Sentences with phrase «than the church people»

I've recently finished fifteen years outside the Church, being detoxed from all the paraphenalia and the religiosity, and one of the main things I have learned is that people * outside * the Church seem to know more about the faults of said body of people, than the Church people themselves.

Not exact matches

Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.

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.

May was in Kelowna Saturday to speak to more than 300 people at the First United Church.

So I have no concerns at all that people in the church are going to be involved in these discussions, get on board and help lead the rest of us forward in an age where there are intelligences other than the ones we associate with Adam and Eve.

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.

I have many gay and lesbian friends, others from different races... churches seem to divide rather than pull people together.

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.

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?»

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.

Given that there are more people enslaved than ever before... if the Church is not somehow engaged in the fight to rescue the poor and oppressed, can we really say that we know God at all?»

Even most people that I know that live on base actually go to the off base church of their choice rather than on base churches.

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 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.»

Whatever one thinks about sex, the one thing we can agree on is that more people are having more sex than ever — even in the 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.»

But for now, I would rather be part of a Christ - centered megachurch full of programs where people are coming to know Jesus as Savior, than part of a church of any size where they are not.

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.

Last I heard in church it was a sin to have relations with more than one person.

The people of the Catholic Church are about so, so, so much more than the child abuse scandal or the celibacy of priests.

The 10 - year - old church, which says in its materials that more than 2,000 people attend its weekend services, planned to disperse that same amount - $ 30,000 - on Sunday, with congregants getting envelopes containing $ 10, $ 20 and $ 50 bills.

Now imagine a different ending to this story: Rather than going to a payday lender, you share your story with people in your church.

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.

It is these aspects of the church: control of the finances of members, control over all aspects of interpersonal relationships, segregation of believers into levels of worthiness, not to mention the dubious credibility of the sole person who made up the entire religion... That make Mormonism look a whole lot more like a cult than a religion.

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

He has more than a little sympathy for people in my shoes (gay and celibate), but as we talked, he said something to the effect of, «This is an incredibly frustrating conversation to keep having in the church.

I grew up in a bully pulpit church and no one ever referred to the pastor as anything other than «Pastor» in person or «The Pastor» in the 3rd person.

The church has more than 7,000 volunteers who have served thousands of people with everything from food, to clothing to appliances.

People should practice their religion at home or at their church and leave it out of the workplace other than setting a good example of honest behaviour.

More than 100 militants entered the village just as Sunday church services started, opened fire and started attacking people with machetes.

The approach is to build a church and a Christ - centred community, using ministerial skills like scripture and prayer to address people's issues rather than a clinical approach.

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.

I've been an African American «Mormon» for 22 years and if the Church was any more racist than average society i would know by now, people that know history know that the main excuse to ex pulse the Mormons from Illinois and Ohio into the west was because they held slaves among them as regular people.

Funny how such a simple concept as that makes more sense than the borderline insidious strategies churches use to supposedly get people saved (or grow more lavish buildings).

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

The Catholic Church feeds more people than any other organization on the planet.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

However, a life time of theological / spiritual formation in our Western Churches has left many people with a concept of God that is more like Baal than the Loving Merciful God and Father of Jesus.

If people want to give to the poor, I say do it out of charity and kindness... and do it DIRECTLY, rather than let the Roman Catholic Church OR the Govt.

I see people get healed much faster at a witchcraft festival than I do at a church.»

More than 3,000 persons signed concurrence when the letter was circulated in a number of area churches, and it was later reprinted in a full - page newspaper advertisement along with as many signatures as could be fitted on the page.

As time gets closer, read what revelation says - hate towards christians will increase, we will be persecuted and more people will leave the church more than ever — I guarentee you that christianity will be outlawed in the next 30 years and people will be imprisoned...

I have observed that many are really rejecting the church, as they know it, and the people they have known who identify as «Christians» who have been much less than kind and loving.

Once criticism people sometimes have of house churches is that they are nothing more than a Bible Study.

Lay Church - goers seeking consolation rather than understanding from their religion often form «lord of the flies» packs to silence they fellow lay persons who refuse to drink the KoolAid without an explanation for why they should do so.

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 Christian Post: Churches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in KaChurches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kachurches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kano City.

For example, aren't there better ways to help humanity than protesting soldiers» funerals as the Westboro Baptist Church people do?

I go to my McChurch, rather than traditional church, where one stares at the back of people's necks for an hour, so I can be the living, Biblically R - E-A-L (Relational - Engaging - Authentic - Life - giving) Cchurch, where one stares at the back of people's necks for an hour, so I can be the living, Biblically R - E-A-L (Relational - Engaging - Authentic - Life - giving) ChurchChurch.

Maybe, rather than praying for God to bring people to your church to fill the pews on Sunday morning, you can go to their houses and change the oil in their car, mow their lawn, or help replace shingles on the roof.