Sentences with phrase «church in any particular place»

This is a practical handbook which focuses on how the Church in any particular place — like your parish — could have a fresh sense of inspiration.

Not exact matches

If we possess a religious faith, we probably recall that it originated in some particular person or persons, in a particular church or place.

He added: «I recognise that the hiring of space in churches, and in particular providing space for musicians to rehearse and perform, need to be balanced with all the activity that a parish and community wants and needs to take place.

It is not by any means the case with all christians, but some certainly have inadvertently and unknowingly (in most cases) placed church attendance / society / culture / leadership and a particular book (the Bible) on the same level as they God they claim to worship.

The church planters» goal was to place their particular «franchise» in growing suburbs.

What the church should hang on to is not particular programs and institutions but the conviction that, in the meeting of any special need, there is a legitimate place for ministry as a cooperating dimension of service.

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustaineIn a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

Because all of Scripture is culturally directed — i. e., because all of it was written for a particular situation and out of a particular context - the evangelical can not use the issue of culture to distinguish between arguments for women's place in marriage and her place in the church.

Its object is not simply to understand the world but to respond to the power of God which is recreating it... Christian theology is prophetic only in so far as it dares, in full reflection, to declare how, at a particular place and time, God is at work, and thus to show the Church where and when to participate in his work.6

For many theologically literate people, the «place» of religious experience is a local church, a particular building on a particular street in a particular town.

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God «himself» from this person, from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicea, no place in the church.

For the use of those better placed than I, whose direct or indirect task it is to lead the Church, I wish to show candidly where, in my view, the root of the trouble lies, and how, by means of a simple readjustment at this particular, clearly localized point, we may hope to procure a rapid and complete rebound in the religious and Christian evolution of Mankind.

Usually in the first place family connections, then denominational affiliation, personal acquaintance with someone in the church, geographical convenience, custom, habit, curiosity, and many other matters determine who will be present on Sunday morning in any particular congregation.

Those who hear, in the setting of the Church's corporate worship, are summoned, upon each particular occasion, to place themselves within the history which is God's revelation, at the point where it culminates in Jesus Christ, and to lay themselves open to the Word of judgement and of renewal which is spoken there to every human being.

Kami Rice writes about the importance of church - to - church partnerships in Haiti, and one partnership in particular taking place through Adventures in Mission.

Just find a beautiful place in nature and commune to any particular god you think exists and you also save a buck that would go to supporting your shaman and church building.

It also explains why we have prayers said by minister and people, hymns that are sung, movement from place to place in the church building for particular purposes, like the taking of the collection, or other necessary actions.

As Newman is always being quoted as a vindicator of the human conscience, it is instructive to see how he viewed the episcopal authority which was placed over him when he was a member of the Church of England and in particular with reference to the government's role in the question of the Irish episcopacy and the foundation of a bishopric in Jerusalem.

Why should the Church survive in any particular place, if there is no one really interested?

An indigenous church is the natural and spontaneous expression of the corporate religious experience of Christians in a particular place.

In a third concentric circle we may place those traditions which are peculiar to a particular grouping of people such as the Orthodox Church in the East, the Catholic Church m the West or one of the many Protestant denominationIn a third concentric circle we may place those traditions which are peculiar to a particular grouping of people such as the Orthodox Church in the East, the Catholic Church m the West or one of the many Protestant denominationin the East, the Catholic Church m the West or one of the many Protestant denominations.

Although in recent years John Paul II stressed, «the Church has no philosophy of her own nor does she canonise any one particular philosophy in preference to others» -LCB- Fides et Ratio n. 49) nonetheless the Magisterium has undeniably accorded a privileged place to Thomas» philosophy.

Almost none thinks that the pulpit is an appropriate place to boost particular political candidates, and almost none thinks that his or her church is too involved in social - justice causes.

Explaining his views on the Church's involvement in politics, he said: «While St Paul's is not on any particular political side — that is not its role — it does have an important part to play in providing a place for reasoned debate within a moral and spiritual context.»