Sentences with phrase «simple churches when»

This attitude is reflected in the common objection to home / simple churches when they say these groups lead to heresy, when in fact heresy is more likely when there's one dominant leader who thinks he knows best.

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Of great interest to me, as with all documents written during the first three centuries of the church, is to read what things were like before the conversion of Constantine when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and transformed from a simple way of following Jesus into the powerful Christendom that still rules today.

why don't we just follow the simple example set in every muslim nation and allow them to build their mosques and «community centers» when they allow churches and synagogues to be built inn their countries.

This simple fact of human life as well as of the Church is often overlooked by the progressive, when he screams that developments are too slow, that antiquated habits and customs are not abandoned fast enough, especially with regard to canon law.

We have organic church, simple church, and missional communities, but even here, in most of the books and blogs I read about this, the emphasis always seems to be that the church is only functioning when the people gather in a certain place at a certain time, usually in a house on Sunday morning.

This is why only when state and government are separated from religion and its church, that freedom and good will can reign... as simple as that.

When a man isn't allowed to make a choice as simple as choosing what underwear to put on (because the Mormon church controls EVERY choice in their member's lives — including their underwear), he shouldn't be making choices for our country or creating laws on our behalf.

It is a simple fact, reiterated by the Church time and time again, that when we lose sight of God, we lose sight of Man.

Furthermore, the simple fact of having to speak the vows in the wedding service means there is one, concrete, tangible moment when those married in the Catholic Church must assent, externally at least, to the ideals of Catholic marriage.

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

When I was a kid sitting in the pews at church, I was taught that this is a simple story about why we should pray more.

I do believe we disable the Church when we reduce it to a building or a simple organization.

A minority of theological students, when confronted with the complexities of any local church in any site, will want to retreat to something simpler like nuclear physics, where there is some semblance of predictability on the part of neutrons, protons, electrons, and mesons, in contrast to the complexities of both people and church organizations.

If you grew up in church, there's a good chance you were taught a pretty simple message about the afterlife: When you die, you either go to heaven, or you go to hell — both of which will last forever and never change.

When my husband and I first met 3 + years ago, he talked about «organic» church, «simple» church, «emergent» church, etc..

I do not like this pope... to modern the church lost a lots of people after Vatican ii... he's the leader of the church but I don't think he understands how the church worked in the last 2000 years... that's why we need a European pope again they understand how dress when they read mess he's to plain... people want to see a pope in the old liturgical clothing the old Latin mass was great with the great pomp... the church can modernize but just don't give up the old I think traditions I think pope benedict understood that... he came from Bavaria where they still celebrating mass in the old baroque style he's the pope not just a simple priest... the queen of England understands that people want to see pomp pretty soon he will wear street cloth..

At the theological level, Hauerwas cites the remark by Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Vatican's chief ecumenical officer, that «the ecumenical aim is not a simple return of the other into the fold of the Roman Catholic Church nor the conversion of individuals, even if this must obviously be mutually acknowledged when based on conscience.

when I see those preachers in the US who make a living like that guy in Atlanta mega church I start to really like again the idea of if you want to serve good do nt take money for that be a monk or priest and live a simple life.

I'd really rather you didn't build multi million - dollar synagogues / churches / temples / mosques / shrines to my noodly goodness when the money could be better spent (take your pick): Ending poverty Curing diseases Living in peace, loving with passion, and lowering the cost of cable I might be a complex - carbohydrate omniscient being, but I enjoy the simple things in life.

Granola is one of my favorite foods to eat, whether it is for breakfast, a hiking snack, a crunchy side with my lunch, a simple snack in the middle of the day or at church when I need a little snack for church.:)

Full time employed, when not at work Im with my daughters and or in church or trying to stay in shape... Enjoy the great outdoors... and the simple things in lifie.

Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Lee Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews)-- with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job.

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