Sentences with phrase «as congregations first»

As congregations first come into being, Hopewell argued, they construct a narrative that accounts for their nascent identity.

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Rector William Taylor told his congregation his first question to the next Bishop of London, who is yet to be named, would be whether he's willing «declare as sin what God calls sin».

Now understand, as a liturgical Mainline Protestant congregation, First Presbyterian Church follows the Revised Common Lectionary, which means the Scriptural passages for the service and sermon are determined years in advance.

I am convinced that the first major step to expertise as a guide to maturing in the Christian life is to listen to as many stories of faith journeys among members of one's congregation as pastoral access provides.

Since that is precisely what inquiry guided by the first set of questions provides, clearly exploration of congregations» «faithfulness» to their own identities depends on the results of exploration of how best to characterize them, just as we saw the latter inquiry requires the former.

He reorganized the essays into the first draft of a book that took as its organizing metaphor the congregation as body.

I have to leave my immigrant church, a concern for first generation congregations who saw and still see churches as a both a strategy and physical space to connect generations divided by language, education, power, and levels of assimilation through faith.

As the first anniversary of the Calais «Jungle» demolition approaches, a church in Essex said the situation has given the congregation a heart to help refugees.

In 2012 (the year most recently reported), the numbers continued to fall, as the ELCA lost another 105 congregations and saw a membership drop of 2.68 % over the year previous — bringing the ELCA to under 4 million members for the first time ever.

She attended church on a weekly basis throughout her childhood, first encountering music as she sang along with the rest of the congregation.

For twelve years Barth served as a pastor, first as a pastoral assistant at a German - speaking congregation in Geneva and then as pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church in Safenwil, a small industrial town in the Aargau.

As we, his family, felt the sweet sensitive boy of his childhood slip through our fingers we gladly prostrated ourselves at the altar of anyone who claimed wisdom — first and foremost our local evangelical congregation (more on that later).

It has been my ongoing involvement — as a pastor serving first a black congregation, then a Hispanic one, and now a largely West Indian and Haitian congregation — with the lives of inner - city families that has forced me to change the direction of my efforts as a public official.

This is the first instance in the New Testament where it is noted that the Christian congregation observes the first day of the week, not the Jewish sabbath on the seventh day, as its day of worship.

I decided not to share the memories of my first congregation served as a pastor until one specific person died.

What is significant, in an educational sense, is that this is the first time congregations are recognized by the national agencies as the locale in which curriculum choice must be and in fact is made.

As Christian churches developed in America — and many more kinds of them with the establishment first of religious toleration and then of religious freedom — the ordained minister tended to become more dependent on his relations with his local congregation than was true in Britain or on the Continent.

First of all, the fear of interpreting Scripture by and for a congregation as though it were a case of laying soiling human hands upon the Divine or pouring water into the pure wine must be dispelled.

First, organicists view the whole of a congregation as greater than the sum of its parts, and they use the term «community» to express the special value and power of the whole.

Almost all Houston - area churches — including the Bayou City's biggest congregations such as Second Baptist, Houston's First Baptist, Church Without Walls, Wheeler Avenue Baptist, and Woodlands Church — canceled all Sunday activities as a precaution.

I would probably begin with the framework behind this analysis, distinguishing between first - order doctrines (a denial of which represents the eventual denial of Christianity itself), second - order doctrines (upon which Bible - believing Christians may disagree, but they create significant boundaries between believers, whether as distinct congregations or denominations), and third - order doctrines (upon which Christians may disagree, but yet remain in close fellowship, even within local congregations).

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

A letter issued by the dean of the College of Cardinals on Friday calls the cardinals to come together Monday morning for the first in a series of meetings, known as general congregations.

In abolishing the practice of deacons» communicating the presbyters, the Nicene Council characterized as against tradition what had, in fact, been primitively the natural function of the servants of the bishops, namely, to pass the bread and wine and first of all to the liturgically nonparticipant but revered and seated elders (presbyters) of the congregation.

In an unprecedented appearance, First Lady Chirlane McCray will address the congregation at St. Patrick's Cathedral this weekend as part of #ThriveTogether: A Weekend for Mental Health, a nationwide outreach effort by over 2,000 faith and community groups in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. to highlight the need for education, compassion and open conversations about mental health and addiction.

The son of a strong - willed assistant pastor to the Protestant congregation of a lakeside village in French - speaking Switzerland who married well, he was his parents» fifth child but the first to survive infancy, and as a student he displayed a rare surplus of talent, energy, imagination, fearlessness, and determination.

-- Alfonso Ossorio, 1968 Oral history interview, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Celebrating Alfonso Ossorio's centennial birthday, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio — Congregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity foCongregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity focongregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity for innovation.

(New York — August 30, 2016) Celebrating Alfonso Ossorio's centennial birthday, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio — Congregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity foCongregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity focongregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity for innovation.

Served as the first point liaison for the Senior Pastor between a congregation of 2,000 members as well as the staff and the community.

At first, as Carol sat small and waiflike in a chair in front of me, I felt an internal pull to rescue her from her husband and her religious congregation — a road I knew I couldn't take without perpetuating her sense of insignificance.

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