Sentences with phrase «with ideas of the church»

I struggle with the idea of church.

It's surprising to me how many Christians struggle with the idea of church attendance.

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When our fore fathers came up with the idea of seperation of church and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverchurch and state it wasn't to keep religion out of the government it was to keep the Church from running the goverChurch from running the government.

While i don't agree 100 % of everything she said, i agree with her general idea that we need to stop chasing after what's cool and what will draw the most church members and start chasing after serving the poor, following Christ, doctrine, outreach, santification, and, specifically, God.

Gay rights campaigner Dan Savage said the idea that churches send out an anti-gay message «totally jibes with my experience and that of millions of other gay and lesbian people.»

His idea of balance was to give equal time to opinions supporting and opposing the Church's teaching, leaving readers with serious doubts as to which side America was on.

Only when this loosely held notion of unity in diversity is held in tension in a community of love can we tolerate, even with wit and a slightly ironic eye, the idea of corporate worship, communal learning, organized fellowship, and the traditions of the church.

Actually, the idea of reuniting with loved ones in Heaven was never a part of church doctrine until relatively recently — the afterlife was all about being united with God.

Having regularly flirted with ideas of meditation and transcendence, in 2012 he married and later divorced popstar Katy Perry (formerly a Christian recording artist and the daughter of two American church pastors, Keith and Mary Hudson) in a traditional Hindu ceremony.

In a calmer, more reflective tone years later, Madison expressed satisfaction that the idea of separation of church and state that he promoted and built into the 1st Amendment allowed those with different beliefs to flourish:

In this relationship, the man plays the role of Jesus, while the woman plays the role of the church, so that the world will see their covenant relationship to one another and have an idea of what it is like to be in a right relationship with God.

I can tell you when I sat in the grass with Doug Pagitt in 1996 (I think) and he was dreaming of starting his church and the ideas and desire to be real and true and different... I believe the intention was authentic... then ego, greed, status, book deals, money and the inability to admit a flaw messed him up.

Perhaps, all the hullaballoo around the idea of church is created because words have been mistranslated or replaced with others to promote an agenda.

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).

In Darby's thought, Millennialism combined with restorationism to provide an inner logic for the idea that the church had fallen and that a new church was needed, preparatory for the imminent return of Christ.

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.

I said that they had better bask in the glory while it lasts because sure as one breathes, there will soon be others walking through those doors with their own ideas of how the church should operate and it will no doubt start up all over again.

And as it turns out, though many of the believers in these churches know their Bibles well, few of them actually live out what they know in their day - to - day lives, nor are they reaching out with the gospel, which challenges the idea that these sorts of churches are actually doing a good job making disciples.

It's a readable, practical handbook with sermon ideas for all the Sundays and principal feast days of the Church's year, following all three cycles of the Scripture readings.

He identified the Church with the cause of the poor, with the longing for peace and decency between people of different beliefs and ideas, with large and noble aspirations, with sorrow for sin and with hope for the future.

In the church, people of Candace Cameron Bure's doctrinal slant tend to point towards a few passages of Scripture (particularly Ephesians 5:22 - 24, Colossians 3:18 - 19, and 1 Peter 3:1 - 2) as justification for the the idea of a husband as absolute head of the home with his wife in submission to his leadership.

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).

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

For him the development of doctrine does not simply derive from progress in thought and ideas, but is an aspect of deepening in being and communion of both mind and heart with God in Christ, which is the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early in the book that he can only speak for the mainline denominations with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only speak for his observations of the churches / leaders with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.

But such an objection would only prove that Christians have frequently been wrongly educated, that they have unintentionally been imbued with the idea that they are allowed to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the authorities of the Church and that one has less confidence in the power of the gospel and its grace than in detailed external moral prescriptions.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rChurch's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

Just as you rightfully point out that the early Church didn't have NT scriptures, maybe they didn't have the idea of a «relationship with Jesus» either.

The vague and sprawling nature of the phrase «faith and morals» fosters the idea that pope and bishops are equally and univocally competent on matters concerned with faith and morals.This would be particularly the case in a church conceived in a highly centralized and authoritarian way.

In both of these strictures, the role of theological ethics or moral theology in practical theology was minimized, and the idea that practical theology dealt with the church's attempt to influence the order of the public world subsided.

I struggle to with the idea of salaried pastors, to the point of no longer attending church.

Nancy, In the church I was in, some people did put forth some wacky ideas that the leadership thought not worthy of pursuing, so they dealt with them accordingly.

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.

And while he toyed with the idea of leaving the church to follow Jesus, he decided to stay and rebuild the church from the inside out.

I have several notebooks full of ideas on things churches could be doing to share Jesus more effectively with the world, to do a better job in making disciples, to help children grow up and «stick» with Christianity, to make the services more meaningful, to help people connect with God, to develop real and genuine friendships within the church, and on and on.

The idea of having our own church was forced due to whites not wanting to have a place of worship with people of darker skin tone.

I love the idea of a church with no vision.

Their backward ideas need to be relegated to the trash heap of history.Also, their churches need to be taxed, and their religious books all need to come with a warning label: «Contents consists of mythology only.

I was going to ask what possessed you with the idea of going to a mega church anything, but then I read your comment about having good experiences with something similar in Texas.

Sanneh says «syncretism represents the unresolved, unassimilated and tension - filled mixing of Christian ideas with local custom and ritual, and that scarcely results in the kind of fulfilling change signaled by conversion and church membership.

When the Catholic church is evolving with the world faster than your ideas... You are probably on the wrong side of history...

Abandoning a belief in God will cause some resentment towards those who have been telling you about God, sharing the idea of «God» with you, and participating in «church» or «prayer.»

If the minister undertakes to encourage and implement the crazy - quilt variety of ideas in the average congregation of what the church should be doing with its members and resources, he or she soon finds that these ideas are competitive rather than complementary.

This speculative but extremely old idea is why the Church, for much of its history, did not know what to do with the Jews.

Robert A. Schneider writes of the new idea of «church federation» which prospered with the Federal Council (after 1908) and National Council of Churches (after 1951).

Essential to this is the idea of magisterium, seen as the fulfilment of the promise of Christ «I will be with you always» so that in the Church, the Word «certain in all His ways» is ever present.

And through all this came the emergence of the idea of a new Kerygma, a new way of proclaiming the Gospel to people who, living in a culture formed by centuries of Christianity, had nevertheless lost all effective contact with the Church.

Imagine what a blessing it would be for the Church, were a large and vital group of reformed Catholic traditionalists — freed from harmful ideas and fully accepting Vatican II (rightly interpreted) and the Novus Ordo — were to fully reconcile with the Church, and not do anything to betray the Vatican's good faith, once re-united.

In the 17th century, the ideas of the Reformation were spreading throughout the world and the Church did not accept very graciously the new scientific ideas that mixed themselves with God and religion.