Sentences with phrase «to abandon the church»

In reality, I've abandoned the church institution in order to make my own hospital ship, so to speak.

There could be an honest discussion throughout the church, involving also many who have abandoned the church about the wide range of complex issues involved in sexual relations.

The lawsuit was dropped once the school district agreed to abandon the church venue for school functions.

What I am aware of is many abandoning church in the the US.

That Francis and his first companions made a fuss over the restoration of abandoned churches and the cleaning of ill - kept churches was not simply because the Poverello had dreams in which he was told to rebuild churches; those dreams and that work had a deeper meaning.

The void left by abandoning the Church contributes to what scholars refer to as seeker spirituality wherein people shop for religion and are open to finding spirituality in otherwise secular spaces.

People in my generation abandon church because of how cold and unloving it is.

Some Indian contextualists probably don't acknowledge them because they have abandoned religion as a central category of social analysis, just as they have abandoned the church as a center of institutional interest.

I'm not abandoning the church entirely.

In the midst of the us - versus - them, with God on our side, the church membership grows... until everyone tires of the war, and the next generation abandons the church system in droves... saying «what does this have to do with Jesus?»

Plus, without thick denominational loyalties, Christians abandon their churches at the first shimmy of trouble.

This week's BronxTalk is «about a near - abandoned church on the Grand Concourse and 175th St.. We discussed in detail the community's advocacy over establishing a community arts center there and the various forces at play that might or might not bring this -LSB-...]

I experience why so many people abandon the church and religion.

(9) Priests abandoned the churches» rule of celibacy and began to take wives during the 5th and 6th centuries.

It has more than a little bit to do with keeping the pews full of faithful Latinos too, as non-Latino Catholics abandon the church don't you think?

Let us indeed abandon church and seek the kingdom of God (for which not just the Lord, but also the New Testament church gave her blood).

So I asked myself whether God who sometimes turns away, had actually abandoned our church.

You go through shops, an old abandoned church and cemetary, some creepy forests and fields on the outskirts, a farm, the town hall... you name it.

This is one of the reasons people are abandoning the church in droves.

Ironically to the extent that Christian ethicists and theologians have abandoned the church because of its suburban captivity» they too have had little that is interesting to say to our society.

You are right, things have not always gone as they should; people sin; but Jesus Christ has not abandoned His Church.

They are invited to a multi-course meal prepared and served in a non-traditional setting, typically an otherwise underutilized space — everything from a helipad to an abandoned church is fair game.

A man can no more abandon his wife than Christ can abandon the Church.

Their efforts range from planting a flower to helping hundreds of homeless people not get evicted from an abandoned church.

The early»90s were awash in books explaining why Generation X was abandoning church.

(Snow cautiously alludes to the genocide of the millions of Armenians who once lived in eastern Turkey; their abandoned churches, theaters, and hospitals, now used for appliance warehouses and torture chambers, stand in the novel as reminders of that crime and of the degradation of Turkish culture that followed.)

Evangelical churches that frequently support conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest of us have known for some time: Their young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them.

Having squandered their moral authority to judge right and wrong, and having abandoned the Church's native language of sin and grace, bishops appeal for exoneration to the legal and therapeutic.

Rush, you've misjudged Catholic conservatives (and liberals) if you think this nonsense will sway us to abandon our church.

The crisis is not that millions of Catholics are going to abandon the Church.

Mitchell rents an abandoned church that is for sale.

Because it is not so much that the community has abandoned the church, but that the church has not kept up with the community.

We've been encouraged to abandon churches that are «too liberal».

Oh, and btw, he abandoned his church here for the one he currently preaches at in Dallas so that he could get a bigger paycheck and more exposure.

This is such a heresy that the Spirit has abandoned these churches and they mock God by infant baptism (warning: nevertheless every infant baptism is valid, because God is the invisible Baptist; even the Catholic infant baptism is valid, although the RCC has completely turned apostate from the real faith).

And so they abandon church in droves.

I do not believe that God has abandoned the church or that the church is so compromised that it is incapable of witness.

It's not a virtue to abandon church.

No, it's not a virtue to abandon the church, but I claim it's not a virtue to stay either.

Love this, «No, it's not a virtue to abandon the church, but I claim it's not a virtue to stay either.

But for Luther, the priesthood of believers was not an excuse to abandon the church, but rather described the shape of life in communion with the body of Christ and the family of faith.

I set up the meet - up at an abandoned church in the Haight.

Or, rather, there is oil under an abandoned church in the ghost town of Coltsville.

Here, the shaven - headed, nervous Leth navigates the crowded way from where he lives in an abandoned church to his job, passing endless adverts (who doesn't want to join the Church Of Batman The Redeemer?)

A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.