Sentences with phrase «whole idea of church»

Whether you are a skeptic, a seeker, a lifelong church - goer or new to the whole idea of church, you'll find a grace - filled community at Century Church ready to help you find your next steps spiritually.

If this positive view of celibacy is conveyed, «then we shall see the most distinguished among the younger generation fired up with the inspiration to feed the flock of God... and their deep hearts will grasp the whole idea of the Church and accept it into themselves as a living power» (p73).

Not exact matches

another example, a small percentage of Christians are called to sacredotal celibacy, but 99.9 % are encouraged to marry - there is no discrepancy involved, and they are not just some ideas in the bible that we pick and choose between to believe - there is one consistent and variegated holistic understanding off the whole bible to those who can reason well and who have minimal training that churches should be doing in sunday, but mostly are not.

I'm not going to say perfection is impossible, though it seems to be ruled out by 1 John 1:8, but the idea of a whole church of people thinking they are perfect kind of blows my mind.

The whole idea of the woman's place in some of the traditional / fundamentalist churches is part of why I ended up an Episcopalian.

Thus they are carried away by a whole complex of emotions and ideas; authentic spirituality, aspiration for a true church, suffering with the poorest of the poor; but also, sociological conformism, assent to commonplace notions, a bad social conscience (which relieves the individual of his responsibility), extremist and excessive simplification (for it must never be forgotten that recourse to violence is always and above all an act of inhuman simplification).

Social Christianity (which on the whole is simple socialism), the Bekenntnis Kirche (which, once Hitlerism was defeated, merely aligned itself with anti-Hitlerism, thus with what might be called socio - communism), the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr (which, while solidly thought out, affected neither church nor society)-- all have failed.

We must not be defeatist and cry that the whole Church is heading for disaster, but neither should we have the childish idea of a crazy avant - garde that the Church should move ever faster, that what has been achieved is nothing and that everything that is new in the Church is but a modest beginning leading to unheard - of things.

As I have been struggling with the whole idea of what church really is... I find that your writings in this area the most applicable to my station in life.

The whole idea of dogma — timeless, nonhistorical facts about God, Jesus, the church and so forth — had been completely undermined by the study of history.

Based on this idea of the church as a family, Richard Jacobson goes on to talk about church elders as facilitators, on how to carry out conflict resolution within the family of God, and a whole host of other related topics.

As the conception of the work of the ministry changes into the idea of the whole Church ministering so the conception of call changes into the idea of the called and the calling Church — always, of course, as Church under the authority of God.

The idea is foreign to the whole Catholic tradition, which is preserved in the Orthodox Church also: «There is only one Christ and so there can only be one Body of Christ...

But, nevertheless, in Western Europe there was the idea of one catholic or «whole» Church to which everyone could claim some sort of allegiance.

When I read about Calvin and others ideas on what Gods Word says, the Arminian, Lytheran, Wesleyan, Unitarian and various Church denominations and their interpretations, particularly when they hang their whole idea on one part of the Bible to prove how right they are, it affirms what I have always thought since before I was saved by God as well as after that amazing act of grace on His part, that man values and honors the mind far above the heart.

The whole idea of Saddleback expanding to what we call «strategic global cities», like London, is to establish base camps to resource churches that will go to other places around the world in mission.

These ideas, in marked contrast to the whole of Christian experience, have most recently been embraced by the church growth industry, which, together with its basically sociological approach, promotes those quintessential American values of pragmatism and consumerism.

As for the present, is the idea of new evangelization a sign of the totalitarian character of the Roman Church, if not of Christianity as a whole?

NP, I long for change in the church — I have to say I support the idea of finding our liberties in the way do this whole «church thing».

And praying that the tug of «should probably go to church» is a good tug, and one that makes you feel welcomed and open to the idea of this whole «Jesus thing».

«I did little kids in flower gardens and in church, little brothers and sisters on a swing, this whole romantic idea of Blackness.»

Just as 8 can be factored into 1 x 8 or 2 x 4, so can a more complicated idea like the work of Leonardo da Vinci be broken down into numerous possible equations, such as the influence of his master Verrocchio multiplied by the symmetry of Piero della Francesca, as well as the influence of the Catholic church, scientific discoveries and a myriad of other potential variables that have each contributed to the final whole.