Sentences with phrase «who returns to church»

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In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta pastor who has received massive media attention since four young men accused him of sexual coercion last September, is entangled in a dispute with an entrepreneur over $ 1 million in investments that Long wants returned to his church members.

A priest has asked thieves who stole a ciborium as well as a tabernacle, chalices and other sacred items from a church «to repent and to return what they have taken.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

I think that Pope Francis is revitalizing the Catholic Church, giving lapsed Catholics, who left the Church because they were disenchanted by its hierarchical structure and penchant for lavishness, a reason to return.

In times past it was not unusual for those who disaffiliated from a church to return to church practice when they got married and started thinking concretely ow to raise their kids..

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

Some modern theologians are actually advocating a return to a church - sanctioned professional class of clergy who do all the Bible reading, teaching, preaching, and theologizing.

-- some missionaries may have a lifestyle that is more common to their home culture than appropriate, but I know many others that have made financial and personal commitments that impress me and should not be ignored; I think we should continue to honor that — the reality of the $ 10K that we all would want to invest in local evangelists often is only available after a «loo - see - visit» (or more) from a Western missionary who returns «home» for fundraising; that maybe sad, but is the reality — one serious issue to address in the African churches is the «colonialism» that is imposed -LRB-!)

If it's someone who has a strong tie to Catholicism, I would invite him to return to the church....

Let us openly confess that there is no possibility of our returning to a primitive Christian faith, and that the Christ who can become contemporary to us is neither the original historical Jesus nor the Lord of the Church's earliest proclamation.

There is much to love about evangelicalism, but lately I've been receiving a lot of messages from disenfranchised evangelicals who, after a break from church, are looking to return.

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

Why should a gay man or woman still repent, and return to God and his Church, when the secular society becomes a kind of pseudo-church where gays can be «happy» despite the absence of God's presence who is life and cure in himself (the great benefit of the true Church is the presence of God there who is life, cure and love in himself; the presence of God in the church causes real happiChurch, when the secular society becomes a kind of pseudo-church where gays can be «happy» despite the absence of God's presence who is life and cure in himself (the great benefit of the true Church is the presence of God there who is life, cure and love in himself; the presence of God in the church causes real happichurch where gays can be «happy» despite the absence of God's presence who is life and cure in himself (the great benefit of the true Church is the presence of God there who is life, cure and love in himself; the presence of God in the church causes real happiChurch is the presence of God there who is life, cure and love in himself; the presence of God in the church causes real happichurch causes real happiness)?

n Church of Spies, Mark Riebling provides readers with a comprehensively documented story of the Germans who worked to remove Hitler from power and return their country to its place in the civilized world.

The hope of all those who continue to attend mass and engage the issues of our time from a Christina stance is that the fallen and lapsed will return and bring their gifts, sorrows, energies and improvements to the Church.

Left - wing critics who had adopted Auden as their poet laureate now deplored his return to the church.

But this was in effect the swan song of the Q community, as it was absorbed into the gentile - Christian church, except for holdouts who returned to the baptist movement or to emergent normative Judaism, or became small Christian sects that we, on the winning side, call heresies: the Ebionites, meaning the «Poor,» or the Nazarenes, claiming Jesus of Nazara.

English Puritanism developed an anti-absolutist ideology because it found a relatively strong popular base among the laity but was opposed by the state church, which was closely linked to the king who gave it patronage in return for ideological support.

Most of our missionaries are recent college graduates who return to the college campus and invite students into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church and inspire and equip them for a lifetime of Christ - centered evangelization, discipleship, and friendships in which they teach other to do the same.

The only recovering Catholic is one who returns to Holy Mother Church.

Tom Peterson, president of Catholics Come Home, says some worshipers who've returned to the Catholic Church report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be weChurch report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be wechurch officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be welcome.

Does an agnostic house painter in New Orleans who was considering returning to the church decide now to stay away because of the accusations against Eddie Long?

People who try to go back and do what was done before (like churches to try to return to the «early church days»), are like actors who, when they get to the end of act 4 in they play, rather than start in on improvising act 5, decide that the best thing to do is just repeat act 4.

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

UCA news reported that Fathers Chen Jun, Gao Binglong, Ma Ning and Shen Xuezhong and several laypeople were assaulted by security officers and workers who came to demolish the property hat was returned to the church four years ago.

