Sentences with phrase «alive as a congregation»

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.

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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 model of ministry as spiritual direction of the life of a congregation assumes that the gospel comes alive when addressed to life realities.

There is no reason why a chill ought not to go down the spines of the members of the congregation occasionally as a sermon comes vividly alive for them.