Sentences with phrase «very little church»

Though church people (particularly alumni) support church colleges individually, very little church money as such goes to colleges.

If it is in danger of being destroyed by impact with a comet, or something of that sort, there is very little the church can do about it.

I applied to study on the foundation course at Moorlands College, having had very little church experience.

Not exact matches

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a cChurch of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a churchchurch.

The very day I read about Robin thicke and Miley cyrus I read a «sweet» little post from a Grandma about her little 3 yr old grandaughter «shaking her booty» in the Christmas play at their church.

You have very little understanding of the Church's beliefs.

And these have changed very little since the beginning of the Church.

Yesterday, a little Twitter feud (the best and most official sort of feud) started when A Year of Biblical Womanhood author Rachel Held Evans tweeted about The Nines — a very popular annual online church leadership conference.

The Roman taxman could not tax Christian churches because much of what they did was in secret and the churches took in very little money in the form of contributions.

But still, it appears that even these few hours spent on «church» accomplishes very little.

Some of the older churches that are works of art themselves I can look past, but this was a purely modern building with very little artistic expression.

To say the church is non-transitory shows that you know very little about the history of your own religion.

But it had very little effect on the School of Theology at Claremont as an institution, and our graduates have had very little effect on the church as an institution.

This approach tends to generate lots and lots of numerical growth in a church, but very little deep spiritual growth.

Christianity in America is very much AFRAID that they will become like the churches in Europe, and be little more than social clubs.

Because there are others who believe the same way I do, and we have the best Bible scholars, and the best seminaries, and the biggest churches, and the most authors, and our missionaries are very active overseas, and we agree with most of the teachings of the church throughout history... at least since the Reformation anyway... and I believe that with time, and a little education of how to really study the Bible, people will eventually see that what I believe is the right way to believe.

I obviously know very little about what goes on in your church but I would think if you are as authentic in church as you are here than how would there be any difference for a person?

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

It is also very little understood even within the Church despite having existed from Apostolic times.

The Holy Spirit has sustained the Church through good times and bad, through persecution and imperial power, through the centuries before the Christian Bible was fully assembled, through the assembling of that Bible, through the centuries when most Christians had very little access to the Bible, through the centuries when many American Christians have multiple versions of the Bible on their bookshelves and multiple Christian denominations in their hometowns.

You may be repeating what your trusted pastor told you from the pulpit or know very little about life outside of church.

The woman has very little say since she is not allowed to ask a boy out or date in many of these courtship churches.

Incidentally, although evangelical media have been analyzed (Hoover 1988), very little research has been done on communication patterns within Churches.

As it turns out, very little of the 51 % of the church budget for «missions» goes toward serving the poor and helping the needy in the community.

Moreover, only very little in the constitution of the Church is really of immutable divine law, and this law itself will inevitably exist in concrete historical forms which are not simply unchangeable.

Though 1 Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings, it has very little to do with the love between a man and a wife, and everything to do with how a church can function as the Body of Christ.

In this column, Ben Lowe remembers the little known but very steadfast Larry Gibson, a resident of the Appalachian Mountains who devoted his life to protecting the mountains he loved, and who motivated churches to join him.

If you look back, very little was on CNN re: Jeremiah White's ANTI-WHITE Church, or Obama's ties (which haven't gone away).

I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship service I feel) and I talked about that church you posted about once — the one where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?

As to the former, popes have had none for more than a century; and as to the latter, while the financial resources of the Catholic Church as a whole are very large, the pope has direct command of very little of them, and even the entire budget of Vatican City is scarcely more than a mote in Bill Gates» eye.

By very little study, one can see that elders were always meant to shepherd the church, and always more than one.

When it comes to the «original recipe» for the church, there is very little disagreement on what it consisted of.

From them we get a good deal of information about Paul and the early Church, but very little about Jesus.

In the article «Do You Speak Christian» it would appear that the gentlemen you quote — Marcus Borg & Bill Leonard have much knowledge about «Church Christianity» but very little about «Jesus Christianity».

However, when we moved here we checked out lots of churches and could see very little difference between them in terms of focus.

(I do not mention Hans urs yon Balthasar, for all that he is at present very fashionable, because, notwithstanding the power of an extraordinary mind, it seems to me that he lived and thought a little marginally to the life of the church, in marked contrast to Ratzinger, who did his work always at the service of the church.)

Well great Skeptical Al, in that case I have very little disagreement with your church's socio - political views.

That committee has produced lots of reports, they have pointed out many areas that the Church needs to be looking at, and yet very little has been done.

The work of Catherine of Siena contains little of interest to add to our discussion with the singular and very important exception that she is in that select number of early voices to counsel the church to consider, in [118] its theology, what it means to take seriously the biblical notion that God is love.

He wrote that while «from the beginning, the church has structure, authority, and accountability» (p. 376), Luke says very little about such topics (p. 387).

Evidently you find yourself able to judge how much he knew and what he did and didn't do with very little knowledge of both civil and Church due process, canon law, changes in rules, education, and procedures etc..

They've even told him the «thinking has been done», so there is very little chance he / she actually did a thorough study of the church, it's history and it's prophets before deciding it was «the true church.»

I think there is very little in Scripture about the how of church.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

But because they have very little information about the Chinese churches, those Korean Christians can not understand the mission work of Chinese Christians within their own society.

Trying to tell this message to people in churches seems to do very little except split churches.

I know of very few churches that don't have at least a little diversity in terms of age and economic class.

One of the greatest crises that the modern church has been polluted with, is the very little importance correct context (in its original meaning) has.

But very little that is truly relational tends to go on in these churches.

Unfortunately, we see very little real effort to understand what it is like to be gay, what that means, and what it is like to be on the receiving end of the church's «love».