Sentences with phrase «with members of a church»

«I began to learn to wrestle with homosexuality in community,» he writes, «over many late - night cups of coffee and tear - soaked, face - on - the - floor times of prayer with members of my church.»

He further writes in Romans 16:17 to not associate with those members of the church who cause divisions and disruptions within the church.

When I first became a pastor, the very first counseling session I had was with a member of my church who was afraid they had committed the unpardonable sin.

A neighbor at First Thoughts has found occasion (someone was listening to Glenn Beck...) to issue yet another warning to any who might consider communing as Christians with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

When a minister has a sexual relationship with a member of the church, it's not an affair — it's abuse.

It has been very difficult this year for them with a member of their church running for president and they want very bad to appear to the rest of the United States as being neutral.

Personable and motivational communicator with strong behavioral management techniques, able to develop an exceptional rapport with all members of the church community.

Counseling which is done with members of a church or religious group to deal with interpersonal or institutional conflicts.

Not exact matches

Last year, the HBO documentary Going Clear drew in millions of viewers as it went in - depth into controversial claims from former members and people associated with the church, while also investigating the religion's tax - exempt status.

with regard to the church's view of gay members.

An Air Force review has found that the branch failed to report «several dozen» service members found guilty of violent offenses to the federal gun background check database, with representatives of the service telling the New York Times that the reporting failure that allowed disgraced airman Devin Patrick Kelley to purchase the firearms he used to murder 26 parishioners in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church on Nov. 5 «was not an isolated incident.»

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.

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.

There were some 267 million Catholics in the world in 1900; today, the world Church counts 1.2 billion members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the middle of the century.

That's bad news for the Catholic Church, which has seen a 12 percentage - point drop in Hispanic members since 2010, with most of the losses coming from former Catholics under 50.

You CAN still reproduce by having relations with memebers of the opposite gender, that is obvious, what you are missing out on is that to ensure that people didn't prefer same gender relationships over the opposite gender relationships, it was made a sin punishable by death to avoid any kind possible population reduction from members of the church.

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

Stopping short of calling for cathedral governing bodies - Chapters - to be scrapped, the Church of England said at least two - thirds of members should not be clergy, to ensure people with necessary skills are there.

As members of the baby boom generation become parents, they have returned to church with their children.

One day that last goyim that will enter the Body of Christ, by faith in Jesus, will believe and be also heir with all the rest, both Jewish and Gentile, who have believed and have become members of The Church.

They indicated that they were asking themselves, and would be considering further, «Has the time come for the Orthodox churches and other members to review their relations with the World Council of Churcheschurches and other members to review their relations with the World Council of ChurchesChurches?»

I think you will find that part of the ostracization has nothing to do with whether or not pastors or church members will allow participating homosexuals to attend their churches.

understand that the Catholic Church (of which I'm not a member) regards communion as something insti «tuted by Christ which represents a relationship with him — something for which they believe Jesus defined the parameters.

A spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Arundel and Brighton said: «We confirm Peter Ball has been in contact with the Roman Catholic diocese of Clifton, in which diocese he now lives, expressing an interest in becoming a member of the Catholic Church.

(Let me just say, I'm no average church member; I grew up in the Lutheran church; I attended a Christian high school and a Baptist college, and ultimately was a pastor's wife in an Assemblies of God church) What if none of them completely resonates with you?

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.

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.

This superior epistemology enjoys the firm foundation of divine revelation as treasured by Church Tradition and enlightened by faith and the prophetic inspiration of the Holy Spirit, as the Church, with all her members, engages the world in history.

By establishing a ministry that fosters excellence in the arts and gives community members a chance to engage in the arts, you can not only connect with people who might never darken the door of a church, but you can also create art that glorifies God and is truly inspirational.

And here is where the Church's great communal story offers its aid: for it is the responsibility of the «many members of the one body,» who collectively celebrate and enact that story, to guide each individual member into paths, into life genres, that harmonize with the great melody of God's redeeming work in His creation.

Transition team member the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, a former vice-president of the National Council of Churches [and now head of the NAACP], explained why with one word.

That attracts a lot of people,» said Samuel Fatoki, who leads the roughly 200 - member church with his wife, Marcia, who serves as his co-pastor.

Therefore, even if one has not (yet) been excommunicated, one can not both be at variance with the law of the land and, in good conscience, claim to be a Latter - day Saint (the prefered reference to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, «saint» being used by us in the Bibilical sense of the word, meaning «member» or «believer»).

Today, the LDS Church will excommunicate any of its members who practice plural marriage or who otherwise closely associate themselves with Mormon fundamentalist practices.

Want a dominant church that just (by coincidence, of course) chooses only it's members for any leadership, along with a few «Token» women and non-whites, just to crush any white males not of the faith that might compete?

As I imagine is similar in other faiths, it is hard for an active member of the LDS Church to publically maintain political views that fall more in line with the Democratic Party than the GOP.

The website «Love One Another: A Discussion on Same - Sex Attraction» www.mormonsandgays.org, outlines the church's position on «same - sex attraction» and provides readers with a host of videos from «church members who are attracted to people of the same sex, and conversations with the loved ones of gay spouses, children, or grandchildren who are dealing with the effects of same - sex attraction in their own lives.»

And then when you see church members leaping through them «with the greatest of ease,» you start to wonder about the secrets behind the magic.

Just because there are some evil and wicked members of the clergy, it doesn't mean that we should do away with the Christian church.

The late 1980s merger of the old American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC, a much smaller body that broke earlier with the Lutheran Church» Missouri Synod) resulted in an organization of 5.3 million members that has been producing red ink, membership losses, and general demoralization since its start.

He is well - liked by his peers, volunteers with University Big Brothers and Sisters, is involved in his church (he is an adult convert to Mormonism), is a member of the University's interfaith Religious Life Council, and has compiled an impressive academic record.

We've elected to challenge our inquirers to a seven - week series of interactions with staff members, lay leaders and other inquirers that clearly communicates the mission of our church and actually initiates the behaviors that are consistent with being a disciple of Jesus.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

I attended one of the largest non-denominational churches in the US and I know for a fact their gas and electric bill was $ 50,000.00 per MONTH, and with the last capital campaign they had a few years back that raised $ 30 million from the members to build more buildings that year they could have used the $ 30,600,000 to help the community and SHOW the love of Christ instead.

Because I am tired of church leaders with expensive church buildings and bloated church budgets trying to shore up their ineffective church programs by demanding further sacrifice and greater commitments from tired and weary church members.

Delegates were happy with the success of «Harvest «90,» an outreach program that had aimed at adding 2 million members to the church during 1985 - 1990 and surpassed that number by 500,000, bringing the membership worldwide to 6.4 million.

As a pastor and a long term «member» of the Church, I pretty much agree with Jeremy, and you make exactly my point.

If «believers» aligned their right beliefs with right practice, fewer church members would look elsewhere for critically important discussions about caring, inclusiveness, open dialogue, ethical decision - making, and shared doubts in the context of a disturbing contemporary polarized culture.

During this year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Blair, an NAE member, launched a group called Evangelicals Concerned, which is described as «an educational task force for ministry with homosexuals and their families and churches.»