Sentences with phrase «subjecting her to church»

Matt Chandler's Acts 29 megachurch asked a former member for forgiveness after wrongly subjecting her to church discipline.

When two pastors objected to this structure, they were fired and subjected to a church trial where members were encouraged to shun one of them.

This is why any man who walks through the doors of Mars Hill wearing a pastel tie on Easter morning will be subject to church discipline.»

Not exact matches

Recently, I was talking to a few friends — really faithful folks who attend church regularly and who, above all other things, self - identify as Christians — about the subject of unemployment.

The Church is human and is subject to mistakes but I believe the Catholic Church will find renewed strength after this scourge passes.

Churches are often subject to arson and it usually has nothing to do with race or politics.

So the problem is not with some conspiracy to subject people to mental servitude, but in the church's bending its knee to our gratification culture.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.»

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

«Unfortunately, this new action can not be seen as anything other than an attempt to muzzle the church and subject our right of free speech to government review and regulation,» he added.

What if we continued to take the stance (as the church did for many years) that while slaves may be equal in Christ they should remain subject to their masters?

Happily, tax - exempt organizations under section 501 (c)(3) of the tax code» whether they be churches or humane societies» are free to be as public as they want to be about whatever concerns them, no matter how controversial or «political» the subject.

Munday said that while mental health is no longer a taboo subject in the Church, it still a subject the Church and Christians find difficult to «wrestle with».

I am pretty sure that I could come up with lots, having studied both the so - called Dark Ages and the rise of Christianity and having been brutalized by being forced to attend a Baptist Church I could do a thesis on the subject.

I mean, Catholic Church members have made mistakes, some horrible ones, but, Why under the Sun should we as Catholics, 1.2 billion of us, subject ourselves to «External Investigation»?

In a recent issue of TNR, he returns to his subject, once again lamenting the alleged inconsistency of the Catholic Church in countenancing the marriage of infertile couples while rejecting same - sex marriage.

It was the glaring immorality in the traditional church position concerning homosexuality that drove me to rethinking my views on that subject as well.

Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, by Mary Eberstadt (Ignatius Press): The Catholic Church is going to spend a lot of the next eighteen months wrestling with the crisis of marriage culture throughout the world, given the two Synods on the subject that Pope Francis has called for October 2014 and October 2015.

«When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, «This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,» the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.

Do we have to passively agree when the Church teaches about subjects that cross the line into economic or political territory?

Pope Paul VI invites us to ponder what it means to communicate in truth and freedom in his encyclical Ecclesiam Suam, on the subject of the Church.

Paul tells the Roman church not to resist authority and to «be subject» to the governing authorities.

Well, there should be no shock there except for the subject matter that included not a recommendation, but perhaps Carter's wish for a greater role for women in the Catholic church (really as a side note to the purpose for his communication with the Pope, and not argued to the Pope by Carter).

These were the conversations surrounding the emergence of the canon, says Wright, a process that has been subjected to scrutiny by both Catholic traditionalists, «asserting the supremacy of the church over the Bible,» and by postmodern skeptics, «asserting that the canon itself, and hence the books included in it, were all part of a power play for control within the church.»

Jonathan Jeffes, an experienced crisis pregnancy counsellor, asks us to break the silence in church and bring the subject out into the open.

Wow, was that a trigger to some nasty flashbacks... I went back to the survey I filled out in 2008 for Barb Orlowski's doctoral research on church and ministry leaders who'd been subjected to authoritarian control / abuse by other leaders.

A guest Belief Blog piece on the subject Tuesday morning, «My Take: Stop using churches as polling places,» fetched more than a thousand comments, prompting us to ask Twitter followers to share their church - based voting experiences and pictures.

Later, William Tyndale (c.1492 - 1536), because he translated the Bible from Greek into English («in order to combat corruption in the English church and extend Scriptural knowledge to the common people», Microsoft Reference Library 2005), was subject to being hunted down and was finally caught.

And while we arc on the subject of mothers, I think we in the church need to be reminded of what many detractors somehow talked us into forgetting: that any minister worth his or her salt has got to be a big mama.

The former undertook to supply books and printed matter for the churches in the colonies, while the latter sent out missionaries to work with the king's subjects and with the natives.

I've been told that to search for a church that «fits» is to subject the Church to consumerism, to put my own needs above those of ochurch that «fits» is to subject the Church to consumerism, to put my own needs above those of oChurch to consumerism, to put my own needs above those of others.

The catholic church is still subject to the laws of this country while it operates here, whether it likes it or not.

She convincingly argues, among other things, that «where repression is especially severe, where institutions (schools, trade unions, churches, professional associations) have been purged and subject to constant governmental vigilance,» little discussion of human rights occurs («Human Rights in Latin America: Learning from the Literature,» Christianity and Crisis [December 24, 1979], pp. 328 ff.).

«Marriage», just like «church», is a created being that is subject to the fall.

Many of us are in ministry and have been subject to all sorts of abuse by the church... fill in a denomination, it doesn't matter.

The heart of the matter is that, according to the teaching of the Church, there are norms that are valid without exception and not subject to individual discernment.

I do, however, believe that just like the church, the received text is subject to corruption by human sin.

Also, the Church teaches us that the subject of our earthly offerings can redirect them to where they are better needed (world peace, those who are not living a holy life here on Earth, etc.).

The Church is characterised by a concrete and enduring collectivity of subjects that surrounded Christ and with whom Christ established relations (that were paradigmatic and efficacious), so that humanity might continue to have access to Christ.

Critiques offered in such responses more often than not say more about the critic's adherence or not to the Church's teaching on the subject in question than they do about the incessant nature of discussing the topic or its complexity.

Writing on the subject of Arminianism, Piper asks, «But how should we regard these errors in relationship to the teaching office of the church and other institutions?»

Yet despite the churches» traditional teaching on the subject, the demand to reject all forms of discrimination seems likely to lead to growing acceptance of different lifestyles and patterns of relationship, although this is already a divisive matter between conservative and more liberal Christians.

I am not Baptist nor do i intend to become a member of this church but I am thankful for the pastor letting me attend bible study despite our very different beliefs on biblical subjects.

Her second point was that teenagers are already talking about this, so it is easy for Christians to engage with when we've got such an appealing alternative: «If the church wants to be connecting with young people, we need to be hearing what their concerns are and this has been subject young people have been really willing to open up about.»

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

If, therefore, we discuss future human structures and institutions of the Church which would make possible a more active participation of the laity in the decisions of ecclesiastical authorities, such efforts should not be discredited in advance by saying that they would remain in any case subject to the good pleasure of the hierarchy.

It is courteous and explanatory, rather as if the author is talking to a good friend whom she has known for years and is aware carries certain anti-Catholic prejudices and considerable ignorance but also goodwill and genuineinterest in the subject of the Church.

Fishon, I'll call you what you are: you are a troll and a bully, and the RIGHT churches with absolute standards are full of bullies like you who are not content to follow your exacting standards in your churches; you are trying to make total strangers in the world at large subject through them in the secular courts and laws, flipping your middle fingers at the principle of constitutional separation of church and state.

However, to the extent that we as the collective subject respond as Church, we respond as members of the Bride of Christ.