Sentences with phrase «unbelievers often»

However, dating and marrying unbelievers often creates long - term strain because of the vast differences in values and wordviews.

Yes, preaching to crowds of unbelievers often involves calling them to repentance, which may bring you harm, or even death.

I very much like Heather's main point, about the common strait in which believers and unbelievers often find themselves.

Yes, unbelievers often do not understand the things of God... bu then, many «believers» struggle with this as well.

Unbelievers often view Christians as phonies; we preach the love of Jesus, then kick a few outcasts along the way.

Not exact matches

The unbeliever in churches I have frequented too often hear LESS of the truth (I heard the truth of my spiritual condition and was convicted when I went to church as an unbeliever) and too much effort is made NOT to offend.

On the other hand, the «supra - rational» faiths often do not commend themselves to people of liberal intelligence nor lend themselves to ready communication to unbelievers.

We often hear about unbelievers having God - shaped holes in their lives which they try to fill with everything else but God.

As a full time pastor of a local church who loves the Church and God's people and all people, I concur that the Church is often the biggest stumbling block in the potential life of faith in an unbeliever.

Clive, you point out how others often don't understand what Jesus was saying; but while Jesus often labors to try and make things clear to the unbeliever («Oh, you of little faith) or at the very least the author tries to make it clear for us in retrospect (At the time they didn't understand that he spoke of this...), in this case Jesus switches from something that might be figurative to essentially say «no, I seriously mean this» and it concludes not with Jesus saying «don't go away, this is what I actually mean» but confirming that people would refuse to accept that God intended for them to actually fill themselves with the life that He offered so they stopped following him.

And it is also the reason why so many unbelievers mock Christians — because Christians are often fiercer than wolves, despite the fact that Jesus told his disciples to be innocent as doves.

I can see smirks spreading across the faces of unbelievers and confess to having invoked the other principle process philosophers so often use: the «god» principle.

Jesus often spoke in parables when the multitudes were listening, and in such situations, He wanted to instruct the believers, but hide the truth from the unbelievers.

I have often said that the Christian's vocation in the world, and especially in politics, is that of dialogue, not merely the dialogue of Christian and unbeliever, which is banal, but the dialogue of enemies and of those who do not understand one another, in which the Christian can play the role of bridge or interpreter, helping them to understand one another.

We often think about discipleship being only for believers, but what about discipleship and the unbeliever?

In my previous church where unbelievers would attend for up to a year before becoming a believer, those new believers would often be far more advanced in their walk with Christ than many of those who had been believers for years.

Dating for teenagers often damages their witness to the unbelievers in their school.