Sentences with phrase «by congregation»

In Bentley v. Anglican Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Anglican Church of Canada, and the trial judge in Delicata referred to the following paragraph in Bentley in his decision over the charitable purpose trust advanced by the congregation:

The Rumsey Street Church originally functioned as a Catholic church, but was abandoned by its congregation when they outgrew the structure.

If your book targets only a small portion of that audience, whether by congregation or subject matter, it will not be featured as a retailer promotion at this time.

The unmarried 21 - year - old thought she'd be judged by the congregation.

A private yeshiva, owned by congregation Ateres Yisroel, is now closed.

Mr. Bloomberg, who spoke for half an hour, was greeted warmly by the congregation, which murmured in assent when he cautioned that education reform would not be easy.

I remember the story of the roadside Mosque in one settlement in which a black plastic bag was noticed by the congregation as the Imam led in prayer.

Is there any evidence that those at the top of the game have grown more attuned to the fact that a football does not exist in its corporate entity but exists as an entity given character by its fans; a church defined by its congregation, not its clergy?

Once appointed to the office, a minister could not be removed from it by the congregation that had called him, except if he disregarded or defied the Word of God.

The clergy were to be entirely freed from secular cares and supported by the congregation.

This change was sanctioned, or at least not strenuously opposed, by the congregation's ostensibly Orthodox rabbi.

Furthermore, it would be helpful to show that the existing concern for evangelism and church growth could not be pursued apart from the issues raised by the wider social setting without doing damage to the biblical understanding of mission This also had to be done from the text itself, and not from any intrinsic authority given by the congregation to the preacher.

St. Gregory's highly participatory worship may not be for everyone, but it would be hard not to be moved by this congregation's way of continuing the long conversation God has had with humanity.

I have a case study that we often provide to churches in which a pastor is informed one night by a congregation member that his son has just disclosed being sexually abused by the interim youth volunteer, who happens to be a well - known, respected elder in the church.

St. Gregory's (of Nysssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco) highly participatory worship may not be for everyone, but it would be hard not to be moved by this congregation's way of continuing the long conversation God has had with humanity.

If you are employed by a congregation for a salary, you are generally a common - law employee and income from the exercise of your ministry is considered wages for income tax purposes.

It has a script, lead players, and secondary roles played by the congregation.

If the sin is not heard how can it be absolved and if it is heard by a congregation who can not absolve, what good has it done your soul?

Personally I prefer to use some system of voting by the congregation.

There is even a hint in Acts 14:23 that elders were elected by the congregation: the word which most Bibles translate as «appoint» is actually the normal Greek word for «to vote».

Take the 10 % donation by his congregation and buy food to the needy.

The vision of the «good» life, the central values, even the corporate identity expressed by a congregation's host culture in its dominant languages will in various ways stand in tension with the congregation's own understanding of its own communal identity, its own picture of the good life, its own central values as they all are defined «in Jesus» name.»

In one way or another critical self - reflection by a congregation involves not only attention to whether various features of its practices are faithful to the One to whom they are responses, but also involves attention to whether engaging in some particular practice or, indeed, to this entire set of practices is itself truthful.

The question, then, is: Will these meanings from their respective lives and experience be summoned by the congregation to meet the meanings of the preacher; will these meanings in turn be met by his meanings so that both preacher and congregation are confronted anew and more deeply by the meanings of the gospel?

But in the last three decades homiletics has studied more and more the interactive nature of preaching — how a sermon is not simply something delivered, but how it is received and processed by the congregation.

«When a Minister, the Teaching Elder, is called by a congregation to labor as its Pastor, it belongs to the office... to feed the flock, by reading, expounding, and preaching the Word...»

Christ was born, he preached, to a world as disparate as shepherds and kings, not merely to nuclear families, and the way the church witnessed God's new embrace at Christmas should be by congregation - wide Communion, not private huddles at the altar.

so if God tells you to pass around your daughter to be used by the congregation to fulfill there need that's for your and her own good

The texts will be received by the congregation as an act of faith.

Second, the end of the textual process is the reception and hearing of the text which is done by the congregation.

In addition to these considerations, it is well to remember that the inner condition of the minister will be felt by his congregation.

The first alcoholic to be sponsored by a congregation had four slips in that many years, but since then has had some eight years of complete sobriety.

I decided that since I had been called by this congregation to «exercise pastoral leadership,» I had a right — like the medical doctor in his field — to make it known that I would like to assist every member in having an «annual spiritual checkup.»

The five areas in which important contributions can be made by a congregation are: Education, prevention, community outreach, helping the alcoholic, and helping the family.

Now, when are you going to tell us all about the celibate lesbian couple who supposedly filled out a visitor card and were welcomed by the congregation?

Doogie, dear, how is it that a lesbian couple filled out a visitor card THIS MORNING and was welcomed THIS MORNING by the congregation as a «celibate gay couple?»

A celibate lesbian couple filled out one of the visitor cards and was welcomed by the congregation this morning.

The fate of this kind of worship is often determined by the congregation's acceptance of the particular values of the preacher.

A pastor may be much loved by a congregation, may be a good friend, or may be a good counselor.

This review revisits the performance of a liturgy in Eastertide by this congregation of Christian believers on a National Day of Mourning.

The substance of what is proclaimed is the same as what is recollected, the same as is now acknowledged by the congregation in thanksgiving as God's salvatory and present power, the same as is offered and received in participation of the members in the Head of the church.

A thoroughgoing biblical inquiry into the relation between the «service of God» and what we have come to call the «service of worship» by the congregation of believers assembled in a specific place has got to be undertaken.

Revd Calum MacLeod was voted in by the congregation at St Giles» in Edinburgh and says he's «humbled and honoured».

It is equally important to identify the world views (and their social effects) that are held by the congregation.

But the community of faith is there, represented by parents and by the congregation.

Classrooms full of age - appropriate equipment often have been established for use by the congregation's Sunday church school and are underutilized during the rest of the week.

It is ground owned by a congregation that, in the past, has acted in ways that made the racial tension worse; they are now seeking to change that dynamic.

Practices of theology are required by the congregation's enactment of worship and are in its service.

Singing by the congregation is spotty.

To the extent that the sins of the congregation is tolerated or not is a matter to be dealt with on an individual basis by the congregation and the pastor.