Sentences with phrase «than the church»

After a short time we came to find that many house churches and small groups were actually nothing more than church on a smaller scale.

Ah, well, my church makes disciples so much better than that church down the street.

If the church wants to put its fingers in things other than the church itself then it needs to abide by the same laws everyone else does.

Those places have no more legal protections than churches do.

It was a lot different than church in some ways but very much the same in others.

This has been far better for my spiritual life than the church services I used to attend.

He was conscious that he was always speaking to an audience larger than the church, a secular audience.

The truth of the christian myth is growing... faster than the church and make its lame changes to combat it.

I certainly don't fit the mold and find a sense of belonging in creative environments more so than church culture as it is.

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

I add there's nothing more painful than the church when it doesn't.

Actually, I find divorce mediation easier than church mediation.

More a problem of separation of church and business than church and state.

Rather than the church serving the people, the people end up serving the church and being dominated by it.

Soon, she found that, while this was a better solution than church, her clothes were restrictive.

When in all actuality the church should not seek to dictate to the state what it can or can not do any more than the church wants that dictated to it from the state.

At this point, a church of 72 would look more like a men's ministry than a church.

This system is no more or less perfect than the church, but it is a vital resource.

Our culture has made the wrong answers about sex far easier to find than the church has made the right answers to find.

That is precisely why hospitals are 100 times more effective at healing than churches.

Whether the bonds are biological or not, a family is a family by quite a different set of criteria than a church or similar organization.

They see to put up more evidence than the church.

The civil wedding is more convenient, faster and less expensive than a church wedding; it's performed by a judge or mayor.

This gift of hearing was made up by none other than the church!

It is not surprising, therefore, that a new form of university was established, geared to the service of a nation rather than the church.

If they love and care for each other, that's better than a church that runs over its members to get a job done, no matter how glorious the job is.

He should be a man who loves his family more than his church and is secure and smart enough to share leadership with a team who leads the mission.

But certainly more so than any church or religion.

Because we have become the church of buildings, rather than the church of Jesus.

You consider yourself better than the Church which is made up of sinners.

I soon discovered that the people the church rejected were more loving, forgiving, generous and generally more like Jesus than Church leaders or congregants who claimed to be Jesus followers.

If we really are following Jesus, people are more important than a church meeting of any kind, be it a committee meeting, Bible study or church service.

In some places, there were ordinances against building anything higher than the church steeple so it would occupy the place closest to heaven.

, John Madison; «Lighthouses are more helpful than Churches», Benjamin Franklin

How is that any different in the end than a church body that has an over-riding agenda that wishes to silence all others?

It will look different than the church in the West, but it will share the same gospel.

I enjoy speaking to other groups because I believe that the Church is bigger than my church or my denomination.

Show me another organization or business that has fed, clothed, housed, and educated more poor people all over the world than The Church before criticizing the money The Church spends.

In a city where no building can be taller than the church steeples, few establishments offer this caliber of view and superior location, just steps away from famed Kings St. in the historic district.

These include Leonardo da Vinci, who understood that shells found in the mountains of Italy meant that the earth was far older than the church would let on, and Aristotle, who understood that gradual change was at the heart of nature.

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.

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.

It is thus, paradoxically, both less and greater than the church.

But I discovered that the Bibleis a great deal more alive than the church establishment seemed to be.

I discovered that the Bible is a great deal more alive than the church establishment seemed to be.