Sentences with phrase «when church»

Gone are the times when their church bus could chauffeur them right up to the door of the polling station and get them back home right before their soaps started for the day.

It is another matter when the Church appropriates someone else's Bible altogether.

Hauerwas reminds us of writings in which he has talked about cooperation with others in the search for justice, and he now flatly asserts, «Something has gone wrong when the church is not learning from the world how to live faithfully to God.»

You complain when the church has them in parishes then you complain when they put them away.

It's big news and makes headlines when someone is accused, but you don't see much about it when the church actually steps up and does the right thing.

Is this the same thought pattern we see in churches when a church refuses to hold a leader accountable for abuse even if many innocent people suffer?

Even though we may not always like the Church's consensus, we must admit that when the Church exercises this function, it continues the communal character of the Bible which emerged as a community product in the first place.

The shades of Marcionism move lively again across the pulpit when the Church, for reasons probably sincere and rooted in a theology of the Word, is unwilling to take up the task of interpreting Scripture for specific contemporary settings.

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.

When a church constructs a palace for God in the middle of squalor, filth, sickness, death, and poverty, what are the people learning about God?

There is some evidence that when church - shoppers look for a church with lively worship and good preaching this includes a concern for moral values they can affirm.»

We live, it is evident, in a time of hostility when the church is imperiled not only by an external worldliness but by one that has established itself within the Christian camp.

The world has always been against the church, but there have been times when the world has been partially converted, and when the church has lived with it in some measure of peace; there have been other times when the world was more or less openly hostile, seeking to convert the church.

When the church emties out after services, none of the attendees look very happy.

But when the church awakens, only part of it will be equipped with what it takes to participate in the new life that Christ the bridegroom brings.

What about when church leaders turn out to be the pigs that trample your pearls under their feet, and turn again and rend you?

The Presbyterian minister «was standing, at the moment of the ruinous pang, on the first floor of the rectory, wondering if in view of the heat he might remove his black serge jacket, since no visitor was scheduled to call until after dinnertime, when the Church Building Requirements Committee would arrive to torment him with its ambitions.»

He took umbrage when the church dismissed him from his post and took the trustees to a tribunal, claiming unfair dismissal.

When our Church decided to run the Alpha course I was asked to join a team to pray before and during the meetings for those who were attending.

When the church arrives at the gates of hell, we will do the same thing Jesus did in His life and ministry.

Those propounding this idea of «conscience» urge us to recognize three things: that the spiritual and moral life is a journey; that when the Church teaches that some things are just wrong and no combination of intentions and consequences can make them right, the Church is proposing an «ideal» to which the most «generous» response may not always be possible; and that confessors and spiritual directors should be compassionate and discerning guides along the often rocky pathways of the moral life.

There was a time when the church was very powerful... the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed.

When the Church fathers came into contact with Greek philosophy, they could not assimilate the Greek concept of matter without significant change.

When the Church published Sister Lucia's letter revealing the final secret in 2000 the Fatimists were dismayed, especially when its original was included in a Vatican document and displayed on the internet.

I get a little uncomfortable when my church tells me how I ought to vote.

When the Church at Brook Hills hired David Platt as senior pastor this summer, he became one of the youngest megachurch pastors in the country.

When the church is continually circumscribed in its existence, then the end will be near.54

When the church refuses to listen to the Mind of Christ and speak what the Spirit is saying to the church, Jesus usually gets culture, art, and music to cry out for Him.

In this view the historical «conflicts» have been due to failure to observe this distinction, when the church attempted to prescribe technical conclusions, or when scientists made unwarranted interpretive statements.

It should not surprise us that when church expressions follow a similar pattern: missional ministry will look similar in (somewhat) similar cultures.

When the church forgets or neglects its mission, and focuses attention on itself and its domestic housekeeping, it loses its purpose and becomes like salt that has no savor.

Remember when the church taught that the earth was the center of the universe and the sun, moon and stars all orbited around us?

And so when a church suffers, one may see the strange reality of that church caught on fire as God transforms its people into the salt of the earth.

When a church and its leadership abuses you, they have given you something that is now totally yours.

When a church becomes involved and / or hires people to be involved in acts of theft, misappropriation, etc....

This self - consciousness of Christianity about its distinctive truth is understandable when the Church finds itself opposed by a demonic religion such as Nazism.

Worse still are the times when the church opts to camp together.

When the church begins to consider itself the Kingdom of God instead just a part of God's Kingdom, then advancing God's Kingdom becomes all about advancing the church instead of about relationships.

Although I believe that modern Christians can be instructed by biblical perspectives on church and family, I am not advocating a return to some earlier time when the church may seem to have been more faithful.

When the church was not lively enough with hope to live in the tension of the kingdom already here — but not yet — it missed the mark.

When the Church fathers were formulating their Christology they were constrained by the fact that they were Biblical literalists.

When the Church first got started, it was a grassroots movement of working class citizens in an occupied nation in a small corner of the Roman Empire.

I am not sure that churches can spend their money this way, since when a church spends money on «life» they are spending it on «church life» which is actually discipleship.

I also grew up in a time when the Church failed to teach Her people effectively, and as an adult, I began seeking the truth and the answers myself, and found everything I needed was right there.

@clinton — I was observing the hypocrisy of telling an atheist not to push their views on people when the church (and I'm not calling you out specifically)-- in general, pushes their beliefs on lots of people.

Manent shows in great detail the ineptitude that invariably follows when the church attempts to think politically, to do the work the nation and its statesmen are supposed to do — just as the nation engages in tyranny based on psychological reductionism when it tries to displace the universal message of the City of God with some ideology or civil theology.

My favorite part of the story is when the church put her on probation.

The view that it is sinful for women to teach a man becomes even more difficult when church is defined biblically, rather than as a building where people gather on Sunday morning.

When the church issued the 1995 «Proclamation of the Family,» which highlights family and gender responsibilities, the idea was «nearly canonized,» Brooks said.

When the church teaches about baptism, one of the things it often says is that baptism is the first step of discipleship.