Sentences with phrase «church as a congregation»

But while the legal situation lasts, can we develop an ecclesiology which can invite to the Lord's Table of the church as congregation of faith, those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as decisive for their lives and are prepared to enter the worshipping congregation and not the communally organized body of Christians?

But to make the day to day dialogue meaningful, the church as congregation even in the villages will have to equip the lay members involved with relevant lay theological - anthropological insights.

Not exact matches

I was going to mock these, but, in truth, for a small congregation, where somebody's personal car has to double as the church car, these could be useful.

Sometimes I feel the need to do a cartoon such as this one to show that I do not hate the church or despise pastors and congregations.

Bernice had left the church in profound humiliation when, as a little girl, one of the more prominent ladies in the congregation insulted her in the local general store, but near the end of her life she had reconnected with the church of her childhood.

Especially those who advocate the prosperity of the church leaders as a substitute for the prosperity of the members of the congregation.

It is not clear who will pay for replacement windows, as the National Cathedral still struggles to raise millions of dollars for repairs dating from 2011, not to mention basic ongoing maintenance for a sprawling magnificent church that lacks a strong supporting congregation.

Additionally, I'd like to acknowledge that I'm going to write this response to you as a member of the congregation, as opposed to someone who is on the staff of your church.

Indeed, I have a treasured memory that gives me hope in this regard: I was once a member of an inner - city Reformed congregation that was also home to a woman from the neighborhood who considered this congregation her parish church, as it were.

If you pointed at individual church congregations, that would be one thing, but to paint, as you do, most of the church that way is dishonest.

And of course the congregation for centuries never questioned the Church as that was considered a sin in itself!

As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

The curriculum of the seminary should be determined by and reflect the liturgical life of the church, for the most promising way to reclaim the integrity of theological language as the working language for a congregation is for seminaries to make liturgy the focus of their lives.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

Many of us understand the church as the body of Christ, and a local congregation can be a part of that.

In the United Church of Zambia, a pastor may serve as many as eight or ten congregations.

The Lutheran groups most likely to identify as evangelical are small and functionally free - church (the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ).

As a result, clergy are often more adept at giving sociological accounts of church life than they are at helping their congregations appreciate that it is the presence of God that makes their life possible.

Many seminarians will become pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false» church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.

How are we doing generally as a Western church in engaging abuse which those in our congregations has had some intersection with?

Bonhoeffer was also involved with those who drafted documents that could serve as the basis for a new order of government after the coup, and he composed a pronouncement pointing toward reorganization of the Protestant church, which could be used in congregations at the conclusion of the war.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

Thousands of congregations around the world — from Lutherans to Anglicans, to Presbyterians, to members of the United Church of Christ and other denominations — stick with this calendar as a way of pulling the days» focus around a common theme.

This weekend, 26 people were killed and at least 20 more were injured when a gunman opened fire on the congregation of a small community church as they worshipped during a Sunday morning service.

I wrote about two dozen prayers in as many days, lucid and heartfelt, and the people of my home church distributed them to the congregation in photocopied booklets.

Since it was founded in 2003, the conservative Jewish congregation had bounced from location to location outside Atlanta - a Methodist church, a windowless space in a school, any place they could rent or borrow as they grew.

But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.

Now understand, as a liturgical Mainline Protestant congregation, First Presbyterian Church follows the Revised Common Lectionary, which means the Scriptural passages for the service and sermon are determined years in advance.

He will remind members of the congregation that the Church has for 20 centuries defended and proposed the «greatness of marriage» as a «path to holiness, for the perfecting of human love and as the foundation of the family».

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.

It had already been recognized at that time as the fastest growing church, and he wanted to leverage that growth into the largest congregation.

but cartoons mocking congregations as blindly following their leader to go inseminate, penetrate, etc... is condescending & horribly unfair to the many hardworking, loving christians sitting in churches everywhere and you can see why he reacted as he did.

Then each confirmand thanked the congregation for one gift — perhaps a church school teacher, a helpful sermon or the church basketball team — that had helped her grow as a disciple.

Current studies from within the church address themselves to the role of the congregation as active participants in the church's preaching.

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.

* As a member of Peter's church school class, how could you be part of this healing process — with Peter, his family, and the congregation?

@Luke: Admire the intention, but I reserve some skepticism, at least for now, on whether # 1 and # 2 can really be done independently of the already present spoken and unspoken expectations in the congregation, denomination and religion, as well as people's preconceived ideas of what church is (as opposed to what it would or should be).

[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.

Jackson served on staff of University Christian Church (UCC) in Cincinnati for nearly 19 years, and served as the congregation's Lead Pastor from 1996 - 2013.

A neglected area of church activity is the use of the congregation as an instrument of therapy.

It presents itself as a «fellowship of churches» in contrast to a denomination with over one thousand congregations worldwide.

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

I have to leave my immigrant church, a concern for first generation congregations who saw and still see churches as a both a strategy and physical space to connect generations divided by language, education, power, and levels of assimilation through faith.

With God the Father setting the pace and God the Spirit enabling as we go, the church in its local congregational expression can become the body of the Son whose full ministry continues to unfold in the congregation's midst, not as our doing, but as Theirs.

To speak of a «Church of the congregation» (Gemeindekirche), as distinct from the established Church (Volkskirche), is not unobjectionable.

@Brett The early leaders of the church, Popes, Cardinals and Bishops used the generic term «wife» as church, collection of people or congregation because they knew they were about to screw the sheepies over not matter their gender.

A maturing congregation will be one that relocates the center of gravity of its life from Sunday morning worship to the groups that express life in the Spirit and the church as the body of Christ in nurture and in mission.