Sentences with phrase «teaching church»

Seeker sensitive churches try to correct the weakness of teaching churches by making their church programs and services more welcoming to unbelievers.

My church is known in town as a top - notch Bible teaching church and the pastors / speakers are generally very good and stick to solid teaching of scripture.

I was in a conversation with someone the other day who said he wondered if perhaps LGBT Christians have a special role to play in teaching the Church how to engage thoughtfully around issues about sexuality.

Paul was teaching the church at Thessalonica.

After this conference, I'm convinced LGBT Christians have a special role to play in teaching the Church what it means to be Christian.

Nevertheless, Western Christendom's great spiritual and intellectual founder did teach both church and civilization that the past exists only in the present moment of our remembering it and the future only in the present moment of our anticipating it, and he was utterly and disastrously wrong.

A friend who taught Church history suggested I read George Herbert's book The Country Parson and the Temple (Paulist Press).

Teaching churches focus on training Christians, but do a relatively poor job of reaching the lost.

The church view that individuals who are gay are somehow intrinsically sinful by the very natures they were born with (given by God if you will) is one of the most disgusting and dehumanizing teachings the church has in an already long list of unGodly abuses.

people with time left over from teaching church music, church history, or homiletics.

In Christian teaching the Church is often spoken of as «militant, expectant, and triumphant» — as the Church in this world of time and space, as the Church as it awaits final fulfillment, and as the Church «in heaven.»

The author teaches church history at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia.

What there is is finding other ways of exercising that call: interim pastor, parish associate, stated supply, teaching church school, worshiping always, serving on presbytery committees, being volunteers in mission, and by being a participant as an «honorary layperson» in the ongoing life of a congregation — all these and more are ways by which we respond to the enduring calling by God through the church.

Robert Drinan, S.J., in providing a moral rationalisation for Catholic politicians» support of what Pope John Paul II taught the Church and the world to recognise as «the culture of death».

In fact, I heard from one pastor who goes around the country teaching churches how to be more evangelistic, that on average, a non Christian needs to know at least four Christians in a certain church before they will agree to come to church.

There were some theological disagreements between them and the leadership, so while mum and dad were happy to be a part of the congregation, they didn't feel able to actively teach the church's position.

Is what I'm teaching my church going to raise up a generation of compassionate, people - loving Jesus - followers, or will it breed hurt, misunderstanding and manipulation?

Of course, I do not teach church history here as I would a university course, but with a view to helping a student make some sense out of the whole Christian heritage and to apply insights to actual pastoral issues.

In the guise of governmental noninterference in religious matters, the voucher program allows private schools to use public dollars to proselytize and teach church doctrine that is at odds with public policy — for instance, that women must be submissive to men, that homosexuality is evil, that birth control is a sin, and that creationism is scientifically sound.

The Bible teaches us our churches are the last place Jesus would be... he would be with the homeless and ill of our society... not at these modern so called houses of worship... hypocrites are every where!

Personally, I find it somewhat disingenuous to focus efforts on teaching churches how to reach out to the LGBT community outside the church without first addressing the intentional disconnect that much of the church has with the LGBT community within its own four walls.

It is a close study of the thought and language of John Paul II, who taught the Church and the world to understand the contest of the culture of life versus the culture of death.

Run to a bible teaching church... quickly!

My caution was perhaps the product of the hard lessons I have learned during the three years that I, a confirmed Protestant, have taught church history at a Roman Catholic seminary located within the confines of a Benedictine priory — a seminary for the education of men with belated vocations.

Also, instead of teaching contraception, this woman's teachers should have been teaching church - approved methods like abstinence until marriage and natural family planning.

I'm not much different from you; so thanks again for the inspiration to find a pastor of a bible - teaching church....

The balance has much to teach the churches of the First World.

Football has so much to teach the Church, and it's loved by a group of people who would probably like us too if they got to know us.

It's not enough be an attractional church, a caring church, or even a teaching church.

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Besides, even if the passage says only the pastor should give, why do you teach the church to shout at their pastor in the course of worship?

But if Catholics have never been taught the Church's teaching, isn't it more likely that they have been formed more by the culture that surrounds them than by their Church?

Churches must become obedient, «Bible - centered, Bible - believing, Bible - teaching churches.»

Origen of Alexandria, the first major interpreter of the Bible in the Church's history, said that «the apostle Paul, «teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth,» taught the Church... how it ought to interpret the books of the Law.»

There is no question here of discussing the point that within certain limits even the teaching Church in its doctrine does not always and absolutely have to be preserved from the outset from every error.

When I taught church marketing, I stressed the need for careful, informed engineering of the product chosen for the intended market; it has to perform as promised.

Every bible believing and teaching church should have their doors open for ANYONE but ANYONE entering should be ready to deal with their sin as God is Holy and can not be in the prescence of sin.

Please attend a Bible Teaching Church to get a full and good understanding of what the Bible says.

Miller (whose father, Jim Nichols, taught church history at several Protestant seminaries) does not employ such theological categories.