Sentences with phrase «congregational households»

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

Throughout the trouble the structure of the congregational household is painfully manifest to its members.

The alarm system of the congregational household immediately alerts its members.

The plight and the hope of the world are not entirely concealed in other forms of social grouping, but the idiom of the congregational household often expresses for Christians most persistently and poignantly God's call and the human cry.

The formation of a consensus is considerably less important for this exercise than the development of an understanding of the range of values held by members of the same congregational household.

Not exact matches

Congregational researchers also use contextual, mechanical, organic, and symbolic approaches to assess the local church, because congregations are also dwellings, but for a different kind of household.

Congregational story is a household confession that recognizes the continuing participation of the church in the passage of events.