Sentences with phrase «than churches do»

We have to ask ourselves, could it be that this Roman officer understood Jesus better than our churches do today?

Those groups do a better job of bridging racial lines than the church does.

Years later, when Gov. Perry actively supported the death penalty and cuts in government programs for the poor - positions that clashed with the more progressive stances of the United Methodist Church - some fellow Methodists speculated that Paint Creek's cultural conservatism shaped the governor more than his church did.

Not exact matches

Hours after a gunman killed more than 20 people in a Texas church, Sen. Chris Murphy issued a scathing statement blasting his colleagues in Congress for accepting money from gun lobbyists and what Murphy said was not doing enough to prevent the attack.

And again, anytime doing anything other than prayer, study, church attendance was supposed to be used to work, clean your house to the n - th degree in case Jesus showed up, run necessary errands and then hot foot it back to church.

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

For one to say that building a Mosque near ground zero is wrong is no different than someone saying they don't want a Christian church being built somewhere because someone close to them died in a Christian cult bombing or suicide like Jim Jones or Timothy McVeigh, or to say they don't want a Catholic church to be built because they or someone they care about was molested by a priest.

Either I wasn't old enough or I was in the military and don't stay in the church for more than 3 years.

Baruch... one church that hurts people is one too many.And when it comes to churches being burnt down rather than ministering to gays or pastors being persecuted because they do its a blight on the Christian church.

Active (that is, regularly churchgoing), married conservative Protestant fathers have more one - on - one interaction with their children than do mainline Protestants, conservative Protestants who seldom attend church, or the religiously unaffiliated.

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

Why do you think that empty school buildings are better than having churches that are helping poor people that are helping people get off drugs, get out of crime and tutoring students of all faiths?»

Well, if «take very seriously» means conforming his politics to Church teaching, rather than his understanding of Church teaching to his politics, then this is patently false, and we do not need to peer into the soul of John Podesta to reach this conclusion.

Just my opinion that the evolution debate on behalf of churches does more harm than good for the congregation.

I just think as Christians we should have a higher standard than what we are portraying in the media concerning this issue... I can not find the reason why gay people can not be our equals in our churches — if they can be my neighbors then they can also be my friends — and if friends — then they shoud have all the access to whatever it is I do.

The problem is fred the xbox playing person doesn't create their own church, try to dictate social policies, use it as a way to spread intolerance and hatred of those that are different than them, no.

The Mormons are no different from other denominations in at least one major way; that is, they interpret the Bible differently than others - BUT so do all churches.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

In fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etc..

Not that I fully agree with everything the church does nor condone the actions of those priests, but seriously do you have anything better to do than to spew hate on a comment board?

Men who meant well did more harm to the reputation of the church in the eyes of history than any good that might have come of their actions.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

Some of the same churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.

I simply noted that the finger pointing toward the CC gets a bit ridiculous when there is more of a problem than meets the eye in protestant churches if you do a little research on the net and elsewhere.

In just a few weeks I have learned more than I did in 30 + years going from church to church.

So when someone says «I believe in God,» they are really saying «I think God exists» and «I believe in religion,» but churches need to get people thinking and saying a phrase much strong than those in order to get them to do stuff like give the church money, so they snagged «believe in.»

I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.

«For those who did not attend church at all, they were twice as likely to die prematurely than those who attended church at some point over the last year.»

Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns in one's own life.

«The Church is doing more than they've done, perhaps in the previous few decades and I absolutely agree that there's a lot more we can be doing.

The discussions at the Security Council of the U.N., for example, produce more moral statements about Russia's lies, violence, and manipulations than any church has ever done.

If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?

I don't think that anyone (here, at least) would say that there's no room for women in * any * ministry in the church, but perhaps that there are certain ministries that women are more equipped for (both «more equipped for as women» and «more equipped for than men»).

Just because a particular church has more members than another doesn't mean that all members of that church are saved.

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

It may have to do with Oregon's Death with Dignity, which has been more successful and much more ethical than the church's activities, but in general, it's just part of their martyr complex.

I know the nuns do more for the church than a priest, bishop or pope can do.

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

Many people do not marry in a church, even more (billions) do not celebrate the birth of Jesus, probably even more do not cry out to any gods, or may to other gods other than (yours), and many people consider life elsewhere in the universe because science and reason points to that possibility.

The gospel can not be preached in any other language than its own: a language deeply shaped by the Sacred Scriptures, a language that has been revealed and received and is not to be recast when the culture suggests that the Church do so.

My daughter and her family spend more time at Christian music events than they spend actually doing any church - related activities.

Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the church leadership say more than a sentence to when he did go with her to church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.

I agree that being the church / people of God is a lot different than «getting things done».

Joseph Smith did grant land and home ownership to black members of the church who followed him to Nauvoo and made sure that they were given the same rights and privileges of other members (other than the priesthood).

The Mormons do offer more in the after life than any other so called christian church That is unless you are black, or a woman that does, not want to share her husband other wives

I really wanted to do something to improve worship in the Church and bring real connection and intimacy with God, rather than just singing nice songs.

To wrap things up, look at what a man can do and has done, not at what Church he attends on Sunday, at least he does something more than sit on his butt and watch football on Sunday.

I know some avid church attenders who are willing to judge themselves as honestly as they judge those «outside» the chosen church and who do not play the «My Pastor's Doctrinally Bigger Than Your Pastor» but they are few and far between.

The decline of the church in America has far more to do with society than it does with the church.