Sentences with phrase «congregation because»

The last two years had me taking on more responsibility at my congregation because:

Or Hero Trinity may represent the current ethical configuration of a congregation because the myth brings interpretive power to that pattern, the myth itself the product of congruent social situations.

I am leaving my current congregation because of a calling to another.

Such concern sometimes comes too late, and disaffected or estranged patients and families end up leaving their congregation because of feelings of isolation fostered by the illness.

People have left the congregation because of me — I'm sure that's true of every pastor since pastoring was invented.

I feel sorry for the people in this man's congregation because this P O S is the FURTHEST thing from a Christian.

At the same time, there is some truth in the remark made by a very young clergyman who when rebuked by a lady in his congregation because he was such a young man that he had no business speaking so forcibly to his congregation replied, «Madam, when I put a stole around my shoulders I am two thousand years old!»

My thesis is that Protestants in the United States are not yet fully aware of the extent to which the changing family affects the life of a congregation because our theologies, ministries, and traditions are influenced by a worldview that coalesced before the Civil War.

The close attention to such parish features as ritual process and the use of Scripture encouraged in my courses does indeed help forge links to other religions, but studying the congregation because it provides a rationale for courses in other faiths remains only a part of the reason for my interest.

Increasingly, people from different kinds of families are attracted to the life of a congregation because of the quality of relationships they experience there.

Standish began introducing silence into the congregation because he was convinced that spiritual renewal starts not with «big» programming, but with listening to God's word, meditating on scripture and discerning God's will.

@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.

Preaching is frequently done to an invisible congregation because the lights have been turned down; yet the facial expressions and bodily postures and movements of the congregation are communications in response to the preacher, and he needs to see and note them as at least partial guidance for his speaking.

Redeemer is a church that is ministering to a young, urban congregation because of ¯ not despite — the fact that it is dedicated to historical Reformed theology.

They need to be detached from your ministry; it can't be a member of your congregation because you can't be vulnerable with people that you need to lead.

How do you respond to church leaders who are afraid of making education a priority within their congregations because they fear the public policy issues related to education are too political?

At the same time, and without modifications of the «againstness,» a theological school's study may be «for» Christian congregations because it is the place where people can be helped to acquire the capacities for theological judgment that, as we saw, congregations inherently need in their common life.

Some people do leave their congregations because of theological disagreements, but somewhat surprisingly that's not a significant percentage.

In her view, congregation al studies are important for seminaries because the seminaries are accountable to the church, and important for congregations because understanding themselves better will enable them to hold up their side of the dialogue with seminaries and other church agencies.

At other times, I've felt the need to remove myself from ceratin congregations because things were going on I didn't feel I could be a part of.

Does nor our claim that a theological school is of the bene esse of congregations because it can prepare church leadership imply that we have adopted at least this half of the Berlin model?

Not exact matches

How can you say that because Obama takes one stance that doesn't match Christian values, the church congregation must vote for others?

Within our congregation I have never gotten a sense (much less been told directly) that I am freely rebelling against God because of my relationship.

It would be hard to consider it «our church» is all, because we would feel less than full members of the congregation.

He also suggests that these songs have stood the test of time because many of the authors were pastors, who held both Scripture and the struggles of their congregations in mind.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

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 next speaker was his vicar who said that he didn't say it because he thought the congregation didn't want to hear it

I think I said doing so was stealing and lying, but in any case I said it was wrong, and also pointless, since the congregation is not going to think less of the preacher because he says, «As John Smith says.»

It would be just as logical to rant about how Christians all go around protesting at dead soldiers» funerals, just because of those wackos in the Phelps congregation.

For morons, because its.volunteer, a member of the congregation is chosen from the crowd and made bishop for 4 to 6 years then he's done Nd someone else does it.

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...

We've never left a congregation in anger; we've always left because we felt directed to another path.

And if congregations find themselves in the midst of numerical decline, it's because they have failed to come to terms with their changing circumstances.

Because of poor roads, unreliable transportation and the distances between congregations, a pastor can usually visit only one or two congregations on a given Sunday.

Bible bangers give because they belong to congregations that expect them to do so.

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.

I spent a good deal of time preparing that sermon and I delivered it with confidence, even though I knew that there would be many in the congregation who would take issue with it, because I believed that what I was saying had integrity.

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.

I imagine nearly every mainline pastor reading this has recently preached a sermon which they were nervous about because it challenged the ethics, or the politics, or the culture of their congregation.

Many churches are struggling to afford a Pastor / Priests because of declining congregations.

He said that the majority of the people in his congregation did not come from a Presbyterian background, but were drawn to the church because it is a place where the Word is being taught and where the people genuinely care for one another.

The young man waited in the pews while the congregation went forward to receive communion, anxious because he noticed that everyone in the congregation was drinking from the same chalice.

Further, he insisted, a congregation's particular story, because it draws from a treasury of narrative elements available to all groups of people as they struggle for survival and meaning, is its channel to participation in the worldwide mission of establishing God's shalom.

The Mormons will probably be the last denomination to build mega-churches because they don't let congregations get much larger than 300 people.

Yeah, because local governments all over the country tell Christian congregations they're not allowed to build churches or wear vestments in public all the time, right?

Because the canonic and gnostic sides function both conceptually and statistically» as opposites, as do the charismatic and empiric sides, it is possible to display the world view pattern of a congregation in graphic form according to the x and y axes of a coordinate system.

From Sarah: As a clergywoman in a Christian denomination, I wonder what your journey was like — were you always accepted because you were in Reform congregations, or were there still struggles over gender issues?

And the congregation is even worse because they're willing to believe that Jesus wants them to be rich, despite every red letter in the Bible supporting the contrary.

The pastoral leader will always need to teach in learning groups geared to discipleship because the authority that the clerical leader bears at this stage can not be duplicated by another member of the congregation.