Sentences with phrase «congregational activities»

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

Congregations with a loyal membership tend to grow, members tend to give, and there is more congregational activity.

Congregational activity often fills so much of the church's time, attention and energy that it pays no attention to people's lives outside the church.

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Ending violence and violation must be a presupposition of pastoral counseling and congregational service and support activities.

Gossip, as a church activity without malice, may well be, at its best, the moral casuistry of ordinary people, a primary means of congregational bonding, a source of utterly essential moral data about ourselves, an everyday means of investigating communally what it means to be baptized.

As R. T. Gribbon points out, «We assume that congregational leadership is most commonly drawn from those to whom «belonging» in the congregation is most important; those persons understandably have difficulty understanding those church participants for whom «belonging» and church - related activity is of little importance» (When People Seek the Church [Alban Institute, 1982], p. 14).

In the summer of 1952 the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches was forced to take a vote on the propriety of the activities of its Council for Social Action.