Sentences with phrase «told by churches»

They can only repeat what they've been told by churches and its leaders.

its frustrating because i feel i need to explain to them my reasons for changing my beliefs and they just want to stick with what they are told by the church and i'm the black sheep.

I was told this by the church — but anger was generally expressed from the pastor in a more passive agressive way...

Repeatedly Hauerwas and his students have been told by church members that they are drawn to a vision of discipleship at odds with a world bent on violence, but that they need some more accessible materials, if not an outright plan of action.

When Driscoll was told by his church that he needed to take a sabbatical and take some time for personal healing... for example, for his domineering spirit... he quit instead.

Not exact matches

«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

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.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

You can tell a lot about the Church by the fact that they are upset the nuns are too focused on helping needy people and not focused enough on gay bashing.

The Bible also tells us that man is a sinner... and that the Church will be persecuted from within and from without by sinners.

Our founding fathers knew this well when they told Religion to stick it in its ear by separating church and state.

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.»

Bombarded on one side by a media and culture that urges them to have uncommitted sex at any opportunity, and on the other by a Church that tells them sharply that they should not (but they should get married and have a family), it can be a struggle.

By giving benediction in 1930 to its married heterosexual members purposely seeking sterile sex, the Anglican Church lost, bit by bit, any authority to tell her other members — married or unmarried, homosexual or heterosexual — not to do the samBy giving benediction in 1930 to its married heterosexual members purposely seeking sterile sex, the Anglican Church lost, bit by bit, any authority to tell her other members — married or unmarried, homosexual or heterosexual — not to do the samby bit, any authority to tell her other members — married or unmarried, homosexual or heterosexual — not to do the same.

Luke tells us that as a boy he «grew in his wisdom» (Lk 2:52), but the Church has taught that this means «his human nature was instructed by his own divinity» (Jerome) or that while remaining divine «he made his own the progress of humans in wisdom and grace» (John of Damascus).

The entire position of the Catholic Church is that, by the Authority of God, they can tell their followers how to act, think, feel, and believe.

or the church helping to spread HIV / AIDs by telling people not to use condoms.

The end of such back - door funding, says Siefkes, was signaled last April by ELCA secretary Lowell Almen, who told the Church Council: «The candy store of the churchwide organization must now close.

Alan Charter, Scripture Union's Head of Evangelism and a Director of Children Matter told Christianity magazine, «There's lots of fantastic work being carried out by churches.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

When we decided to leave that church, I was told by the pastor's wife that we could not be friends anymore because I wasn't committed to them, that I had been like a «live - in girlfriend» because I had been fellowshipping with them and had decided to leave them.

Now, I am told by friends, that this book,» I am a Church Member», is going to be taught in small groups at the cChurch Member», is going to be taught in small groups at the churchchurch.

The next time you see him, you tell him you missed him at church, and you ask him what happened, and he just evades the question by saying that something came up.

She was told by another woman in church that my mom «smiles in men faces,» and worst part of it all is that she actually believes it!

I was at a church service a week ago when the guest preacher started off by telling the crowd that he was going to offend us.

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

Beware the man that tells you that all your disposable time, and your assets, should be sacrificed to advance the mission of the church............ a mission defined not by God but by the man who claims to be his representative...... the pastor at your local mega church.

My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....

So stop telling me to join your church if you are an example of your church it is run by something other than the teachings of Christ.

Because the church previously attended told them that if they wanted to follow Jesus, they had to do it by attending church.

Jesus commanded it, the early church did it, and Paul the author of Romans was told by Ananias «And now, why delay?

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

Judge: So are you trying to tell me that because of this voluntary, one time gift by Abraham, that may not have even consisted of money, all Christians everywhere are obligated to bring 10 % of their weekly paycheck to a local church?

The Churches have become very rich by telling the lies in the bible.

St Peter was told by Jesus Christ that he was to be the «Rock» (Matthew 16; this is what the name «Peter» means, his original name was Simon) on which he would build his Church.

It is, indeed, something of an unusual event that an English bishop should base himself so firmly, not merely on the odd bland quotation here and there from whoever the current pope happens to be, in order to camouflage the true nature of some firmly secularist initiative, but on the spirit as well as the letter of entire magisterial documents, not least the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself — which, it will be remembered, we were all told by Bishop David Konstant was not for the likes of us, but for the bishops to read so they could tell us what was in it.

Rev Scott Rennie, who is the first openly gay minister appointed by the Church of Scotland, told Premier it's an important day for the Church.

In a lecture on «The Renewal of the Inner City Church,» Jim Wallis told a group of pastors true stories of declining inner - city churches that had, by the grace of God, rediscovered their mission and begun to thrive.

By his definitition, that means I could ask Jesus into my heart at a church camp, make a concious decision to leave the church, spend my entire life raping and murdering children, get shot down by my drug dealer for stealing, and then appear before God where he tells me: «Well done my good and faithful servant!&raquBy his definitition, that means I could ask Jesus into my heart at a church camp, make a concious decision to leave the church, spend my entire life raping and murdering children, get shot down by my drug dealer for stealing, and then appear before God where he tells me: «Well done my good and faithful servant!&raquby my drug dealer for stealing, and then appear before God where he tells me: «Well done my good and faithful servant!»

You can tell a lot about a church by what it says on a Sunday morning, but you can tell more about a church by what it does outside of Sunday mornings.»

Having grown up as part of a conservative evangelical church, I was taught as far backas I can remember to tell people about Jesus, to tell them that by inviting Him intotheir hearts, they would be saved from the fires of Hell and instead spend eternity inheaven with Him.

He responded by telling me that his church had been observing Ash Wednesday for a long time, and the service has in fact grown.

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

We continue existing as the Church, continue to be who we are, precisely by the telling of this Word one to another.

And after all, what can I expect when, as a church leader, I quit and tell the pastor I can't stay and listen to him preach because it makes me want to throw up — and refuse to preserve the image of the church by lying to protect a sexual predator in the pulpit.

However the director of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs at the World Council of Churches, Peter Prove, told Al Jazeera that some of the numbers used by Pence «may be questionable».

In the name of this theology (which is in part that of the World Council of Churches), Christians are induced to participate unreservedly and with a good conscience in political or scientific action; for, they are told, whatever evil there might be in such action will necessarily be overruled by the good.

Don't even begin to tell me you don't invade churches — mine was invaded in July by «Gentle Christian» people with ties to domestic terror.

The next time you encounter someone who has «left the church» or «rejected God» rather than tell them that they need to come back, instead, strike up a conversation by asking them what happened, or why they made the decision they did.

«full of BS organized religion is» the book of 1st Timothy Chapter one tells us about how Satan was trying to inflitrate the church through devil following people, and possible believers led astray by the devil.