Sentences with phrase «congregation makes»

His little congregation makes fun of work, wealth, political economy, and the practice of art itself.

After I left New Orleans, I joined a Houston congregation made up of people who relocated to the city as a result of Katrina.

Faithful, effective Christian congregations make a difference.

In 1987, Peter Gillquist, a former leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, and 200 others in a single evangelical congregation made national headlines when they were chrismated (or confirmed) into the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Many church congregations make their first contact with practicing Buddhists when they sponsor refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia.

His first sermon in his home congregation made outrageous claims for his ministry.

Ann B — I didn't get the impression that anyone thought it was David's congregation making these accusations.

While independent congregations made up a third of the responding churches, the survey also included numerous Southern Baptist and Assemblies of God churches and several mainline congregations.

«It seems to me that most evangelical congregations make a sharp divide between the sacred and secular realms,» says Lindsay, «so that church is the last context where you'll see women in ordained roles.»

Because ours was a relatively small congregation made up of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.

When members of Wiltshire Church took the world view test described in chapter 6, the congregation made the highest empiric and lowest charismatic scores of any church yet tested.

Not exact matches

In February, the Vatican's new economy secretariat made a request to learn more about the congregation's finances.

If the couple wants to talk about their sexual topics, be it hetero or homo, they will do that, and they must be treated with real, humble love and compassion, and not with brimstones and fire, and not making scapegoats out of them in front of the congregation.

One prominent pastor personally committed to the position of the revisionists stated in a pastoral letter to his congregation that were the revisionists successful, those opposed to the legitimization of homosexuality would be forced to make a painful decision: they could either remain within a church that would stand for an agenda they found incompatible with obedience to Christ, or they could leave the church.

Churches should challenge their congregations to love all people instead of judging them and making legislation that further judges them.

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.»

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.

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.

how would you welcome them into your congregation and make for them a home in your congregation and a home for them in «my Father's house, that has many rooms.»

My sense is that the congregation as a whole is made up of fairly orthodox Catholics, which I doubt is always the case in university towns.

Our congregation is made up fairly evenly between liberals and conservatives.

They're adults now, but it's not clear if the alleged abuse took place when they were adults or children — the coverage of the third lawsuit makes frequent mention that the accuser was 14 when he joined the congregation, but not why that point is being emphasized.

The emphasis on highly produced, band - led worship — which comes from a sincere desire to make worship as «good» as it can be — can drown out the response of the congregation.

The most healing thing we did together as a congregation was make a safe space for everyone to have coffee after the worship and just talk.

The amount of security and commotion that his attendance warrants makes it unfair to the the other church goers in the congregation.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

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.

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.

As a result, clergy are often more adept at giving sociological accounts of church life than they are at helping their congregations appreciate that it is the presence of God that makes their life possible.

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.

The Message was born after Dr Peterson was inspired to craft a translation to make the Bible come alive for his Presbyterian congregation.

To make the congregation a central concern for theological education, we need a new pedagogical strategy that assumes that theology is a form of practical knowledge.

When things do not line up this causes friction — usually between the leadership and the congregation they are trying to make fit a mold of Christian character.

Now the focus is on congregations and how to make them grow.

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.

Even while preaching absolute truth, propositions, sin, and hell, Keller will quote the Apostle Paul in the same breath as a quote from Bono, and all to make a point meaningful to his congregation, not to win cool points.

It has a pastor who cares for the well - being of their congregation, makes sure they have food and shelter.

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?

Once a year members of the congregation gathered to make financial pledges to support missions efforts.

What difference does it make when people leave a congregation over some tiff, join another congregation, and allow us all to avoid the difficult and arguably primary Christian work of forgiveness and reconciliation?

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

Shortly thereafter, the congregation of mice and sometimes a few rats who'd lived comfortably in this fleshpot would make their break.

When our congregations are not growing exponentially in membership or worship attendance, the district superintendent is called and a request for a pastoral change is made.

(CNN)- On Sunday, pastor Jim Garlow of Skyline Church in California stood before his congregation of more than 2,000 and told them he would be making an unusual announcement.

Furthermore, practice preaching is usually made to an audience of classmates and instructors, a most atypical congregation and one that the student may never again face in his career.

What if those who made the calls don't want to repent and refuse to come before the congregation and the Wilson's?

The tragic irony that I tell about my mortal body reflects something of the approach I make to understanding the congregation.

I was a bit envious that week, both of King's gifts — he'd go off and preach at neighborhood Baptist churches several times a night — and of the long - oppressed people who made up these ministers» congregations.

When I made that point in a sermon on Luther the following Sunday, no one in the congregation smiled more appreciatively than Kingman.

To check the loss of zeal in the churches and to assure a common point of view over against growing opposition, an attempt was made to furnish a careful check on the pastors and congregations.