Sentences with phrase «as your congregation takes»

The First Steps are intended to save you time and resources as your congregation takes steps towards launching a Marriage Ministry.

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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.

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.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

You sometimes take too long to assert yourself as pastor and leader of the congregation.

Each was held in a congregation, was taught by a Candler faculty member and the church's pastor, and took as its subject matter an actual issue or topic in that congregation's life.

He reorganized the essays into the first draft of a book that took as its organizing metaphor the congregation as body.

The trick is that members must learn to function and observe as if they were outsiders so that they see afresh the myriad matters about the congregation that they now take for granted.

According to this model, each congregation took a specific neighborhood as its designated mission area and built its facilities deep within housing developments, not on major streets or intersections.

Third, it refreshes us that as the ethnic congregations take their place within the larger church, their life will provide new strength and vision for the total church.

What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.

The latter approach takes seriously the present situation of the church but also envisions a congregation as existing over the passage of time.

In Puerto Rico, Samaritan's Purse has connections with congregations that participate in its iconic Operation Christmas Child shoebox program, as well as pastors like Paz who took part in president Franklin Graham's crusade there in February.

Some Sunday mornings the minister should take the congregation by the hand and with them step off the dimensions of their inheritance as children of God.

Itself a potent example of the ambiguity of human association, the congregation nevertheless dares to accept its designation as the body of Christ and the household of God, proclaiming in its acceptance the incarnate nature of its God who took on servant form.

If we take familiarity with basic elements of Christian tradition as a reflection of how effectively «formation» happens in our homes and congregations, we must admit to remarkably mixed results.

In the main stream, many congregations push for assimilation and homogenization in the name of «urban missiology» and is usually said as, «Whatever it takes to reach people.»

«Cardinal Sarah takes over as prefect of a congregation whose ranks have been profoundly changed since his predecessor was appointed archbishop of Valencia»

In a meeting later hailed as «probably the most healthy conversation that ever occurred in the church,» the congregation overwhelmingly voted not to take on the large debt of new construction but rather to remodel what they already had: a long, low fellowship hall.

Taking the congregation out of context is as much a violation of the Word of God as taking the Scripture out of coTaking the congregation out of context is as much a violation of the Word of God as taking the Scripture out of cotaking the Scripture out of context.

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

They take the congregation as seriously as they do for quite a range of reasons.

«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.

Just as it would make no sense to preach to an American congregation in Greek, it would be counterproductive to force on American Christians all the cognitive and normative assumptions of the Hellenistic world that even Paul took for granted.

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.

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.

Second, although they did not take leadership roles in the ritual of carrying the goddess, the members of the congregation at Nagapuram did offer their services as drummers and participants in the procession.

Shouldn't an analysis of congregations and social change take seriously a congregation's own theological identity and self - understanding as «the people of God,» the «body of Christ,» or as a «sacramental community of God's grace to the world»?

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.

While I was gratified by his request and believed that he genuinely hoped to enrich his congregation's worship experience, I also realized that much education was required if dance was to be taken seriously as a valid and vital liturgical resource.

As they heard this, many in the congregation remembered Karlstadt's admonition on Christmas Day in the castle church that everyone should go and take the Sacrament both the bread and the wine with their own hands.

The list may seem overwhelming when taken as a whole, but the busy pastor is encouraged to use it selectively and to engage the congregation in sermon dialogue through the use of these questions.

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?

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.

Buffalo Grove resident Michael Garlin, 49, is officially taking over as the congregation's new executive director on July 1.

The project takes William Morris» eponymous 1884 text on the re-imagining of the factory, and Colin Ward's response in The Factory We Never Had (1994), as points of departure for reflexively examining contemporary sites of production, education and social space, and the intersections between industry and leisure, performance and congregation.

We welcome you to participate as an individual or to create a team and take on the EcoChallenge with your coworkers, friends, family members, congregation or fellow students.

I recommend Hungry for Change as a resource for your congregation in taking its next steps.

While intended for personal and household use, this resource can also serve as a helpful guide for congregations that want to quantitatively evaluate their ecological «footprint» and take steps towards greater sustainability and social equity.

What is odd in climate science is a unique situation, never encountered in any other scientific field but in religious congregations: the scientific objective as well as the interpretation of research output has been put in the hands of a panel of experts, the IPCC, under an official mandate to take care of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

A spectrum of action steps people of faith can take, and policies we might support — both as individuals and as congregations.

At first, as Carol sat small and waiflike in a chair in front of me, I felt an internal pull to rescue her from her husband and her religious congregation — a road I knew I couldn't take without perpetuating her sense of insignificance.