Sentences with phrase «as the congregation began»

As the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.»

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Some congregations began to ordain women as elders even though the issue had not been officially addressed.

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.

Instead of encouraging their most gifted and talented young people to consider ordained ministry as a vocation, congregations began directing their young people toward business, law or medicine.

In June, the two congregations began operating as the east (Central Park) and west (Wesley) campuses of the Recovery 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.

Some early black congregations began as benevolent societies, and all of them were concerned for the welfare of the sick, the widowed and the orphaned.

As we began the service, the congregation was tense and quiet.

The largely Asian congregation, part of a small denomination, the Cumberland Presbyterians, began as an offspring of a 100 - year - old congregation in San Francisco's Mission District.

As the opening worship songs began, those near the front of the congregation were evidently fully engaged.

In the process of being interviewed, called, and beginning his ministry, the pastor has discovered that the congregation is primarily concerned with institutional maintenance, such as raising the budget and adding new members to the rolls.

The preacher begins with the text as would any member of his congregation, asking the immediate and spontaneous questions, as in the paragraph above, but now his responsibility as pastor - teacher - preacher demands exegetical work, careful and honest.

As early as 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincAs early as 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincas 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincas fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever since.

«It seems be couldn't keep his body and his soul aligned,» the young pastor said, and seemed a little lost for words until he left the pulpit, walked over and opened the casket, took out a harmonica and began to play «Just As I Am» while everyone in the congregation nodded and wept and smiled, some of them mouthing the words of promise and comfort to themselves.

The relationship between contemporary forms of worship and membership growth is as strong for older congregations that changed their worship patterns as for new congregations that have used contemporary forms from the beginning.

As our church begins its search for a new rector, I have been thinking a lot about the dependence formed between pastor and congregation.

I would probably begin with the framework behind this analysis, distinguishing between first - order doctrines (a denial of which represents the eventual denial of Christianity itself), second - order doctrines (upon which Bible - believing Christians may disagree, but they create significant boundaries between believers, whether as distinct congregations or denominations), and third - order doctrines (upon which Christians may disagree, but yet remain in close fellowship, even within local congregations).

Most importantly, we could also see our lives and congregations begin to bring the good news of that Easter feast to many who have experienced little of God's hope and healing as we race towards the turbulent 2020s

Significantly, we began to see ourselves as just one church in the area with lots of congregations.

But it is crucial that local leaders — lay as well as clergy — begin to lead churches in an enlarged ministry, one that takes full measure of the age structure of the congregation.

Rather than reduce its self - image to that of a machine or an organism, the congregation might begin to give account of itself as the full, storied household the Bible promises it can be.

He also began arguing to his congregation that keeping kosher is as much about workers as about animals.

Typically, contacting 3,000 people in a newly developing area will produce 300 people to organize as a congregation, but what if the appeal from the beginning was to those who had doubts and questions?

The Ursulines, a new type of congregation of women, began in the last decade of the fifteenth century and had teaching as their primary function.

As a part of a sequence of movement, pause and stillness, a dancer begins by kneeling, with back to the congregation.

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

The declaration of the principle was the result of Luther's belief at the beginning of his career as a Reformer that any true Christian and particularly a congregation of Christian believers would be able to see that the institutions and practices of the Roman Church were irreconcilable with the gospel.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

B'nai Abraham, a conservative synagogue that traces its beginnings to the late 1800s and Temple Covenant of Peace, a reform congregation founded in 1839, will merge as early as June.

In the 1950s, Ossorio created dynamic abstract expressionist works and in 1960 he began to focus his efforts on assemblages of found objects such as glass eyes and bones which he called «Congregations».