Sentences with phrase «way about church»

Six other states felt that way about the Church of England.

I felt this exact way about the church prior to leaving it, just couldn't in my right mind bring people to a place that was becoming a thorough disappointment all around.

I haven't seen any indication at all either way about the church's self defense status.

David - thank you for this post - sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that we are the only person who feels this way about church» membership» - so good to read your thoughts on it.

Not exact matches

People ask me about what's happening at church or in our youth group in the same way they ask another person who's into motorcycles about his bike.

Yes, I whole heartedly dissagree with even the existence of the Catholic Church (though they are good for a laugh), something my Catholic wife and I have frequent conversations about (interestingly enough, I know WAY more about the tennets of her faith than she does).

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

And don't forget all the victims of Christianity's own Jim Jones... I'm certain you and all you Christian Extremists are in your churches, always trying to find ways to brainwash everyone into committing suicide like Jim Jones and have plans to blow up buildings like Timothy McVeigh and think about as well as act upon your perverted thoughts by molesting young boys... don't you?

I actually love the ministries of the churches I mentioned above but am concerned about this part and the way they represent God's call on one's life.

Everybody in their comment seems to think church is about them, or should be about them, or should be about people in some way.

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

My dad is one, and he's both moral and law - abiding, but he just doesn't care about what the church thinks and he's happy that way.

This woman is 100 % right about the hypocrisy of the church, and the fact that birth control and condoms actually support life in healthy sustainable ways.

These eight themes are meant to stretch the way we think about our lives and the churches we lead.

«Episcopalianism is our half - way house,» said one, «until the Catholic Church gets more realistic about its marriage rules.»

I'm about half way through «Reimagining Church» myself, and it's good.

But what the church is really about is a free ride and the only way to pull this off is to control the masses.

Your not one of those former mormons that are really bitter about life because of the way the church treated you are you?

So while yes, mercy is a theme of recent popes, and there is of course great popular devotion to Divine Mercy, I haven't seen the concept used in discussions about church policy in quite this way before.

The easiest way to do it is through absolutist claims about the separation of church and state, made as loudly as possible.

The way you find out about a religion is not listening to a bunch of bigots but by asking memebers of the church what they believe.

By the way, I am Catholic and understand all about the working of the church.

A simple way for church leaders to show that homosexuality is not shameful is by publicly inviting gay or same - sex attracted people to be open about it, and to assure them of a warm welcome and true acceptance if they are.

Another common way in which this seemingly revelatory phrase about the heart has hurt the church comes in the means of community.

Always needing to be right, always needing to be in charge and control, always too busy and self - centered for others and always trying to figure out ways that you can profit from God, the Bible, church and religion tells me who you are, in which case I care not what you think about what the Bible says, whether or not it is without error and so on.

I understand your points about the institutional church not being the ultimate way to serve Jesus.

It was the only way they could get the masses on board because the people were not about to give up their celebrations so the Church slapped Jesus on them and called them Christian holidays.

They don't seem to go out of their way to point out that Obama rarely goes to church, so they should drop the fake concern about his religion.

Which must mean they are wrong to treat me in such manner because if I haven't done anything to bring about church discipline, yet they treat me like I've been brought all the way through the process, then they are wrong.

There is no way of reporting to headquarters that Mrs. Jones came back to church after a year's absence because she was worried about her sick son, or that Bob Thomson suddenly upped his pledge because he was thankful for the success of his surgery.

One way: if there is guilt involved, or a feeling of inferiority about your church involvement, church is ruling you.

Let them know exactly how I felt about the way they were treating another child at church.

Today, websites are the primary way people get first impressions about your church.

Apparently, you get Thom Rainer to write a book about it, and get 23 prominent church leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» clchurch leaders and seminary presidents to endorse the book, and then price the book in such a way so that scared church leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» clchurch leaders all over the country will buy hundreds of copies of the book so they can hand it out to all the people in their «Church Membership» clChurch Membership» classes.

This is splitting up the church, not because people don't get their way but because the pastor doesn't appear to care about his flock.

An interview show about the nature of church leadership, the inherent struggles that come with that calling, and the many different ways God has shaped individuals to work within his church.

One of the ways we do this is by saying that the black church was all about civil rights when the reality is that it wasn't.

This has been such a taboo subject in the Church... and hopefully a time is coming when it won't be about «putting up with» people, but rather «persevering with» people on our journeys, regardless of where any of us start from or hardships we face along the way.

One of the things I love about the liturgical life of the church is the way that the Holy Spirit, quietly and gently, works on us.

ROOT THAT STUFF OUT, and find a way to communicate w / the church laity about it — or face the consequences.

The European Evangelical Alliance stated it was «extremely concerned» about how the law «greatly restricts religious freedom, and urged Christians to «pray that this new law unites Christians in new ways» and «pray that this time of trial will be used by the Lord to strengthen and grow his church.»

I spoke about giving and sharing, how living with other people means that we can not always have our own way and how in marriage, as in our families and churches, we must place the interests and needs of others above our own.

And that's not a dodge, it basically means that most of these people don't feel welcome in church, they don't feel like God loves them, so before we even talk about those things — which by the way, the church hierarchy and LGBT Catholics are way far apart on — we have to talk about the basics: i.e. God loves them; God created them this way; etc..

The target is, rather, those forms of broader modern liberalism which have produced certain ways of thinking about faith and the church which can be found in both conservative and in so - called «liberal» churches.

Last year when I visited the Episcopal rector down the street and asked to borrow a cup of ash, I explained that First Church had never used the stuff before and that I was a bit apprehensive about how the imposition of ashes would be received, even if performed in the traditional way.

I ALREADY know the answer... that's why I said what I said earlier... at MY place of worship (CHURCH by the way) pretty much everyone is liberal about that... cause they have recognized they have ability to tune people out

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

Philip Wood writes about the Walking Church in London, a way of following Jesus at a walking pace.

Thus such traditions become kerygmatic, not by appropriating the traditional language of the Church's kerygma, but in a distinctive way: They retain a concrete story about Jesus, but expand its horizon until the universal saving significance of the heavenly Lord becomes visible in the earthly Jesus.

By the way, for something horrific done by the Catholic Church more recently, how about this one....