Sentences with phrase «oritsejafor by members of his congregation»

Are you insane or another one of these apologists for the Catholic church, who for DECADES did nothing to address the many issues reported to them by members of their congregations.

But microphones also opened up new possibilities for participation by members of the congregation, who began to read, make announcements, and lead others in prayer and song.

The pastoral leader will always need to teach in learning groups geared to discipleship because the authority that the clerical leader bears at this stage can not be duplicated by another member of the congregation.

The multi-million dollar jet — a 10 - seater with a range of 3,900 nautical miles — was presented to Ayo Oritsejafor by members of his congregation, Word of Life Bible Church in the oil - rich Delta state city of Warri.

Shortly after 190l many congregations of the religious were suppressed and thousands of schools conducted by members of congregations were closed.

Seminars are led by members of the congregation who have experience communicating about the emotional, psychological, and practical challenges every marriage must face with their partners; studies have shown that couples that communicate are at a far lower risk of divorce3.

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Outside of work, Rehman's leadership and commitment to the community has been recognized by his appointments as a board member for the Social, Welfare, Education and Economics Board through his congregation.

The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county - by - county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups.

This is all the more likely in light of the recent narrow acquittal by a church tribunal of a pastor on the charges that he violated church law by performing a wedding ceremony for two lesbian members of his Omaha, Nebraska, congregation.

By asking lots of clarifying questions, the members slowly began to realize the level of abuse they had experienced from this pastor and came to realize that all the people who had left their congregation had been publicly berated by this man at some poinBy asking lots of clarifying questions, the members slowly began to realize the level of abuse they had experienced from this pastor and came to realize that all the people who had left their congregation had been publicly berated by this man at some poinby this man at some point.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

In the evening of the same day this sermon was the subject of a discussion in the B.B.C.'s program, «Meeting Point», in which I was questioned by some members of the morning congregation under the chairmanship of Canon W. E. Purcell, editor of this Dialogue, and at that time the Religious Broadcasting Organizer for the Midland Region of the B.B.C..

For instance, the congregation might pray for anonymous victims of domestic violence, for those trying to make difficult decisions in their life, for family members who are disagreeing with one another, and for those members of the congregation touched by the hurt or despair of others.

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

-- test the picture by a survey instrument (such as the one described next) that asks similar questions, and by inviting members of the congregation to review and comment on the results of your observations.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

The founding pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, Boyd was surprised by the severity of the reaction: though some members of his congregation expressed gratitude, about 1,000 left the church.

But even broader contributions await release in the priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, and grass - roots members of religious communities (i.e., congregations) Approximately 124 million members of 320,000 churches and temples are served by 246,000 clergymen and rabbis.

By saying this, I am trying to differentiate mission with the general understanding of the ministry of the church, which is «to provide for the inner needs of the congregation» [3] Thus, while ministry is understood broadly as that which the church provides for its members within its borderlines, mission concerns those beyond the church's boundaries.

Here are a few of those affirmations: all baptized Christians have Spirit - granted charismata assigned to them; offices are a particular type of charismata; there is no ontological difference between officeholders and other members of the congregations; the priesthood of all believers does not divide a congregation into distinct groups (laity and clergy); ordination is a public attestation to the presence of the particular charismata by the whole congregation; ordination is not necessarily an irrevocable appointment to a lifelong task.

By contacting every congregation in 15 of its 31 member denominations, the NCC Child Advocacy Working Group gained a clearer picture of the role of the church in providing child care.

But it is legitimate for the pastor to facilitate home calls and pastoral care by involving members of a congregation who have gifts in pastoral care.

In the PCUSA, one of the few denominations that keeps data on ministerial vacancies by church size, the vacancy rate in congregations with fewer than 100 members has grown from 39 percent in 1990 to 44 percent in 2000.

My working definition of the congregation is this: A congregation is a group that possesses a special name and recognized members who assemble regularly to celebrate a more universally practiced worship but who communicate with each other sufficiently to develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story.9 We can sharpen our appreciation of congregational structure by comparing its thick culture with that of other religious associations.

It is entirely possible that a stated intention to be racially inclusive is nullified and contradicted by the way members of a congregation interact when they gather.

Pastors are no less likely to be influenced by the family loyalties of the Protestant tradition than members of their congregations.

Along with the members of the congregation, God enjoys the process by which the gift of word or gesture returns at the next Eucharist, with surprises and discoveries and insights attached to it.

Clergy can increase effective lay ministry in the workplace by nurturing members of congregations in the basic fundamentals of the faith - literacy in Scripture and Christian traditions and participation in liturgy and the rhythms of the church year.

Most congregations are affected by the changing family, membership loss, shrinking Sunday Schools, failure to retain youth, and a growing number of older members.

Most of what constructed our congregation did not occur by deliberate planning or goal setting; rather, a particular language developed among the members, an idiom that came to bind their actions and perspectives.

Prayers were led by the Rev Julia Jesson, the vicar of St John the Evangelist Church in Knotty Ash, where Sir Ken was a member of the congregation.

The substance of what is proclaimed is the same as what is recollected, the same as is now acknowledged by the congregation in thanksgiving as God's salvatory and present power, the same as is offered and received in participation of the members in the Head of the church.

Except for pastors validated by the appreciation of members in a congregation, people who respond to God's call to ministry today find themselves living a very lonely life.

The quality of love experienced in a family or a congregation can be limited by the way members think about the meaning of Christian faith.

This suggests that the attitudes about the family held by most adult church members are not very different from those of any other American.4 One difference is that members of congregations expect the church to help them achieve fulfillment in their family relationships.

Despite the equality acquired by women and Afro - Americans during the 1960s, members of middle - class churches are still relatively unaware of the extent to which most congregations are still sexist and racist.

A favored term of organic proponents is vitality, 57 used to describe robust interaction among members who, possessing different gifts and opinions, are synthesized to new corporate fulfillment.58 Vital congregations are not distinguished by ordered accomplishment; they are lively, instead, by dint of the intensity of their community interaction.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

The aftermath of these votes is the absence of reception by the church's ministers and members, and an ecclesial landscape littered with continuing legislative maneuvers, invocation of parliamentary rules, judicial appeals, trials in church courts, and the departures of congregations and ministers.

It becomes defensive, self - protective — the very antithesis of loving freedom proclaimed by the gospel and believed by many of its members» (New Hope for Congregations, 22 - 23).

As members and pastors of congregations that encourage each other in faithful stewardship each autumn, we are challenged by this idea that we are stewards of much and owners of nothing.

The congregation by its household narrative can mediate the entry of the individual into the fullness of the world, making manifest how the biography of a member is woven into the story of all human society.

It is always a danger that this dignity and beauty and the form upon which they rest, may be without the warmth of personal participation by the members of the worshipping congregation; then there is «formality» in the bad sense, and there may be a «coldness» which almost amounts to indifference.

Members of the congregation who were upset by something I said could not, at the end of the day, hold me solely responsible for upsetting them, unless I had grossly misrepresented the passage under scrutiny.

By and large, they were — not only members of his congregation but a wider world that eventually included other opinion makers, presidents, archbishops, and popes.

By its efficient operation and attentive care of its members, the congregation reinforced the surrounding privatized culture.

This will not happen unless the members of the congregation, out of the validity of the meaning of their own experience, are led by the preaching to engage the meaning of the gospel with the meaning of living.