Sentences with phrase «congregation listens to a sermon»

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One Sabbath service as the congregation in Newbury listened to the sermon of their pastor, the door burst open and in walked a young woman stark naked.

The familiar statement of Hermann Diem, «The congregation is born in preaching» is also true in reverse: «Preaching is born in the congregation».10 One has only to listen to sermons prepared for a homiletics class with no congregation in view to realize how vital to preaching is the concrete situation.

The ministry of the congregation during the preacher's sermon is to listen, not passively, but actively out of their own meanings, and in their very listening to challenge and encourage the preacher in what he is trying to say.

Furthermore, not many, if any, laymen ever receive instruction from the church about the role of the congregation with respect to the preacher's sermon or how they are to listen to it.