Sentences with phrase «congregations did»

The Jews of the United Congregations didn't think it was an insult; they thought it would match nicely with the fencing all around.

There are so many congregations doing the same thing the same way every single week — and the same way as so many other congregations — that people become starved for something, ANYTHING that's at least a change from the monotony.

The next speaker was his vicar who said that he didn't say it because he thought the congregation didn't want to hear it

The pastors may be pop culture celebrities, but it doesn't mean their congregations don't find fulfillment in the message.

The CHC congregation doesn't feel like it has been deceived, he told the court in March, according to AsiaOne.

Campus ministry and fellowship groups are not merely clubs or think tanks; they are parachurch organizations, meaning that they serve students in many of the same ways a local congregation does.

He said that the majority of the people in his congregation did not come from a Presbyterian background, but were drawn to the church because it is a place where the Word is being taught and where the people genuinely care for one another.

Clearly, the proposal that a theological school's study be focused through the lens of questions about congregations does not mean that somehow congregations become the sole or even the central subject of disciplined inquiry.

If your present congregation does not permit honest, open study of the Bible and does not find its unity in Jesus Christ, his saving work for us, and his Spirit in us, I encourage you to look elsewhere.

However, we might ask whether these three types of questions about congregations do not in fact fragment a course of study, and in at least two ways.

If the people in the pew were biblically literate, they'd be able to keep the preacher in line, and not let him / her act like they knew everything and the congregation didn't.

But his congregation did burn one in March of 2011.

Can your congregation do that during a sermon?

Hopefully, the people in the congregation do the same, but based on polls, it's doubtful.

An approach I've seen one congregation do, is: * Adopt the entire family; * Pay for all housing, medical, grocery, transportation costs; * Pay for any education / re-training the family members need.

He sacrificed himself so we wouldn't bear the price he bore — but ministers and congregations don't get that.

Religious congregations do change lives, but they are effective precisely because they are religious.

What kind of congregation do you have?

Not every congregation does all these things, but the more they engage in these intentionally denominational choices, the stronger their overall sense of rootedness in the tradition.

But, over the years, the congregation did, in fact, become more diverse, and by the time I had been there for 12 years, there were maybe 50 gay and lesbian persons, there were about 30 Hispanic individuals, there were a number of African Americans and African natives, and there was other diversity as well; and we talked a lot about how pleased we were that this was all happening.

The congregation didn't like my sermon, didn't care for my pastoral care.

Although several other churches in the area turned this man away, Don Bryant, then pastor of Coastal Church, and others within the congregation did not feel they could look him in the eye and deny his request.

what's the use of a pastor being himself / herself if the congregation doesn't get it?

It's a great pity when a congregation does not shape its own place of worship, for a building can lead people into moods and practices that might be wrong for them.

If his congregation doesn't get rid of him this week, they are complicit in his abuse of authority.

Most of what constructed our congregation did not occur by deliberate planning or goal setting; rather, a particular language developed among the members, an idiom that came to bind their actions and perspectives.

If the membership standards of a congregation do not indicate the all - encompassing nature of faith in Jesus Christ, it is likely that membership commitments will be perfunctory.

But congregations do more than orient themselves to one of a variety of world interpretations.

Given positive sociological factors, they are pastors whose congregations do attract new members and growth; if their congregation is in a location where increased membership is not very likely, they do not have to feel they have failed.

If members of a congregation do not see sexuality as a spiritual issue, there is little likelihood that they will see that domestic violence, homosexuality, and AIDS are issues that affect their lives.

Chaves is right that many congregations do very little social - service work and that their direct financial contributions toward social - service delivery are relatively small.

but, on the other extreme, some congregations don't realise that the big words encapsulate big concepts and if they were only willing to learn what they mean it actually could make it all a lot simpler and more straight forward.

Half of our congregations don't have a PA sound system.

But I do think they bear a deep accountability to the congregation understood in depth and at all of the different layers of its life» — understood, she says, in ways that the congregations themselves don't yet understand, since they haven't been engaged in very deep congregational studies either.

«Even if a small congregation doesn't desire to have a 3,500 - person worship service, it still looks to the programmatic characteristics of the megachurch for clues about what it should be doing,» wrote Thumma in an analysis of the data recently posted on the Hartford Seminary Web site (www.FACT.hartsem.edu).

During one particularly difficult period, I was an advocate for a commitment that a few people in the congregation did not want to make.

Moreover the preacher and the congregation do this in the midst of many other acts of mediation in which they also participate, as they attend to civil religion, propaganda, ideology, and mass media.

Clergy spouses who do try to limit their activities at church frequently feel that the congregation does not understand their reasons.

But local congregations do not necessarily merge just because their denominations have merged.

Another pastor really did understand the concept but admitted that his mostly elderly congregation did not and that it would take many years to move them even a little in that direction.

Each congregation does in fact embody a particular ethical perspective in its own patterned ways of being.

Many congregations do not observe that one consciousness - raising Sunday.

What intrigues the author is that certain specific oldline congregations do manifest vitality and show the marks of transformation.

They LIE and weave the verses that their congregations do not like into a TAPESTRY OF LIES.

So all members of our congregations do have the Holy Spirit from baptism and confirming confession onward.

Should members of the congregation do it and possibly alienate one of their neighbors?

Were their sermons valid as long as the congregation didn't know about the secret sinning?

Sounds like they have bigger problems if their own congregation doesn't believe the teachings of thier own church.

Maybe the general Sunday morning congregation doesn't care for anything that isn't an organ, but the youth group might need someone to help lead more contemporary worship on Wednesday nights.

Congregations don't expect to spend time wrestling about deep theological questions with themselves and with others.