Sentences with phrase «different congregations»

The scores of different congregations that used this version are reported in the next section.

Discussions of sexual ethics are a response to particular situations in different congregations.

What comes to fruition is not just a truth but the truth for this community.13 A sermon so understood would not be the same for different congregations.

If the leader is charismatic enough and can take all the hits, the church can come out of what otherwise would be a nosedive, but it will be a substantially different congregation.

New research from Premier Youthwork magazine has found that thousands are choosing to worship with different congregations or are making extra effort to...

With many gods and great tolerance of idiosyncratic local practices, the new religion will be highly adaptable to the needs of different congregations without losing its unifying identity.

Should we strive to revise our denominational polity so that different practices are allowed in different congregations and conferences?

And we have to do all this in a comparative mode, contrasting this congregation's construal of the Christian thing with other, very different congregations» construals.

The differing Anglican Eucharistic theologies have become institutionalised in the Book of Common Worship which provides a variety of Eucharistic Prayers to meet the differing theological beliefs of different congregations.

It is possible to demonstrate, using the results of the world view test instrument, the way that different congregations, even apparently inclusive mainline ones, have distinctive world views.

Different congregations would face different ways.

In my survey of 1,275 AG adherents from 16 different congregations, only 30 percent were raised in the Assemblies; an additional 10 percent were converts from other Pentecostal sects.

According to this story in the LA Times, each hour - long episode of the show — which will debut in 2014 — will «visit a different congregation at churches across the U.S. in order to find the perfect romantic partner for a preselected single person» (a person, who, presumably, has not kissed dating goodbye).

For instance, Roy Steinhoff Smith, professor of pastoral care at Phillips Graduate Seminary in Oklahoma, requires students to work together in small groups in his introductory courses to evaluate their different congregations as «caring communities.»

It seems the emphasis on the poor mentioned earlier could just be a vision some people didn't fit well with, and it is okay for them to seek a different congregation whose vision fits their own life better, or that this emphasis on the poor was just a bad vision for a congregation... neither makes vision, in general, bad for a congregation.

Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.

Dozens of actions, easily adaptable to different congregations.