Sentences with phrase «because everyone in the congregation»
Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.
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The young man waited in the pews while the congregation went forward to receive communion, anxious because he noticed that everyone in the congregation was drinking from the same chalice.
Because ours was a relatively small congregation made up of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.