-- Two of the three witnesses who were excommunicated from the Mormon church later returned to the church after denying their testimony.

They are attended by students coming from many church groups who return on graduation to their denominations.

Our faith, our worship, and our life are all knit together in the fact of our Christian membership in the Church which is the Body of Christ; they are all part of our total response to the revelation of God in Christ and so they play, each one of them, an indispensable part in our movement of return to the God who is our Creator.

Then, each person is joined with someone from the Church who spends a few minutes getting to know them, gives them a Bible, a study guide, answers any questions they have, invites them to return to Bible study, further sermons, exchanges contact information, etc..

When the Christian Church speaks in language of Messianic expectation of the Christ who will come again in glory, the faith proclaimed is not primarily concerned with describing a descent of Christ from Heaven like an astronaut returning to Earth after a time in space.

«The time for the great reversal is at hand,» conclude Hartford Seminary sociologists David Roozen and William McKinney, whose recent study indicates that 42 per cent of the baby - boom generation are returning to church (reported in the January 21, 1987, issue of the Lutheran) Many people between the ages of 18 and 35 who attended church only occasionally before 1970 are now attending regularly, their survey shows.

By this logic, Messianic Jews who follow Torah are necessary to keep the church from returning to its anti-Jewish past.

«Those church leaders and members who fled into the forest to hide from the attackers are starting to cautiously return to the town.

One of the first divisions arose over persecution and how to respond to those who denied the faith to avoid persecution (including torture and death), and yet wished to return to the church.

When I returned to that church the following Sunday, two of the five people who had talked to me the previous week remembered me, but not my name.

But I do view my role as somewhat «prophetic» calling those within the church who have strayed from our primary purpose to return to what Jesus wants us to do.

And those who hope that the young and ignorant new believers needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the church returns to business as usual.

A bible that belonged to a Church of Scotland minister who helped save more than 2,000 soldiers during the Second World War has been returned to his former cChurch of Scotland minister who helped save more than 2,000 soldiers during the Second World War has been returned to his former churchchurch.

In 1935 the leaders of the Confessing Church who took a firm stand against the Nazi influenced Reich church asked him to return to Germany for establishing a seminary for their ministerial candiChurch who took a firm stand against the Nazi influenced Reich church asked him to return to Germany for establishing a seminary for their ministerial candichurch asked him to return to Germany for establishing a seminary for their ministerial candidates.

A spokesman who agreed to be identified only as a «church member» said that the church had attempted to reach out to the couple and that calls were not returned.

When we returned to the U.S. after this term of service, I could not sympathize with the church people who were quite concerned about the significant decrease in the number of UMC missionaries on the field.

No doubt, the Incarnate Word is never without witness, but we have little reason to believe that a Christ who has fully and totally entered the world could be known by a Church that refuses either to abandon its transcendent image of Christ or to negate its religious movement of involution and return.

Returning to World War II, McDonnell says it is hard not to envy the freedom of religious leaders such as William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Willem Visser» t Hooft, who would later head the World Council of Churches, to speak out forcefully and in very specific terms.

Later, in 1539, Luther read with delight Calvin's reply to Jacopo Sadoleto, a Catholic Reformer who was trying to persuade the Church in Geneva to return to papal obedience.

I have seen too much: — an arrogant pastor that told me to leave the grounds and slammed the church door behind him; another that told me «all bisexuals are promiscuous» and thought this was not bigotry nor prejudice; — a young well - meaning pastor that was my bodyguard once, and never returned to feed the poor in their tent - villages; — a wonderful older brother that helped feed the poor but was scolded by his church too many times for being corrupted by his friendship with me; — an elder with weight identity issues that had medical intervention who talked down to me since I had gender identity issues and medical intervention (I laughed during the meeting because the hypocrisy was amazing...); — an elder that was like Jesus without condemnation towards me, and amazing... but we had to meet in my home far away from his rejecting church.

As a person who had left Christianity and returned I had posed myself the very same question, and to answer it I feel it is important to address I think a common charge among nonbelievers, namely, what can one obtain from a church they can not obtain elsewhere.

Francis challenged the church of his day — not by conforming to the standards of the world but by returning to the pattern of Jesus, the one who did not seek status but humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on the cross (Phil.

What does break my heart is how many trans people I have met, and who write me, who share gut - wrenching stories of how they have been judged and told not to return to the churches they attended.