learned from our past mistakes and learned (for the most part) that killing anyone who
goes to a different
church is not the way
to solve our problems.
I realize it's taught in the catholic
church, but I prefer
to go by what the bible
says than
to man - made laws.
That's where I think Jesus is
saying to the
Church, «
Go into the world.»
Me personally would like
to believe so and I do.If there is not god life is pretty pathetic if your think deeply about it.Theres always
going to be someone who
says no this is how something is or this happened exactly like this I know for sure (ha ok)... On another note instead of acting like you really do know everything maybe broaden your horizon and try
church or read the bible and give God a chance.
As a kid who
went to church every day I can't tell you the number of times the daily readings
said something really strange and perverse; why even keep it around?
The survey suggests that while
church attendance patterns over the past three and half decades have been most influenced by changes in how often Southerners, Catholics and women
go to services, other factors may play a bigger role in the future, Schwadel
said, noting how
church attendance had stayed mostly steady despite the demographic changes.
Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train
to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not
to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the
church leadership
say more than a sentence
to when he did
go with her
to church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.
I saw a video of you where you
say you don't
go to church anymore.
There is alot of debate out there about Christians, but just forget that debate, and take it from me, a person who
says prayers,
goes to church, has trouble destroying ants on the doorstep... this is how I would describe my faith... its a country song, but give it a chance, its a good song.
Only one group has
gone so far as
to say that the mainstream LDS
Church, in banning plural marriages, is guilty of apostasy.
If I were Obama I would refuse
to attend
church again until after his term,
saying «Whenever I
go to church it upsets the American people so severely, I feel badly about it — I don't want
to do that.»
«The efforts of
churches will matter, but thousands of congregations trying harder isn't
going to reverse the trend,»
says David Kinnaman, president of Barna Group, a research organization that focuses on the intersection of Christianity and culture.
Now if you're
going to say that
churches are somehow immune from this satanic sway, then obviously satan doesn't sway over all the earth.
He
goes to church then they
say he is parading around trying
to increase his poll numbers.
I have absolutely no intention of ever
going back
to a traditioonal Catholic
Church but if there was a new Catholic
Church where Catholic Nuns
said the mass and offered communion, and where the focus was on Social Justice, Equality for Women and Compassion for the Poor I would be very eager
to begin attending mass again.
Almost
going broke, meeting Christians who are Democrats in her
church's small groups, encountering the plight of the homeless firsthand, and watching charitable relief projects in action broaden her awareness of significant problems in America and beyond, problems that Republican politicians, she
says, tend
to ignore.
How did God manage
to let His
church go hundreds of years without direction and then need
to be «restored» when He
said not even the gates of hell would prevail against His
church?
I would
say, be their friend whether they
go to your
church meetings or not.
Mr Cox
went on
to say: «I would like
to see
churches pray for increased opportunities
to celebrate truth and justice in the media and for lives
to be changed as a result, for Christians working in and with the media
to shine for God and
to become more influential.
As the article
said, it's about a block away from the White House — it only serves a few blocks; most people don't drive into town
to go to church on Sunday.
Allowing public remedial teachers
to go onto the premise of parochial schools, it
said, was an «excessive entanglement between
church and state.»
When asked why they
go to church, many people
say that there they meet the kind of people they really like (people like themselves) or that the
church helps their kids learn morals.