Sentences with phrase «by the congregation in»

The risk, however was seen by the Congregations in terms of the potential for scandal and bad publicity should the abuse be disclosed.

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.

Not exact matches

Then there was the pastor who demanded that the congregation «fill in the blanks» of a not - so - old song by a guy the minister described as the «dysfunctional poet savant Lil» Wayne.»

Not to be outdone, my current pastor (who is white, by the way, but pastors a very diverse congregation) recently did a cooking demo onstage and had a few of the thousand people in the sanctuary come up to get their piece of the hero sandwich he'd constructed.

Federico added in a statement to the AP that the office is «vigorously» taking steps to following protocol used by other Vatican congregations.

In a properly celebrated Mass, the vocalized dialogue of prayer between celebrant and congregation takes place in a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the MassIn a properly celebrated Mass, the vocalized dialogue of prayer between celebrant and congregation takes place in a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the Massin a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the Mass..

This is all the more likely in light of the recent narrow acquittal by a church tribunal of a pastor on the charges that he violated church law by performing a wedding ceremony for two lesbian members of his Omaha, Nebraska, congregation.

I had to move on to an «open and affirming» congregation where I could be encouraged in my faith instead of steadily dealing with ignorant, hurtful comments made by selective - literalist pastors.

I came out to our small Vineyard congregation in Ontario just over a year ago now, something that was precipitated by my realization that I was in love with my current partner.

The reason I find that line of reasoning hard to believe is because people don't willingly choose to be ousted from their families, jobs, local congregations, shamed by society in general, hated and even killed for their lifestyle, live a life of denial, etc..

The Hartford Institute for Religion Research released the study's findings Saturday in a report titled «A Decade of Change in American Congregations, 2000 — 2010» authored by David A. Roozen.

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

The historian Jules Isaac... obtained an interview with Pius XII in June 1949 and felt he was heard «with good will and understanding sympathy»... During the 1950's, the signs of understanding increased in the Vatican media, particularly at Christmas or Unity Week; the philo - Semitic orientation of certain religious orders; the effort to understand Judaism in theology schools, and meetings in ecumenical settings, no longer met with distrust by Roman Congregations.

I read it out immediately to the congregation, who were extremely moved by the closeness of the Pontiff, which gave them comfort in such a tragic moment.»

So, by calling that particular cold Sunday in January «Porn Sunday,» he was sending a message to his congregation that Mars Hill was a safe place to talk about this issue.

Church attendance rates by Christians in the United States have stayed largely steady since the 1970s, but there have been some significant changes in the makeup of the congregations in the pews during that time, a recently released study says.

Not much... he could've done the same thing by going in front of his congregation wearing flesh - colored underwear, sticking his tongue out, standing up on the baptistry and twerking... then crying foul when he gets fired... what this tells me is that we're all idiots for being so predictably drawn into these types of stories... this is shameless self - promotion, plain and simple... and he wins because we're dupes...

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

As they reflected on this finding, Hoge and Wenger «came to believe that the conflicts most often experienced by our participants are ones that could probably be resolved and in the process offer growth experiences for both pastor and congregation.»

Christianity today — in the US; I think the mileage varies in much of the rest of the world — is largely driven by the Christian Right; they are the ones who seem to make up most of the congregations.

Another congregation in our study lived out this vision of neighboring well by taking on a different local struggle in southern California: neighbors navigating the US immigration system.

Solely during the worship service, when the congregation is gathered, then God is present in the church - building by His Holy Spirit.

They have frequently expressed pride that they have congregations in 184 of the 215 countries and areas officially recognized by the United Nations, and observed that this means the gospel commission is nearing fulfillment, which is a key indication that the Lord will soon return.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

By taking us inside the experience of one who is invisible to mainstream society, Ellison challenges us to be attentive to those who are invisible in our own congregations and neighborhoods, listening to their stories and gaining a window — however tiny — into their experience.

To this day there is a brass box in our bedroom that served for years as «the gift of gold» borne up the aisle, as did two of our pottery jars, both of them filled by the congregation's imagination with frankincense and myrrh.

I do apologize because I do not have first hand proof of the affair that happened with an Emergent Pastor and the woman in his congregation nor the Mars Hill seminary student situation but it was told to me by a very reliable ground zero source and from the same source about both.

Both the number and size of congregations can be striking for people accustomed to a Catholic world that has only in recent decades been broken by a Pentecostal beachhead.

She had attacked the theology of the ministers, and by emphasizing the personal operation of the Holy Spirit in revealing the truth of Scripture, or truth apart from Scripture, she was denying the very foundation of the holy experiment — that of Scripture as interpreted by the ministers in the midst of the congregations.

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

In some liturgies the whole congregation places itself at the disposal of those being baptized, confirmed, married and ordained by taking vows to support these persons in their new life and ministrIn some liturgies the whole congregation places itself at the disposal of those being baptized, confirmed, married and ordained by taking vows to support these persons in their new life and ministrin their new life and ministry.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregation.

In this regard there is some envy by social workers and counselors who are genuinely concerned for people, but whose own structured roles do not include the opportunity to drop in on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.&raquIn this regard there is some envy by social workers and counselors who are genuinely concerned for people, but whose own structured roles do not include the opportunity to drop in on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.&raquin on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.&raquin a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.»

Such errors have become popular among some Muslims and in other religious congregations, but all such errors are entirely rejected by His religion in all His messages.

In the following two chapters, I shall examine more precisely the various forms that parish stories assume and show how by observation and inquiry one can explore the setting of a congregation's narrative.

In 1654 the congregation of Cambridge Church was shocked by a statement from Henry Dunster, the highly respected president of Harvard College.

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

In this chapter, the author refines the thesis that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by focusing its study within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations.

In some cases a minister can help the mentally restored person by contacting potential employers in the congregatioIn some cases a minister can help the mentally restored person by contacting potential employers in the congregatioin the congregation.

I have no doubt that John, our choir director at one of the congregations where my father served, sincerely believed that «Whispering Hope,» a number frequently chosen by him as the choir's offertory piece, was a profoundly Christian hymn; but it was really an expression of vacuous hope without any substantive theological grounding: «Wait till the darkness is over / wait till the tempest is done / Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, after the darkness is gone / Whispering hope, oh, how welcome thy voice / Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.»

Like the congregation itself in Hopewell's portrayal of it, the book is unified by its assertions about the power of narrative.

The next sidestep was to propose that congregations be understood as sets of social practices (where «practice» was defined in a somewhat technical way) governed by the worship of God.

And though I wasn't there on a Sunday, to judge by the number of chairs in the sanctuary, the congregation is a small percentage of the neighborhood.

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.

Jeffress said the church's fundraising consultant, Doug Turner, had determined that this is the largest building program undertaken by a single congregation in recent history.

The passages cited in this section are also characterized by their positive, optimistic tone, a tone less familiar to readers who frequent congregations with certain other orientations.

My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly by focusing on study about, against, and for Christian congregations.

Remember that the congregation is idiomatic; it constitutes itself by a very distinctive language whose indicative aspect identifies a world in some ways allied with metaphors widely employed in the culture but in other ways peculiar to that group alone.

In this chapter the author proposes courses of study unified by designing every course to address the overarching interest of a theological school and pluralistically adequate by designing every course to focus on questions about congregations.