Sentences with phrase «as the congregation knows»

The minister who receives and shares the authentic signals of life as the congregation knows it will have a sense of humor.

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If you can not speak to what is right, when you know it is right, then you have no business as pastor to a congregation.

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

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.

At the end of my talk, a pastor, who described his congregation to me as white suburban dwellers, said to me, «You know Pastor Mike, I am just gonna» be honest, why don't your people just get a job, stop asking for a free pass and stop committing crimes?

Preachers must be aware of the diversity of persons in their congregation, yet try to speak so that the Spirit, through scripture, addresses many hearts in ways that will be fitting to each, as different as these hearers are known to be from one another.

For there a concrete community is gathered round the altar, there the death and resurrection of the Lord are announced in his gospel, there the congregation knows itself to be united as the body of Christ and thus as a brotherly community of those who love one another.

@Brett The early leaders of the church, Popes, Cardinals and Bishops used the generic term «wife» as church, collection of people or congregation because they knew they were about to screw the sheepies over not matter their gender.

Knowing the distinctive function of the guide as pastor delivers the minister from being a cheap therapist - in - residence to the congregation.

But I know I was a much better teacher as a pastor in a congregation than I have been as a professor in a school.

Members of this St. Paul, Minnesota, congregation, also known as the Recovery Church, have come to expect God to orchestrate such moments.

Since Monday, the cardinals have been uniting for what are known as General Congregations, a series of meetings in which they discuss the issues facing the church.

Some say the clergy should develop more self - esteem, be more assertive, learn to say No, demand a day off — in brief, become as self - centered as many of the people in their congregations.

As long as there is one person of color in a church congregation, it is not segregated, and thus there are many many thousands of churches in America that are not segregated (here in Atlanta, I don't know of anyAs long as there is one person of color in a church congregation, it is not segregated, and thus there are many many thousands of churches in America that are not segregated (here in Atlanta, I don't know of anyas there is one person of color in a church congregation, it is not segregated, and thus there are many many thousands of churches in America that are not segregated (here in Atlanta, I don't know of any).

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

Considered autonomous churches, these congregations freely associate with the SBC (a national body), other national Baptist bodies, state bodies (generally known as state conventions), and local bodies (generally known as associations).

I know that there are all kinds of problems with Christianity as an enterprise; however, there's another image of the church that I see very often that bothers me more even than the image of the church as an enterprise, and the model that comes to me again, and again and again as I am working with congregations, is the image of the congregation as the Junior League.

It's a time when Mormons attend their local congregation - it's known as a ward, which in Catholic - speak would be comparable to a parish - and worship with their families and community.

Known as the Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, the congregation's concentration on a musician may seem to some as borderline idol worship, no different than groupies following the Grateful Dead or their jam band torch bearers Phish.

I venture to guess that if pastors really got to know those within their congregations, dialog would not only be natural, but would be manageable as they would have a firm grasp on the personalities involved.

I knew that when the Lord called me out of the congregation, where I was serving as Associate Rabbi, to start Shema, that we would, at least initially, be ministering to primarily non-Jews who were wanting to learn about the Hebraic roots.

«God Himself Is Present» is no longer a sensible song for a congregation that is regularly addressed as if its members had never felt that God himself is absent!

Even if this ideal is no longer as important to Americans in general, research indicates that the life of many congregations revolves around their reputation for being «a family church.

In faith we judge for ourselves as a community of Christians, even if the truth we come to know is not the currently accepted «truth» of a particular congregation, denomination, or culture.10

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»

The small family unit known as a nuclear family today is the typical family type of the modern era in Western cultures.1 During the last two hundred years, identity has been associated more with the family unit than with larger social units like a congregation.

A congregation which knows that their minister cares about them as persons will accept confrontation from him which they would automatically reject from another source.

I'm known to encourage individual spiritual reading and prayer during Advent and Lent, and I see to it that the congregation offers opportunities for group disciplines as well.

