I belong to
a wonderful church in the neighborhood.
I belong to
a wonderful church in N. CA, with a large campus that provides a myriad of faith - based services throughout the community.
There are lots of
wonderful churches in the world.
Not exact matches
«They're very often
wonderful places where people's dignity is protected and if you will invest those and
churches get involved
in those we'll see even higher levels of end of life palliative care there.
Your
church is a haven for those who want a deeper relationship with God without becoming one of «them» (Think pukey pollyanna Christians with a pasted on smile who declare with Jesus
in your life everything is
wonderful... sort of like the cartoon you posted today).
Still, Bonhoeffer's presence at what he called «quite a
wonderful Mass» did bear witness to a kind of broken unity, a sanctorum communio not yet fully realized
in the visible
church of the undivided Christ here and now.
Church buildings can be used
in wonderful ways to accomplish the mission and purposes of God on earth.
Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others
in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending
church that there is
wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the
church, which does not involve sitting
in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.
I was raised
in the
Church and have met many
wonderful people, lay and religious, who do
wonderful work every single day.
I think their are some excellent
churches out there, and people who do not attend also grow
in spiritually and do many
wonderful things for God's Kingdom on their own.
A
church that sees
in this pluralistic age a
wonderful opportunity to advance
in its grasp of truth and wisdom can recover its conviction and commitment and move forward with excitement and confidence.
Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a
wonderful time with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal
Church and all the readers who came out to hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met
in the bathroom of all places!
None of this must be taken as detracting from the fine example of the many very
wonderful and faithful women
in the
Church today.
If I find my unconditional love and acceptance
in a
church community, then what a
wonderful thing that is.
It's important to keep
in mind that negative encounters with «the
Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith exper
Church» are,
in reality, negative encounters with certain people
in the
Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith exper
Church, and that there are many
wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why
church is a such a critical part of our collective faith exper
church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experience.
Over at iMonk last week, Chaplain Mike wrote a lovely post about how, after a period of wandering through the denominational wilderness, he found a home
in an ELCA Lutheran
church «with a simple liturgy,
wonderful music, a healthy and grounded pastor, a hospitable congregation, and an emphasis on Christ, grace, vocation, and other Lutheran essentials that answered questions I had been turning over
in my mind for years
in my evangelical settings.»
They regard the Council as a
wonderful event, brought about by the Spirit, a new beginning
in the
Church.
There are two
wonderful things that give me a positive wow factor every day — the increasing number of people I discover doing fantastically brilliant stuff, quietly and without fuss, living out the Gospel of Christ
in gentle, caring, loving ways, most of which the
church institution hasn't got a clue about because it's too dam busy running itself.
And there is a
wonderful passage where Kierkegaard likens the prospect of being excommunicated from the Danish
church to the discovery that, though he is
in Copenhagen, he is being given a thrashing
in the distant town of Aarhus.
It is also true that the
church does many good and
wonderful things... many want to do what is right... I believe
in the
church and would rather gain insight into the
church from individuals whose foundation is based on believing
in the intrinsic goodness on which we operate.
(I did meet his wife though, after about 20 years — she was
wonderful) I was
in all the prayer / intercession groups (I was called to prayer and a few other things) and several times one of the other pray - ers sort of intimated that ours was «The»
church of the city, and I'd always then start praying for every God called
church in my city.
If the
church heirarchy spent more time purging itself of child molestors and more time supporting these
wonderful nuns they bwould not only elevate their status
in the world but grow closer to God.
They are
wonderful people to have
in a
church — deacons and deaconesses.
The
wonderful Ephesian
church that had begun so robustly, with such a sense of new life — this Christ - centered
church was dissipating
in a religious stewpot of hyped - up feelings, discussion groups and interest gatherings.
I think that many people benefit
in wonderful ways from mega
church ministry.
Mr Lowe and his wife Hilary said
in a joint statement after the hearing: «Lizzie was a
wonderful exuberant and loved member of her
church, school and community.
Last I knew, the only person who ended up well
in the entire mess was the first husband of wife # 2, who found a
wonderful wife and remarried surrounded by family, friends and
church.
After reading the title I thought Jeremy found a
wonderful Baptist
church to attend but this is well known observation statistic that people that leave the
church really do lose their purpose, adventure
in faith, and passion for God not saying that Jeremy did but there are many testimonies that say this when they return to the fold
Note that Lutzer twice used the word «
wonderful» when asking his audience how
wonderful it would be to use spiteful pride against the only «rapture» view found
in all theology books and organized
churches before the year 1830: the posttribulation view!
i can feel love for him throughout my heart and soul... i want to grow old with this man... i am 47 and he is 45... he has never been married... he said there is not a chance of getting back together again regardless of how we feel towards each other because we committed adultery and God will never forgive us and it will be wrong to do so... so am i supposed to go on living my life being so deeply
in love with this man i can never have... why would God put him
in my life to make me feel so spiritually happy, so
wonderful, so at peace with myself and someone I can finally worship Him with just to take him away from me... I've never been with someone who was so religious and i thought this was it... i finally have someone to read the bible with and go to
church with and put God first and share things with my self and my daughter as a loving relationship would be....
