Sentences with phrase «corporate worship»

A form of corporate worship unknown to previous generations is worship by radio.

It is primarily in religious education that curriculum varies, as well as in the opportunity for corporate worship.

How many distractions, outer or inner, does one's mind pursue in a typical corporate worship service?

We have been in every kind of small group you can imagine... and there is nothing like corporate worship.

I do miss corporate worship though and I guess that would be my dessert?

Religious communities with growth - healing motifs frequently are found to be experimenting with innovations to make corporate worship more alive and meaningful.

Therefore corporate worship... has distinctive quality and power.

We do not want to sacrifice «alone time,» family time, travel time or shopping time for corporate worship.

Our attempts to create silent zones in corporate worship services have invariably been bombed out by the distractions of coughing, a fussy child, or shuffling feet.

I concur with George Webber's conviction that a congregation in mission «will make basic provision for its members to meet in small groups (as well as corporate worship), not as a sidelight or option for those who like it, but as a normative part of its life.

No need to have, especially so at corporate worship, any head-wise distinction in dress between men and women.

Those times when I've experienced God speak in silence — both to me and to others — during corporate worship have been immeasurably powerful moments.

There is a chapter on the hindrances to prayer which are other than intellectual, two on procedures in private prayer, and one on corporate worship from the congregational end.

The need for an opportunity to periodically renew basic trust is satisfied by religious groups through corporate worship, symbolic practices, sacraments, and festivals.

But she is a person of good character, loves God and is growing in her ability to lead corporate worship.

There's also something profound and powerful about corporate worship in our me - centered individualistic society.

If corporate worship is replaced by personal worship; if corporate Biblical teaching is replaced by regular personal Bible reading, mediation, and God - craving; and, if church fellowship is replaced by fellowship in general, I believe that one's faith can be strengthened by a stepping away from church — especially stepping away from a spiritually abusive church.

The disciplines of regular corporate worship, participation in Bible study, and prayer have traditionally been considered essential to Protestant spirituality.

The energizing effects of corporate worship become understandable within this world view.

It has been shown that corporate worship contributes to positive mental health to the degree that it helps the individual experience a sense of belonging, personal integration, diminishing of his guilt and narcissism, re-establishment of a sense of trust, worthy self - investment, and strength for handling his problems constructively.

Unfortunately, for many Protestants corporate worship has relatively little meaning.

To meet certain needs beyond this community - wide corporate worship, students and faculty meet in collegia pietatis for Bible study, prayer, discussion, etc..

However, how does corporate worship (which is encouraged in Hebrews 10:19 - 25 among other places) and meeting and teaching take place if not in «the church»?

Even if it were not rooted in the Bible and tradition, a rhythmical sequence in human experience would call for corporate worship at least once a week.

Formation takes time, and time together — faculty members and students getting to know each other, students forming a community, taking part in corporate worship and having time for reflection.

Though no two gatherings are exactly the same, a typical evening might begin with corporate worship and then break up for participants to work their way through a series of interactive stations flanking the worship space.

I find in I Corinthians 11:2 - 16 a series of six arguments listed by the Apostle in his effort to quell a trend toward the eradication of difference in dress at corporate worship.

A liturgically - grounded reading of scripture: «The primary place where the church hears scripture is during corporate worship,» says Wright.

Across the centuries men and women have found a renaissance of trustful feelings — in themselves, in others, in God, and in the future — through corporate worship.

Other religious traditions, generally speaking, with the exception of the Jewish faith which is the background of specifically Christian faith, do not seem to have this necessity of corporate worship as part of their very existence.

Furthermore, Clinton called religious freedom and related liberties «safety valves,» and asserted that when «people have a say over important aspects of their lives,» society can release pent up tension through free speech, assembly, petition, corporate worship, and other civic channels, rather than through violence.

Only when this loosely held notion of unity in diversity is held in tension in a community of love can we tolerate, even with wit and a slightly ironic eye, the idea of corporate worship, communal learning, organized fellowship, and the traditions of the church.

We join together for corporate worship, prayer, fellowship, but not to be controlled.

Those who hear, in the setting of the Church's corporate worship, are summoned to place themselves within the history which is God's revelation, at the point where it culminates in Jesus Christ, and to lay themselves open to the Word of judgement and of renewal which is spoken there to every human being.

This included Youth Alpha, Youth for Christ, Prayer Spaces In Schools and numerous other organisations that assist with religious education or corporate worship.

Nonetheless, I am dismayed by the popular phrase «worship experience» to describe the church's corporate worship.

It is amazing how many clergy got through seminary without any serious reflection on and study of the church's most distinctive activity, its corporate worship.

The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds of God's people as the corporate worship not just of the local but of the whole Body of Christ, the universal Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:

(Wright offers some specific suggestions for preserving a liturgically - grounded reading of scripture — including warnings against dropping certain portions of scripture from liturgical readings because they are startling or strange, as well as warnings against making sermons the focus of corporate worship — that we don't have time to discuss in detail here.)

Corporate worship.

When we refuse to acknowledge His mysterious, transcendental power in our personal and corporate worship, church becomes to a tedious drudgery.