Sentences with phrase «than the church services»

Tonight, the congregation at the First Unitarian Church of Orlando may look more like Noah's Ark than a church service.

In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts enacted a law making any observance of December 25 (other than a church service) a penal offense; people were fined for hanging decorations.

Not exact matches

And as an example of action in service of others, you need to look no further than this Hollywood - worthy backdrop of Memorial Church.

The problem I have is that these «churches» using these schools are not paying enough to even cover the cost of the overhead of opening the building for them, and that if any group other than a Christian church tried to use the facilities for religious services, they would more than likely be denied.

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.

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.

The typical church model, with its clergy - laity divide, fosters the (usually subconscious) view of church as a service organization, rather than a community.

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

It is harder to attend church services faithfully than it is to attend the YMCA.

More than happy to go to a church service.

Also, I've felt a subtile questioning of my sincerity as a Christian for not attending every service at church and of a few other less than perfect behaviors.

All I'm seeing out of this is that a career pastor got more involved with activism than community service, found his activism to be incompatible with his denomination and decided to try to turn his leaving the church into future speaking engagements.

Interestingly, the bullying behavior was by two women were limited to a group that participated in a single church service, and when I left that service, stopped volunteering in the ministry I enjoyed the most, and stopped attending on anything other than Sunday morning, the bullying stopped.

More than 3,500 people packed into Canyon Ridge Christian Church for the service to remember the 58 people who lost their lives.

There is no more distorted reflection of the power of the Spirit than Pentecostal services in so - called liturgical churches, which embroider Christianity's memory of great historical moments with the pomp and circumstance of banners, dramatic proclamations and unsingable hymns and anthems.

Attacks at two Coptic Orthodox churches in Egypt's Nile Delta killed more than 40 people and injured more than 100 others during Palm Sunday services — including the one where Pope Tawadros II was worshiping.

The request for forgiveness was offered during a special service in a Waldensian church less than a mile from the Vatican.

More than 80 Christians lost their lives after bombs went off following a church service at All Saints Church in Peshawar inchurch service at All Saints Church in Peshawar inChurch in Peshawar in 2013.

Churches are tax exempt because they operate on donations, rather than people buying a product or service.

If it did nothing else but keep alive in the world the disturbing and revolutionary notion that humble service is better than strutting power, wise men would support and foster the church with all the strength at their command.

They understood themselves, no less than the church, to be in the service of Christianity.

When the passion for worship and service is gone, the church loses its soul and is no more than a shell of former life.

As a result an enormous amount of the church's energy, at least at the level of institutional decision - making, has been taken up by internal wrangles, rather than by active service of the community.

There they are, from the very earliest days - greeting the risen Lord in the Garden, suffering death in Rome's Colosseum rather than deny their faith in him, giving themselves in service to the Church and to the poor and sick and lonely and imprisoned.

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

The Church can no more neglect the service of charity than she can neglect the sacraments and the word.»

I know him because for more than 35 years he and a group of musicians known as the Dixie Stompers have conducted a Mardi Gras service at my church on Transfiguration Sunday.

- Church is More than Bodies, Bucks, & Bricks - Put Service Back into the Church Service - The Death and Resurrection of the Church - Finding Church

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

They did not submit to the terms of Stout's description, but they did suggest that their efforts to make their churches more faithful yields greater service to the world, rather than less.

Like my Park Service friend, we could profit by keeping our own photographs of vanished legacies before us, placed alongside the church budget report, as a reminder that stewardship has always meant more than fund - raising.

Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nchurch can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nChurch you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.

Churches around the world are trying to revitalize their Sunday morning church services, but this free eBook suggests something radically different than what is taught or tried in most churChurches around the world are trying to revitalize their Sunday morning church services, but this free eBook suggests something radically different than what is taught or tried in most churcheschurches....

Whatever balance may be struck in these areas of mixed secular and religious services funded by tax money, the mixture is inherently unstable and will tend to move in one direction or the other, usually toward increased responsiveness to broader interests than those of the sponsoring church (which is often called «secularization»)-- a process seen in church - related colleges and hospitals even without tax funding, which merely makes it happen quicker and sometimes with the force of law.

Ecclesiastical stated: «When presented with a list of services offered by churches around the country such as food banks, elderly support groups, parish nursing and dementia support, the research found that more than half (54 per cent) of those surveyed were unaware of the services their own local church provided.»

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

New research released by a Christian insurer has revealed that three quarters of UK adults can not name any of the activities that take place inside their local church other than regular services and religious festivals.

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

Here, more than in any testimony developed at the trial, was the mute evidence of the anguish caused by the rift in the church: «Green silk altar hangings given by Miss Winifred Walker in memory of her sister, Ruby Walker... Private communion service given by Mrs. Annie Rose Robertson Sprague in memory of her mother and her sisters... A dogwood planted on the front lawn in memory of Marie Gatling Payne...»

Though our service in the name of Jesus may look different than those who «go to church», it is no less sincere.

During his struggle for independence Kirkland wrote: «I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.»

I say to you candidly, as I have said before, I have never found a man, be he Methodist or be he non-Methodist, willing to contribute to our work here who has not endorsed a liberal Christian policy in the administration of affairs... I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that, greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.

And it's less than a century since the average American Lutheran church conducted services in German, Swedish, or Norwegian.

But as we all know from decades of experience, less than 10 % of the church will show up for a Tuesday night community service project.

I believe that if we genuinely participated in some of these things during the hours we were usually in church, more relationship building would take place in one month than often happens in an entire year of church services.

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.

Clearly this dimension is far more important in Orthodox and Catholic churches with their elaborate services than it is to austere Protestant churches or to members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), who sit together mostly in silence.

I recall that I often felt closer to God and sensed the beauty of nature when I took the dog for a walk than I did at long - drawn - out church services.

Writes Yoder: The answer of the pre-Constantinian church was negative; the Christian as an agent of God for reconciliation has other things to do than to be in police service....

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.