This was Friday night, on Sunday mom walks in (I was in madrid, Spain visiting my parents) and asks me to go with her to
a church service where people prayed for each other after the service.
What used to be a place of in depth sharing, fellowship and prayer becomes a quasi
church service where time limits sharing and prayer.
I remember seeing
the church service where Brian told his church his father was being being stood down from ministry.
Once in a while someone will send me a link to a YouTube video of
some church service where people are worshiping in a crazy fashion.
I remember being in a summer camp
church service where they brought in a preacher who was famous for his ability to get huge offerings.
Some of their girl friends actually attend the same
church service where the pastors» wives are sitting just a few rows away.
My second point is that I have been in many
church services where it seems that the worship leader or the pastor are just trying to hype people up (as your example in the blog).
Not exact matches
Large group gatherings or worship
services are the place
where the largest number of people within a
church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a
church.
I have been to
church services for (very) close relatives
where my beliefs and theirs differ.
Here in China
where I live and work as a teacher, there is a state
church that is monitored heavily by the government and there are the House
churches that are now beginning to be heard and are holding there
services out in public, but the members are being arrested and thrown in jail and yet they continue to hold there
services.
A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends
church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries,
where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.
The
church across the street from the venue
where the debate will take place had to cancel their Ash Wednesday
service because the republican party is using their parking lot for debate parking.
I first felt the keen edge of the feminist critique many years ago at the hands of two exceedingly able and determined women who often shared a pew and a hymnbook in
services at the
church where I was pastor.
Attacks at two Coptic Orthodox
churches in Egypt's Nile Delta killed more than 40 people and injured more than 100 others during Palm Sunday
services — including the one
where Pope Tawadros II was worshiping.
I like
where you're going with this, and I agree that «Who is the
church service for?»
Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in
church or at home, whether at ordinary
services in
church or at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love and the concrete place
where we happen to be as human beings.
After the
service, discuss
where God was at this
service, and why the
church is involved in these
services.
Lasting about as long as a
church service, a good movie transports you to another realm
where art of story and the magic of special effects allows you to experience an alternate reality that can help provide perspective or inspiration once you return to the real world.
Places of convenience, such as the grocery store,
where you happen to run into someone, or the
church lobby five minutes before
service starts, are never places to have intimate conversations.
Churches, like any charitable organization, should only get tax - excempt status if they can show
where and how they are providing a
service to the community.
Even
where the
church played a major role in education, the purpose was increasingly described in terms of
service of the national society.
Of course, I might be able to find a local
church where everyone looks like me,
where each aspect of the worship
service is exactly how I'd desire, and
where sound teaching is proclaimed.
I recently attended a large
church where only three verses of Scripture were read in the entire
service.
If
church services the way most people practice them
where in any way represented in scripture I would not be concerned.
So let's cut the crap, pull the plug, and have us some distracting
church services... the kind
where Jesus would fit right in.
I passed a few public schools
where they all had Christian
church services under way as they do every Sunday.
So the question isn't «
Where do you attend
church» or «What do you do in your
church service» but instead, «As a part of the
church, what can you be doing to strengthen it?»
The crucifixion of Jesus was marked in Jerusalem on Good Friday when thousands of Christians attended a
service held at a
church considered by some believers to be
where Jesus died and was buried.
Quite a different pattern has developed in Germany,
where the
churches sponsor family counseling
services staffed mainly by physicians and psychologists.
But cooperation does not exist just between the
churches; in every place
where there are developed counseling
services, these work in close contact with the social, medical, and mental health agencies of the district concerned.
Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional
Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world,
where a «high» view of the
Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening
services on a Sunday.
It was
where people came to serve and be served, hence the name «
church service.»
Up to this point we have discussed the many instances
where the clergy and the
churches in the community can collaborate with community mental health programs in providing
services related to prevention in mental health.
The Meeting House is a multisite Anabaptist congregation in Ontario, Canada
where thousands of people connect to God and each other through Sunday
services, online interaction, and a widespread house
church network.
This area of primary prevention is one
where the
church must take the lead, for mental health
services can not provide this type of normal everyday nurturance which everyone needs and without which people will run into emotional distress.
Hundreds of Christians joined a Maundy Thursday
church service of prayer and liturgy staged in a part of Jerusalem
where some believers think the Last Supper was...
I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship
service I feel) and I talked about that
church you posted about once — the one
where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the
church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?
@Bill, Pray tell me which Bible I follow,
where is my
church, what are my cultural and belief systems, how am I supposed to practice sacrifices, matrimonial and funerary
services, meditation and prayer?
He wrote in a statement: «Particularly in areas
where community resources have been stretched to the limit, the activities and
services run by
churches provide a lifeline to those in need, so it is important that we continue to champion the work our nation's
churches continue to deliver locally on a national scale.»
No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area
where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local
churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the
services of ministry.
The
church's narthex (the space
where visitors first enter, before proceeding to the sanctuary) was designed in response to the congregation's tradition of greeting one another in fellowship before the
service.
Where does it say that every
church service has to have five hymns and they all have to be five stanzas long?
What are the implications for ministry in an environment
where faith is transmuted away from an emphasis on the
service of God to one of selection of aspects of faith and
churches according to what one perceives one's needs are?
The story opened in a swank Protestant
church where at the conclusion of the
service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?
The director of a local pregnancy center told me about an event
where area
churches had combined to offer
services that ranged from cosmetology to interview skills and financial education.
From my experience a black
church service will go on for hours
where most white
churches will only have a
service lasting for about 2 hours.
The Assembly described itself as a secular urban oasis,
where atheists could enjoy the benefits of traditional
church - the sense of community, the weekly sermon, the scheduled time for reflection, the community
service opportunities, the ethos of self - improvement, the singing and the free food - without God.
Families of the victims accompanied black and white hearses in limousines as fire marshals and sheriff's deputies shepherded hundreds more - some in funeral attire, others in everyday clothes - to the
service in Floresville, Texas, about 12 miles from the First Baptist
Church of Sutherland Springs,
where the shooting occurred.
They went to
Church on the Way in Van Nuys,
where a few hundred eager people were waiting for the first
service to let out.
We need to have actual «
Service times»
where we get together and go help someone in our
church or in our community.