Sentences with phrase «thinking about the church»

When I think about church bullies, I wonder if something similar is going on.

Sure, I love to throw bait out, like «What do you think about a church allowing a small group Bible study to meet in a pub?»

The members of this «house church» are part of what experts say is a fundamental shift in the way U.S. Christians think about church.

As a result, the church is often trying to brand itself according to what is currently trendy or fashionable, and all of this has major implications for how we think about the church and what we should be in and for the world.

That is, all the wrong ways people have of thinking about church center on something other than Jesus (buildings, times, groups).

Head on over there to find out what they think about the church.

The mystique surrounding pastoral care is another example of dualistic thinking about the church and ministry.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

He does have some very passionate thoughts about the Church... I can't control what he writes.

Several of the courses that are offered in the RedeemingGod.com discipleship area will challenge the way you think about church and do church.

In Thinking Naughty Thoughts about Church, Johan Van Der Merwe raises questions about belonging to a local church, observing the Lord's Supper, church leadership structures, tithing, preaching, worship, and the church building.

All of this got me thinking about church.

Your thinking about church & community may not be «orthodox,» but I think you're far from being alone in many of your ideas, and that's one thing blogging is good for: helping like - minded people find each other and discuss ideas.

Since that is part of God's cosmic aim for all the cosmos, we may want to stop and reconsider how we think about the Church.

most of the generation that now leads our churches grew up with [this old paradigm] as a way of thinking about church and society.

This integrative way of thinking about Church, state, and society has also been common among many Protestants and Catholics over the centuries.

I think about this little online community through every stage of the writing and publishing process, and I am so grateful for all the ways in which you have influenced how I think about the church.

The following books led to some of the greatest shifts in my thinking about church.

Here are some what if questions asked by Perry Noble which might lead you to think about church in a different way.

Apparently, I'm not the only one thinking about church.

Most people when they think about the church do not think about humility.

For another example, in these five years there has been a marked change in thinking about church - state relations and, more generally, about the role of religion in public life.

That means that the pastor can influence the way the people of God think about the church, ministry, their families, and all of life.

This division of labor in the home is reflected in a similar way of thinking about church programs and in attitudes about church leaders.

Evidence indicates that Protestant ways of thinking about the church, family, and sexuality have lost meaning and may actually interfere with the capacity of church members to respond to change in the family.

And if all of this is true, then we have to think about church in the context of relationships, not buildings and styles.

«My impression is that so much of the literature that has really dominated our thinking about the church derives from generalized abstractions about what the church ought to be or about what the evils of the church are by theologians who are at best uncomfortable in trying to apply that to particular congregations.

Note: Please understand that I do not want to sound simplistic in my appreciation as I am thinking about the church in general.

Thinking about our church setting I find it very hard to relate to what irks you so much.

«The Son of Man, therefore, means the agent and inaugurator of the coming kingdom who will enable others to share with him his special relationship with God through a voluntary acceptance of death».46 Whenever we think about the church, John Taylor suggests, we must never forget that when Jesus chose the title «Son of Man» He was using a figure with a plural meaning.

Whatever comes to people's minds is what they have been socially conditioned and also choose to think about church good and bad.

«The document's main message is that Catholics should be unafraid of new ways of proclaiming the Gospel and new ways of thinking about the church.»

What has this to do with thinking about the church, you might ask?

He had serious visibility... then, once he had our attention, he failed miserably at actually conveying the message he was hoping to give us... which of course, got me to think about church planters (because most things do).

The general thesis of this article is that, while many of these resentments and fears are justified, it is a mistake to project them in indefinitely extended form upon the future and to allow all of our thinking about» Catholicism and most of our thinking about church - state relations to be controlled by them in that extended form.

Close cooperation to promote human dignity — a dignity understood in expressly Christian terms — is not what most Western human rights advocates envision when they think about church - state relations.

Then, in the 1970s, came the revisionist view that Hecker, and bishops like John Ireland of St. Paul - Minneapolis, John Keane of Catholic University, and Cardinal Gibbons, were in fact exploring a new ecclesiology, a new way of thinking about the Church, that Vatican II would vindicate in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church and Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.

Not exact matches

«As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets.

He continued: «As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets.

While most of us think about our time in 24 - hour blocks, Vanderkam thinks that «anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.»

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a cChurch of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a churchchurch.

I don't think about it in our congregation, although I do in any other church.

I have to admit I had some pretty unchristian thoughts about them, especially when they would ask what church I belonged to and then would abruptly stop talking to me.

And you think your church does not care about money ttt?

He said the board worried about complacency with the church, «thinking that 10 years of action is enough and that programs and vigilance can be taken for granted or, worse, watered down.»

If anyone had asked me what I thought about Eastern Orthodoxy before I converted, I would have said it was basically a popeless Catholic Church, except that its priests can marry.

I would have thought it was obvious this is not about mixing religion with public schooling, simply using school building's for holding church services when the buildings are closed for normal schooling.

Ultimately — I don't think belief is what church is about.

It is chaos out there, and the church needs to think calmly and soberly about these issues.

Never - the-less, I am fascinated by biblical scholarship, the history of the early church, and at any rate think people should have the correct facts about what was written and what the original authors meant it to mean.