(The Utah delegation for the Libertarian Party lied
when they said the church and state were separated by a street.
Church business is everyone's business when the church is attempting to dictate equal rights and
when said church is harboring criminals and not paying their share of taxes.
John Smith was on to something
when he said the church ought to be more like an Irish pub.
And
when I say the church I mean the people.
When I say church I do not mean the Roman Catholic Church, but any church that submits itself to the authority of God's Word and teaches the gospel of Jesus Christ.
So
when I say a church is healthiest without vision, I mean it purely and simply.
To him was given more revelation about the church (and
when I say church I mean the body of Christ) than anyone else.
Deb, I think you might be on to something there
when you say the church has changed too much.
And,
when I say church, I am not referring to any building or denomination.
BTW
when I say Church, I am not thinking of any one denomination or body and that they get it right — rather I'm evoking all of the bodies, traditions and denominations and holding onto the tension of our differences.
Not exact matches
American Association of University Women CEO Kim
Churches says when such behavior happens in the workplace it's an issue everyone should speak out against.
«There is no bells of the
church to wake us up or... tell us what day to stop working and pay attention to our families and our children, no shabbat to tell us
when we should be making love to our partners; it's all on us» she
said.
«I try and speak to
church pastors and leaders
when I can and have had some encouraging discussions,» he
said.
Quebec NDP MP Romeo Saganash
said he wanted to throw up after listening to two Catholic bishops at their news conference on the Hill on April 18
when they
said the Catholic
Church, as a...
The thinking may go like this» why bust my hump for people in the
church who don't care
when they
say they do?
And
when you
say, «chased out of the
churches,» what do you mean?
«
When I go (to
church) tomorrow and sing a hymn, I'm singing about that very fact that I have hated God this past week in my actions,» she
said.
Yet
when someone dies you all go to a funeral at
church and the minister
says he is saved.
I see this as part of a growing trend in the western world that is getting fed up with the ignorant, pretentious, number - crunching
church buildings that claim to be preaching gospel
when they're either preaching a list of do's and don'ts or they're preaching what's in demand, and im not
saying all
churches are like that but a lot are.
When Piers Morgan asks how much Kim is worth, she
says, «Whatever it is, I give 10 % away to the
church and that's what I was taught.
Cletus from Birmingham
says «I like it «cos it helps me meet purdy ladies
when I go to
church on sunday»
after a while they asked what
church we attended and
when we
said we did not, they asked us why.
«St. Sofia is the ultimate prize
when it comes to
churches in the whole former Soviet Union,»
said Serhii Plokhy, director of Ukrainian
church studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
The person
says, «Tell me the first thing that comes to mind
when I
say the following word:
Church.»
You must also not believe the Bible
when it tells us that Jesus Christ promises to guide and guard His
Church until the end of time [so that evil will not prevail] and that the Bible
says that Jesus Christ will bring His Apostles [which would include their successors] into remembrance of all that He taught them and He would bring them into the fullness of Truth as we can bear it.
In fact, let me quote the NP::» The issue of being gay in the
church is a very real issue today, one I wish to address and deal with,» ---- And so,
when you
say to me::: «you have a big thing about gays...,» David's words
say it all ------»... being gay in the
church is a very real issue today.»
«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited
when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the
Church is shown to have been false,»
says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who
says that the early
Church's stories of martyrdom were false.
And here I thought it was
when John Adams
said, «The United States is in no way a Christian Nation» that made the most supportive evidence of the distinct line between
church and state in this country.
So
when someone
says «I believe in God,» they are really
saying «I think God exists» and «I believe in religion,» but
churches need to get people thinking and
saying a phrase much strong than those in order to get them to do stuff like give the
church money, so they snagged «believe in.»
The ordained leaders of the
Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The
Church teaches...»
When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate
saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»
When the apostle Paul gave the requirements for elders, he
said, «If a man can not manage his own family, how can he take care of God's
church?»
The real question with which I am confronted
when I approach the sacrament of penance is whether I believe that Christ speaks the truth
when he
says that whatever the
Church shall loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
When I was religious, I was more worried about pleasing a god, following rituals, doing what the
church said to do.
All of you «ignorant» Catholics — you have it all wrong
when you
say the Catholic
Church does not believe in contraception - they do in fact — the Vatican approved it in 1951 — Pope Pius XII announced that the
Church will sanction the use of the rhythm method as a natural form of birth control.
«I love my
church and have a lot of faith, but culturally we haven't done a good job in dealing with people who are gay
when they face life challenges,» whether that be coming out, depression or struggles with suicide or illness, Fletcher
said.
Why didn't old St. Pete
say «what's a
church»,
when Jesus
said that?
I don't think God would think less of them... I don't have to go to
church every Sunday to have a relationship with God... I can sit in my backyard and listen to the birds and the wind and have peace and serenity and a conversation with him... The whole point is, we are not the ones that are supposed to judge anyone... that's his place... not ours...
when judgment day comes, he will be the one to
say welcome, or turn us away...
When they take back all the death and havoc they've caused, and finally get rid of all the «in
church» pedophiles, MAYBE we'll listen to what they have to
say.
Back in the 80s I think it was,
when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the
church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he
said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»
The Word
says also we shall have tribulation in this world but He has overcome the world — there will be a day of reckoning and the term gnashing of teeth I believe will be those who had the chance to believe and passed it up and
when they find out He is real and coming for His
church (believers) they will remember those times they
said no — very terrible to find out it was all true
When «everyone»
says or «everyone» thinks, it's almost a guarantee that one or two folks have their
church panties in a bunch.
But there is a different interpretation: that
when someone
says, «The
Church teaches that X is intrinsically wrong,» he is probably being a bit of a Pharisee.
Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the
church leadership
say more than a sentence to
when he did go with her to
church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.
What will really be brutal is
when he walks into the
church down the road and they
say, «Oh you poor sick, alcoholic.
Church leader Michael Green
said this past weekend
when he opened Premier Christian Radio's «Unbelievable Conference.»
Sorta like
when Atheist
say Christians hate Gays while ignoring the Gay Bishops, pastors and Gay friendly
churches.
How did God manage to let His
church go hundreds of years without direction and then need to be «restored»
when He
said not even the gates of hell would prevail against His
church?
I'm not «bashing» the Mormon religion, but rather explaining my personal criteria
when I
say I would never vote for a Mormon, because I've visited the Mormon
church when I was much younger, and deciding my own religious beliefs.
Of course it's not fair to
say this represents all
churches, but it does tell us what many people think
when they see such a sign.
When asked why they go to
church, many people
say that there they meet the kind of people they really like (people like themselves) or that the
church helps their kids learn morals.