Sentences with phrase «congregations find»

Many congregations find it difficult to define their center, and the consequent vacuum results in a lack of purpose.

The Association for Lutheran Musicians, among other groups, has an aggressive placement service to help congregations find church musicians.

How can denominations and congregations find ways to get people interested and involved in service and social issues?

In the churches and congregations we find fresh energy and intelligence being devoted to the production of new hymns, music, artistic and liturgical materials, to the creation of fresh categories for doing theology, to the retrieval of threatened cultural resources, to the application of faith to public issues, and to the promotion of ecumenical sharing and partnership.

And if congregations find themselves in the midst of numerical decline, it's because they have failed to come to terms with their changing circumstances.

But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.

BUILD congregations found that 40 percent of the people using their soup kitchens were employed at least part - time.

The mission of the pastor is to help the congregation find that stream and thus to be the voice crying out in the wilderness.

If a congregation finds that Alpha is compatible with its theology, its congregational style and its outreach vision, then there is post-Alpha to consider.

The congregation finds it simpler and less troublesome to believe the things God did as recorded by those few writers who survived the babel of conflicting proclamations of God's Word and achieved canonicity than to venture some faith - decision amid differing announcements of what God is doing in our time.

Those of us outside the congregation find religious belief a fascinating subject and are eager to learn as much as we can about this curious practice and why it affects so many otherwise intelligent people.

The pastor of a suburban congregation finds herself increasingly torn between a dozen committees as her neighborhood grows and the membership of her church expands.

Writing in a 1974 issue of History of Religions, Wayne Meeks of Yale University Divinity School proposed that congregations founded by Paul used a baptism ritual which reunified the male and female in each new believer.

Despite Chambers's constant reminders that the East Brooklyn pastors and church members look at their condition directly and soberly, the numbers grew at each meeting At first only seven congregations found it possible to come up with the necessary dues: Our Lady of Mercy, Our Lady of Presentation, St. John Cantius.

B'nai Abraham, a conservative synagogue that traces its beginnings to the late 1800s and Temple Covenant of Peace, a reform congregation founded in 1839, will merge as early as June.

Not exact matches

It encapsulates in words I hadn't found yet how I've discerned my calling in the church... and thankfully, most parishes / congregations I've served have allowed me to help them seek

One prominent pastor personally committed to the position of the revisionists stated in a pastoral letter to his congregation that were the revisionists successful, those opposed to the legitimization of homosexuality would be forced to make a painful decision: they could either remain within a church that would stand for an agenda they found incompatible with obedience to Christ, or they could leave the church.

And I have found such a congregation.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

I eventually found him a church, but it wasn't contemporary worship and was inhabited by a bunch of stodgy people even though they were a welcoming congregation.

The reason I find that line of reasoning hard to believe is because people don't willingly choose to be ousted from their families, jobs, local congregations, shamed by society in general, hated and even killed for their lifestyle, live a life of denial, etc..

The Hartford Institute for Religion Research released the study's findings Saturday in a report titled «A Decade of Change in American Congregations, 2000 — 2010» authored by David A. Roozen.

Within both of these churches one can find large numbers of local congregations in which orthodox faith, sacramental integrity, sound preaching, and missions of charity live and flourish.

Seminary these days seems to be more female than male — wonder how many of these graduate to find a placement in a congregation?

As a former Christian, I find the idea of one man standing before a congregation several times a week, explaining his beliefs (understanding of the bible?)

My first call out of seminary was to a «seeker friendly» congregation within my tradition that was founded by an abusive pastor.

In this chapter, he writes about how he left the church in order to find the church — not in a building with clergy and a congregation, but in life lived together with other people.

As they reflected on this finding, Hoge and Wenger «came to believe that the conflicts most often experienced by our participants are ones that could probably be resolved and in the process offer growth experiences for both pastor and congregation.»

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

They teach congregations to find their essential character and then to build on it.

He reports that in retirement in Arizona he and his wife have found a congenial local congregation.

«This important research affirms that church leaders broadly agree our faith compels us to care sacrificially for refugees, but also finds that relatively few congregations are actively engaged in doing so,» said Stephan Bauman, president of World Relief.

And just as the retail workers at Target are left in the lurch, our small congregations were often left to scatter in the aftermath, trying to find healing as best they could.

So I was at first puzzled when I reached into my file, untouched since the first day of Lent last year, and found that I had scribbled the following: «On Ash Wednesday, the minister who just had to be different slung a shovelful of palm ash at his horrified congregation.

I found myself almost paralyzed by fear one Sunday as I told the congregation as lovingly as I could that seeking racial justice was a part of the Christian calling.

Since it was founded in 2003, the conservative Jewish congregation had bounced from location to location outside Atlanta - a Methodist church, a windowless space in a school, any place they could rent or borrow as they grew.

In the new churches that have mushroomed all over postcolonial Africa, congregations are filled with worshipers seeking and finding healing.

He finds the idea of the priest's facing the people a most disedifying factor of the modern liturgy: «How wise the old liturgy was when it prescribed that the congregation should not see the priest's face - his distractedness or coldness or (even more importantly) his devotion and emotion.»

Last January, LifeWay Research found that Protestant congregations in America were twice as likely to fear refugees as help them, though senior pastors overwhelmingly believed that «Christians have a responsibility to care sacrificially for refugees and foreigners.»

On March 20, he held a mock trial of the Muslim Holy Book, and the jury — consisting of twelve people from his congregation — found the book guilty of five «crimes against humanity,» including the promotion of terrorist acts and «the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.»

The children of the holy experiment found it impossible to maintain the faith without the recognition of a power beyond the local congregation.

Sister Helena is a member of the Daughters of St. Paul, an international congregation of Roman Catholic Sisters founded to communicate God's Word through the media.

There he found a minister and congregation sympathetic to his views and determined to retain their independence over against the Massachusetts authorities and the other congregations.

It is important, they say, that in every congregation such homosexual persons should find fellow - Christians who sensitively provide friendship and understanding.

The pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, Bill Williamson, invited my congregation to pray at his church until we found a new home.

Church leaders of various churches, including Pentecostals and Roman Catholics found that they and their congregations were significantly re-enthused through connection with the Toronto Church.

And I remember a pastor giving a sermon once in which he held up a picture of a mom and dad and two kids and prayed that everyone in his congregation would find that for themselves.

This ability of congregations to persist is examined here and an attempt is made to find coherence, if not unity, to the great variety of ways congregations are analyzed and apprehended.

A just - released survey by LifeWay Research has found that roughly equal numbers of Southern Baptist pastors identify their congregations as Calvinist / Reformed (30 percent) or Arminian / Wesleyan (30 percent).

Have you found a congregation in which Jesus and his friends would be welcome?