Sentences with phrase «just as a congregation»

In her view, a lot of the talk about «the seminary's failure to address the church» fails to understand that the seminary is an organ of the church, just as the congregation is.

Not exact matches

Yes, it had straight members, but the congregation seemed to be living life as in a leper colony, just grateful that they were even allowed to worship God.

But just as order requires someone to be the head of any successful organisation so to in the family and congregation.

It would be just as logical to rant about how Christians all go around protesting at dead soldiers» funerals, just because of those wackos in the Phelps congregation.

The most healing thing we did together as a congregation was make a safe space for everyone to have coffee after the worship and just talk.

So, are you admitting that you as a pastor were a deceiver to your congregation with just «saying» it was for a different purpose by having a roll for the classes, Jeremy?

Many years ago, I told my congregation they should get just as excited about God as they do for their favorite sports team.

And just as the retail workers at Target are left in the lurch, our small congregations were often left to scatter in the aftermath, trying to find healing as best they could.

One year while serving as pastor of a congregation just outside Indianapolis, I met with a two - member worship committee to plan Holy Week and Easter services.

As soon as the congregation call's a new pastor (which should be very soon), I'll focus on my new calling as a career counselor, workshop facilitator, writer and blogger (just launched–www.afterthepulpit.coAs soon as the congregation call's a new pastor (which should be very soon), I'll focus on my new calling as a career counselor, workshop facilitator, writer and blogger (just launched–www.afterthepulpit.coas the congregation call's a new pastor (which should be very soon), I'll focus on my new calling as a career counselor, workshop facilitator, writer and blogger (just launched–www.afterthepulpit.coas a career counselor, workshop facilitator, writer and blogger (just launched–www.afterthepulpit.com)

The community of Central Florida is not accustomed to hearing white Christian leaders say, «Our concern is for the community as a whole, not just our personal congregations.»

A just - released survey by LifeWay Research has found that roughly equal numbers of Southern Baptist pastors identify their congregations as Calvinist / Reformed (30 percent) or Arminian / Wesleyan (30 percent).

To get down to cases, just which types of congregations ought to be selected as the variety of construals of the Christian thing by reference to which the course of study can be unified and made adequate to pluralism?

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.

At the end of my talk, a pastor, who described his congregation to me as white suburban dwellers, said to me, «You know Pastor Mike, I am just gonna» be honest, why don't your people just get a job, stop asking for a free pass and stop committing crimes?

Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.

Just as the reports of ongoing mission keep the full range of the mission before the whole congregation, so a liturgy with theological and experiential integrity keeps the full range of maturing in God constantly before the whole congregation.

But, did you consider that some Christian folks are just as committed to being in their home congregations, as often as possible, as a matter of conscience and their personal faith?

Just as anyone else in our congregation is not allowed to advocate their sin, whatever it may be.

In this regard, when we lift up before the congregation the lives of the saints who gave themselves for others and when we encourage service to those in need around us (e.g., the works of mercy) we are contributing to the formation of the kind of people on whom the just war tradition as a form of discipleship depends.

I would urge them to think about their congregations from the perspective of social capital, and with the realization that we are in a period when America as a whole, and not just the church, needs to build more connections.

Do we lead the congregation in embracing those who have waged war justly and, just as important, do we offer returning soldiers the gift of confession and penance as needed?

To make matters worse, the average congregation is more worried about overpaying the staff than underpaying them which leads to the church being crippled spiritually by pastoral changes as the pastor moves to a better deal or leaves the ministry or works multiple jobs just to support his family.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

The fact that you felt a need to proclaim your skin color makes you just as racist as any member of that congregation.

But it would require accepting others» authority, just as your authority is accepted in your congregation, to manage their churches in accordance with their beliefs and faithful to their understanding.

What would you do if you went into a congregation as a pastor or music director and the congregation just didn't sing?

His seminary is considered the seminary of choice for the movement, just as the large Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Virginia, is the flagship congregation.

The sermon was prepared for the installation of a friend as pastor of an American Baptist congregation located just beyond the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana.

-- a matter of his United Methodist congregation modeling the love of Jesus to strangers, just as Jesus had welcomed them.

A person in our congregation would have a safe space to explore many (not just two) perspectives and come to their own conclusions as they trust God to lead them in their journey (as I was free and encouarged to do).

as applied to the church is found in the affirmation: «Wherever the bishop appears, there let the congregation be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the whole -LSB-

Just as pastoral care is the work of all members of the congregation, so is regular study and preparation for worship.

The use of the word kaqolikhv as applied to the church is found in the affirmation: «Wherever the bishop appears, there let the congregation be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the whole [kaqolikhv] church.»

To these worship authorities, worship is not just the church's main event, it is the only event — or as the LCA's worship coordinating committee chairperson stated in his 1978 report «Projections and Perceptions,» «a congregation is never the church as much as when it worships.»

«It seems be couldn't keep his body and his soul aligned,» the young pastor said, and seemed a little lost for words until he left the pulpit, walked over and opened the casket, took out a harmonica and began to play «Just As I Am» while everyone in the congregation nodded and wept and smiled, some of them mouthing the words of promise and comfort to themselves.

A leader can teach a congregation a simple spoken response just as easily as «script» it on a page.

Wuthnow is most concerned about how the hegemony of government standards eventually erodes the freedom and particularity of congregations — just as standardized tests have eroded the freedom and particularity of schools.

It is an outgrowth of the continuing philosophy that church work is done not just by the minister and the official board, but by a committed congregation following a plan of «tithing of time» which can be as meaningful and productive as the tithing of money..

It is the evangelicals who power massive communities like Willow Creek in Chicago and the Vineyard Fellowships with all their huge appeal to the young, as well as what is claimed to be the largest single congregation not just in London but even in Europe - Kingsway International Christian Church.

Just as it would make no sense to preach to an American congregation in Greek, it would be counterproductive to force on American Christians all the cognitive and normative assumptions of the Hellenistic world that even Paul took for granted.

(Just last month, however, it lost its official status as a PCUSA congregation.

As churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathAs churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas men to guide congregations along those paths.

Preachingon the parable of the wheat and the tares, Augustine instructed his Catholic congregation perhaps unduly influenced by their Donatist neighbours: «I must tell your graces plainly that in the sanctuaries of the church there are wheat grains and there are weeds, just as among the laity there are grains of wheat and there are weeds» (Sermon 73.4).

He may have despised the simple catechism of his German congregation, just as we «moderns» take offense at the minimalistic theology of many of the folk who inhabit our standard - brand churches, but he knew also that they had a great deal to teach the young pastor by virtue of having surveyed the land «across the river» and having dared to cross the chilly waters of Jordan with a sense of divine protection.

Significantly, we began to see ourselves as just one church in the area with lots of congregations.

Sounding the horn to the whole congegation to warn one or two can send an ambiguious and confusing message to the congregation as a whole thats doing just fine.

But considering the vast number of churches that do not acknowledge the problem, it seems that most denominational bodies and local congregations are in denial — the primary symptom of a dysfunctional person, organization or system — even though one substance - abusing minister can sicken, dishearten and dispirit an entire church just as one alcoholic can infect an entire household.

I suppose I should write an article now, claiming that if you teach hard lined views, your congregation will certainly stray, but then I'd be just as incorrect and you all just as uninformed.

It's that whole «what will the neighbors think» mentality that results in too much time spent keeping up appearances, doing good works just so that you can be seen doing them, and worrying about how fabric choices in the new parish hall parlor will reflect on us as a congregation.