Sentences with phrase «as a congregation in»

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.

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.

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Then there was the pastor who demanded that the congregation «fill in the blanks» of a not - so - old song by a guy the minister described as the «dysfunctional poet savant Lil» Wayne.»

If I'm accepted in my congregation, there should be a tolerance in ecumenical settings for a difference of belief on the issue, as there is for many issues.

Yes, it had straight members, but the congregation seemed to be living life as in a leper colony, just grateful that they were even allowed to worship God.

I was going to mock these, but, in truth, for a small congregation, where somebody's personal car has to double as the church car, these could be useful.

If (and when) I believed that, I doubt I could have accepted having someone in ministry in my congregation that I believed was living a lie, accepting something sinful as a central part of their lives and identity.

Bernice had left the church in profound humiliation when, as a little girl, one of the more prominent ladies in the congregation insulted her in the local general store, but near the end of her life she had reconnected with the church of her childhood.

My sense is that the congregation as a whole is made up of fairly orthodox Catholics, which I doubt is always the case in university towns.

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

«As I read it, the message of the Christian Men's Movement is this: Following Jesus is not for women only, nor is it merely a spectator sport, which it tends to become for men in our domesticated, mostly female congregations.

I am in my last year of seminary in the states and deeply want to be as honest and open with my congregations as you are on your blog.

But just as order requires someone to be the head of any successful organisation so to in the family and congregation.

We attend the Lord's supper as often as it is offered, which in our congregations is about twice a month.

Indeed, I have a treasured memory that gives me hope in this regard: I was once a member of an inner - city Reformed congregation that was also home to a woman from the neighborhood who considered this congregation her parish church, as it were.

I think I said doing so was stealing and lying, but in any case I said it was wrong, and also pointless, since the congregation is not going to think less of the preacher because he says, «As John Smith says.»

And of course the congregation for centuries never questioned the Church as that was considered a sin in itself!

It would be just as logical to rant about how Christians all go around protesting at dead soldiers» funerals, just because of those wackos in the Phelps congregation.

As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

I will remain in my local conservative congregation that instinctively knows better than to embrace such dangerous and foolhardy notions as world government.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

In the United Church of Zambia, a pastor may serve as many as eight or ten congregations.

As they reflected on this finding, Hoge and Wenger «came to believe that the conflicts most often experienced by our participants are ones that could probably be resolved and in the process offer growth experiences for both pastor and congregation.»

The Lutheran groups most likely to identify as evangelical are small and functionally free - church (the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ).

As a young pastor I tried to maintain control of the congregation and each person in it.

Many seminarians will become pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false» church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.

How are we doing generally as a Western church in engaging abuse which those in our congregations has had some intersection with?

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.

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

In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

I had never experienced nor considered it so much as having borne the pain and sorrow associated with a particular bully in my congregation.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

Even while preaching absolute truth, propositions, sin, and hell, Keller will quote the Apostle Paul in the same breath as a quote from Bono, and all to make a point meaningful to his congregation, not to win cool points.

Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death.

And just as the retail workers at Target are left in the lurch, our small congregations were often left to scatter in the aftermath, trying to find healing as best they could.

We see them as obstacles and we complain that but for such and such a person things would have been better in the congregation, in the family and in the community.

To this day there is a brass box in our bedroom that served for years as «the gift of gold» borne up the aisle, as did two of our pottery jars, both of them filled by the congregation's imagination with frankincense and myrrh.

I wrote about two dozen prayers in as many days, lucid and heartfelt, and the people of my home church distributed them to the congregation in photocopied booklets.

Since it was founded in 2003, the conservative Jewish congregation had bounced from location to location outside Atlanta - a Methodist church, a windowless space in a school, any place they could rent or borrow as they grew.

But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.

It gained the support of the denomination as a whole, and I am sure that it had an impact in many congregations.

When the members of the congregation saw me in pain, they ministered to me — not from a distance, but as fellow travelers on the same patch of winding road.

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.

For instance, he throws out the old canard about women conspiring to form a «shadow government» behind the scenes in order to function as illicit leaders in the congregation.

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.»

Andy Stanley, a prominent evangelical leader, said some in his congregation cheered when he launched a preaching series called «Recovery Road» to talk about politically touchy issues such as personal greed, the federal deficit and the sins of subprime loans.

She had attacked the theology of the ministers, and by emphasizing the personal operation of the Holy Spirit in revealing the truth of Scripture, or truth apart from Scripture, she was denying the very foundation of the holy experiment — that of Scripture as interpreted by the ministers in the midst of the congregations.

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

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

While the majority in many congregations accept monological, authoritarian preaching as ideal, there is a growing, vigorous minority who would welcome the opportunity for interaction.