Sentences with phrase «than the church serving»

Not exact matches

I know that some might say that short - term mission trips are nothing more than glorified vacations for rich youth groups (and in some cases, they would be right), but I've seen short - term missions serve the Church in incredible ways.

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

If I apply this same thinking and care to the church I serve, this means I would be uncomfortable financing anything other than property or a facility that appreciates.

The Mormon Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24).

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

The priest - Father Joseph Pavanivel Jeyapaul of Ootacamund, India - served in a diocese in Crookston, Minnesota, for a little more than a year in 2004 and 2005, according to church documents unearthed in a lawsuit related to the case.

I do know that if I followed the guidelines of one liturgical commission, suggesting that I greet each penitent at the church doors with an open Gospel book and then lead a procession to a reconciliation room which looks more like an occasion of sin than a shrine for its absolution, the number of confessions in the middle of the metropolis where I serve would be severely reduced.

But as critics point out, speaking of a Russian World serves the state more than it serves the Church.

He explained that though it is the tradition of the church, that the Eucharist be served every Sunday, the congregation no more had the right to decide how often the Eucharist would be celebrated than to decide whether it would say the Lord's Prayer.

The church, according to Pope John's opening address to the council, ought to serve the world with the «medicine of mercy,» rather than condemn it with the «medicine of severity.»

Few things bless a church more than the precious gift of leaders who serve together in unity for the joy of their people.

More than that, they'd ensure there was time for «match practice»; taking those young trainees out on the street to pray for people, or into the adult church to serve or lead the main congregation.

Institutional structures must serve the church's mission, and without renewal of commitment to that mission, no structure will do more than buy a little time.

I checked out your blog and was encouraged by your post about looking for a church to serve in rather than a church that will feed you.

graduates are more likely than other ministers to have made a recent job move and to be serving somewhat larger churches in larger communities with more highly educated members.

Church often serves as little more than a social club, and the strong evangelical presence means that faith and politics get far too intertwined at times.

On churches that care more about production value and money than the people they should be serving.

She blogs at More Than Serving Tea and partners with other bloggers and pastors to highlight and move the conversation forward on issues of race, ethnicity, and gender within the Church.

Rather than spending the majority of our income on buildings, salaries, and church programs, so that only what is left over goes to help the poor and needy, maybe churches could reverse this practice, so that a majority of the money that a church receives goes toward feeding the hungry, helping the poor, and serving those who are outcast and rejected in society.

Roman primacy seems an instance of church authority validating itself rather than serving as the instrument for a providential outworking of scriptural truths.

But others will see the change as a blessing in disguise, as the Church in America is forced to humbly reconsider its mission and purpose as a «set apart» people committed to serving rather than ruling.

Life, for the early Church, was spiritual warfare; and no baptized Christian could doubt how great a transformation — of the self and the world — it was to consent to serve no other god than Him whom Christ revealed.

I just think that there may be better ways of serving God and doing church than the way it is commonly done.

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.

I chose to not have our church participate, because I believe Satan would rather have us fight him through such methods than actually go love and serve people in our community.

He believes, however, that within a year of arriving at the church, many of the attendees have a better understanding of the Christian faith than people in some of the other churches he's served.

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

With respect to church bodies, my premise is that, given our present ecclesial and social circumstances, the issue of authority will serve more to unify the churches than to divide them.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

Yet the Church knows that it is sacrament and testimony, not for its own salvation, but for that of the world, that it serves the God of the Covenant (which is the Church) by permitting and confessing him to be greater than itself, so that the grace of which the Church is the enduring sign is victoriously offered by God even to those who have not yet found the visible Church and who nevertheless already, without realizing it, live by its Spirit, the Holy Spirit of the love and mercy of God.

just as a comment about those who think athiests are smarter than christians... There's a guy in my church who works as a rocket engineer but also serves in our church teaching bible classes and leading a home fellowship.

Are you able to train and empower godly elders who will serve as your equals and will more than once save you and the church from certain implosion?

Members of small churches served by part - time lay ministers are not necessarily worse off spiritually than their counterparts in large churches — and perhaps they are better off.

Those churches often served more than the spiritual needs of their congregations, linking to an array of social ministries.

I used to be in a small life group that felt more like church than Sunday morning did, except that we didn't normally serve communion.

Believers worked for 6 days, often much more than 8 hours per day (as in many countries today), cared for their families, and still were able to evangelize and serve their local churches — sometimes on a daily basis.

Whether the laity in prevailingly liberal churches can be shown to have more sensitive consciences than others and a greater sense of compulsion in serving their fellow men, I do not know.

I wish that the Church were more focused on removing pedophile priests than punishing women who often serve the most vulnerable segments of society.

So, if I'm intellectually more mature than a pastor or his congregation, what purpose does it serve me to attend the church?

He suggests that pastors need to learn to appreciate the diversity of the churches they serve, to care for those cultural differences, and to work with them rather than against them.

Today's blog comes from Stephan Bauman, who serves as the President of World Relief, which includes approximately 2,500 staff in 20 different countries focused on a mission of empowering local churches to serve the vulnerable, including more than 25 offices in the U.S. that resettle refugees.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

So for this option to properly work, the board members of the organization must have a clear vision for serving the community, rather than just being a front for the church to continue as usual.

Electronic - church programs, in the words of the researchers, «serve primarily to express and cultivate, rather than extend or broaden, existing religious beliefs in the lives of viewers who turn to them.»

But surely churches serve a more fundamental» even founding» function in liberal democracies than the sundry special interest groups that flourish within them.

Perhaps a broader view of the church as an organization serving people's spiritual needs would speak more powerfully to the laity than does the picture of an institution clutching its «patent.»

More often than we realize churches do serve in this way.

Thus the G.I. Bill, the Public Facilities Act, the National Defense Education Act, and the various forms of student aid initiated in the 1960s — BEOGs, SEOGs, Work - Study, Pell grants, etc. — have subsidized the survival of many colleges and universities, but inexorably they have served as well to make the grantee institutions more anxious to observe the laws and regulations of the State than the strictures of the Church whose sponsorship is, by comparison, so intangible.

Nowhere is the missionary invasion more evident than on the island of Hispanola, where I recently served as a pastor in the Dominican Evangelical Church in the city of Barahona in the Dominican Republic.

If a church decided to go out and serve their community on a particular Sunday instead of meet for singing and a sermon, they might in fact bond together in a deeper spiritual way than is currently happening.