Sentences with phrase «as congregations of»

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

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?

The Church is constituted by the Word of God as the congregation of the elect, and the proclamation of the Word is not a statement of abstract truths, but a proclamation which is duly authorized and therefore needs bearers with proper credentials (2 Cor.

Not exact matches

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.»

After I left New Orleans, I joined a Houston congregation made up of people who relocated to the city as a result of Katrina.

Outside of work, Rehman's leadership and commitment to the community has been recognized by his appointments as a board member for the Social, Welfare, Education and Economics Board through his congregation.

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

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.

Of course, for the sake of usefulness a congregation can elect a pastor or bishop, maybe for temporary charge who leads the affairs of the congregation as a wholOf course, for the sake of usefulness a congregation can elect a pastor or bishop, maybe for temporary charge who leads the affairs of the congregation as a wholof usefulness a congregation can elect a pastor or bishop, maybe for temporary charge who leads the affairs of the congregation as a wholof the congregation as a whole.

Rector William Taylor told his congregation his first question to the next Bishop of London, who is yet to be named, would be whether he's willing «declare as sin what God calls sin».

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.

If we are a Christian congregation we can elect a man of virtue as pastor but there is no need for any contest concerning leadership.

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.

Especially those who advocate the prosperity of the church leaders as a substitute for the prosperity of the members of the congregation.

Paul Mariani's poem «Solar Ice,» which centers on a Mass, has a «preconciliar» feel, as a «clear demarcation of place and hierarchy exists between the priest, who is titled the equivalent of God rather than his profession, and the lay congregation.»

Most are quickly reported to civil authorities as required by law,» he said, but he warned the leaders that they must respond quickly to reports and share information with their congregations for the sake of transparency.

As your attention focuses on the reading — raising the book as you read reveals your focus — the text you hold will become the congregation's center of attention as welAs your attention focuses on the reading — raising the book as you read reveals your focus — the text you hold will become the congregation's center of attention as welas you read reveals your focus — the text you hold will become the congregation's center of attention as welas well.

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.

What kind of witness could we be to our communities, as fragmented as they are by race and class and economics and politics, if the very makeup of our congregations signaled the «manifold wisdom of God» (Eph.

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 think this is why we see most scripture designating men as the leader of the congregation.

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.

It is not clear who will pay for replacement windows, as the National Cathedral still struggles to raise millions of dollars for repairs dating from 2011, not to mention basic ongoing maintenance for a sprawling magnificent church that lacks a strong supporting congregation.

Additionally, I'd like to acknowledge that I'm going to write this response to you as a member of the congregation, as opposed to someone who is on the staff of your church.

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.»

If you pointed at individual church congregations, that would be one thing, but to paint, as you do, most of the church that way is dishonest.

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

As a former Christian, I find the idea of one man standing before a congregation several times a week, explaining his beliefs (understanding of the bible?)

The emphasis on highly produced, band - led worship — which comes from a sincere desire to make worship as «good» as it can be — can drown out the response of the congregation.

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.

To help direct the congregation's reflection, he offered two principles: «(a) unconditional respect for the human being as a person from conception to natural death; (b) respect for the originality of the transmission of human life through the acts proper to spouses.»

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

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.

Many of us understand the church as the body of Christ, and a local congregation can be a part of that.

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

As a result, clergy are often more adept at giving sociological accounts of church life than they are at helping their congregations appreciate that it is the presence of God that makes their life possible.

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

Please, if you're a Christian leader and plan on killing yourself and your congregation before on on May 21... take as many of your followers with you.

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.

Indeed, we suspect that the very distinction between theology, ethics and liturgy reflects the seminary's adoption of inappropriate academic models of compartmentalization and a failure to take seriously the liturgical life of congregations as central to our educative task.

Southern and Norton propose an exercise of self - discernment as a way to identify a congregation's true «spiritual DNA.»

Instead of looking to the culture of the congregation as key to change, Jim Herrington, Mike Bonem and James H. Furr focus on leadership.

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.

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.

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the 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.

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.