Sentences with phrase «taught in conservative churches»

Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in Conservative churches (and I am still casting off theologies that were biased).

Not exact matches

Like was drilled into my brain when I was in the conservative church, Lauren and Yen have been taught, among many other things, that masturbation and being gay (one which is a sexual act and one which is an identity) is wrong.

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

As for the Church's social justice views — Allen mentions conservative criticism of Caritas in Veritate (while overlooking the many conservatives who applauded it)-- I wrote two separate columns for the Times of London online a) praising the essentials of that specific encyclical, and Benedict's economic and social justice teachings in general; and b) saluting Archbishop Oscar Romero, who I believe will one day be declared a saint, precisely as a champion of Catholic social justice.

The sometimes almost desperate conservatives must be taught to understand, not only theoretically but instinctively and in their spiritual life, that the Church does not exist outside time and history; that she is indeed founded on the grace of Christ, but is nevertheless a very human institution burdened by history.

In a statement, it outlined its issue with Bishop Alan: «The continued failure to admonish the Bishop of Buckingham, despite his refusal to uphold the teaching of the Church and guidance of the House on matters of sexuality, whilst also allowing him, without criticism, repeatedly to describe Conservative Evangelicals as homophobic, including those who themselves experience same - sex attraction but seek to live celibate, God - honouring lives.»

In addition, I've found that chronological teaching in my church has swept a host of inadequate theological notions and categories before it, casting down strongholds and laying low every conservative doctrinal scheme that exalts itself against the knowledge of GoIn addition, I've found that chronological teaching in my church has swept a host of inadequate theological notions and categories before it, casting down strongholds and laying low every conservative doctrinal scheme that exalts itself against the knowledge of Goin my church has swept a host of inadequate theological notions and categories before it, casting down strongholds and laying low every conservative doctrinal scheme that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.

Conservative evangelicals who interpret revelation in terms of the love embodied in and taught by Jesus Christ will not be too different from Christians in old - line churches who also understand God in terms of this same love.

Then, in the cultural and intellectual revolution of the post-conciliar years, he was seen as a conservative because he criticised the liberal theology and catechetics that now became dominant, and he warned that influential voices in the Church were failing to teach the full, orthodox doctrine and morality of Catholicism.

Beginning in 1976, Weyrich, Phillips and Morton Blackwell, who organizes young men and teaches them how to be political activists — Ralph Reed is one of his graduates — launched a concentrated effort to involve conservative churches in their cause.

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

it's an example of some of the more conservative churches that actually do lean politically in one direction and teach against the other direction (ie: liberal).

Ir it's an example of some of the more conservative churches that actually do lean politically in one direction and teach against the other direction (ie: liberal).

I am a Christian that has always been taught abstinence in my conservative church.