Sentences with phrase «community around the church»

The church building may be dilapidated or the population centre has moved so there isn't community around the church anymore.»

«And we would seek to open our doors and bring in more of the children in the community around our churches and improve the rate with the school district,» noted Kinzer Pointer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Greater Buffalo United Ministries.

Not exact matches

«The Church has a presence in most communities around the world, with a mandate to rescue the oppressed and defend the orphan and the widow,» he says.

The Church welcomes you into community around the world, and through a shared hope in Christ, certainly clings to «particular expectations for the future» when Christ returns.

The scientific community, for the most part, accepted Copernicus» theory, but the church took a long time to come around.

Those that form church communities around deciding certain stories within the canon are more important than others or certain interpretations of the stories are what God really wanted to communicate.

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

A church is supposed to be the combined efforts of EVERYONE in it to serve their communities, not an exclusive group that sits around talking about their own needs.

We are a collective group of churches, businesses, communities and individuals from around the world, all dedicated to using our gifts, talents and resources to help end extreme poverty, care for orphans, rescue slaves, and see communities transformed by serving our international partners through Help One Now.

The First Church of St John, or «the community of the beloved disciple,» as the late Raymond Brown called it, seems a lot like the church around the corner when you read between the Church of St John, or «the community of the beloved disciple,» as the late Raymond Brown called it, seems a lot like the church around the corner when you read between the church around the corner when you read between the lines.

It sounds obvious, but Powell says when a church is putting the life of Christ forward, it's reflected in how they engage with the non-church community around them.

The church will have more money for mission and outreach in the community and around the world.

She also worked with two Willow Creek Community Church campuses, developing strategies and programming around multiculturalism.

Imagine what the church could do in the community and around the world if it didn't have to pay for pastors or buildings!

In all our American communities, and in increasing numbers of communities around the world, churches are inevitable, and whether they are good or bad, efficient or inefficient, intelligent or superstitious, Christlike or bigoted, is one of the most important questions in the world.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

The consecration service will be attended by around 500 people including some from other faith communities across the UK and the Episcopal Church in the US.

At that site, we want to focus on taking the Free Grace theology we all know and love, and putting it into practice in our churches, in our communities, and around the world.

And so many of us move about to new churches looking for «community,» but remain uncommitted, continually bouncing around.

If this approach is valid, then we shall have to give greater emphasis in the church's mission, to conversion of religions to Christ and to urge individuals from other religions converted to Christ to stay within their religious communities and build up Christ - centred fellowships around the Bible and the Lord's Table within their religious ethos.

The Church has taken up Jesus» call to take care of the poor and the needy around the world and in our own communities.

There are times where people in our church community come around us and tell us they believe in what we're doing by supporting us in different ways.

This whole article reeks of a modern day inquisition, except this time around, the church is the scientific and academic community and the religion is humanism.

It is not uncommon to go into some of the poorest and most destitute communities around the world, where many of the people live in cardboard and tarpaper shacks and have barely enough food to live on, and in the middle of this community, find a large, grandly constructed church building with towering steeples, intricate stained glass, beautiful woodwork, and gorgeous hand - painted murals.

This book contains not only stories from my own pastoral experience, but lots of quotes, cartoons and reflections all around this topic of visionary thinking and the danger it poses to true church community.

It might be a good idea to recreate church around the current cultural forms of community.

It helps one to conceptualize women's struggles for «civil rights» in the church and for our theological authority to shape Christian faith and community as an important part of women's liberation struggles around the globe.

Like the fractured communities found in our churches, our civil religion no longer unites us around common ideals.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

Churches around the country are vital centres for local communities and wider society, preserving our rich heritage for future generations, and I very much welcome the opportunity to support the Council in their work.»

Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Browns Bridge Community Church, Buckhead Church and Watermarke Church in and around Atlanta.

I have hope because of my own beloved church and community and the thousands of other healthy and imperfect local churches all around the world (I am a local church girl, can't deny it).

* Rebecca is committed to the Church and passionate about calling the people of God into deeper community with each other and those around them.

Of course, we read Scripture together in our churches and work to understand it, but similar practices of reading and discussing other books in our churches and neighborhoods can form and strengthen bonds between us and transform our community and how we live and work together (and interact with other communities, locally and around the globe).

Mattholie says we need to begin by considering our communities and their needs, and then formulate churches around this: «Very often in the rural context people begin with a church and ask: «How might we attract people to what we're already doing?»

I relate with some of your dangers, I use to experience some of them when I first «left the church»... But I will say, years later... now that I have learned to center the majority of my relationships around Christ, that this builds lasting relationships and it is fulfilling for all in so many ways... I am learning to «live in community» with some close believers and feel as though I am experiencing Love like I have never experienced it before.

For the author, the cult of the icon has served to create a cordon sanitaire around the Orthodox churches, allowing them to immure themselves in a gated community of obscurantist ecclesiastical politics and attempted geographical hegemony whereby Western Christians (or Eastern churches in union with Rome) can not exercise their religious rights (and rites) in the lands of traditional Orthodoxy, but the Orthodox bodies are allowed to evangelize at will in the lands of the Western Enlightenment.

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

He supports me in raising them within my very open, liberal church community, and participates in prayer around the dinner table and at bedtime; but that's about it.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

His own concentrated study of the dynamics of small churches and churches in changing communities has made him increasingly in demand around the country as a perceptive observer of the dynamics of congregational life.

We work with leaders of influential churches around the world to help us better understand what are the products and tools that are needed to build community on our platform.»

Help One Now is a collective group of churches, businesses, communities and individuals from around the world.

Look for more of these stories in 2013 as we spend more time exploring denominationalism and church trends and as we «visit» various faith communities around the country.

Taking time to get to know the people around you and then reaching out to them outside of the church will allow for a greater, more stable community.

For Teilhard, the Christian church as (ideally) a universal community of human / divine love and shared idealism is the prototype of the movement of humanity as a whole toward a superhuman social reality organized around Christ / Omega as the ultimate attracting and unifying principle.

We were part of church life and village life... It was one of those hubs of the community, it was a proper sort of «bibliesque» existence when you've got the church and everything revolves around it.

But in city centres such as London and Birmingham, he believes churches should seek to reflect the multicultural community around them.

he belongs in some cloistered church compound... they love him, he loves them, they can take advantage of living in our wonderful country, come out to see the diverse and secular civilized community america really is and then turn around and run back into their compound.

But there is nothing wrong in inviting those who respond positively to the Person of Christ without leaving their religious and cultural community to form fellowships around the Lord's Table and the Word of God as «part of the Church» within their religious and cultural community - settings themselves and those who respond to the Christian values to consider acknowledging their source in Christ.