Sentences with phrase «as the congregation grows»

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Since it was founded in 2003, the conservative Jewish congregation had bounced from location to location outside Atlanta - a Methodist church, a windowless space in a school, any place they could rent or borrow as they grew.

While the majority in many congregations accept monological, authoritarian preaching as ideal, there is a growing, vigorous minority who would welcome the opportunity for interaction.

It had already been recognized at that time as the fastest growing church, and he wanted to leverage that growth into the largest congregation.

Then each confirmand thanked the congregation for one gift — perhaps a church school teacher, a helpful sermon or the church basketball team — that had helped her grow as a disciple.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

The graduates may in the short run have the relevant skills to help congregations organize themselves to engage in the several practices that comprise their common life (religious education, worship, pastoral care, social action, gathering and maintaining resources, etc.), to nurture and sustain them in those practices, and to grow as organizations.

«There are plenty of people there who are not real,» he says, as he acknowledges the growing discomfort of hearing his own name more often on the lips of his congregation than the name of Jesus.

Parents need help in adjusting relationships and family rules as children grow older so they can experience the freedom and the responsibility they need in order to grow up.4 In some congregations, this kind of learning and support occurs in parent - education groups.5

Every elder serves with strong humility that flows throughout the congregation as we grow in understanding of the gospel and what it means for our lives.

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All of them reported that their churches had been turned around from being self - centered or fractured congregations to new life as strong, growing, outreaching churches.

An abundant system of language and significance seems to come with any congregation, whether growing or declining, be it as flashy as the Crystal Cathedral or as lukewarm as Laodicea.

The pastor of a suburban congregation finds herself increasingly torn between a dozen committees as her neighborhood grows and the membership of her church expands.

«Members of growing congregations perceive their pastors as having more responsibility for church growth and as more able to handle conflict positively and to develop a spirit of unity in the congregation.»

Westboro Bapist's sad, shameful, attention - desperate protests are losing some steam as their shock value grows thin and an ever - ready batch of counter-protesters watches the congregation like a hawk, ready to...

All with a goal to grow the congregation with more donor - members and build more and / or bigger buildings, hire more pastors and administration — which, as we all know, is the true measure of success for churches here in America.

Is there any evidence that those at the top of the game have grown more attuned to the fact that a football does not exist in its corporate entity but exists as an entity given character by its fans; a church defined by its congregation, not its clergy?

In «Disobedience,» we are given a close examination of three people who grew up as friends but whose lives are changed probably forever when one woman leaves the nest and is shunned by others in the congregations.

While they are not in business to make a profit, churches still expand and grow as their ministry and congregations grow.