Sentences with phrase «congregational world»

Remember the typology of literary genres used to distinguish the variety of congregational world views, and the corpus of world myths employed to interpret congregational ethos.

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

It is, therefore, imperative that the preacher have a clear and accurate understanding of the relationship between the language and imagery of the sermon and the language and imagery of the congregational world views, for the preacher wants to evoke what is intended.

Any exploration of congregational world view therefore requires attention to the way a church sees and deals with its individual members, its corporate body, and the wider world.

Not exact matches

Tithes are not retained at the congregational level, but are passed up the structure, giving the hierarchy considerable flexibility to redistribute funds from wealthier parts of the world church to newer and poorer segments, and thus to orchestrate expansion.

There developed a Lutheran World Federation, a Baptist World Alliance, the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion, an International Congregational Council, an Ecumenical Methodist Conference, and a Presbyterian World Alliance.

The pilgrimage is an annual form of congregational worship in which those Muslims who are able to make the trip assemble from all over the world at Mecca, the home of the revelation to Muhammad (may God bless him).

Through the discourse of its members the congregational story establishes its world setting.

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

But reconciliation in the New Testament means primarily reconciliation to God and transformation of persons who then work for transformation in the world - not carte blanche provision for whatever views and life - styles members bring to congregational life.

He has edited collections of songs and hymns from the world church (distributed by GIA Publications and Iona Books) and written The Singing Thing: A Case for Congregational Singing.

Or the pastor, following a course similar to the one I propose, might ponder whether the Communion, the music dispute, and the plumbing repair were themselves interlocked in some more complex congregational configuration whose whole reflects the plight and promise of other communities throughout the world.

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.

Worship, preaching, and the sacraments are rituals of congregational identity for world - oriented people.

Last and most significant, congregational plot — capacious, political, and historical — testifies to the symbolic relationship that exists between the rich drama of church life and the struggle of the world's peoples.

Those of us Protestants whose heritage is relatively congregational may sometimes find ourselves thinking things would be better if only we had bishops to provide the sort of guidance that gives the church theological direction in a world that constantly raises new and difficult questions.

In 1970 the International Congregational Council merged with the Alliance, creating the present World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

She is an ordained minister of World Congregational Fellowship Church and affiliated with the International Metaphysical Ministry.