Sentences with phrase «teaching the church how»

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.

She has been called to teach the Church how to get to the mountain top of spiritual maturity as the Church waits for heaven.

Not exact matches

When Piers Morgan asks how much Kim is worth, she says, «Whatever it is, I give 10 % away to the church and that's what I was taught.

Several moments later, someone asked how many of the churches have senior or teaching pastors spend 1 - 2 minutes at the offering time in the service challenging the church to give.

How do atheists explain the obvious benefit, both economically, educationally, socially, and spiritually, that America receives when its people are walking with God, ministering through church and missions, and creating and basing laws and moral conduct on Biblical teachings?

It assembles every four years and determines ¯ after deliberating and voting ¯ what The United Methodist Church is to teach and practice, and how the church is to order its life, during the next quadreChurch is to teach and practice, and how the church is to order its life, during the next quadrechurch is to order its life, during the next quadrennium.

If only he had, in addition to taking a deep breath and counting to ten, considered how embarrassingly transparent his support for same - sex marriage and opposition to the Church's teaching would appear to any thoughtful reader.

And how does Christ's Church apply this teaching authoritatively today?

Funny how they don't teach that stuff in church huh?

How can the church build an entire system around accountability if it isn't expressly taught in Scripture?

Opponents of Catholic moral teaching, whether inside or outside the Church, seldom give actual arguments; more often, they demonize the «harsh,» «obsessive,» «judgmental» Catholic who emphasizes dogma and wants to tell others how to live their lives.

The work that Betel asks people to take part in, aside from teaching new skills and helping people to learn how to live in a routine, also partly funds the addicts» own recovery — the rest comes from church donations.

The hypocrisy is how these supposedly Catholic universities handle guests who do not support Church teaching.

Maybe it's a good idea for American Christians to take a sabbatical from traditional church for a few years and focus on how how each individual relates to the teachings and example of Jesus outdisde the influence of ecclesiastical thought control.

Paul is not providing a prescription for how all teaching in all churches must be conducted.

Probably not, unless the church teaches you how to meditate deeply and you have a direct personal experience of God.

Seems quite one sided - no presentation of what the Catholic Teaching is and how these nuns have vowed to follow Church teachings.

Jesus teaches us how to resolve conflict in a church community.

It wasn't easy, back at the last «church», we were taught some stuff, how to defend our man of God against critics, we were warned if we walk away of the spiritual covering (the man of God) we would die.

To the contrary, when it is recognized that in Paul's surviving letters to the Corinthians, he nowhere addresses elders, this section is best seen as a description of how a church could get it's teaching when there are no trained and qualified elders to perform the teaching.

None of these folks were taught in seminary how to handle church bullies.

However, how does corporate worship (which is encouraged in Hebrews 10:19 - 25 among other places) and meeting and teaching take place if not in «the church»?

Here are some specifics on how this «always worship together rule» has now infiltrated our lives: Fred occasionally teaches Sunday School at my Baptist Church; I fully participation in his faith community's services and rituals during Hindu festival weekends.

How then do we present the Church's teaching to the modern world in its orthodox meaning, yet without introducing any sense of arbitrariness or incoherence into God's works, which is what the thinkers named above were all rightly keen to avoid?

«The most important book published by the Holy See in this generation for Catholic education,» says Bishop O'Donoghue, «is theCatechism of the Catholic Church, and its summary, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church»; he says that «it is vital that both the Catechismand the Compendiumare used by teachers in our schools and colleges, who can guide pupils in how to make best use of them»; that «the key to unlocking this treasury of Church teaching....

For the faithful in Christ can not accept this view, which holds either that after Adam there existed men on this earth who did not receive their origin by natural generation from him, the first parent of all, or that Adam signifies some kind of multiple first parents; for it is by no means apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with what the sources of revealed truth and the acts of the magisterium of the Church teach about original sin, which proceeds from a sin truly committed by one Adam, and which is transmitted to all by generation, and exists in each one as his own» -LCB- Humani Generis 37).

How many mothers like Erik's, in the time of the early church, became models of the great high priest, whose solidarity with us in all things human inspired bold witness and teaching of the paschal mystery?

Three decades of studying the Bible, the church and church history has shown me how far we've strayed from what Jesus taught.

Sit down and read just the red letters... you can just read the red letters in Matthew... and then compare and see just how much the present day church adheres to the teachings of Jesus.

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.

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

Isn't it neat how these protectors of child molesters can demand special treatment because of their church's teachings?

If you have a website or a blog which shows how your church (or a church you know) is teaching and training believers to be fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ, please post these links in the comments section below.

U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching on abortion is a human rights abuse, revealing a chasm between the Church's understanding of its mission and how U.N. officials perceive it.

Though they held different views of Church government, they were quite close on their view of what was Christian truth and how it was to be preached and taught.

Most of the seminaries, if not all, teach young ministers how to conduct public worship, but the ministers less often teach their people how to worship when they get to church.

The marriage relationship isn't exempt from the words of Jesus — and the teachings of the Church — about how we are to interact with one another and love one another.

Of course, I might be able to find a local church where everyone looks like me, where each aspect of the worship service is exactly how I'd desire, and where sound teaching is proclaimed.

How do you reconcile using Augustine as an arbiter on Christianity when you plainly abhor the teachings of the Catholic Church, which he helped write?

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.

Sometimes I wonder how many women in the church have the gift of teaching, but will never use it, or even entertain the possibility of possessing it.

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?»

In particular, I have tried to understand how this great scientist who became a close friend of Albert Einstein was also a priest, faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church and deeply rooted in his spiritual and sacerdotal life.

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.

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.»

It raises a question that all thoughtful Christians must at some point address: How do we identify the true tradition of Christian teaching throughout history, and what part does the Church play in that tradition?

Arden said she was taught by a supervisor at the church's nursery how to opt out of a Texas law that requires most children to be immunized.

Wendy is the author of Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in Our Daily Lives, and she spent four years teaching theology to women at Mars Hill Church in Seattle.

That said, Cardinal Kasper has done the Church a service because the observation that there is an «abyss» between what the Church teaches and how so many of her children actually live is demonstrably true.

Most churches can and will show you how to serve church, but they are not very focused on teaching you how to serve Christ.