Sentences with phrase «than churches today»

In fact, many of them were worse off than churches today.

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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.

For example, MNAY Gospels were suppressed, including some with references to Christ being Gay and similar radical concepts that would cause todays Church to throw a Pogrom on anyone even SUGGESTING he was anything other than the blue eyed Puritanical Caucasian they are so fond of promoting.

If everyone who disagreed with the Pope left the Catholic church today, it would be deader than the so - called savior they say they follow.

Your Baptist minister has gone the way of many in the church today and become a Humanist rather than a Christian.»]

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

Your Baptist minister has gone the way of many in the church today and become a Humanist rather than a Christian.

No local Church today is prouder of its theological accomplishments than the German Church; indeed, one German theologian, introducing an anthology of critical commentaries on John Paul II's encyclical, Veritatis Splendor, claimed that Germany bore a special responsibility for Catholic theology.

Missiologist David I. Bosch suggests that the international mission movement today is in «a crisis more radical and extensive than anything the church has ever faced in [its] history.»

M. Goodswell: «If you want there to be something more than there is - so be it... but don't try to tell me for one second that any of the churches today are straight up... none of them are... they are all based on a false foundation... its all BS....

The church attendance drop does appear to be genuine, but small, when you compare rates at same age, but the prayer difference seems to be just an age issue: «Although Millennials report praying less often than their elders do today, the GSS shows that Millennials are in sync with Generation X and Baby Boomers when members of those generations were younger.»

Its sad that religion is the gospel of many churchs today rather than a real relationship with Christ based on his grace rather than works.Just as cains offering wasnt acceptable to the Lord its the same for churchs today the Lord is not pleased by our efforts he does nt need our efforts they do not build Gods kingdom nor do mans programmes..

It contains all my musings about how the church could function differently and more effectively than it does today.

And yet women who showcase leadership in the Church today are more likely be accused as a Jezebel than celebrated as a Deborah.

It seems that churches today are becoming little more than a glorified social club — a country club for the middle class, if you will.

Gossip may be a bigger sin in churches today than the sins we normally condemn.

In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun, than to fear that it is sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.

Moreover, it has almost changed its nature today because in human life it has widened so enormously, whereas the Church, being simply the teacher of the universal natural law and of apostolic tradition, can not do more than proclaim general principles.

It is my opinion that the way we do «church» today is more often than not a hindrance to the spread of the gospel and the making of disciples.

In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.

Now the family unit rather than the priesthood quorum is the most important organization in the church, and support for families is the central thrust of today's church program.

It certainly is a better message than the many hypocritical messages that have come out of churches today.

In today's blogging world, you have to be somewhat provocative to garner attention... As I mentioned above, I do believe in the value of doctrinal statements, but in a much different way than how they are used by most churches.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

Despite the fact that even today many in the Confessional Church will not see and admit it, there could have been no other outcome than that this truth of the freedom of the church, despite the claims of National Socialism, should come to signify not only a «religious» decision, not only a decision of church policy, but also and ipso facto a political decChurch will not see and admit it, there could have been no other outcome than that this truth of the freedom of the church, despite the claims of National Socialism, should come to signify not only a «religious» decision, not only a decision of church policy, but also and ipso facto a political decchurch, despite the claims of National Socialism, should come to signify not only a «religious» decision, not only a decision of church policy, but also and ipso facto a political decchurch policy, but also and ipso facto a political decision.

Charles, I think there are a lot more serious forms of flaunting rebellion that goes on in the church today than whatever sexual sin the LGBT people are involved in.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

In our contemporary context, I would suggest, church reform is less urgent than the reform of political, social, and economic systems of domination, today exacerbated greatly by the phenomenon of economic globalization.

I was meditating on Calvinism today because a friend at church Is convinced of this theology and he is willing to discuss it with me... but he knows the bible so much better than I do, I have thus been reluctant.

These guys were more like prisoners than pastors, and few of them would have been let inside our churches today.

In words that are even more true today than when they were written 88 years ago, the editor declared that «it is not primarily members of the visible Church that are to be sought, but true disciples of CHRIST and servants of the most high God.»

Materialism used to be a theory; in this integration with the West, it is a fact... Before and during 1989 there was a genuine spirit, a true reform light, and our church was filled by no other means than word of mouth... But today, even if we put out 1,000 posters, we would not get so many.

Young men and women today feel themselves challenged to identify themselves with the community and institution devoted to the service of God rather than with an ideal; the human need of which they are made aware is one that only the community can minister to; the words through which they hear the Word of God addressed to them are likely to be the words of the Church.

In 1925 the Protestant churches were much more liberal, relative to the society around them, than they are today.

Today, the 75 - year - old cardinal heads the island's Roman Catholic Church, thrust into the spotlight perhaps more than ever with Pope Benedict XVI's visit this week to Cuba.

While research by Barna Group has found that women are more involved than men in church «extracurriculars» such as Bible studies and small groups, plenty of today's churches lack robust women's ministries — perhaps due to lack of resources, or deliberate efforts to do away with stereotypical ladies teas and craft bazaars.

The fundamental question that Bonhoeffer poses before us is «If religion is no more than a «garment of Christianity» which must now be cast aside because it has lost its meaning in a «world come of age», if the real problem facing Christianity today is not so much that of religionlessness, but precisely that of religion, then what does all this mean for the church?»

Furthermore, Confession, like so much else in today's Catholic Church, is something that goes back much further than the Dark Ages, all the way back to the time of the apostles and early Church.

That sounds more like youth group than the normal church service we experience today.

Amos Wilder adds a piece to our understanding of what these performances might have been like: When we picture to ourselves the early Christian narrators we should make full allowance for animated and expressive narration... oral speech also was less inhibited than today... when we think of the early church meetings and testimonies and narrations we are probably well guided if we think of the way in which Vachael Lindsay read or of the appropriate readings of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones (56).

Hence today even in the Church much more is called in question than in the recent past, changes are made much more quickly, and instead of venerable customs we meet much that is new and even questionable.

Many christian churches today have had to turn their buildings into tourist spots to keep up with the mounting cost of being holy than thou!

Nothing is more important on earth today than lives, homes, churches, where Christianity is at its best.

Today more than 20 percent of SBC congregations — almost 11,000 churches — «identify as predominately non-Anglo,» notes the resolution.

Today a far larger proportion of our population in the United States are members of Christian churches than ever before in our history.

For example, when you say that «it appears that a different picture emerges about the Lord's Supper than what is typically practiced in the average church today» it comes across as baffling to me.

It was no easy business then, any more than it is today, and the parallels between the attempts by various regimes, both reactionary and liberal, to get control of the Catholic Church suggest that today's battles for religious freedom in full are not without their 19th - century precedents.

No more divisive issue faces the churches of this country today than the question of ordaining homosexuals.

The Southern Presbyterian Church had some 80 people involved nationally in educational services a decade ago; today no more than 6 are projected for the near future.

Social norms have changed so radically in the last twenty years, that it simply might be that people are more willing to claim a home - church as their primary place of worship today, than they used to.