Sentences with phrase «there were those in the church»

He then acknowledged that there were those in the church who were adopted into families, and he asked them to raise their hands.

That manner of putting it helps us to see that like any other routing of events in history and the cosmos there is in the church a past which is remembered and which is causally effectual, a present in which choices are made and action undertaken, and a future which beckons toward genuine fulfillment.

Too often, however, there is in the church an expected conformity of belief that limits exploration of the relationship between doubt and faith.

Teaching / Location / Worship / Missions — «Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas... While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, «Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul... Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off» Acts 13:1 - 2 2.

Not exact matches

If you work for a company where the consequences of sexual harassment are not clearly outlined in an employee handbook or there is no formal training on how to spot and address the issue, Churches advises employees to not be afraid to ask for training.

Except if you are worshipping at the Church of Byron Sharp, in which case there has to be a specific and extremely complicated reason why either the Brexit campaigners were in actual fact targeting everyone or this campaign clearly did not work, despite what everyone is starting to suggest.

Speaking at the Raising Funds for Christian Charities and Churches conference in London, Crouch acknowledged there had been problems in the past but she wanted that changed.

Recently, there has been a head covering revival in certain wings of the US Church: especially the ultra-reformed and those calling themselves «Torah - observant».

There were some 267 million Catholics in the world in 1900; today, the world Church counts 1.2 billion members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the middle of the century.

There's no way 95 % of people in any given church on a Sunday believe in god, much less the rest of humanity!

There are growing concerns for the wellbeing of an Orthodox Church leader in Eritrea who hasn't been seen in public since he attended mass at a church last mChurch leader in Eritrea who hasn't been seen in public since he attended mass at a church last mchurch last mont...

There is now an opportunity to exercise that love in a way that not only will restore communion between two ancient churches but will demonstrate that all Orthodox Christians truly do belong to one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

So I have no concerns at all that people in the church are going to be involved in these discussions, get on board and help lead the rest of us forward in an age where there are intelligences other than the ones we associate with Adam and Eve.

I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.

There is a mole in the Mormon Church.

I'm «not there» because I haven't found a church in Belfast that fits, like I did in London (some of the conservative Anglican ones there were really good).

Far from seeking his own advancement, each move up the echelons of the episcopal ladder has been met with surprise by Justin Welby, perhaps influenced by the fact he was told there wasn't «place for him in the modern Church of England» when he first applied for ordination.

So is that why there still are positions in the church that women aren't allowed to hold in order to make sure they are treated with «respect and dignity» by keeping them in their «place.»

My reaction to your posts and in talking with some other people has been «There are really churches like that?!

Highlighting the importance of the Church in not shying away from politics Rev O'Donoghue said: «Where there is wickedness, and where there is error, and where there are serious breaches of basic care, I think we need to be calling people out on it.

There is no perfect local church in this world, but that's not the biggest problem.

there is no doubt that the catholic hierarchy and leaders in the catholic church in phila allowed preditor priests to be quietly moved from parish to parish to to do their evil deeds.

In my experience as a worship leader, there are two kinds of silence in churcIn my experience as a worship leader, there are two kinds of silence in churcin church.

So what were the issues wiht the women that were teachign and having authority over men in the church there?

Before the Muslim conquests (it is interesting that papacy and Islam were established at the same time around 600 a. D.) there was a great Christian Church in the Roman Empire or later Eastern Roman Empire with a lot of free bishops.

Equal Rights under the law would ensure that no one religion's values get enshrined in our national laws, otherwise there would be no reason to not make a law forcing everyone to attend church on Sundays.

There were seven couples there and one single guy — all of them having hopes to start a church in the near fuThere were seven couples there and one single guy — all of them having hopes to start a church in the near futhere and one single guy — all of them having hopes to start a church in the near future.

Notwithstanding that I consider that there are some such flaws in the approach adopted by the Judge, I consider it is important that the church does acknowledge, as I do, that we were, and I include myself, at that time only at the beginning of learning how to deal with disclosures of abuse, and leaders such as myself did lack experience and training.

It's one of the things that makes it possible for me to feel completely welcome in our church, to know I'm not alone in feeling there is an injustice here, and that this is something you feel very strongly about and are working on.

The fact is there are already plenty of churches in America, arguably the majority of them in this country, that emphasize social justice, acceptance of LGBT, and «letting science to its thing» — I'm talking about the mainline liberal churches.

Most churches don't want him unless he changes the minute he walks in the door, and then there is the exposure to the Fred Phelps bunch... they're just great at the funeral of an AIDS victim... or other less famous hate mongers.

There are many problems in churches find one with a body of believers who believe Jesus is God's son, the Bible is true, and where they love one another.

And that camel - owner can bring all his camel - owning friends and they will give their tenth - plus offerings to The Church of the Great Needle and soon enough there will be a new building program to construct a fanstasmagoric «Golden Needle with Multiple Eyes» so that more camels can enter and then more camel - owners will come and soon there will be a vision for a bigger and better «Platinum Needle with Multiple, Rotating, Identity - Protected Eyes» and soon there will be a name change to «The Church of the Sharpest Needles in the Greatest Sewing Machine the World Has Ever Seen» and everyone shall stand amazed etc., etc., etc...; ^)

There were many evil things done in the Name of Jesus Christ, but it is not really to be as surprise, becaue Jesus said that the evil one, which is the devil, will plant his seeds in the midst of God's church, meaning here «The Christendom».

I would be lying if there weren't issues in the past regarding the priesthood, however the church has always been an advocate for civil rights and has never thought that blacks were cursed.

Where I live in Butte, Montana, there are two Catholic Churches, that let other religious faiths use the church for worship, weddings and other functions.

I thought they found the names of those posthumously baptized because they were listed in the church list of names (I'm sure there is a technical term for that).

For me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visited.

Later, DeMoss talks about being turned off by the evangelical street preachers he'd seen on the street corners there, preaching to Mormons in town for the church's annual general assembly.

There are individuals, yes, who do hold beliefs not in line with Church teachings — I was stunned, for example, when I was 18 to hear the leadership chastising members for not allowing their children to play with «nonmember» children, because «they don't have our standards.»

The school is a place where people develop there opinions and become who they are... The situations in schools are already strained, adding the church to it would make it so much worse.

«lhe Council established the main elements of Catholic culture as it exists today, and among those elements is the resolute assertion that «There is indeed one universal church of the faithful outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.»

There is in fact a missionary dimension that drives its adherents to transform the church and the world.

I am one of the RCIA team leaders in my church and there are strong conversions among the young University students that desire to enter the Catholic fold.

I've never been to one of those Unitarian Universalist churches, but I'm wondering if it could be helpful in these times when there is such a big divide.

Given that there are more people enslaved than ever before... if the Church is not somehow engaged in the fight to rescue the poor and oppressed, can we really say that we know God at all?»

«They're very often wonderful places where people's dignity is protected and if you will invest those and churches get involved in those we'll see even higher levels of end of life palliative care there.

The real picture is that harm, in the form of hom ophobia, pedophi lia, misog yny, etc., are destroying the Church, and there's nothing in your list of commandments which covers that.

The council of 2016, which has been on the table for discussion and preparation since at least 1961 (although there were earlier proposals for such a council in the 1920s and 1930s), will for the first time ever gather representatives from all fourteen independent Orthodox Churches.

The Catholic Church in Spain allowed the dictator Franco to forbid the common people to own a bible because there was so much fear (not unfounded, as proven by fundamentalism) that apart from ecclesiastical it would be misinterpreted.