Sentences with phrase «who are in churches»

How would you encourage people who are in churches which are not really involved in their communities?
I never felt free to be who I am in church because according to what they teach in the Bible I am cursed, have a demon, or something else.
We know who the baptized are... and we know who's in church... but we can not know who belong to Him... and who doesn't.
This is evident to us who are in the church.
I have made, and continue to make, good friends who are in the church, but it's just not a spiritually nourishing place for me anymore for many of the same reasons as your post.
Funny that in so many places, it's the women and children who are in church wishing that the father were there, too.
We're very rigorous in not allowing people who are in another church to come to us — to the point I've escorted people off the premises because they say they already go to another church!»
He should fear God and watch what he says and how he says it... The scripture teaches to judge those who are in the church... not those outside of the church... he may end up with an electric fence around his church even though there is no need... he is not reproducing Christianity anyway...
The people who is in his church does not know this guy is Jim Jones.
In a group a Atheist can be just as happy declaring that God does not exist and any one that does not believe them is wrong as a person who is Faithful who is in a church or just simply in the presence of other Faithful.
And some of the people who don't understand are people who are in church every week and maybe even active in some of the ministries, but they take little to no interest in what it takes to keep the ministry of the church going.
In this case, that mastery too often turns Father X into a kind of ringmaster whose verbal antics, presumably intended to make the Mass more user - friendly, are a distraction from that toward which the Church's worship aims, according to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council: «The liturgy daily builds up those who are in the Church, making of them a holy temple of the Lord, a dwelling - place for God in the Spirit, to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 2).
Its seed was an encounter with Christ whose first words immediately and intimately associate himself with those people Saul is persecuting - a revelation that is of the Christ who is in the Church.

Not exact matches

Churches says men who are in a position to hire should not be afraid to add more women to their team.
Hala Moddelmog, who was president of Church's Chicken in the 1990s and Arby's from 2010 to 2013 — two Atlanta - based fast - food empires — said Goldman's announced expansion in Atlanta didn't come as a shock.
Last week, HBO released a documentary on the Church of Scientology (COS), called Going Clear, which was watched by 1.7 million people (not counting those who streamed online), more than any HBO documentary in nearly a decade.
No deportation order has been filed against Loreto's husband and their two sons, who lived at their home in Tucson while she stayed at the church, Cowan has said.
That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.
The newspaper wouldn't shy away from investigating Amazon either, added Baron, who was immortalized in the Oscar - winning movie Spotlight, which dramatized the investigative reporting project he oversaw at the Boston Globe, exposing a molestation scandal at the Catholic Church.
Rob Bell is a Christian leader who once pastored Mars Hill, one of the fastest - growing churches in America at the time.
That case dealt with two members of the Native American Church in Oregon, who were fired from a drug rehabilitation clinic and denied unemployment benefits for eating peyote as part of a religious ceremony.
Much to the disappointment of his mother, who was getting the family ready to attend church, Iovine made the trip from his parents» apartment in Brooklyn to the Record Plant in Manhattan — where he found that the client was John Lennon.
Another pioneer in this field is George Church, a genetics professor who's been working at Harvard Medical School since 1977 and running his own lab since 1986.
From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the federal relief efforts thus far.
In a speech at the Magnolia Springs Baptist Church, Moore said he was being attacked by «the Democrats who push a liberal agenda,» as well as «the Washington establishment.»
It has gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.
Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.
When I was a believer I was very critical of those, perhaps in the charismatic churches, who seemed to do just that, «self - manufacturing an anointing».
There are growing concerns for the wellbeing of an Orthodox Church leader in Eritrea who hasn't been seen in public since he attended mass at a church last mChurch leader in Eritrea who hasn't been seen in public since he attended mass at a church last mchurch last mont...
If you are claiming to be in the «body of Christ» and the «institutional» church is not, maybe you have something to offer about who Christ is, what he did and what it means, and you might be able to do it during the week where the west commemorates it.
The Catholic Church teaches that everyone who has a heartfelt religious belief and practices whatever belief it is, accepts Jesus Christ in their own way.
Even those who are interested in the ordinary form are getting fed up with the kinds of things that are going on in the Church.
I don't see Christians as more honest, more faithful in marriage, less violent, more giving, more polite, or more anything than the millions of people who are indifferent to religion and who only go to a church if there is a wedding or a funeral.
In this regard, patriarch Bartholomew and metropolitan John Zizioulas are notable exceptions, who staunchly oppose Orthodox fundamentalism and manifest a greater openness of the church leadership to the world.
In other words, I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ, can do the work for the person who has died by being baptized for him.
In fact, many would say that it is the Nuns who are pursuing a life of Christ - like service, and it is the Church which has lost its way among the distractions politics.
I have been encouraging friends to attend — I've never been in a church that felt healthier for me or the people around me (okay — my kids are resistant, when we don't go regularly, but it seems very healthy for all the people I know and love who attend).
@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?
Our service is an outreach to the community, for people who have been hurt by church in the past, non believers, people who are feel they are outcasts, etc.We run with no budget, all the offering goes to a need in the community, tonight its going to a senior that lost everything in a house fire.
The movement's website features personal stories of women who are usually the only head coverers in their churches, as well as arguments from scripture to support the practice.
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.
The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.
However, many «General Authorities», or leaders who serve full - time in the church are compensated in some way if they require it for living expenses etc..
Welcoming her comments, Stewardship's chair of conferences, Rev David Senior, said: «The Minister has also invited responses from churches and charities and is keen to hear from those who might feel that are facing difficulties in their relationships with national or local Government, or government agencies on the ground of their faith.
How about we get some LARGER FONT LARGER GRAPHICS front - paged stories on Romney being a Bishop in the Mormon church who had some pretty abhorrent policies before 1980, while Romney was a member, including the exclusion of black men from the priesthood up until Mormons were pressured to remove that provision in 1978.
(CNN)-- CNN's Brooke Baldwin spoke to Barbara Johnson who says a priest denied her communion at her mother's funeral Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland because she is a lesbian.
We need to be aware of wolves in sheep's clothing, who wish to tear the Church down and take disciples with them.
The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...
-- I am more convinced in the power of volunteers who are paid in another profession but are extremely talented and gifted for the Church.
What will be said of the church's effort to reach out to those who are in need in this crisis?
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