Sentences with phrase «not everyone in my congregation»

Not everyone in my congregation has read my books, but everyone has tasted my food — with rave reviews!

Not exact matches

In a congregation that is led thoughtfully, members are not left simply to guess at what everyone else will do.

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.

If members of a congregation can see that the forces of good and evil in the world affect everyone in some way, but not the same way, then they may realize that all problems are human problems.

The purpose of evangelism in New Testament congregations was not to make everyone the same; it was to offer everyone new life in Christ.

«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.

One is not preaching to «everyone» but to «this people» in «this setting» as an ongoing part of the congregation's struggle to be faithful to the God who has claimed their lives in a special way.

Because ours was a relatively small congregation made up of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.

And yet, in the church where the major tither was having an affair everyone in the community knew about, there he was, in our neighbor congregation's «special music» time, singing «If It Wasn't for That Lighthouse, Where Would This Ship Be?»

You and almost everyone in your congregation have no reason to believe and aren't anticipating that someone will choose to become a follower of Christ at every large group gathering.

St. Gregory's (of Nysssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco) highly participatory worship may not be for everyone, but it would be hard not to be moved by this congregation's way of continuing the long conversation God has had with humanity.

Probably everyone's sung it (we haven't), but I adore anthems that congregations can participate in.

These «men of God» begin to spread lies and false rumors about her to everyone they can, turning most of her family and friends against her, not realizing that they are leaving their own families and congregations open for the destruction they have planned for Sidney.It is with all this going on that God seems to be nowhere in sight, but don't worry... God is not mocked and sometimes He provides help in the most unexpected ways.The Good News Series: Enough Good NewsNo WeaponBlind JusticeLong NightEven MeThird Watch * coming winter 2012