Sentences with phrase «typical church»
When he quotes the Bible, it's not a «typical church maneuver» for him, but flows from a real trust in what it says to bring healing and wholeness.
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The bottom line is that this new breed of church planters looks at who the typical church rejects or shuns, and says, «Those are the people I want to hang out with.»
«this new breed of church planters looks at who the typical church rejects or shuns, and says, «Those are the people I want to hang out with.
No price is too high for the single soul, and a lot more goes on in the typical church than just seeking conversions.
People who would never attend a typical church are attending here, and are coming to faith in Jesus.
I work with a lot of guys who would show up at something like this in a heartbeat, but would never darken the door of a typical church.
For example, have you ever noticed that the true «prayer warriors» of the typical church rarely come to «Prayer meetings»?
It is for the rugged, individual man who wouldn't be caught dead in a typical church.
The heart of the typical church is the Sunday morning service.
OK, I just didn't get the sentence «have you ever noticed how the true «prayer warriors» of the typical church never come to «Prayer meetings»?»
(It seems totally disingenuous to me) There are many things I have rejected in the typical church setting and as such have left completely.
The typical church requires that a person believes the same way they do before they will allow that person to feel accepted in their fellowship or to get involved with service in and through the church.
What I found most refreshing about the book is that the authors are not trying to criticize, judge, or condemn the way the typical church functions today.
I am becoming more and more convinced that if we look around at our friends and acquaintances, and none of them have any serious problems (more serious than what is shared in the typical church prayer meeting), we probably have not followed Jesus very far down the path of discipleship.
Should the typical church group be thought of as a form of group therapy?
Instead of a typical church fundraiser - perhaps a bake sale - Friends Church's leadership proposed a feature film shot on location on two sides of the globe and with a powerful message about the $ 32 billion world slave trade.
«The typical church organizational structure tends to segregate women's ministry as an autonomous unit — a mysterious kingdom that operates according to its own set of rules.»
There are an awful lot of ways to grow, be challenged, and practice loving God, others, ourselves that do not look like the typical church.
Anyway, I have already realized that it would be nearly impossible to plant a typical church in area of New York.
A visitor at one of the meetings of a typical church at the middle of the first century, hearing the name of Jesus spoken again and again, would, I believe, have received three impressions: he would have gathered that Jesus was a person remembered; that he was a person still known as a living reality by the members of the group; and that he was a person about whom certain important theological ideas were held.
If Jesus were to show up at the annual meeting of the typical church when the church budget is analyzed and discussed, He would probably sit in the back and wait for the pastor or one of the elders to ask His opinion on the church budget.
My wife used the example of a typical church - missionary relationship.
Most churches I know, even those who proclaim grace the loudest, would require some radical life changes to occur in the lives of such women before they were made to feel welcome in the typical church.
He found that to really reach people who wouldn't step foot in the typical church, he had to radically change the way the church looked and functioned.
A typical church gathering is not a public setting in which there are more unbelievers than believers.
Typical church - council undertakings were hospital and campus chaplaincies, teacher training, women's activities, social services planning, radio and television production, and research and planning.
Clark reflects the typical church attitude towards suffering: get over it already will you please so we can get on with the program?!
In a typical church maneuver, Clark pulls out the scriptures, specifically Ephesians 4:29, that we should only speak words that are edifying, fitting and gracious.
I agree that this is why the typical church meets on Sunday, but the example of the early church does not mean that this is when all future churches should also meet.
I think some people do have these conversations in church, but usually, a typical church has already decided what they believe on this topic, and you can either agree or find a different church.
We used to smirk and say that the typical church «coddled the saints.»