If believing
in the Bible and living by the rules of the
church brings you enlightenment, that's
wonderful.
Priest Missioner at the
church, Fr Andrew Williams said: «After four years working from our temporary space it is
wonderful to move into our permanent home, a community centre and
church from which to base our work
in the wider community of Tottenham Hale.»
Wonderful, but based on surveys done with over 18,000 people
in Evangelical / Fundamental
churches only a little more than half the people
in these
churches knows and understands teh gospel.
Our parish
church, where all of our children were baptized and which I imagined being the
church of my daughters» weddings (and my funeral), was
wonderful, if half - filled and always
in danger of being consolidated with other
churches.
(2) The
wonderful faith of the people, their readiness to step out
in the Name of Jesus Christ, and their desire to be led by the
Church.
I would never give money to a religious organization that doesn't pay taxes — that is like giving money to my kids — and they need it more than the
church... I think faith is a
wonderful thing for a lot of people — including myself (I have faith
in myself)-- I just wish others would keep their «faith» personal, and out of politics and government.
I was away from the
church in my teens but I studied on my own and realized the catholic faith is
wonderful and beautiful.
I have met a few exinmates back
in hospitals because they have heard such
wonderful potions derided at
church or from the pulpit as evidence of modern corruption, comparable to subway rapes or God - is - dead theology.
I wondered if you two feel that pressure to always be the best marriage
in your
church, the happiest, the glowiest, the everything - is -
wonderful - even - when - it's - not «example.»
If these
wonderful families, which are such an inspiration to so many, are to reach their full potential and «to radiate the word of truth» that is our Catholic faith
in all its luminosity and beauty, then we as a
Church must recover the fullness of our faith's teaching on sex and loving.
Thus, if a minister today is not
in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a
wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content
in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of
church school, at the inattentiveness of the
church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.
He argued that if the sufferings of two billion people
in Vietnam, South Africa and other places excited the imagination and compassion of the
church, how much more should the spiritual sufferings of two thousand millions move her to bring multitudes of them out of darkness into God's
wonderful light.
One must, surely, chuckle with delight at the wonderfully ironic thought of the physical overlap of all those deliberately liturgically impoverished South coast dioceses with all those currently Anglo - Catholic parishes, soon to be safely
in the Catholic
Church but barricaded against the local Catholic bishop within their ordinariate, South coast parishes so renowned for reverent, sumptuous and utterly numinous liturgy, often with
wonderful music sung by professional choirs, and glorious antique vestments, saved from the scrap heap as they were thrown out ofCatholic
churches by the Spirit - of - Vatican - ll.
The
church is
in the most literal sense «a royal priesthood,» constituted «that you may declare the
wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light» (I Peter 2.9).
These were lay leaders
in the
church, just
wonderful people...
he belongs
in some cloistered
church compound... they love him, he loves them, they can take advantage of living
in our
wonderful country, come out to see the diverse and secular civilized community america really is and then turn around and run back into their compound.
J.John said he encouraged
churches near the Grenfell Towner
in north Kensington to get on board with the event, saying: «In response to that, we heard 300 people have signed up and want to be our guests at the Emirates - which is wonderful...&raqu
in north Kensington to get on board with the event, saying: «
In response to that, we heard 300 people have signed up and want to be our guests at the Emirates - which is wonderful...&raqu
In response to that, we heard 300 people have signed up and want to be our guests at the Emirates - which is
wonderful...»
Next Sunday,
in the First
Church of Nixie, New York, or the Saint Waldemar's
Church of Proxie, Alabama, I am sure the respective ministers will declare that love is a
wonderful thing, that Jesus agreed with their opinions; so why doesn't everybody get on the bandwagon and love one another — taking it easy, of course, with Negroes, minority groups, homosexual persons, criminals, the mentally ill, and many others?
Your Holy Text Message today made me imagine many
Churches to be similar to a bunch of folks sitting
in a dark attic, sipping tea and talking about the
wonderful light of their Lord.
The low Protestant / evangelical / fundamentalist
churches that litter the American countryside have simply forgotten that Jesus
in the Gospels was more concerned with bringing the Kingdom to Earth today (and everyday) than planning for some pie -
in - the - sky, everything - is -
wonderful future.