Sentences with phrase «church life»

Women tend to have more flexible schedules than men, allowing them more opportunities to get involved in church life and to build close relationships with others in their congregations.

Critics and friends alike are correct in sensing that, but they are not just for church life.

There is of course a lot of things about church life (in most churches and maybe all churches) that could use serious improving.

I understand, too, the suspicion and frustration in many churches and denominations with theological education, with its distance from church life and its mixed constituencies and agendas.

I also know from other friends and feedback I've had that not everyone settles into church life quite so easily.

This shift also shows up in local church life.

Interesting how the Catholic church lives under a primarily Republican painted banner.

About church and money: I struggled with this for almost my whole church life.

I've spent more than 10 years of my life now processing through my faith, thinking critically, reading widely and experiencing church life more broadly.

The relevance to contemporary church life is clear and challenging.

Once a Soviet - controlled system, now church life became open to new movements and lay involvement.

On the other side of this line would be hundreds of reports on Christian church life and American culture.

People in mainline churches live lives unaffected by their faith.

Starting tomorrow, in the interest of tying it all together, I want to provide some practical thoughts on how preaching and teaching could look within church life today.

These fragments of religious ideas and practices are deeply appealing to people in a way church life often is not.

They will need to be people who know how to handle and lead through change as the context of ministry and church life shifts rapidly in the next few years.

It may be that church life occupies a more significant place in the lives of people in small churches.

When this reality really hits you at a faith level, we can begin to love each other well and have healthy conversations about a healthy church life.

All aspects of church life educate people about the life of faith.

Economic and industrial change was also affecting church life.

The rising consciousness of women and the development of a «new theology» have numerous practical consequences for ongoing church life.

We can encourage girls and boys to participate in church life according to their interests rather than according to sex.

It speaks so well to the mindset of my former church life and the belief that only a few would find the truth and the masses were destined for a fiery eternal hell.

As with much of church life, there is a great spectrum of what takes place.

For all sorts of reasons, though, in late high school and early college, I needed a little distance from church life.

Great cartoon, it applies to everyone who gets involved in church life.

Numerical insignificance inevitably invests Protestant church life with a minority mentality [May 12, 1954].

In trying to account for it I propose to say some things in the last lecture about practical facts in modern American church life which operate to encourage, if not to demand this deadening and guilt - begetting circumstance.

The president of Church Life Insurance Corporation is Thomas Dennis Sullivan Ii, the treasurer is, and the secretary is.

In 1931 Dr. Pauck became a force to be reckoned with in American church life by the publication of Karl Barth: Prophet of a New Christianity.

Some have been wounded by church life as they know it among «low» church folks and perhaps most wonder if Sunday morning is mostly about a 45 minute sermon.

For in the great days of the Protestant movement the Protestant churches lived within the framework of Christendom.

So we celebrate the diversity and complexity of church life through the arts even as we celebrate its unity in diversity by keeping our attention fixed on our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Unless we drastically reshape both our theology and our entire institutional church life so that this fact becomes as central to evangelical theology and evangelical institutional programs as it is in Scripture, we will demonstrate to the world that our verbal commitment to sola scriptura is a dishonest ideological support for an unjust, materialistic status quo.

Evangelism offices and commissions gather and affirm the various groups that identify themselves under their broad banner; they sponsor workshops on church growth, offering helpful techniques for how to make church life more inclusive, how to bring back those who drift away, how to incorporate new members more quickly, how to set up and carry out community - building activities such as lay visitation.

Jessica Keating is director of the Office of Human Dignity and Life Initiatives in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

A unique benefit of the school's rural location, Rearick reports, is that the active church life of the residents promotes strong families.

Many Protestant groups in America are actively trying to recapture the message as Christ delivered it and to live that simple, clear message out as the early Church lived it.

The Jews first: «The bitterest comments against the Jews come, not from the people who are the most intimately associated with the churches, but from those on the periphery, if not entirely outside church life altogether.»

I spent years of my evangelical church life avoiding mission trips — quite a notable feat for a woman married to a former missionary to Mexico and a youth pastor.

There is a long tradition of weekday worship in Catholic and Anglican communities, but Sunday still exercises an hegemony over church life — and especially in the morning.

Aided by judicatory and seminary personnel to whom the congregation seems more beneficiary than source of Christian praxis, local churches usually assume that a more definitive form of church life exists somewhere else.

Church life reflects this range of experience from the reflective Lent season to the joy of Pentecost, from baptisms to weddings to funerals.