Sentences with phrase «about local churches»

Part of my recent wonder about local churches grows from my need as a professor of world religions to demonstrate how my courses meet concerns in the ministry that my students will enter.

It's about local churches learning to eat together, to grow in relationship, to become friends in mission and pursuing a just community.

Local Republicans complained about a local church feeding the homeless because the homeless were filthy.

Hopewell acknowledges that some degree of abstraction is inevitable in any program of graduate professional training, but he remains convinced that «we have done it to such an extent in most of theological education that we tend to forget about the local church.»

Reports about a local church usually fix upon such regularities as worship services and committee meetings, not upon the plot that unfolds and twists.

Every one of these students has become enthusiastic about the local church!

Not exact matches

For local churches that are ready to get serious about really helping poor people, this is the book.

I talk about the issue of spiritual abuse and how people recover from this devastation in their local church.

Ask them to train you and provide honest constructive criticism regarding your work, and ask them about the areas of neglect in the local arts community that your church could help to fill.

Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) about the attack, Bishop Hilary Paul Odili Okeke of the Diocese of Nnewi, south - east Nigeria, explained the attack was linked to local issues and not Boko Haram.

But even the local church could be much more conscientious about allocating their financial resources in accordance with biblical priorities.

In studying those topics they learn about many a congregation's life, and they learn too that there are alternatives to the merely contemporary and local stories of a church.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

One of the ministers» principal aims was to reach out to the local white community, especially the clergy and churches, looking for a chance to talk about the changes whites were having to face.

A 911 call came in about 9 p.m. Wednesday local time from the Mother of Mercy Mission Catholic Church, said Sgt. Steve Martos of the Phoenix Police Department.

Whenever I feel restless about Church — both the universal Church and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moChurch — both the universal Church and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moChurch and my own local church — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact mochurch — and most particularly my place in her, whenever I feel wander - y and misfit - ish and even just plain tired of trying, when I wonder why even bother, I remember these exact moments.

For more information about Christianity, we recommend checking out the Bible (it is the source, after all) and finding a good local church where you can meet other people like you.

I was contacted a while ago about preaching at an event hosted by the ecumenical work committee of a local presbytery of the Taiwan Presbyterian Church.

In fact, there is a Whore, but I'd be careful about equating that with the local church.

Porcia Thaxter, a member of the church and a local resident told Premier about the community's mood following the tragedy.

About once a month he opens his chopper up to local pastors, who fly over their churches and areas of the city they think are experiencing hardship and pray for them.

But Williams reports that being an observing participant is both possible and rewarding.3 Diligent members of a local church can learn a great deal about its language and story.

I didn't know what I believed about any of it — God, the Church, the local church, scripture, any Church, the local church, scripture, any church, scripture, any of it.

It is about the big things: Inviting people to church but loving them just the same if they say «no,» actually making it a priority to participate and serve in the ministries of the church, financially investing in the mission of the local church and yielding to God's direction of my life over my own ideas of how this life should go.

My friend who was on the church board of a local church told me about their deliberations to borrow over a million dollars to build a gymnasium for their teens and young men «to give them something to do».

Sure, I was writing marketing copy about new mammogram machines at the local hospital and articles about church planting in Alberta for the North American Mission board, but I was making a good living.

But I'm not sure about just ditching the idea of a vision that the Body has (I'm talking local church)... I mean, although I want sometimes to ditch it, I can't find justification in Scripture.

Another problem arises from the church's increasingly local identity: If laity care less and less about the denomination as a larger entity, then clergy will be the guardians of denominationalism.

Nicholls, who is also a minister at Christ Church Haywards Heath in West Sussex, told Premier about the importance of local churches effectively reaching out to a community.

«But we're actually interacting with people at a local authority level and trying to encourage people in the church to talk about not just the message they're hearing... but also the work that the church is doing and why we're doing it.»

«I think if we change that step and really become students of each other's narratives and ask questions about why people perceive certain things in a certain way instead of jumping to judgment, then I think we'll be better equipped to have more diversity in local churches.»

Here is one more example, one of my riders was invited to speak about the motorcycle ministry at a local church.

As opposed to the thousands and thousands of billboards & church message boards every 50 ft with their snarky comments pushing their beliefs and quite often attacking non -(Jesus) believers and / or science directly or indirectly, all the millions of people that like to go around constantly «sharing their beliefs» about how everyone who believes differently is gonna be tortured and burned for eternity, or the countless attempts by local, state, and federal government officials to push laws based on those beliefs and to favor those beliefs all over the country.

If it is the latter, then maybe you should think about painting a picture of a local church as you see it with its current evil influences, then explain why you think these influences are of the enemy.

It remains unclear who made the complaint but diocesan authorities are said to be taking the issue seriously which has prompted locals to start a petition, calling on the parish's vicar, Revd Dr Stephen M'Caw, to «take no action in respect of concerns expressed about the bells of St John's Church».

The director of a local pregnancy center told me about an event where area churches had combined to offer services that ranged from cosmetology to interview skills and financial education.

As I see it, a specific local church's mission is how it goes about fulfilling the Great Commission and calling in its circumstances.

There are things that are beautiful about holding to tradition, but it's also important for a church to be in the local culture.

In the weeks to come, I'll be sharing more about why I stayed with the Church — with a capital - C — and about our search for a local faith community.

In seven chapters, the author raises questions about belonging to a local church, observing the Lord's Supper, church leadership structures, tithing, preaching, worship, and the church building as the «House of God.»

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Until then, we can expect messy and confused local wrangles about registration, about the return of former church property and about the presence of foreign missionaries.

The strongest evidence on that point appears on the first page of her book, where «Bill,» a member of Grace, talks about his identity as a Christian and an American and about his volunteer work, through the church, at a local shelter for disadvantaged teens.

I've often sat there thinking about it, but in the end I always get up and go in, because there's enough love, enough need and enough of Christ in my local church community for me to put up with the damage that institutions do to everyone in them.

The small church, with its straight - backed pews, could seat about a hundred, and on most Sundays it was fairly full, said Mr. Mall, the 67 local members complemented by students and visitors: four or five families were well - to - do; they drove cars to church.

In the past decade church leaders often voiced cynicism or even a sense of futility about involving local churches in social action.

The local church is specific, with commonplace boundaries that prevent flights into generalities about the church, humanity, and the nature of the redeemed life.

By working with area churches, Compassion is able to provide the aid it promises to children while equipping local churches to carry out the faith - based element of their mutual mission, effectively absolving Compassion of any accusations about untoward proselytism.

Although I had always been associated with local churches, my curiosity about them came late and unexpectedly while I was engaged with what seemed a quite different set of professional concerns.

The contemporary local church, despite occasional enthusiastic advertisements and placid self - descriptions in annual reports, is often discouraged and sometimes cynical about ties that bind its members.