Sentences with phrase «than our church attendance»

Community belonging and being a member of the Body of Christ is so much more than church attendance and membership, and too often, we've forgotten that, or we act like it isn't true.

Unfortunately, «Christian» has become a term that carries a lot of pretentiousness, so it seems to me that we might need to do a bit triage by shelving the label «Christian» if it helps us figure out what it means to be human, which may help reinvigorate the term as people see Christ in our human engagements rather than our church attendance.

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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.

«The Hispanic community, however, is not immune from the nation's growing secularism, which concerns all religions, as church attendance seems less important to people,» Walsh continued, «and people move from religion to religion and declare themselves spiritual rather than religiously affiliated.»

If, however, they are going out of a sense of guilt, shame, and duty, then probably church attendance is hindering their walk with God rather than helping.

Now I have reported before that Dallas, Texas is the mega church capital of the world, which means that there are more mega churches per capita than anywhere else in the world, but interestingly, Dallas only came in fourth place for mega church attendance by percentage of people who attend church.

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.»

Roberts is the pastor of Northwood Church in Keller, Texas, a congregation with a weekly attendance of more than 2,000.

Aged just 29 he started Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which in just a couple of years had an attendance of more than 10,000.

Church attendance is reported as increasing at a faster rate than the population.

From my vantage point they are significantly more reliable than an individuals sporadic church attendance.

But if your Gospel presentation is putting your moralistic crowd to sleep, or if a pharisaic friend is more concerned about proper speech than an addiction to grace, then you may need to tell him that his Christ-less church attendance is nothing more than a bloody tampon until he clings to the Cross, as Isaiah did (Isaiah 64:6).

That is why nowadays we defend Sunday closing laws (if at all) by the secular purpose of encouraging a general day of rest and recreation rather than the original purpose of honoring the Lord's Day or maximizing church attendance.

Indeed, in historical perspective the figures for membership and attendance could easily be used to argue that the so - called conservative churches have been growing less spectacularly over the past 20 years than in the period from 1920 to 1965.

Saddleback is one of the USA's 1,600 megachurches — defined as a church with more than 2,000 people in weekly attendance.

On average, the Gallup Youth Survey documents teen church attendance that is 10 percentage points higher than the national figures for all adults.

Even our most successful churches such as Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), with more than 3,000 in weekly attendance, can only accommodate such numbers by holding multiple services across multiple venues in the centre of London.

I am yearning for more than a mortgage I'll never pay off and faithful church attendance and tinies that grow up to behave well in public and pay their taxes.

What this article means» I get paid by the church for my crappy articles on my less than reputable websites and columns to push traditional church attendance, You need to go to church and shell out $ $ $, otherwise you are a millenial hippy who is going to hell»

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

Like Martin Luther's I Have a Dream Speech only I dream of a day when Christians will be judged by their actions rather than by their church attendance or denominational affiliation.

The Catholic Church opened its first seminary in Cuba in more than 50 years on Wednesday, with President Raul Castro in attendance.

In 2013, South Carolina evangelical megachurch NewSpring Church baptized more than 6,500 people while worship attendance grew by nearly 10,000 more than the year before.

He merits sympathy rather than blame; and if he keeps his connection with the church enough to support it by his attendance and contributions, in spite of what must seem to him the irrelevance of many of its activities, he deserves much credit.

The famous Dutch cardinal, prime ecumenist of his church, was most sanguine about present unitive trends — but no more so than Protestants in attendance.

Those who remained loyal to the Church — and they were legion — were, in general, more faithful in their attendance upon its worship and more earnest in attempts to observe the requirements of their faith than had been the rank and file of church members at any time since the first three centChurch — and they were legion — were, in general, more faithful in their attendance upon its worship and more earnest in attempts to observe the requirements of their faith than had been the rank and file of church members at any time since the first three centchurch members at any time since the first three centuries.

Wherever there is mere conventional attendance at or deference to the church; wherever there is self - seeking and clamor for prestige and power among either laity or clergy; wherever our service is becoming ingrown rather than outwardlooking; wherever, in short, there is conformity to the world instead of the proclamation and daily witness to the gospel that transforms the world, there Christ is dishonored and his lordship flouted.

Our initial study, based on attendance counts in Protestant churches in one Ohio county and Catholic churches in 18 dioceses, indicated a much lower rate of religious participation than the polls report.

At the same time, actual attendance counts in churches and synagogues dropped by more than a third.

Being at church for reasons other than worship «counts» as church attendance for some people who answer poll questions.

Church attendance is declining more than ever.

Saddleback demands far more of its multitudes than mere church attendance, and it actually drops from the rolls people who do not move toward membership and evidence this growth by making covenants, giving generously and developing from members into ministers.

Far more important than denomination is regular church attendance: 65 percent of weekly churchgoers oppose legalization (with 56 percent strongly opposed), while 70 percent of those who rarely or never attend church think it a good idea (with 47 percent in strong support).

Pence spoke at day two of the first ever World Summit in Defence of Persecuted Christians where more than 600 persecuted Christians, advocates and church leaders were in attendance.

Only some peripheral regions of Europe (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Western Norway) have a higher percentage attendance at Protestant churches than Brazil.