Sentences with phrase «traditional churches trying»

In fact, some Indian experts think Western or traditional churches trying to impose their cultural form of Christianity could disrupt church growth even more than Hindutva extremism.

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It seems like you may be fighting against the grain in trying to doing church in a non-traditional way while being in a traditional context.

And we study and try to integrate the theology of the church — the traditional theology of the church.

And in the growing suburbs of Nashville, where New South mobility is bringing lots of non-Methodists into an old traditional Methodist church, another pastor reported: «Every year I try to do, after I do the confirmation class for the kids, a series of four to five weeks on United Methodist beliefs.

I claim that Vosper, rather than blowing her own horn or trying to make a buck off the church while she can — as some have accused — is actually working in the spirit of Bishop Pike to bring about this same honest re-examination of traditional beliefs, polity, and social awareness and action as someone who appreciates the tradition and all it holds dear, but only in a different way than the church would wish.

He describes the way the churches have tried to use media, then the way media have usurped many traditional religious functions.

Jeremy, Since I left the traditional church to explore more organic forms of church, preaching has been something I've tried to figure out as well.

The church has been abandoning its strategic locations within city cores and traditional neighborhoods and trying to create a new kind of society in the form of suburban megachurches.

By and large the church has been reluctant to venture far away from its traditional language because of the conviction that certain fundamental terms and concepts are indispensable to the Christian faith, and if the world does not want to try to understand them, then it is so much the worse for the world.

The Bolshevik regime thus tried to build a caricature of modernity through forced industrialization and a frontal assault on the traditional foundations of the Russian way of life: the peasantry, an independent intelligentsia, and the Orthodox Church.

Following Jesus led Sam and Cara to remain within a traditional church setting, but switch from one church fellowship to another, and led Alan to stay with his church and try to reform it from within.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

This thought of possibly leading the church into sin so terrifies people that they attempt to change nothing, and stick instead with the tried and true methods of traditional Christianity.

While it is quite possible that the tried and true methods of traditional Christianity are exactly what Jesus wanted for the church 1900 years ago, or 1500 years ago, or 500 years ago, or even 50 years ago, what Jesus wants for the church may be very different today.

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If you're tried of traditional dating and have had no luck meeting someone via friends, family, church groups, and other places, you can try online dating, as millions have already done.