Sentences with phrase «than the church when»

I heard Bill Hybels say there's nothing better than the church when things are working.

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

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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.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.

I simply noted that the finger pointing toward the CC gets a bit ridiculous when there is more of a problem than meets the eye in protestant churches if you do a little research on the net and elsewhere.

Why worship at a Church when they are behaving NO better than culture that surounds it.

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.»

It's embarrassing when the church perpetuates systemic issues rather than fighting them.

I get David's vision but only because when I attend church I know that my views and ideas are different than the majority — and I think that's okay.

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

Pro-life churches and organizations should especially be suspicious when gay marriage is given more prominence as an issue than abortion.

The gospel can not be preached in any other language than its own: a language deeply shaped by the Sacred Scriptures, a language that has been revealed and received and is not to be recast when the culture suggests that the Church do so.

The problem is not with biblical Revelation, the problem is when the Church or individuals within the Church interpret it as either a metaphysical treatise or a moral manual rather than the greatest Love Story ever told.

Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the church leadership say more than a sentence to when he did go with her to church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.

Gary, Sabio seems to have missed the point that when your interpretation of the biblical text conflicts with the institutional Church's official interpretation, you go with your conscience rather than the sheeple of God majority.

'» If by days, we understand years and by sanctuary, the church, than cleansed, Miller thought, «we may reasonably suppose means that complete redemption from sin, both soul and body, after the resurrection when Christ comes the second time «without sin unto salvation.

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.

Yes, it breaks my heart too that some Christians think that when someone «stops attending church» they are backsliding or becoming apostate, when really, we are only seeking to follow Jesus more closely than we ever have before.

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.

But then, I don't agree with the budget — when less than 5 % of a church budget goes to community outreach or missions, something is terribly wrong.

Personally, I left «my» church when the spoken «prophetic» word was held in higher esteem than the written word.

It's really discouraging, when you try to find a church that isn't Calvinist, and isn't supposed to be (per the denomination) and then you talk to the pastor on the phone and are told that you «don't understand Calvinism» (even though I'd been a Calvinist longer than he was alive)!

Most of them report a closer intimacy with God and liberty in their walk with Jesus than they claim they felt when «attending» 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.»

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

When I was 15, I «gave my life to Christ» — not in a church, but alone, in my room, after months of reading and thinking and looking for purpose and meaning and direction and something bigger than the depressing and lonely life I seemed to be stuck with — and I expected to find those things.

In 2007, when Pew conducted its first massive assessment of the US religious landscape, researchers found that slightly more than half of evangelical church members (54 %) agreed that stricter environmental laws and regulations were worth the cost, compared to 61 percent of all Americans.

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.

Roberts's idea (that a local church must be a global church — thus «glocal») may indeed transform American church life, because it is timely: We live in the age of the flat earth, when we can not only communicate around the world, but more Americans than ever have enough disposable income to travel the world.

When I jumped (and I do mean jumped, a ready or not here I come, head - first dive) from the Sunday - mainstream - church - going - because - it's - what - you - do nominal / cultural Christianity that I was raised with into «serious» Christianity (to use the vernacular: born again, spirit filled, Bible believing, charismatic, etc.) and became what was at the time called a «Jesus freak» (it was 1972) I expected something from the church which was very different than what I found.

Obviously, such groups can be less - than - helpful when they divide everyone up by age group and marital status, but I've also seen them represent what is most powerful about church as members become deeply invested in one another's lives.

When read with pater familias, rather than the Dunphys, in mind, we see just how radical Peter and Paul must have sounded when they instructed husbands to love their wives as much as Christ loved the church and to be willing to give their lives for tWhen read with pater familias, rather than the Dunphys, in mind, we see just how radical Peter and Paul must have sounded when they instructed husbands to love their wives as much as Christ loved the church and to be willing to give their lives for twhen they instructed husbands to love their wives as much as Christ loved the church and to be willing to give their lives for them!

More often than not, when people talk about the «[Catholic] Church», they often seem refer either to the Vatican — the centre of authority in the Catholic Church — or else are generalising about the entire world - wide Church.

This is one more gift that the emerging church gave me more than a decade ago: when you don't find it, you simply create it.

We begin to suspect that this is the case when we see the record of the church in the midst of our world storm The record of the church has not been perfect, but it has been better than its despisers expected.

When the Church acts as an employer and hires people of all different beliefs, it is no different than any other empolyer.

imagine the arrogance to for the catholic church to call itself Christian when its no better than what people call pagan....

With lyrics like, «My lover's got humour... I should've worshiped her sooner» and «My church offers no absolution... She tells me, «Worship in the bedroom,» The only heaven I'll be sent to... is when I'm alone with you,» you're saying that sex is more freeing, more real, more human, more worthy as a site of worship than any church.

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

More than once this has happened through the work of a devoted and persistent minority when the Church as a whole, enmeshed as a social institution in its surrounding culture, lagged behind.

I have wondered about all of the arguments about the Church doing our thinking when there is no Church requirement to carry a card identifying yourself as a Catholic, no requirement to give money or do anything other than love God and travel as well as you can on your journey to heaven.

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that, less than a month before and still a few weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Shevchuk had been elected Major - Archbishop of Kyiv - Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine in liturgy and governance while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.

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

Particularly in our current culture, with sexual abuse stories being exposed within the Church, it's more important than ever for women to be represented when it comes to making decisions in leadership on behalf of the community.

The proper meaning of the Church's teaching on this point becomes clearer when one sees the official Latin text, which rather than «open» says, «perse destinatus», which refers to the objective status of the act per se.

As well, it drives me crazy when sincere people veer away from sincere «church talk» and out of habit or influence, start using the buzz words and «churchy» talk... I want to shake them and remind them they are better than that... to go back to their most sincere and honest use of language.

I think when we consider the scriptures we see differing examples of Christians — the church at Corinth that Paul wrote to was doing more harm than good, the church at Antioch was doing good, the church at Ladocia was doing neither good or bad.

I've had men dismiss the possibility of friendship (not relationship, mind you, friendship) outright when I explain that my blog is about feminism and the church (often in no fewer words than that).