Sentences with phrase «congregations into»

But when your views are so narrow, I suppose they feel like they must force their congregations into doing what the church leaders want them to do... hmmm remind you of another religion... just say Allah.

If the Church was a good spiritual leader, they would not have to force their congregations into doing what the church wants them to, they would all fall in line.

More worship songs than ever are flowing out of local congregations into the worldwide Church.

[6] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, surely it would be better — to make yet another counterproposal — to focus study on the Word of God that not only calls congregations into being and nurtures them but also judges and corrects them.

I would take our directory, evenly divide our congregation into five lists, and give each elder one of the lists.

Certainly, as a Pastor, you were in a position to lead that congregation into fulfilling the mandates of Christ that you so eloquently stated.

Here are a few of those affirmations: all baptized Christians have Spirit - granted charismata assigned to them; offices are a particular type of charismata; there is no ontological difference between officeholders and other members of the congregations; the priesthood of all believers does not divide a congregation into distinct groups (laity and clergy); ordination is a public attestation to the presence of the particular charismata by the whole congregation; ordination is not necessarily an irrevocable appointment to a lifelong task.

Instead of dividing the complex activity of a congregation into categories of sacred behavior and secular baggage, this approach sees God's meaning as fully available only to members who perceive the entirety of social links that make their group whole.

Christians with an evangelical spirit, who are confidant of their calling and willing to take risks in leading a congregation into ministry are the kind of pastors who find members responsive to their leadership.

The bits that raised my ire were around 0:40 when he bullied his congregation into picking the card up, 1:50 when he said, «how can you expect a blessing without this [tithing]?

Christopher, Be careful to not turn your experience in a congregation into a form of bitterness.

It grinds my gears when some Churches preach Malachi repeatedly in Sermons to guilt the congregation into giving what they can not afford instead of providing guidance on how to manage that risky but essential commodity commonly known as money.

Having put the thought of the congregation into orbit, that is, having activated the thought of the congregation into some form which will inevitably travel with them wherever they go, the minister's sermon, once it is preached, has served its usefulness and is destined for oblivion.

And even if you do, planting the stars and stripes in the sanctuary won't instantly transform your congregation into patriotic idolaters, but the iconography in our churches tells a story by memorializing in glass and steel and thread and fabric who we are and who we are called to be.

Increased diversity will continue to lead each congregation into having its own unique expression reflecting the multifaceted jewel of worship.

Bach's notes gently quieted the congregation into more solemn whispers with an organ prelude of Sleepers Wake.

His sermons and patter throughout the service brilliantly coax the congregation into reconsidering Christian terms and acts they long ago discounted heaven, Sabbath, baptism.

The wily priest responds by organizing the ladies of his congregation into the North Avenue Irregulars, a two - fisted crimefighting unit.

He startles a plain vanilla church congregation into silence, and rips the insurance lobby: «The reason the healthcare industry is so profitable is they get 24 cents of every dollar.»

Frustrated, the officer signaled for his men to split the congregation into smaller groups.

WORSHIP MUSIC IN THREE DIMENSIONS - How to Sing Down the Presence and Power of God This book was written to help churches bring their congregation into the very lap of God.

Not exact matches

Isa 14:13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

2 of the 3 have started to allow gay people into their congregations and the orthodox is also considering concessing on the issue.

And what's wrong with funneling the newcomers into local church congregations?

Moreover, you demean us by suggesting that we, the congregation, can't handle the sacral language of the liturgy, and that we have to be jollied into participation.

how would you welcome them into your congregation and make for them a home in your congregation and a home for them in «my Father's house, that has many rooms.»

Yes, it's no good David going off into the higher realms of some abstract theology and leaving his congregation behind.

The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

However, many of those were older, more traditional churches led by entrenched, autocratic pastors well into their 60s and composed of a congregation and worship style that was far from contemporary.

The congregation and pastor are responsible for rebuking those who have fallen into sin, and lovingly speaking to them.

Not much... he could've done the same thing by going in front of his congregation wearing flesh - colored underwear, sticking his tongue out, standing up on the baptistry and twerking... then crying foul when he gets fired... what this tells me is that we're all idiots for being so predictably drawn into these types of stories... this is shameless self - promotion, plain and simple... and he wins because we're dupes...

But blended congregations often bifurcate into groups with separate worship services and separate constituencies uneasily housed in the same setting.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

I recommend every pastor to get copies into the hands of every congregation member, which is verbatim my words to a pastor, who is a close friend in Christ, only 2 days ago.

When you are accepted into the congregation and community, then you're going to be more willing to go and worship and put your time towards the Lord.

Trying to shape those who have had these experiences into a coherent Christian community is harder still, and more than one congregation has thundered and sunk under the strain of sorting out the personal and the corporate.

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.

By taking us inside the experience of one who is invisible to mainstream society, Ellison challenges us to be attentive to those who are invisible in our own congregations and neighborhoods, listening to their stories and gaining a window — however tiny — into their experience.

In short, the bleating of divided congregations has turned unbelievers into savvy consumers («What does your church offer me?»)

More than that, they'd ensure there was time for «match practice»; taking those young trainees out on the street to pray for people, or into the adult church to serve or lead the main congregation.

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.

Even people in their congregations will get into the voting booth and think, «What was that pastor thinking?

Sitting before my current group of elders, I explained my plan to put this story from Moses» life into practice in our congregation.

Congregations will recognize the unsustainable character of the society into which they are so fully integrated.

We Protestants forget that and deny it every time we shut the people out and turn worship into entertainment by clergy or musicians before silent congregations.

We have a long way to go before it is fully integrated into the weekly worship of most of our congregations.

It had already been recognized at that time as the fastest growing church, and he wanted to leverage that growth into the largest congregation.

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregation.

A score of writers have noted the potentially perverted uses of «paternalistic» styles of ministry and pastoral care — the fostering of a congregation's childlike dependence on the pastor, the turning of ministry into pastoral self - gratification at the expense of congregational freedom and maturity.