Sentences with phrase «thing as church»

Valerie, prese to exprain... When Jeebus said that, there was no such thing as a church.

Remember also that back at this time, there was no such thing as church and state.

Not exact matches

Recently, I was talking to a few friends — really faithful folks who attend church regularly and who, above all other things, self - identify as Christians — about the subject of unemployment.

Allen follows up about these newer, more unexpected enthusiasts, and Chaput suggests that maybe some of them «would prefer a church that wouldn't have strict norms and ideas about the moral life and about doctrine, and they somehow interpret the pope's openness and friendliness as being less concerned about those things.

The effects of these things stretch across the country as well as abroad so are we to stop building all Christian churches everywhere?

They do not deny that Christ is in all things head of the Church, they've simply interposed the Pope as his representative.

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 am glad I left when I did so things did not get ugly as I had a position of significant influence within the church and I had no desire to tear it down.

ciroc2323, Suddenly the Separation of Church and State is viewed as a BAD thing?

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

Maybe we can look at it as a phase that many Christians from all demographics go through before a renewal, and that would be a good thing, for since organized religion, hence dogma, doctrine, religious practices, etc., is the primary cause for parting ways, it is a wake up call for the Christian church.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

Now the pressures of the sexual revolution are tempting the Church to loosen her claim on the bodily act that Scripture consistently treats as most deeply implicated in spiritual things — sex.

Religion is the rosary, humming Latin songs, going to Church (the act), and even things as simple as folding your hands while you pray.

My point, is that no matter what the church says, he should have done the right thing as a PERSON, allowed her to take communion, and provided her with comfort.

But as you recognize, Adam, some things are often not apparent until one is more involved in a church.

BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is) with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other things that are clearly outlined by Jesus» own words as grievous.

As a future seminarian in the Episcopal Church, it is the right thing to repeal DADT.

But what happens when one of two things occurs: when the LBGT person wants to be in ministry (and therefore their conduct becomes an issue) or they bring their partner along to church and want to be accepted as a couple?

In his great 1907 book, The Orthodox Eastern Church, Adrian Fortescue observed that Photius was called, among other things, illegitimate and an adulterer — «only the amenities of theological controversy,» as Fortescue drily puts it.

As the media can and must move on to other things, so it is conceivable that in time institutions such as universities and churches too will put this behind theAs the media can and must move on to other things, so it is conceivable that in time institutions such as universities and churches too will put this behind theas universities and churches too will put this behind them.

If these CHRISTians, as they like to be called, just stayed in their churches, helped the poor, stopped spreading hate — the kinds of things their boss said they should do, we wouldn't be bothered as much.

In contrast to Orthodox «getting things right» books, Everyday Saints depicts the Church as people with warts and flaws through whom God nevertheless works for good.

The dioceses and the parish churches have usually been held exempt by the courts, but general Catholic institutions, precisely as they are not churches, are increasingly being required to carry insurance that covers things to which they object: abortion for their employees, for example.

I feel I can comment on the effect of the naked pastor's blog on me, and whether pastors can and should say these things in general, but as for whether or not it beneficial for the church members of his church, surely it is only for them to say, and perhaps not online..?

Now, as you talk of UV light and water and oxygen (and yes, this is not my field of science), but I do care to read other hypothesis given forth to explain things, before jumping to believe what a religious scripture or actually its Church wants me to believe.

There is no such thing as a «perfect church»; but the Eastern Church has remained much closer to the foundational beliefs and practices of biblical and patristic beliefs and practices than the Latin / Western Churchchurch»; but the Eastern Church has remained much closer to the foundational beliefs and practices of biblical and patristic beliefs and practices than the Latin / Western ChurchChurch has remained much closer to the foundational beliefs and practices of biblical and patristic beliefs and practices than the Latin / Western ChurchChurch (es):

Writing as a devil, he pointed out with grim savvy in The Screwtape Letters, «If a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking for the church that «suits him,» until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.»

The laws, the demands, the endless fight against those who do not believe as you, all these things lead toward the downfall of the church.

Now, you are telling us that it's about the «proper order» of temporal, natural things here in this world (family, church) which, as far as you know, will cease when we get to heaven.

Among other things, it is premised upon an individualistic notion of salvation that neglects what St. Paul describes as the «mystery» of the continuing relationship between Israel and the Church (see Romans 9 - 11).

We can debate the «were a Christian nation» thing back and forth without getting anywhere, but to imply that the freedoms we have now came only from Christian roots ignores the rest of world history as well as the fact that its often been the Church impeding civil liberties and progressive movements.

As it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's goodAs it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's goodas long as they do the Christian things that's goodas they do the Christian things that's good).

Those things in the Church that can not be changed, because they are of the divinely ordered constitution of the Church, must be reformed when necessary so that they contribute as they ought to the mission.

It's with the village as well as the church, and the whole village feels deeply aggrieved that this sort of thing should happen.

First Things and other independent publications, as well as individuals and voluntary associations within the churches, may be as political as they wish or as they deem prudent.

Of course, that Catholic culture was fading at exactly the moment the Land O» Lakes statement codified its necessity, and that left us only with things like Land O» Lakes and its many imitations and successors: documents that define America's Catholic colleges as institutions that exist fundamentally over against the Church.

It's not a negation of truth or absolute truth, it's just a recognition that we might be as confused over things as our kin in the faith who chained up Bibles, burned the bones of reformers, tossed bombs into the basements of black churches and burned crosses on the front yards of black people, who ignore the plight of the homeless and the poor while we struggle to decide between the 36 and 72 inch plasma screen tv.

If you pointed at individual church congregations, that would be one thing, but to paint, as you do, most of the church that way is dishonest.

and as far as church goes, social reasons are pretty much the only thing keeping me around too...

Both the liturgical and theological traditions of the Church present to us certain things that must be said about God as revealed in Christ Jesus.

Eph 1:22,23 - «And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.»

This story is simply something that the church has no teachings, or story, these things are not taught or discussed at church as the church has no political agenda presented from the pulpit, in classes or meetings.

The idea that leaving the church as we know it will bring freedom is for me a difficult thing to grasp.

I see duplication of effort, with denominations and individual churches not working together; and the «not - invented - here» syndrome, as very often the information or the thing we are trying to produce is already being produced somewhere else.

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

Very often, as we do these things in our community, it comes out that we are followers of Jesus but that we don't attend church.

Many seminarians will become pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false» church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Of course, the church should endorse the use of such things as they will cause a substantial portion of the population to invoke god's name.