Sentences with phrase «protestant congregations»

Pastors lead Protestant congregations (Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopalian, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc.).

As I conducted world view interviews I was surprised how infrequently, in even conservative Protestant congregations, the name of Christ was mentioned in response to questions about crises such as death, family instability, or world catastrophes.

The captivity of Protestant congregations in visions of a domesticated church leads to a severely truncated vision of the nature and mission of the church.

The mission and purpose of Protestant congregations was related to their reputation for undergirding the morals of the nation by supporting the family unit.

Yet Catholics have fared much worse than any of the Protestant congregations studied, including those supporting private schools.

While many Protestant congregations (especially Lutheran ones) are willing to celebrate the Reformation of October 31, 1517, with pride and pomp, reformation's synonyms — renovate, reorganize, restructure — can be sources of conflict.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

Congregations — especially mainline Protestant congregations — were forced by Reagan - era budget cuts to get more actively involved in providing services.

But more important is that the discrete region of Christian social action has foundations in a certain way of interpreting the Christian faith, a way which is native to theological schools and for the most part foreign to Protestant congregations.

That's the alarming conclusion of a major new study of mainline congregations titled Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant Congregations.

This approach characterizes a majority of Protestant congregations, especially those thriving, successful churches where probing questions about worship never seem necessary.

Catholic and mainline Protestant congregations, on the other hand, contain a smaller proportion of the church - going population than they did when baby boomers were in Sunday School.

A Muslim does not «belong» to a particular mosque, which means there is enormous racial, ethnic and class diversity in a congregation that gathers for Friday prayer — in contrast to the homogeneity of most Protestant congregations.

More broadly immigrant Protestant congregations are carriers of home - country cultures in matters of music, language, dress and food, if not in specific religious symbols.

Latinos are the most numerous, overwhelming Catholic parishes in Texas and California, but also creating dozens of new Protestant congregations and spreading out far from these traditional destinations.

Despite the practical resistance to the civil rights struggle on the part of numerous Protestant congregations, especially in the South, most national and regional church bodies were supportive of the extension of equal rights in this way.

In the late 19th century, Protestant congregations popularized the «auditorium church.»

But almost no mainline Protestant congregations exist in a denominationally insulated cocoon anymore.

Given all that, it is perhaps surprising that 55 percent of the Protestant congregations we studied — slightly more among conservatives, slightly less among liberals — report that they consider themselves strong standard - bearers of their denominational tradition.

Among all the Protestant congregations in which we interviewed, 32 percent of those in the Northeast reported a strong denominational identity, while 70 percent of those in the South did.

CMR is an organization that offers legal and tax advice to more than seventy - five thousand Protestant congregations and one thousand denominational agencies nationwide.

Paul Wilkes wrote Excellent Protestant Congregations: The guide to the Best Places and Practices.

I suspect that of the six areas for integrity in mission, the one involving a conscious experience of the presence of God has been taught least in mainline Protestant congregations.

That is clearest in the singing of four - part hymns, something that Protestant congregations learned as a matter of routine (the standard teachers» manual used in Saxony in Bach's childhood had sections on reading, arithmetic, and four - part singing).

Nor did either generate a school called Barthianism or Tllichianism, although Tillich's influence could be seen in departments of Christian education and church school curricula [98] in mainline U.S. Protestant congregations for decades.

Scripture functions in the worship of thousands of Protestant congregations only as a means of reinforcing what the preacher wants to say.

The document is called «Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant Congregations.»

Last January, LifeWay Research found that Protestant congregations in America were twice as likely to fear refugees as help them, though senior pastors overwhelmingly believed that «Christians have a responsibility to care sacrificially for refugees and foreigners.»

Now understand, as a liturgical Mainline Protestant congregation, First Presbyterian Church follows the Revised Common Lectionary, which means the Scriptural passages for the service and sermon are determined years in advance.

It is really astounding to see this in practice, and it is something I have found only in Quakerism — and that is coming from someone who was historically a part of a hyper - welcoming liberal protestant congregation!

Whereas the average Protestant congregation is small, the average Protestant goes to a large church.

We do not believe by ourselves, as individuals in isolation; we believe as part of a community of believers, whether the community is a Benedictine monastery, a communist cell, a Protestant congregation, a Jewish minyan or a Hindu ashram.

(This would, of course, be an atypical Protestant congregation since the middle class tends to be overrepresented in such groups.)

According to Thumma and Davis, it is any Protestant congregation that averages 2,000 or more in worship attendance at its weekly services.

As far as I can tell from its website, Marble is a mainline, Protestant congregation, committed to progressive causes like diversity and same - sex marriage.

The son of a strong - willed assistant pastor to the Protestant congregation of a lakeside village in French - speaking Switzerland who married well, he was his parents» fifth child but the first to survive infancy, and as a student he displayed a rare surplus of talent, energy, imagination, fearlessness, and determination.

Not exact matches

11 - 13 % of married protestant pastors have relations with members of their congregation.

Bonhoeffer was also involved with those who drafted documents that could serve as the basis for a new order of government after the coup, and he composed a pronouncement pointing toward reorganization of the Protestant church, which could be used in congregations at the conclusion of the war.

All congregations, which became Protestant, had been Catholic before.

We Protestants forget that and deny it every time we shut the people out and turn worship into entertainment by clergy or musicians before silent congregations.

Once when he preached at the leading Protestant church in that city he attacked the congregation for having come to church.

The CDF puts out a book containing a model worship service for Protestant, Catholic and Jewish congregations, as well as a series of activity modules for children and adults.

Broadly speaking, it's more true for the mainline Protestant denominations and less true for fundamentalist congregations.

But note one of the chief reasons for the German protest: «The signing of the Joint Declaration would result in no improvements whatsoever in the practicalities of Protestants and Catholics living together in families and in congregations.

With 16 million members in some 45,000 congregations, the Southern Baptist Convention is the country's largest Protestant denomination.

EV / Protestant and Messianic congregations are not immune.

Given the «cocooning» tendencies of congregations in these postmodern times and given the theological amnesia in most modern Protestant churches that I know, I am not so reassured by Volf's defense of the kind of catholicity that he believes is attainable in local churches.

I had a hunch, based on my own work with local congregations, that in the «mainline» Protestant world that I know best, lots of laypeople really do want to think seriously about their faith, and somehow they aren't getting enough help in doing that well.

Written in 1942 and today, unfortunately, available only online, it is the tale of a theology student in the 1930s whose father, pastor of a large congregation in Magdeburg, bravely attempted to prevent the Nazi - sponsored «German Christians» from taking over the Protestant Church.

More than 20 religious leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim backgrounds around Gainesville had the same Quran passage read - along with Christian and Hebrew scriptures — at their congregations over the weekend.