Sentences with phrase «tchividjian as that congregation»

I've only really come out recently that we are walking this out as a 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.

My work load actually lessened as the congregation tripled in size.

Faith communities are rediscovering the theology of hospitality As congregations change, many have been forced to reclaim this wisdom as old as Abraham.

The reaction of black pastors to the president's support for gay marriage has been as varied as their congregations, ranging from condemnation to congratulations.

They should have everyone of those people come in, stand in front of the congregation and offer an apology to them for bringing shame upon them as a congregation.

One Sabbath service as the congregation in Newbury listened to the sermon of their pastor, the door burst open and in walked a young woman stark naked.

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.com)

As congregations first come into being, Hopewell argued, they construct a narrative that accounts for their nascent identity.

Jackson served on staff of University Christian Church (UCC) in Cincinnati for nearly 19 years, and served as the congregation's Lead Pastor from 1996 - 2013.

As the congregation sang the invitation song, the inspired Bennie decided he wanted to follow Jesus, he wanted to be a missionary, and he wanted to be a doctor.

Or consider the array of questions that arise when we ask, «Is the Christian thing, concretely present in and as these congregations, true?»

That goal generates an interest in studying all that goes to make up congregations as enactments of the Christian thing; and congregations, in turn, invite three types of questions to focus and guide study of all that goes to constitute the Christian thing in and as congregations:

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

Most are small and neighborly, with the pastor living in the same block as his congregation.

In my years in seminary, I can't remember the topic of heaven, at least as my congregation would recognize it, ever coming up.

As the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.»

As a congregation, our theology is simple: * The Divine is not distant.

But, in the various dicasteries — as the congregations and other offices are called — the atmosphere is one of earnestness of purpose in serving the pope.

UPDATE (Sept. 4): Willow Creek Presbyterian Church in Winter Springs, Florida, (unrelated to Willow Creek Community Church, South Barrington, Illinois) has hired Tullian Tchividjian as that congregation's director of ministry development.

What's more, Bennett said that when Romney served as their congregation's bishop — the equivalent of an unpaid pastor — it wasn't uncommon for the two friends to fast more than once a month.

In September, Willow Creek (unrelated to Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois) hired Tchividjian as the congregation's director of ministry development.

We read of churches in which fresh herbs were spread on the floor, their scent rising as the congregation walked about before, during and after the service.

And now, signs of new ventures — such as congregation - based teaching and related counterinstitutional forms — are questioning both oldline and evangelical teaching habitats.

As long as a congregation seems to surmount its problems of social interaction, it is easy to forget its congregational aspects and to view its members as free agents who spontaneously collaborate to practice high Christian precepts.

The minister who receives and shares the authentic signals of life as the congregation knows it will have a sense of humor.

As both congregations dwindled due to the people moving away from the shrinking town, the pastors of the two churches decided to join forces and become one church.

I was thinking of my friend, the Rev. Dr. Bill McSwegin, who died and was buried last week, as the congregation sang a hymn that contained the lyrics, «he spoke the ancient....

That's probably because, even though we are very comfortable with our Pentecostal identity as a congregation, we don't wear it (or our denominational badge) on our lapels.

I was thinking of my friend, the Rev. Dr. Bill McSwegin, who died and was buried last week, as the congregation sang a hymn that contained the lyrics, «he spoke the ancient words.»

As a congregation's best trained interpreter of the message, the minister has a responsibility to test and retest his presentation of that message against criteria of healing and growth (see Chap.

If our time as a congregation was almost over, I don't think we'd have much trouble getting inactive or barely active members and friends to join us.

The Word of God comes alive as a congregation hears the Word in worship and preaching, learns what the Word is about through study, and discovers what the Word means as it is experienced through life in a fellowship of Christians.

Most evangelicals commune almost as seldom as the congregation of a medieval cathedral.

As a congregation within the United Church of Christ, the Spring Glen Church exemplifies «liberal, Protestant» or «old, mainline» ecclesial perspectives.

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.

«As a congregation, we help each other during the preparation time, pray together a lot more, and help on relief efforts after the event,» said Ríos, lead pastor of La Iglesia del Centro, a congregation of about 350 in Arecibo.

And to be a part of that mission, we as congregations and as individuals must be visible in the world, working towards its transformation.

Only insofar as the congregation as texture strengthened the fabric of urban community would it gain its true nature.

The difference for Pentecostals is that the ritual pattern can be interrupted at any point as the congregation seeks to respond to the Spirit's presence.

As the congregation walk through the tunnel, the Christians pray for God to bless those who walk and in many cases they are overcome with God's presence and barely able to walk, or laugh uncontrollably.

The idea is to help us as congregations carry what we experience on Sundays out into our Monday - through - Saturday lives — to help all of us understand our story as Christians in the context of the stories we encounter in the media every day.

To everyone's surprise, this rapidly became a global movement as congregations from York to the Lake District had their imaginations reignited by the Spirit and created new ways to worship, make disciples and influence their neighbours.

I used to cling to those kinds of promises because the pain we were experiencing as a congregation is so intense.

The only plausible way for a college or university to be significantly Christian is for it to function as a congregation in active communion within a church.

As guest speaker, I am greeted by a handful of persons as the congregation files out of the glen.

These boards are also aware of the dependency that still confronts national church leaders as well as congregations.

How did we as a congregation respond?»

But while the legal situation lasts, can we develop an ecclesiology which can invite to the Lord's Table of the church as congregation of faith, those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as decisive for their lives and are prepared to enter the worshipping congregation and not the communally organized body of Christians?

Inasmuch as congregations are themselves social spaces with social forms, theological schooling focused through questions about them must attend critically to the scripture whose use creates the social space; and it must attend to the disciplines of the human sciences that provide understanding of the social forms that make congregations moral and political realities in their own right.