Sentences with phrase «congregations took»

In a properly celebrated Mass, the vocalized dialogue of prayer between celebrant and congregation takes place in a linguistic rhythm established by the shared text of the Mass..

According to this model, each congregation took a specific neighborhood as its designated mission area and built its facilities deep within housing developments, not on major streets or intersections.

Third, it refreshes us that as the ethnic congregations take their place within the larger church, their life will provide new strength and vision for the total church.

Seen in this context, Paul's specific advice concerning women not speaking within a worshiping congregation takes on the more primary meaning that all is to «be done decently and in order.»

He decided on «Our God» at the same time that the congregation took the initiative and began the prayer without him.

If someone from the congregation takes issue with something Jes said or did, I direct them to Jes.

Rather, the congregation takes part in the nuance and narrative of full human discourse.

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

Accepting the heterogeneity of its members, the congregation takes upon itself a synthesizing activity for the world at large and strives to develop a paradigmatic fellowship, a foretaste of the ultimate community of all humanity.

When a minister is installed in a Presbyterian church, the congregation takes a vow «to receive the word of truth from his mouth.»

This is like hundreds of congregations taking place across the city this morning, but with one notable exception: there is no god.

Congregations take advantage of Faith Climate Action Week resources all year long.

The First Steps are intended to save you time and resources as your congregation takes steps towards launching a Marriage Ministry.

Not exact matches

Federico added in a statement to the AP that the office is «vigorously» taking steps to following protocol used by other Vatican congregations.

After all, he has to please the whole congregation, and that takes a whole lot of little white lies.

How can you say that because Obama takes one stance that doesn't match Christian values, the church congregation must vote for others?

(CNN)- A New Jersey church - already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school - put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash - filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.

It is going to take a lot of personal income away from the evangelical leaders so no doubt they are going to go out and scare their congregations with Mormon's are cults and not Christians.

They're adults now, but it's not clear if the alleged abuse took place when they were adults or children — the coverage of the third lawsuit makes frequent mention that the accuser was 14 when he joined the congregation, but not why that point is being emphasized.

Taking the cold and forbidding shell of the original structure, he placed the sanctuary and altar in the center of the building, allowing the congregation to face the altar from three directions.

Second, women pastors may be more effective in dealing with the feminization of the local church which has taken place increasingly, and which troubles many mainline congregations.

Another congregation in our study lived out this vision of neighboring well by taking on a different local struggle in southern California: neighbors navigating the US immigration system.

Please, if you're a Christian leader and plan on killing yourself and your congregation before on on May 21... take as many of your followers with you.

Indeed, we suspect that the very distinction between theology, ethics and liturgy reflects the seminary's adoption of inappropriate academic models of compartmentalization and a failure to take seriously the liturgical life of congregations as central to our educative task.

It takes a lot of work to be active in a congregation; to participate.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

If your congregation uses elders, deacons, or some other official leadership structure, ask them to take up their mandate to «tend the flock of God» (1 Pet.

You sometimes take too long to assert yourself as pastor and leader of the 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.

I spent a good deal of time preparing that sermon and I delivered it with confidence, even though I knew that there would be many in the congregation who would take issue with it, because I believed that what I was saying had integrity.

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.

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

The Rev. Andy Stanley says he took a risk preaching about greed to his suburban Atlanta congregation, but it has paid off.

His desires are acutally pretty simple & where David is at & his own personal beliefs which directs where he is taking his congregation is why I / we recently left the church.

They could have chosen to take up the issue at a Wednesday night business meeting but they chose instead to address the issue on a Sunday in front of the entire congregation.

In some liturgies the whole congregation places itself at the disposal of those being baptized, confirmed, married and ordained by taking vows to support these persons in their new life and ministry.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

Each was held in a congregation, was taught by a Candler faculty member and the church's pastor, and took as its subject matter an actual issue or topic in that congregation's life.

Plus, simply listing in the bulletin that such a meeting takes place on the premises speaks volumes to the congregation about a church's stance toward alcoholics and addicts and their families.

From start to finish, the book warns readers that, for example, «congregations can survive, but only if religious leaders roll up their sleeves and pay considerably more attention to young adults» and «unless religious leaders take younger adults more seriously, the future of American religion is in doubt.»

Great congregations form where people with a dizzying variety of backgrounds and experiences take an interest in the mystery and the mess of each other's lives.

In every instance, however, whatever cast its story takes, a congregation derives its world view from the struggle of the entire field of human interpretation.

IMO, pastors should take the advice they give their congregations — get honest work and volunteer your time to your church.

However, I do not take this to mean that it is necessarily a healthy choice, nor that I should no longer advocate being a part of a local congregation.

He reorganized the essays into the first draft of a book that took as its organizing metaphor the congregation as body.

The trick is that members must learn to function and observe as if they were outsiders so that they see afresh the myriad matters about the congregation that they now take for granted.

Perhaps the priest has passed him by for a very good reason; perhaps it was high time for him to take a service, and he could not keep his congregation waiting, for that was more important!

Today cure shall take place merely within a lively congregation or church.

If the dominant aim of the preacher - liturgist is to keep the whole gospel before every gathering of the congregation, sooner or later the congregation must take into account what makes that gospel interesting and relevant.