Sentences with phrase «point community church»

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In the course of his remarks, Stanley, pastor of North Point Community Church, called the President «Pastor in Chief.»

Andy Stanley, founding pastor of North Point Community Church in Georgia, was the only religious leader to invoke Jesus» name, as the rest of the service was very interfaith oriented.

Stanley, pastor of North Point Community Church, suggested the president should be called «pastor in chief» for his leadership following the Sandy Hook shootings.

Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church - all in the Atlanta area - and founder of North Point Ministries

Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Browns Bridge Community Church, Buckhead Church and Watermarke Church in and around Atlanta.

The senior pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, north of Atlanta, told his church members they should look in the mirror before they start blaming politicians for the nation's economic woes.

North Point Community Church in Atlanta was averaging 4,000 people in attendance at the end of its first year.

He is a Christian conservative who is also the pastor of North Point Community Church, a sprawling 33,000 - member church in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.

Not exact matches

As an atheist, I can answer that — socialization and community, and reinforcement of one's beliefs, are the point of church.

Our son's family are members of a community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached on putting faith into practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.

A person is never going to fully agree theologically, in every way, with any community of believers however, when choosing a community for myself and my family to be a part of, I certainly looked for the church which had the most points of agreement.

He pointed out that the human rights ordinance «had brought the community's conservative churches face to face with the problem of homosexuality for the first time.»

That has led me to many changes in my politics and activism and opinions, how I live out my faith, my marriage and my mothering, my engagement with the Church and community, and all points between.

Her point: If the goal is to find community, I need to pay attention to the kind of community the church fosters.

This hasn't meant that deep relationships haven't happened in the church as David points out, but it has set up in many communities for a number of these complex reasons where friendships become utilitarian — from leadership on down — the fruit becomes that the friendships exist for the church.

Up to this point we have discussed the many instances where the clergy and the churches in the community can collaborate with community mental health programs in providing services related to prevention in mental health.

Ideally, two projects should be chosen as a starting point for action — one focusing within the church and one in the community.

Consequently, I am convinced that there is a special providence in the emergence of visible gay communities within the Christian churches at this point in history.

The Decade has pointed this out repeatedly to the churches - first that the veneer of silence with which violence against women is dealt with is a moral failure of the Church and secondly that outrageous biblical and theological legitimizations of violence, calling into question the authority and power of the church, as a moral commChurch and secondly that outrageous biblical and theological legitimizations of violence, calling into question the authority and power of the church, as a moral commchurch, as a moral community.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

If we rightly understand the point of God's action in the human existence of Jesus Christ and all that his existence implies, then we must say that the Church is the community in which God's active love is both disclosed and released into the world.

«We are sure this will be a focal point for our church family and the local community for years to come.

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

Let us illustrate this point of view toward which our whole discussion has been moving by looking briefly at the sacraments of the Church, the Christian meeting of death, and the Christian life of active service as expressions of the way which is enclosed in the grace of this kind of community.

More to the point... if a community were to do everything right, and discovered the church building burnt to the ground by lightning one Sunday morning, I wd hope the response wd be,» Look at all the room we have for parking.»

Through our talk, we were able to hash out some valuable action points that could move more churches into positions help make a difference in the community and in a country still dealing with economic issues.

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

At one point, about 10 years ago, the head of a Holocaust survivors group paid for her time to accumulate a list of 1,000 Holocaust victims who had been baptized, after the LDS Church claimed the Jewish community was «overreacting to the problem,» says Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist in New Jersey who has been following the issue for 22 years, long before it made headlines.

Ker makes the point about the rise of ecclesial communities which have always existed in the Church — from the time of St Antony the Great to that of St Philip Neri's Oratory.

An Athanasius, inspired by a genuinely Christian monasticism, not only had a more (comparative to his times) wholesome understanding of human sexuality and marriage, as well as women s ministerial roles in the church, but also struggled (to the point of being expelled from his diocese five times by those supporting the imperium) for an orthodoxy which would confess the God revealed in Christ as a community of consubstantial Persons.

They — or perhaps I should say we, since I am one of them — are in some ways like a church: there is a commitment to meeting regularly, repeated resolution of differences, a strong desire to spread the good news and a determination to point the community in the direction of genuine hope.

Those who come from other ecclesial communities and enter into full communion with the Catholic Church encounter great joy among some Catholics that they have, not to put too fine a point on it, «come over to our side.»

Bailey does go on to point out that he believes Paul wanted the church to kick this man out of their fellowship, which would be pretty shocking back then, since there was only one church in a community.

David Jeremiah, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego County, Calif..

The point of view is from within the church, is that of churchmen who, having been born into the Christian community, having been nurtured in it and having been convinced of the truth of its gospel, know no life apart from it.

Mission points to the event of communion which God offers to the world as the Body of Christ, the Church, that is a community in history which reflects the life of God as communion.47

It is neither right nor wrong to be in or out of a particular church community: it is the point you have reached.

The recognition that healing communities exist throughout the world is pointed out by the Christian Medical Commission of the World Council of Churches.

He points out that the task of theologians must be to remain true to the church - community of which they are members, while at the same time being committed to the methods and insights of current scholarly inquiry.

In retrospect, my return to the church was, I think, an attempt to find a community in whose membership I could find a point of stability and permanence.

As Wade Clark Roof points out in a recent study, this neglect will lead to «a crisis of plausibility» resulting in alienation of growing numbers of persons and finally in the church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6 - 9).

Biblically literate women looked to scripture to justify their changing situation, especially in the churches.25 Gabriele Dietrich emphasizes three points which are important in our context from the Jesus Movement26: firstly, the Jesus Movement was critical of the existing patriarchal family structure and created new forms of community; secondly, it was egalitarian in terms of class with a bias in favor of the poor; and, thirdly, it provided for a participation of women which was far reaching and unusual under the conditions of the time.27

In one point only is it correct, that in fact the community separated more and more from orthodox Judaism, that the disputes between Jesus and his opponents were now recounted and written down as models, and were naturally told in such a way as to correspond to the interests of the church.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

But, perhaps most significantly to the point at hand, I have the oppurtunity through my «organized church» to connect with and find resource in a community that is large enough and diverse enough to actually represent the Body of Christ, with all of its critical parts!

Whether you join a small group at your church, find an FPU or Crown Ministries class, or seek out virtual community by following a blog or hashtag, begin to knit together a group of people to support your efforts and point you toward God's plan for your life (which includes your money).

In the light of that claim, it is reasonable to attribute the New Testament's use of the phrase «the Jews» to the point of view of an era when the church was in conflict with the Jewish community, hence to conclude that the anti-Semitism in the New Testament is incidental.

These days I'm seeing the «point» of church to be as much about providing community - based relationship - coaching as about anything else.

Rather it would point to Christ as One who has underwritten the promise of God to renew all life... Such a view certainly leaves the possibility open for a person who had been witnessed to, to want to name the Name and become part of the historic community, the church, which is called to be faithful to the Gospel message among the nations.