Not exact matches
All the foregoing is why
people who are «
unchurched» find Christians judgmental, don't you think?
They want to plant churches for
unchurched people, and especially for those
who will not ever go to a traditional church.
If we demand that anyone
who enters our church cleans up their language to commonly accepted Christian standards even before they step into the building, we create another barrier for «
unchurched»
people.
I might privately believe that my position was the «only» truly Christian one, and I might publicly do all I could to persuade
people of its truth, but I would be unjustified in seeking to
unchurch or to deny the name of Christian to those
who disagree with me.
Finally, the language of worship needs to incorporate more modern images relevant to a large population of
unchurched younger
people who do not have world views like our own.
We shall see how important the creeds and other summaries of belief have been to many Christians,
who have
unchurched those with whom they disagreed and at times persecuted
people whose opinions were regarded as unorthodox, whom they called heretics.
People who are
unchurched may be touched deeply by the power of God's promise and even more specifically by Jesus» personality.
But when I proposed that there may be many
unchurched people out there
who are unwilling or afraid to enter a church building because of unfamiliar practices and forms of worship, the students sat up and took notice.
While in most audiences of religious programs there is a percentage of
people who are
unchurched or
who indicate little interest in religion in general, it needs to be noted that this percentage is consistently small.
Are the programs viewed by
people who are otherwise nonreligious or
unchurched?
We had a
person on our staff a couple of years ago
who came here because he wanted to be part of a church that reached
unchurched people.