Sentences with phrase «then listen to your church»

Read your bible and understand it, then listen to your church leaders and compare, then you will find the truth.

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Please attend a Christian Church for a year and listen to the pastor's message with an open mind and then decide.

you tell the church you not going to listen to its rules then blames its rules if you listen.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

The «liturgical circle» begins by observing and listening to what the church does and says when it gathers for worship as the primary witness to what Christians believe, moves on to theological reflection on the meaning of these data, and then proceeds to reform worship so as to express these meanings more effectively.

At a church, I was suppose to pay, and then shut up and listen.

When I go to Church, I don't go to some building that someone built, listen to someone speak at me about the evils of the world, give up money for some out of sight missionary work, and then get berated for not doing things according to some interpreted version of a much disputed holy book.

I have lived in church circles too long... ALL the «true believers» TM believe that «I can tell you that the God of Scripture is exactly as I described Him» is a common comment, and when the great true believers disagree, then they get into theological fights over who is the greater «true believer» to listen to.

Rather than looking to the psychologists and the psychiatrists and the sociologists, and even to the theologians, to find out about gay people, there is a need to listen to gay people within our churches and within the society, to begin to understand what we perceive to be the problems, and then together to work on those problems.11

I lost count of how many «revivals» I sat through, listening to all of the ways that the Canadian church was failing, the ways that Canada was going to hell in a hand - basket, the litany of how we did it wrong, and God had called them here to show us how to do this faith thing the right way and, then, «we would see a move of God like nothing ever seen before, bless God!»

I found Christ in everything in the Church, so it is very odd that the woman at the beginning of the article did not hear about Jesus??! At Mass we listen to three readings from Scripture: the Old Testament, the New Testament and then the Gospel reading, plus we have Pslams which are read (or sung) inbetween, not to mention the entire Mass ceremony with the consecration JUST like in Scripture when Jesus was with the Apostles.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

I listen to pastors condemn the lack of biblical literacy in the church today and then turn around and say the most outlandish things about God or Jesus, and even crazier things about people of other religions, political persuasion, or sexual orientation.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

What do you do every Sunday, in church, if not listen to God's word read to you and then told to you what it says?

Former PCUSA moderator Fahed AbuAkel, speaking in support of Avodat at the church's general assembly last year, said: «If we listen to the opposition, then Brother Peter and Brother Paul would not have written the New Testament.

Absorbing this properly, then, should trigger a radically different reaction when we hear statements such as «listen to the Church».

Richard, it's so through... Dominican Republic Sunday morning... moms and dads carrying their kids on their back, some walk more then an hour in the burning sun... Church is... on a piece of land stretched out blankets under the tree... they took of their flip flops... its a holy land... they don't have to fight about the color of the carpet, either the washrooms vanity or chairs style and colors... the have no chairs, no washrooms, no piano, no lights, no AC... they are sincerely seeking God, listening to the preaching and in the middle of the darkness they see the light, they hope for better... they ARE what I call the REAL cChurch is... on a piece of land stretched out blankets under the tree... they took of their flip flops... its a holy land... they don't have to fight about the color of the carpet, either the washrooms vanity or chairs style and colors... the have no chairs, no washrooms, no piano, no lights, no AC... they are sincerely seeking God, listening to the preaching and in the middle of the darkness they see the light, they hope for better... they ARE what I call the REAL churchchurch.

When your pastor convinces you that it's best not to have relationships outside of his church, and you listen, then you make the decision to leave and realize all your relationships were in the church, and now you're out and utterly alone, AND dealing with the pastors voice in the back of your head saying you were never enough to begin with... it puts you in a very lonely and sad place.

And, yes, this is the time for Andy Savage to step aside for an investigation, for the church to listen to the accuser, and then to talk about next steps.