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?
Not exact matches
The same
goes for other transgressions of
church teaching.
And ummmm i am an american — have seen the
church go thru many changes on this side of the pond, and i'm completely convinced there is stupidity in
teaching on both sides of the POND.
As denominationalism has
taught us, if you don't love the bible and its
teaching, just
go out and start your own
church and write your own «bible!»
Now why don't you
go talk to the thousands of ex-Mormons who have been shunned by their family and friends for the rest of their lives just because they disagreed with certain
church teachings.
I wonder what would happen if our
churches were to recognize our role in showing people the future, not just in our
teaching and in our
going but in our being?
Maybe they can move the old Arch Bishop who covered it up out, make him a cardinal, then make his replacement a cardinal for gladhanding the victims and sweeping things under the rug... then plead poverty and
go about a few punitive
church closings to
teach the lay parishoners not to stand up to them no matter what their crimes... like they did here in Massachusetts.
99 % do but its not
going ot change the official
church teaching.
I realize it's
taught in the catholic
church, but I prefer to
go by what the bible says than to man - made laws.
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.»
Too many lies along with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are
taught in the
churches today (Christmas, Easter, Eternal torment in Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must
go.
I
went back to
church while visiting my home town and realized the
church wasn't
teaching love and acceptance but hate.
A candidate isn't
going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of
church and state, and maybe even opposition to
teaching Creationism is
going to lose their vote.
Not directly, thank goodness, but in
going to
churches that
teach that way, you learn all sorts of bad thinking that messes you up.
Not
going to «
Church» is a vulnerable position if it separates us from
teaching and lining ourselves with the Truth — this forum is part of my
Church at the moment so I value thoughts to challenge me on the journey.
Now, I am told by friends, that this book,» I am a
Church Member», is going to be taught in small groups at the c
Church Member», is
going to be
taught in small groups at the
churchchurch.
I currently
teach Sunday School at the
church I
go to because I was asked to after our
church went through a split.
I was feeling extremely discouraged last night, since the newest
church I
went to seemed to be the «one», only now every time the one pastor talks my spirit literally cringes at some of the things he
teaches.
But now I say unto you, report those who disagree with you to the
church or denominational authorities, label them heretics or say that they raise «red flags» and let everyone know not to listen to them, criticize their positions without ever
going to them personally to find out what they actually believe and are
teaching, align them with other «heretics» without ever researching their books, writings, and messages, and above all, side with your friends against them even if you personally have never been hurt or offended by them.
I am also so disappointed that this kind of
teaching is
going on in a
church claiming to be non-denominational.
-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their
church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones
going to heaven yet ignore the real
teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.
If the bully has done his job well, those being bullied will have been
taught that confronting the bully is akin to punching God in the nose: God's
going to get really mad if you punch him, and if you confront a
church bully.
I will never again stand by a theology simply because it is what I am
taught, or because the pastor of the
church I
go to believes it.
If it's my taste to
go to bigger
churches with a modern worship style and scholarly
teaching, I'm gonna stick with that.
In my past I
went to
churches where the primary
teaching was ask Jesus to forgive your sins and that is how to get saved.
By the way, if you
go to
church on Sundays you are following the
teachings of a Catholic pope, who changed the «sabbath» to Sundays.
For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the
Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the
teaching of Jesus, through His
Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday,
go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral
teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.
Methinks if you
go to
church then it's
teachings are flying so far over your head that they must resemble a Boeing at cruising alt.
Certainly, Jesus changed some of the Kingdom expectations through His life,
teaching, and ministry, especially in the areas of what sort of Messiah King He was
going to be, and how the Kingdom of God would exist and function upon the earth, but the overall hopes and dreams of Israel, especially as presented within the Prophets, remained intact through the
teachings and ministry of John, Jesus, and the Early
Church.
Dr. Streett argues that the concept of the Kingdom of God is not how it is
taught or understood in most
churches and Bible studies, namely, as equivalent to
going to heaven when we die... as a pie in the sky in the bye - and - bye.
Reaching people far God also means
going to places that
church folks have been
taught not to
go.
I know it is almost impossible for some of you to let
go of that because the
church has
taught it, defended it and enforced it for millennia.
More problematically, when we defend these false descriptions of man, we
go against the clear
teachings of the
Church and lead others to embrace one of the great confusions of our age.
The Bishops started last September with «little support for changing the
Church of England's
teaching on marriage...» (para 18) They ended with the same «let's not
go there» recommendation.
I remember back when our
church went through a major
church - split in 1997, I started allowing interaction during my
teaching sessions and as well as discussion.
In the first
church I pastored, I preached that the Bible
teaches us to speak the truth in love, but if you were
going to overemphasize one side or the other, it was better to emphasize truth.
In Timothy, «sound» and «healthy» define the kind of
teaching and speaking that is
going to be at the center of the work of reforming the Ephesian
church.
I read, wrote in my diary,
taught some classes, served on committees,
went to
church, tried to sing and to swim, and spent time with my grandchildren.
Elders at Ridgedale
Church of Christ told Linda Cooper and two relatives that their public support for Kat Cooper, Linda Cooper's gay daughter, went against the church's teachings, local media rep
Church of Christ told Linda Cooper and two relatives that their public support for Kat Cooper, Linda Cooper's gay daughter,
went against the
church's teachings, local media rep
church's
teachings, local media reported.
Synan
goes so far as to suggest occasionally that the primary purpose of classical Pentecostal
churches in the providence of God was to preserve and mediate the Pentecostal
teachings to the rest of Christendom.
so this is a group for gays folks to
go and get told that there desires
go against the
teachings of the
church and if they keep at it they will spend the rest of the time in hell... but if they just stop doing that terrible deed then all is well....
Like your RCC persecuting Galileo with death for daring to
go against
church teachings that the Earth is the center of the universe?
If you think that you can't follow the
teaching of God via the Catholic
Church run by the Vatican, there are plenty of other
churches that you can
go to.
Please remember, that the Catholic
Church has come out saying that Darwin's theories do not
go against the
teachings of the Bible.
God uses whoever will raise their hand and say «I'll
go»... check this website out... It is FULL of scripturally based
teachings rather than traditional
teachings of the Catholic and Protestant
churches.
I do not agree with the catholic
teachings so I don't
go to their
church.I
went to a
church for many years and when they
went a different way than what I believe I stopped
going to it.I didn't try to change them.Government and a
church will never agree on everything and its not the
church job to change government and the government should not change a
church beliefs.If you are a member of a
church and do not agree with them anymore you should leave that
church.
Which seems to suggest that he was not anti Jesus as such but more likely that what he saw
going on in the
churchs of the day seemed rather hypocritical to what Jesus
taught.
Most people in the world today believe that God expects them to perform a wide variety of religious practices, such as
going to
church, attending mass, tithing,
going to confession, giving up tobacco and alcohol, and a list of other rules that are variously
taught in
churches and on television.
You hear some people
teach that the
church is the hope of the world, but how can this be if the people in your neighborhood and town wouldn't even know if you were
gone?
The
Church isnt
going to change
teaching what it
teaches, it cant,.