Sentences with phrase «congregation by congregation»

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Then there was the pastor who demanded that the congregation «fill in the blanks» of a not - so - old song by a guy the minister described as the «dysfunctional poet savant Lil» Wayne.»

Not to be outdone, my current pastor (who is white, by the way, but pastors a very diverse congregation) recently did a cooking demo onstage and had a few of the thousand people in the sanctuary come up to get their piece of the hero sandwich he'd constructed.

Summary: «When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.»

Every dollar a family cut from its monthly budget increased by 2 % the chance that they would start attending the events, and enjoying the charity of the congregation.

Federico added in a statement to the AP that the office is «vigorously» taking steps to following protocol used by other Vatican congregations.

Outside of work, Rehman's leadership and commitment to the community has been recognized by his appointments as a board member for the Social, Welfare, Education and Economics Board through his congregation.

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

This article is about an entire congregations church being burned down to the ground by racism and then being rebuilt with faith.

I would also say that he is considered by his congregation as more infallible than Catholics consider their Pope.

The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county - by - county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups.

In a properly celebrated Mass, the vocalized dialogue of prayer between celebrant and congregation takes place in a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the Mass..

This is all the more likely in light of the recent narrow acquittal by a church tribunal of a pastor on the charges that he violated church law by performing a wedding ceremony for two lesbian members of his Omaha, Nebraska, congregation.

Moreover, you demean us by suggesting that we, the congregation, can't handle the sacral language of the liturgy, and that we have to be jollied into participation.

I had to move on to an «open and affirming» congregation where I could be encouraged in my faith instead of steadily dealing with ignorant, hurtful comments made by selective - literalist pastors.

I eventually found him a church, but it wasn't contemporary worship and was inhabited by a bunch of stodgy people even though they were a welcoming congregation.

Most are quickly reported to civil authorities as required by law,» he said, but he warned the leaders that they must respond quickly to reports and share information with their congregations for the sake of transparency.

I came out to our small Vineyard congregation in Ontario just over a year ago now, something that was precipitated by my realization that I was in love with my current partner.

For when Father Freelance scratches his itch to show just how congregation - friendly he is by making what he imagines are nifty changes to the Mass text, he instantly sets up sonic dissonance for anyone with a reasonably well - tuned ear.

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..

I have had friends leave the ministry (some were forced out unjustly by congregations) who became homeless.

The Hartford Institute for Religion Research released the study's findings Saturday in a report titled «A Decade of Change in American Congregations, 2000 — 2010» authored by David A. Roozen.

The global phenomenon would have probably passed by parishioners at Birmingham's City Road Methodist Church, which has a full - time 20 - strong congregation, until one avid gamer turned up on their doorstep.

What kind of witness could we be to our communities, as fragmented as they are by race and class and economics and politics, if the very makeup of our congregations signaled the «manifold wisdom of God» (Eph.

Jesus appears to have been followed by a core group of around seventy for at least some of His ministry, but His relationship to this larger «congregation» contrasts with that of the twelve which He lived with for some three years (and others — some of whom only met Him perhaps once, but clearly understood and accepted His care and counsel).

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

The historian Jules Isaac... obtained an interview with Pius XII in June 1949 and felt he was heard «with good will and understanding sympathy»... During the 1950's, the signs of understanding increased in the Vatican media, particularly at Christmas or Unity Week; the philo - Semitic orientation of certain religious orders; the effort to understand Judaism in theology schools, and meetings in ecumenical settings, no longer met with distrust by Roman Congregations.

I read it out immediately to the congregation, who were extremely moved by the closeness of the Pontiff, which gave them comfort in such a tragic moment.»

By asking lots of clarifying questions, the members slowly began to realize the level of abuse they had experienced from this pastor and came to realize that all the people who had left their congregation had been publicly berated by this man at some poinBy asking lots of clarifying questions, the members slowly began to realize the level of abuse they had experienced from this pastor and came to realize that all the people who had left their congregation had been publicly berated by this man at some poinby this man at some point.

This preacher has tons of money, given to him by his congregation.

And strangely I posted something similar on my newest blog (which is read by my congregation).

So, by calling that particular cold Sunday in January «Porn Sunday,» he was sending a message to his congregation that Mars Hill was a safe place to talk about this issue.

Church attendance rates by Christians in the United States have stayed largely steady since the 1970s, but there have been some significant changes in the makeup of the congregations in the pews during that time, a recently released study says.

However, many of those were older, more traditional churches led by entrenched, autocratic pastors well into their 60s and composed of a congregation and worship style that was far from contemporary.

If the woman read only Matthew 22:34 as her Christian text, the congregation must have been confused by its connection to the Shema.

My first call out of seminary was to a «seeker friendly» congregation within my tradition that was founded by an abusive pastor.

Unfortunately, my experience with religion was that too often the congregation was controlled by fear of consequences and not the desire to do what was right and good.

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.

Both Pearson and Bell ultimately lost their congregations by questioning the traditional view of hell.

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...

Shame and guilt is your weapon and you wield it as freely as any fundy preacher attempting to exert control by brow beating their congregation.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

But then, to your point, some are easy to finger by outsiders, but not so much the congregations.

As they reflected on this finding, Hoge and Wenger «came to believe that the conflicts most often experienced by our participants are ones that could probably be resolved and in the process offer growth experiences for both pastor and congregation.»

So, are you admitting that you as a pastor were a deceiver to your congregation with just «saying» it was for a different purpose by having a roll for the classes, Jeremy?

That congregation was so formed and disciplined by the liturgy that an extraordinary social witness was possible.

It was as though he had been swallowed up by the city and his new congregation.

Therefore unless a congregation dares to exclude from that experience everyone who is put off by sexist words for God — either masculine or feminine — it must chart a careful course.

Christianity today — in the US; I think the mileage varies in much of the rest of the world — is largely driven by the Christian Right; they are the ones who seem to make up most of the congregations.

Will congregations that seek to rout sexism by reaching for inclusive language be energized by that pain for a divine purpose?

But it is arrogant to suggest that the only authentic condition of congregational life is one of perpetual — especially artificially engineered — change and to think that one can measure a congregation's faithfulness by its capacity to leave its tradition behind.