Sentences with phrase «among local congregations»

In recent years COCU conducted experiments in joint mission and worship among local congregations — experiments which made clear the value and possibility of such a concept of congregational mission and identity.

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This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

The ministry of episkopé continued this eucharistic focus, as bishops began to serve among the congregations, unifying the Eucharist of the local communities and that of the universal church.

See James C. Fenhagen, Mutual Ministry: New Vitality for the Local Church, (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1977) for a fuller development of the concept of mutual ministry among members of a congregation.

Soon after the courses started, he began to realize «that a great deal more was going on in the local congregation than just rational give - and - take among well - intentioned human beings.

NEH funds are supporting 253 humanities projects across the United States, among them, «a video - based web platform allowing scholars to publish papers in sign language, and a new tool that uses digital analysis of architectural floor plans to show how Frank Lloyd Wright's structures changed over time,... and a local community digitization projects will preserve historic materials held by the congregations of African - American churches in Georgia»