Sentences with phrase «social service»

Thus some attempts to promote justice often render Christianity nothing more than a social service organisation that uses the scriptures and the liturgy as tools for galvanising the masses.

Rather soon after coming to America the Army developed a system of social service.

The Y's engaged in many activities including social service and humanitarian work, evangelism of an interdenominational sort, the training of laymen for such work, and activities designed to appeal especially to young men and women.

Justice and peace, social service, awareness of and care for the environment, volunteer work; or liberal arts, discriminating inquiry, courses in professional ethics, gender studies: these are presented as the contemporary surrogates for faith.

They state quite bluntly, «To the degree that socially involved churches become engaged in social action as distinguished from social service they can expect church growth to diminish.»

Debt service requires governments to lower social service budgets to a minimum and condemn societies to underdevelopment.

An AA group meets there, and a new philosophy of social service for homeless alcoholics has been developed.

And while those social service endeavors are a Christian response to God's work, they also aren't bad for public relations.

Students have less time and energy for extracurricular activities, whether political, religious or voluntary social service.

In that case, if the government funds the program, is it funding religion, which it shouldn't, or an effective social service, which it should?»

Then let's make abortion illegal, get rid of social service agencies including CPS and just take the kids from the «welfare» moms and house them in work dormatories and as soon as they can walk and understand we can put them to work.

The three men raised nearly # 12,000 for the social service division of the Church of Scotland, known as CrossReach, from the stunt on Sunday.

Indeed, he continues to believe that «state - run social service is the preferred method of social care.»

When Catholic hospitals and social service agencies begin to shut down en masse, who's he gonna call,?

Social service organizations and their donors complain about «compassion fatigue.»

Thus we have the spectacle «of a set of sanctimonious, rationalist politicians, preaching an ideology of unselfishness and social service to a population in which they and their predecessors have done their best to destroy the only living root of moral behavior.»

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.

There is enormous generosity in supporting the Church's educational, health care and social service facilities.

There is still abundant evidence of tendencies among the health and social service professionals to close ranks against the clergy.

The government uses religious social service agencies precisely because they're good at it and typically more cost - effective in their work than the government could be.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same - sex marriage la, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness, and ehalth care.

Finally, what part of the «message of salvation» is distinct from Evangelicals» «social service efforts for the poor»?

I find it odd that he calls for an «integrated» approach to social service endeavors but then is perturbed when I defend Evangelical ministries that adopt a genuinely integrated approach by combining material help with Bible study, worship, and spiritual mentoring.

It is interesting to learn from West that Evangelicals, more than mainline Protestants and Catholics, emphasize staffing their social service agencies with those who espouse their faith.

Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

And the Church does do incredible things around the world and here in the US - you simply can not deny that - «Together, with the local, diocesan - associated Catholic Charities, it is the second largest social service provider in the United States, surpassed only by the federal government».

Wayne C. Lusvardi holds a B.A. in Sociology from Aurora University, an MS in Social Service and Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and completed extensive graduate work in Sociology at Pepperdine University.

The LCA, in an attractive little pamphlet, «Evangelical Outreach and Social Service,» puts it this way:

Even David Moberg, for example (someone I have aligned with the perspective of The Reformed Journal), believes that the church's social task is best described using terms such as «social ministries, social obligations, social responsibility, social concern, social service, social welfare, or social action.

But though we work to remedy or alleviate certain temporal societal ills, the editors believe that social service and / or political change can never provide society's ultimate answer given human sin.

For example, charity to victims is not a solution for social injustice, social service is not a corrective for social injustice and local action is not a remedy for global problems.

This has down - played the justice dimension of spirituality and stressed only social service and ritual worship.

Although conversion results are unknown — only Christians who convert to Islam are news items — foreign church funds do sustain the social service projects for the refugees, whether Muslim Afghans or the smaller numbers of» Iraqi and Iranian Christian refugees.

Now working for a government social service bureau, he makes no effort to dampen down his deep resentment that «my brothers in the Lord didn't even try to understand.»

Amy Sherman of the Hudson Institute, who has researched faith - based social service programs extensively, says that welfare reform has been a success insofar as it has changed how society thinks about helping the poor.

(This is also true in the social service field dealing with aging, though somewhat less so.)

Coming from all parts of the globe, participants included professional gerontologists, social service providers — both religious and secular — and specialists from both broadcast and print media: writers, editors, directors, producers, administrators and others.

She had often chatted with our outreach teams and other community members on the street, and received help with social service conflicts, support when she wanted to visit her parents out of town, and warm clothing in cold weather.

The Catholics controlled the overwhelming majority of state hospitals, schools, and virtually every other social service.

Social service for our fellow travelers is a key part.

Moreover, when Catholic bishops and priests opposed the contraception mandate, HHS modified its rule, exempting not only Catholic churches but also Catholic - affiliated hospitals, universities, and social service agencies.

Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.

I am Rev.D.Samuel, founder / Managing trustee of India Rural Gospel Mission Trust, which in involving in out - reach, Evangelism, church planting / growth, and children's home and community social service run by faith.

Counseling, chaplaincy and other forms of ministry to groups and organizations are also attractive, and more than a quarter of entering students are headed for teaching, social service or administration.

Any ministry out in the society should preserve the distinction we have come to know between social service, which is okay, and social action, which creates controversy and disaffection.

In a statement, El - Gamal said the money would «in part fund social service programs such as domestic violence programs, Arabic and other foreign language classes, programs and services for homeless veterans, two multi-cultural art exhibits and immigration services.»

In addition to the Skid Row corps, the Salvation Army has its Men's Social Service Centers which are spearheads in its approach to alcoholism.

He came to Cleveland and placed himself under the care of the Salvation Army Social Service Center.

Some of these challenges are significant: campus ministries experience hurdles to campus access, Christian adoption and social service agencies confront regulations in tension with their missional convictions, and Christian educational institutions face threats to their accreditation and tax - exempt status.

Today, though a Christian be as thoroughgoing as the Quakers in discarding ritual, he must none the less appreciate the often superior quality of inward spiritual life and outward social service on the part of those who in the sacrifice of the Mass see Christ verily present.