He may have despised the simple catechism of his German congregation, just as we «moderns» take offense at the minimalistic theology of many of the folk who inhabit our standard - brand churches, but he knew also that they had a great deal to teach the young pastor by virtue of having surveyed the land «across the river» and having dared to cross the chilly waters of Jordan with a sense of divine protection.

I know you have some difficult days and decisions ahead of you, but I think God is going to do some amazing things through you and your congregation as you seek to close your church and follow Jesus into the world.

As has been said... some stay too long out of wrong loyalty and, also, not knowing the true definition of what the Church is... if someone goes to the congregation up the road, as long as it is a Christian church, why worrAs has been said... some stay too long out of wrong loyalty and, also, not knowing the true definition of what the Church is... if someone goes to the congregation up the road, as long as it is a Christian church, why worras long as it is a Christian church, why worras it is a Christian church, why worry?

The Jewish No, which as Saul he maintained so zealously against the early Christian congregations, was overthrown through a call vision of the crucified and glorified Jesus.

It grinds my gears when some Churches preach Malachi repeatedly in Sermons to guilt the congregation into giving what they can not afford instead of providing guidance on how to manage that risky but essential commodity commonly known as money.

I find this reflection, comforting, especially as I know a few such congregations.

Kind of wish I could find a congregation of people who really do know God as a living being, their source of daily light and advice, who love each other and take care of the poor and widows — all the stuff the churches to do well but without the stuff the churches shouldn't middle in but do.

In many cases people who have known little concern for the church as a «religious enterprise» will be called to this work of the congregation.

Adopting «in Jesus» name» as the necessary minimal condition for a counting as a «Christian congregation» for the purpose of a theological school's study does not, of course, require any particular answer to the quite different question whether God is truly known and worshiped by groups who do not worship in Jesus» name or whether God is redemptively present to them.

For example, it must address such matters as whether faithfulness to that self - identification is a necessary condition for a group's counting as a Christian congregation, and whether groups that do not claim to worship in Jesus» name may nonetheless be said to know God and God's redemptive presence.

Were their sermons valid as long as the congregation didn't know about the secret sinning?

So they wanted to know, what should they be thinking about when someone stands up in the middle of the congregation and decides to do something similar as we saw in the schools.»

However, the majority of those involved were ministers, priests, or rabbis who were well known as community leaders, usually in charge of a large influential congregation.

Other voting participants (priests, bishops and cardinals, known as synod fathers) include 114 representatives of national bishops» conferences; 13 heads of Eastern Catholic Churches; 25 heads of Vatican Congregations and Councils.

It is possible, therefore, that some of the paid - time religious broadcasters may show signs of becoming more «established,» consolidating basic identities and service functions in order to maintain their audiences similar to an extended congregation, withdrawing their programs from areas that are no longer profitable, and developing as extended independent church organizations in line with their particular theological emphases.

As is well known today (at least in the academic circles of the black church), Richard Allen is commonly considered the father of the black church because of his refusal to be a member of a congregation where white Christians were making the house of God an instrument in the dehumanization of black people.

All with a goal to grow the congregation with more donor - members and build more and / or bigger buildings, hire more pastors and administration — which, as we all know, is the true measure of success for churches here in America.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouAs Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouas we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

A letter issued by the dean of the College of Cardinals on Friday calls the cardinals to come together Monday morning for the first in a series of meetings, known as general congregations.

CaJohn and his wife Sue participate in an annual congregation of pepper fans (known as the «Fire Mountain Krewe») at his own cabins in Gatlinburg, Tennessee for a weekend of fun and spicy eating.

But as she took her lap of honor — once covering her streaming eyes with her Hag as if it were a silken green veil — the shouts of the knowing congregation deafened her and wound the nerves of the waiting 1,500 - meter men one nauseating notch tighter.

Most remembered for his expansive, found - object assemblages (known as Congregations), Alfonso Ossorio was an important part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, in which Jackson Pollack and Jean Dubuffet were his contemporaries.