Sentence examples for church experience from inspiring English sources

That was my church experience".

Although he had little church experience, the new pastor was quite charismatic and he rose quickly in the church hierarchy.

"His church experience is, I think, one of the great humanizing influences in Mitt Romney's life," said Patrick Mason, a professor of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University.

Other Asian-American Christians, seeking a more diverse church experience, have settled into or even helped start, multiethnic churches, including some of the largest congregations in the city.

The secret of a good church experience for the once-a-year churchgoer is to smile loftily and pityingly at the regulars.

"I suspect if you were in my shoes, it seems plausible at least that you wouldn't want your church experience to be a political circus," Mr. Obama said.

The two groups reunited in 1758, and the church experienced growth because many of the several hundred thousand Scotch-Irish immigrants who went to the American colonies after 1760 became members.

From the 6th to the 9th century the Byzantine church experienced its golden age of creativity in the writing of hymns by outstanding poets such as John of Damascus.

The artist's grotesque dream world in large works like "The Temptation of St. Anthony" and "The Garden of Earthly Delights" fascinated him, partly because of the curio-cabinet aspect of the paintings, partly because of their religious references, making Catholicism seem surreal and juicy, unlike his Sunday morning church experiences.

4. Young Christians' church experiences related to sexuality are often simplistic, judgmental.

We shop for church experiences as we shop for everything else folding religion into our consumer culture.