Sentences with phrase «at congregational»

I was recently speaking at a Congregational church in a small New Hampshire town.

A forum on the economic benefits of immigration reform will be taking place at the Congregational Church of Patchogue Monday morning at 10:30 a.m.

The Rev. Dwight Lee Wolter, pastor at The Congregational Church of Patchogue, came to hear Trump at LaValle's invitation.

Memorial Service 11 a.m. Saturday, April 3 at Congregational United Church of Christ, 1001 W. Kirchoff Rd., Arlington Heights.

When the various mission churches came together, the governing polity was episcopal — in a society that did not nave much experience in democracy at the congregational level, in presbyterial collegiality at the regional level, or in diaconal services to the neighbor anywhere.

The ecological model would encourage a measure of separation at the congregational level but would then emphasize patterns of relationship among these congregations that are currently rare.

Every Church in the United States of America who pays their tides and offerings at a congregational building where they have worship service, also pays the same high taxes as the other 99 % ters.

My question at a congregational meeting where we were to vote on acquiring property and debt (after the pastor had told us that God had told him we should do so) «If God told you we should be doing this, wouldn't He also tell some of us?»

The primary children meet at the Congregational church, lower juniors at the Methodist church, and juniors at the Baptist church.

The goal of covenanting among the COCU denominations is especially intended to manifest and enable the oneness of the church at the congregational level.

At the congregational level, we often see little more than Crossfire - style debates.

But, most important of all, its whole culture — its use of evangelical celebrities and its media savvy — has made it that much more influential at congregational level even as it is accountable to no - one but a self - selected few.

Tithes are not retained at the congregational level, but are passed up the structure, giving the hierarchy considerable flexibility to redistribute funds from wealthier parts of the world church to newer and poorer segments, and thus to orchestrate expansion.

While there are many painful conflicts at the congregational level, nothing at the ELCA churchwide or synodical level has unleashed the personal vitriol experienced by Missouri in the sixties and seventies.

Not exact matches

I'm sure most people know this, but in case it helps someone: Denominations that always accept female pastors include PC (USA), that is Presbyterian Church, USA, most African American denominations (note that all pastors mentioned in the original article were African Americans), United Methodist, Foursquare, at least some Vineyards if not all, Congregational, Disciples of Christ, Lutheran and Episcopalian churches.

At that first service, John carried Lucas, and because of John's position as music director, they sat in the deacon's box, a spot reserved for congregational royalty.

At times Leading Congregational Change reads like an unwieldy meeting of personal - pietist and secular - organizational sensibilities.

Carl S. Dudley and Nancy T. Ammerman, both professors at Hartford Seminary's Institute for Religion Research, run workshops on congregational change, and they bring together the analyst's sensitivities and the consultant's enthusiasms.

On Friday, September 11 and Saturday, September 12, I'll be at Irvine United Congregational Church for their annual Faith & Works Conference, where I'll be joining several other speakers in discussing the intersection of faith and everyday life and the future of the Church in a changing context.

Martin B. Copenhaver is a pastor at Wellesley Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

At the two major festivals, the Id al - Fitr at the end of the Ramadan fast and the Id al - Adha — or Id al - Qurban — at the end of the pilgrimage, Muslims are urged to perform additional congregational prayers, preferably in the open air, and to listen to the special address by the ImaAt the two major festivals, the Id al - Fitr at the end of the Ramadan fast and the Id al - Adha — or Id al - Qurban — at the end of the pilgrimage, Muslims are urged to perform additional congregational prayers, preferably in the open air, and to listen to the special address by the Imaat the end of the Ramadan fast and the Id al - Adha — or Id al - Qurban — at the end of the pilgrimage, Muslims are urged to perform additional congregational prayers, preferably in the open air, and to listen to the special address by the Imaat the end of the pilgrimage, Muslims are urged to perform additional congregational prayers, preferably in the open air, and to listen to the special address by the Imam.

From neither bodily nor congregational habitation do I see miraculous escape, either by comic recognition that will give the church a special knowing at a higher stage of development or by a romantic quest that turns the parish outward into God's undomesticated presence in the larger context.

A score of writers have noted the potentially perverted uses of «paternalistic» styles of ministry and pastoral care — the fostering of a congregation's childlike dependence on the pastor, the turning of ministry into pastoral self - gratification at the expense of congregational freedom and maturity.

