Sentences with phrase «at a church function»

It is like forcing a muslim organization to serve pork at church functions.

They gorge themselves on cookies and cake afterwards at a church function and congratulate each other on their six hours of «suffering».

Sorry, CatholicMom, I not only met my spouse at a church function, but it was the minister who did the matchmaking.

I think I have had this at a church function once and it was delicious!

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Not exact matches

I think those of us who cringe at the «v - word» are not referring to necessary rules or agendas in regards to the regular functions of a church community.

Visit a church at a non-Sunday function, she says, like a Tuesday small group or Saturday feeding of the homeless.

Though 1 Corinthians 13 is often read at weddings, it has very little to do with the love between a man and a wife, and everything to do with how a church can function as the Body of Christ.

What does it mean to say that the church functions as a community of memory, especially at a time when so many of its actual historic links are being weakened?

One side of a familiy not showing up at a family function just because the event is held in the wrong church or because the other side has the wrong take of the same damn religion.

Moreover, churches are a kind of community in which at least in principle (unlike in suburbia) membership is not primarily a function of class or age.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

Should one talk at all about great men among Christian groups, in that most of the time and in most places churches have been chiefly populated — and chiefly kept functioning — by women?

We have organic church, simple church, and missional communities, but even here, in most of the books and blogs I read about this, the emphasis always seems to be that the church is only functioning when the people gather in a certain place at a certain time, usually in a house on Sunday morning.

Protestants and Catholics tend to look at authority from rather different perspectives, and on the whole I think it fair to say that the version of the common tradition to which Catholics are heir tends to give them a more positive attitude toward the function of authority in the church than that found among Protestants.

While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.

If these observations are accurate, more unites than divides the churches, at least in respect to the nature and function of authority.

At the same time, those actions attract members to strengthen churches internally, as well as function as good public relations.

Romney faithfully showed up at church on Sundays while he was governor, unless an official function got in the way, Bennett said.

It spoke to me about the way to function in the church, where intellectual robustness and individual interpretation is seen as suspect at best.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

''... The churches do not offer solace and acceptance of the prevailing order; the schools can not maintain discipline over their pupils; the police and courts can not maintain orderly processes of action (they often infringe the very laws they are supposed to enforce); the hospitals can not cure; the jails burst at their seams; and, finally, the government itself fails to function with the respect and authority it requires.

The title Son of Man dropped out of use almost at once, if indeed the churches ever employed it, but the functions of the Son of Man became the functions of the risen Christ.

The traditional disciplines of the church — Bible, church history systematic and practical theology — continue to function but at the same time, are coming apart.

«I don't view seminaries as training schools, stamping out exactly what local churches identify as their needs for the next day; that's not their function at all.

This must mean that the Pope was not at first told everything: that a story was cooked up for him which was designed to explain why Wielgus's Polish critics were not happy with the appointment but which did not disclose enough to convince the Pope that Wielgus really could not function as head of the Polish church.

The story where the body of Christ — the Church — is at its fullest breathing capacity when its members function in their fullest giftedness regardless of any barrier.

Bruce Reed, based at the Grubb Institute, and his American associate Barry Evans probe the psychology of members of a congregation and advance hypotheses about behavioral dynamics characteristic of a particular church to determine its «primary task — its normative function in the community» (Dudley, Building Effective Ministry, 38).

Parent - education, group - counseling, public psychodrama, a healing fellowship of Christian friends are performing their life - shaping functions at Wesley Untied Methodist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The more deeply we began to look at the training function of the church, the more popular became things like Group Life Laboratories, Sensitivity Training and, later, Transactional Analysis.

We can not pretend for one moment that such an honor at any function promoting the work of the Church doesn't give legitimacy to their position while harming the Catholic Church's image and the perceptions of those looking for guidance from our bishops and Church leaders.

Additionally, this church practiced «public baptisms» (which usually meant in the tank on the church platform, almost always attended by the church folk) and «private baptisms» (by invitation only — usually in someone's backyard pool, and occasionally in the church baptistry at a time when no other function was scheduled at the church — and always followed by a «party» that included food).

The Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches at the Chateau de Bossey near Geneva has as one of its major functions the bringing together of groups of people of a common profession — Christian doctors, lawyers, educators, industrialists, political leaders — for a week or ten days of mutual probing of the applications of Christian faith to their vocations.

On average in a small church the attendance at worship represents a much higher percentage of the membership, the stewardship is better per member, the instruction is in smaller groups and may therefore be more effective, and leadership development is much better because there isn't pressure to function on a «professional» level.

The organized church is a part of this apparatus and the institutional power it possesses has the legitimate function of placing it in the spheres where God is at work.

The omnipresence of the national flag in churches (which at first shocked me) was a fitting symbol of this legitimating function.

As the apostolic Church it is the function of the Christian community to proclaim to the great human societies, with all the persuasiveness and imagination at its disposal, with all the skill it has in becoming all things to all men, that the center and heart of all things, the first and last Being, is utter good.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

For example, its definition of the church, its nature and function was borrowed directly from the Faith and Order Conference at Edinburgh 1937.

Willingen spoke of Joint Action for Mission with the discussions at the Conference focussed on four areas: the theological imperatives of Christian mission, the indigenous church, the place and function of the missionary society, and the pattern of missionary activity.

The hierarchical minister fulfills also a representative function representing the unity of apostolic faith to the people of his church and, at the same time, representing his people to the other churches.

When I asked one of the staff members at Garden Grove how the church fulfilled its prophetic function, he quickly replied: «We are a nonprophetic church.»

Thompson concluded from his research that while mass communication is able to fulfill some information function when used widely and to advantage, actual behavior change or response such as attendance at a church, requires personal contact.

The second criticism levelled at the broadcasters is that their programs undercut the corporate functions of the church.

This is at least partially because people have spent their whole lives learning about how the society in which they live functions — including the church — and how to find a place for themselves in it.

Go to Church functions, especially their dinners; the women who like to cook will be doing the cooking and besides having friendly people around you, helping you find a place at the table, you will have wonderful food and the best opportunity to meet a possible wife.

In this post, we will look at how your church could still function if you decide to sell it.

When then the sovereign at Constantinople could no longer function in this way, the Church of Rome wafted the wheat from the plains of Africa.