Sentences with word «congregational»

The question is not one of either pastoral care or social action, but: How can the two be organically related in the dynamics of congregational life in faithfulness to God, for whom love and justice are inseparable?

When I was in my late 20s I was installed as senior minister of First Congregational Church in Burlington, Vermont.

«Violence,» says René Girard, «is the heart and secret soul of the sacred, «5 yet its presence in congregational life in expressions other than Christ's crucifixion is frequently ignored.6 But the character of each of the three parishes examined here develops in relation to a specific, if symbolic, death, making a virtue of it and knitting its consequence into the patterned behavior of that church.

(ENTIRE BOOK) James F. Hopewell provides a definitive study of congregational life.

It was Wheeler who was asked to write the closing chapter, assessing the import of congregational studies for the future of the church, of the upcoming book reporting on the findings presented at the Atlanta conference (Building Effective Ministry: Theory and Practice of the Local Church, to be published by Harper & Row in early 1983).

I saw the official version every Sunday in the stained glass window above the altar at First Congregational Church in Tempe, Arizona.

But, most important of all, its whole culture — its use of evangelical celebrities and its media savvy — has made it that much more influential at congregational level even as it is accountable to no - one but a self - selected few.

There were earlier forms of congregational singing.

Those proposing to undertake the recollective, confessional, and transforming ministry of plot must be warned, however, that this aspect of congregational story is, in J. B. Metz's word, «dangerous.»

And there is little doubt that it is this last form of ecumenism which has the farthest reach and the most impact at congregational level.

For the most part, children and youth were present for congregational worship as a matter of course.

The meeting was set up to consider the parent's request that his children be able to participate in congregational prayers at a mosque during the final period of the school day on...

They should serve as useful resources for congregational leaders facing similar challenges or for pastoral students interested in issues of mission leadership.

In time, I became impatient with the formula itself - though later still, as I found myself in congregational settings far removed from Missouri Synod certainties, I sometimes looked back on that formula with a certain nostalgia.

Clergy serving churches with congregational polity are finding themselves to be governed by constitutions and by - laws in direct contrast to the monarchical clergy styles of a passing generation.

Within the broad horizon of world interpretations are individual congregational households, negotiating their own relation to the four modes.

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

Hopewell argued that the object of seminary training should be shifted from a clerical to a «congregational paradigm.»

An awareness of our common sinfulness and common need for grace helps congregational conflicts move from stalemate to productive discernment.

There is a basic continuity with the push in Pentecostal circles to journey ritually from congregational singing to preached word to encounter at the altar, which is really a standard low church evangelical pattern.

In the next chapter, further ramifications of and conclusions about congregational world view will emerge.

By itself, a single sermon will usually be insufficient to effect a shift in congregational world view.

In the not too distant past, clergy were seen as pivotal spiritual and intellectual leaders, and theological schools were seen as providing vital leadership for congregational ministry and for grappling with broader intellectual and social issues.

After serving for over 20 years, I decided to step away from congregational leadership to focus full - time on the care and counseling of individuals, marriages, and families.

Although I had had clinical training and professional experience in chaplaincy and pastoral psychotherapy, I had never had an actual course in pastoral care or pastoral theology, nor had many of my courses emphasized pastoral congregational practices.

Decisions — about budgets, for example, or about organizational and programming priorities — are constantly being made in committee and congregational meetings, and these determine the style of church life, for they crucially affect members» perception of what the church is all about.

I worked in a small church in Kansas once, and after about 3 months I figured out that all the real major decisions, including if the pastor got paid that week, were not made by the elders, the board or congregational vote.

One group of Congregational pastors produced a Testimony opposing the revivals and deploring their results.

By Rob Mumford RNA held its monthly meeting this past April 9 at Waverly Heights Congregational United Church.

Arranged coverage stories for congregational activities, including a full - page photo spread on our work with Habitat for Humanity

Increasing general congregational participation in the worship service strengthens its centering function without threatening the fringe - type person.

These sermons sparked a lot of introspection and lively confession and repentance within the lives of congregational members.

As congregational leaders, do we preach and teach that these matters are matters of faith or do we studiously avoid the appearance of meddling in politics by feigning neutrality?

That's what made it so exciting there, and what makes congregational analysis so promising for the reconceptualization of theological education.

Some of its structures and practices have obvious origins in Christian traditions; others, equally widespread and apparently necessary to Christian congregational identity, have murkier sources or explicitly secular ones.

Coleman writes about church responses to sexual violence in The Dinah Project: a Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence.

It's a hybrid — a cross between a house church and a typical congregational model.

A social action project aimed at mobilizing congregational support of legislation to provide more opportunities for job training for the poor (primary prevention).

In 2013, God opened the door for Michael to move from our Missions ministry into Congregational Care.

Open - ended interviews that pose a predesigned series of questions permit members themselves to ponder their behavior and to develop their own ideas about what congregational actions intend.

Therefore, the New England Congregational clergy felt that asking for bishops was all part of a great plot to deliver the Puritan colonies back into the hands of king and bishops.

Throughout the history of the denomination, Southern Baptist leaders have carefully navigated the principle of congregational autonomy as they have sought to develop cooperative ministries.

Only narrative is sufficiently sensitive to amplify the unique accents of a congregation's idiom, sufficiently intricate to explain the congregation's constitutive power, and sufficiently comprehensive to link congregational events and meanings.