The pilgrimage is an annual form of congregational worship in which those Muslims who are able to make the trip assemble from all over the world at Mecca, the home of the revelation to Muhammad (may God bless him).

«The seduction of war is insidious,» Hedges told a crowd of about 400 at Wellesley Congregational Church in Wellesley Massachusetts, in January.

The Messianic Jewish congregational movement is at a crossroads.

At the same time, younger students often lack interest in ministry, especially congregational ministry, and although they more often grew up in religious communities, they are currently less involved in church life.

In preparation for a lecture on «Electronic Communications in the Parish: Year 2000» at an Ohio University conference on technological communication and the churches, Parker Rossman sought out Gabe Campbell, pastor of First Congregational Church in Stamford, Connecticut, as one involved in the use of new technology.

But there seems to be an increasingly widespread sense that we do not have enough good pastors to sustain congregational ministries at high levels.

A social action project aimed at mobilizing congregational support of legislation to provide more opportunities for job training for the poor (primary prevention).

Or did he bring in this teaching because it was part of a universal congregational order, modelled on the synagogue, which he believed that God intended for all churches at all times in the way that the unchanging gospel was intended for all churches at all times?

Like everyone involved in congregational life, I have memories of less - than - positive conversations and encounters at church.

While conserving basic Reformed principles, the IPI has begun to dialogue with charismatic groups at the institutional and congregational level.

We even have to ask ourselves whether we have a well - educated professional ministry, or at least a ministry whose basic theological education is continuously renewed, supplemented, and then incorporated into preaching and congregational leadership.

On the positive side, this decision shows a welcome awareness that congregational leadership has to do with more than deciding which brand of paper towels to use in the rest rooms; it aims at developing Christian discipleship in the community.

Maybe the church needs a gifted cartoonist to illuminate the aesthetic plight of congregational workers who are increasingly staring at computer monitors in their corporate - style cubicles.

After earning her Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2000, Crystal went on to become the Senior Pastor at Shema Congregation, a Messianic Church of the Nazarene congregational plant that strives to understand and embrace the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith.

The second category — Congregational Christians — is similar to the first group, except these individuals at least have some connection to congreCongregational Christians — is similar to the first group, except these individuals at least have some connection to congregationalcongregational life.

Presenting the research findings at a conference in late March, project director and Search president Peter L. Benson explained that the study posited that «the primary aim of congregational life, is to nurture a vibrant, life - changing faith.»

Gossip, as a church activity without malice, may well be, at its best, the moral casuistry of ordinary people, a primary means of congregational bonding, a source of utterly essential moral data about ourselves, an everyday means of investigating communally what it means to be baptized.

Sometimes they would say «Oh, we see that the church rumor mill has been hard at work» — congregational gossip making its nasty intrusion into their personal lives.

Members of a church may identify the focus of their common hope with the phenomenon of warmth20 and point to specific occurrences of warmth in places or phases of congregational life.21 Members of Corinth Methodist experienced warmth at various physical and temporal thresholds that bound its life to its larger neighborhood.

But I do think they bear a deep accountability to the congregation understood in depth and at all of the different layers of its life» — understood, she says, in ways that the congregations themselves don't yet understand, since they haven't been engaged in very deep congregational studies either.

It was Wheeler who was asked to write the closing chapter, assessing the import of congregational studies for the future of the church, of the upcoming book reporting on the findings presented at the Atlanta conference (Building Effective Ministry: Theory and Practice of the Local Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early 1983).

Dudley dates his awareness of the need for these new disciplines from the fall of 1979, when he journeyed to Indianapolis as part of a group convened by Robert Lynn, vice-president for religion at the Lilly Endowment, to review an innovative project on congregational research directed by James Hopewell.

This book had its origin in lectures at the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches in Claremont, California, in 1952 and the Nathaniel W. Taylor lectures at the Yale Divinity School in 1953.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess; once we begin to think of our faith in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or procedural transparency or proper leadership roles or managerial responsibilities and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or current and accurate and relevant identity / purpose / vision / mission statements or strategic and tactical plans or valid and useful performance metrics — at that point, we have become money changers and temple authorities, we have deformed from a community into an industry that requires exclusionary individualism.

There is a basic continuity with the push in Pentecostal circles to journey ritually from congregational singing to preached word to encounter at the altar, which is really a standard low church evangelical pattern.

Not only nonattenders but staunch church supporters see their private faiths as distinct from, and at least as important as, their participation in congregational life.