Sentences with phrase «world than the church»

Show me another organization or business that has fed, clothed, housed, and educated more poor people all over the world than The Church before criticizing the money The Church spends.

The Eastern church had a much softer attitude to the non-human world than the church in the West.

Not exact matches

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

And the LCMS held an «International Conference on Confessional Leadership» last year in Atlanta, Georgia, with more than 120 Lutheran church leaders from around the world attending.

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

The Church of England has welcomed the commitment of world leaders to keep global warming no more than... More

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

While some texts, such as «Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World,» proved to be more controversial than others, the agreement to hold the Council as planned was respected by all.

Stop the Traffik is a global coalition which already numbers more than 350 organisations including churches, community groups, other faith groups, businesses and NGOs (including Oasis Trust, Salvation Army, Tearfund, World Vision, JFCI, Christian Aid, Bible Society and Spring Harvest).

Now I have reported before that Dallas, Texas is the mega church capital of the world, which means that there are more mega churches per capita than anywhere else in the world, but interestingly, Dallas only came in fourth place for mega church attendance by percentage of people who attend church.

The only agency stealing more money world wide than governments is the Catholic church.

But as critics point out, speaking of a Russian World serves the state more than it serves the Church.

The church, according to Pope John's opening address to the council, ought to serve the world with the «medicine of mercy,» rather than condemn it with the «medicine of severity.»

Wishing that brothers and sisters would use all that passion / energy to act faith in the world rather than convince others in the church.

Rather than ignore them completely, we must acknowledge their presence but at the same time acknowledge that they have already been defeated and pray in the Spirit against their schemes against us, our friends, our church and this world and most importantly to love everyone like God does, especially if we think they are either demonically oppressed or possessed.

Roberts's idea (that a local church must be a global church — thus «glocal») may indeed transform American church life, because it is timely: We live in the age of the flat earth, when we can not only communicate around the world, but more Americans than ever have enough disposable income to travel the world.

More often than not, when people talk about the «[Catholic] Church», they often seem refer either to the Vatican — the centre of authority in the Catholic Church — or else are generalising about the entire world - wide Church.

We begin to suspect that this is the case when we see the record of the church in the midst of our world storm The record of the church has not been perfect, but it has been better than its despisers expected.

While neither our secular or ecclesiastical culture is perfect, there seems to be more fear and hate in «the church» than in «the world.»

Often more active in the world than in a Church that is still clinging to many of its medieval traditions which bind it like a grave cloth.

If it did nothing else but keep alive in the world the disturbing and revolutionary notion that humble service is better than strutting power, wise men would support and foster the church with all the strength at their command.

But if you don't champion the place of the arts within the Body of Christ, if you don't encourage young Christians to pursue the calling God has put on their hearts, if you don't train up your creative troops to stand and fight, then why on earth would you — would we — expect to see the Church being anything other than routed in the world of entertainment?

But maybe it's really just the way of the world rather than the way of church?

I would go as far to say that the church communities I have known have been, mostly, at least a little better than life in the non-church world.

Vince Antonucci points out that there is only one thing the church can do better than the world, and that is offer grace.

The analogy of being is nothing more than the philosophical form that the Roman Catholic Church takes as it embodies God's presence in the world.

I love how an author named Gordon MacDonald put it, «The world can do almost anything as well as or better than the church.

My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety.

In fact, the capacity of a contemporary congregation to sustain any unified, sharply defined world view has been more frequently questioned than confirmed in recent studies of church life.

(WWM) Less than a week after Niger's president marched alongside dozens of world leaders in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Muslim protests in Niger have claimed the lives of 10 people and destroyed more than 70 Christian churches in the desert nation's two largest cities.

But as Tyson himself points out: «I could [reach] more people in one evening than a million churches around the world.

5:19 KJV), than to say baldly, «Jesus is God», although this assertion is part of the basis of the World Council of Churches.

Recent research sponsored by the humanitarian organizations World Relief and World Vision reveal that though most churches feel it is important to help refugees, fear is more common than action.

I have actually found that smaller churches are often more effective in caring for orphans before a watching world than larger churches are.

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

Life, for the early Church, was spiritual warfare; and no baptized Christian could doubt how great a transformation — of the self and the world — it was to consent to serve no other god than Him whom Christ revealed.

But if we could unite, if we could love one another, if we could agree that love for others was more important than being right about the rapture, then maybe the church would stop dividing over doctrine, and start showing the world what the love of God really looks like.

What happens when we adopt the world's way of counting is that we think more like spiritual managers and church entrepreneurs than shepherds and soul gardeners.

They did not submit to the terms of Stout's description, but they did suggest that their efforts to make their churches more faithful yields greater service to the world, rather than less.

In varying degrees, most of them want practical theology to become more critical and philosophical, more public (in the sense of being more oriented toward the church's ministry to the world rather than simply preoccupied with the needs of its own internal life), and more related to an analysis of the various situations and contexts of theology.

The reason it is better to be least in the Church than the greatest in the world is because of the gifts we find in verse 11.

Here's the thing: at the moment, I was struck by my impression that leaders in the world had more integrity than «leaders» in the church.

It is better to be the least in the church than the greatest in the world.

But the reaction was intensified as another basic presupposition of membership was contradicted: the experience of church, rather than providing a way out of this world, was increasingly being set in the context and language of a very disturbing and complex «now.»

How about, an erroneous concept of God (an idol), erroneous interpretation of the bible, and a concept of the «church» as an organization or something other than consisting of all of the believers in the world.

She insisted that it would be «disastrous» for a single woman to make a vow of chastity simply because she was unwed and thereby forbidden by the church to engage in sexual relations («Virginity is More Than Singleness,» Catholic World, September, 1960) Like Augustine, Dohen asserted that intentionality is crucial to the vocation of the consecrated virgin.

In today's blogging world, you have to be somewhat provocative to garner attention... As I mentioned above, I do believe in the value of doctrinal statements, but in a much different way than how they are used by most churches.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

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All I am saying, is that historically the church, like most churches, have an infinitely longer tradition, goal and history of positive spiritual guidance and positive impacts on the world than they have negative.