Sentences with phrase «diverse congregations»

«Is racial integration more likely in diverse smaller congregations than in diverse congregations of thousands?»

«There's a real sense of conflating Trump with evangelicals,» which doesn't go over well in liberal Vancouver, said Ken Shigematsu, pastor of Tenth Church, one of the largest and most diverse congregations in Canada.

And it would be good for preachers to keep that in mind when addressing age - diverse congregations.

Simply having diverse congregations without addressing the weightier matters of social justice and structural racism is not better church practice.

Investment crowdfunding will speak to highly diverse congregations of motivations, from philanthropic to profit, and a thousand shades of color in between.

Not to be outdone, my current pastor (who is white, by the way, but pastors a very diverse congregation) recently did a cooking demo onstage and had a few of the thousand people in the sanctuary come up to get their piece of the hero sandwich he'd constructed.

I have been to many churches in many different countries I have seen many diverse congregation abroad and in the US.

Cymbala's ministry at the church has attracted a diverse congregation.

It's a unique culture where chaplains of various beliefs serve alongside one another counseling and caring for an equally diverse congregation of armed service members.

About Site - St. George Greek Orthodox Church is a diverse congregation of believers worshiping Jesus Christ, serving each other, and reaching out to the Albuquerque community.

«California Typewriter makes a compelling case for typewriters by talking to its diverse congregation.»

About Blog St. George Greek Orthodox Church is a diverse congregation of believers worshiping Jesus Christ, serving each other, and reaching out to the Albuquerque community.

From our location in the heart of Grand Rapids, we attract a diverse congregation from all parts of the city.

From our location in the heart of Grand Rapids, we attract a diverse congregation from all parts of the city.

Not exact matches

Standing in front of his congregation at Ecclesia Church, a congregation he admits is different - more diverse, more urban - than many evangelical churches - Chris Seay encouraged them to do so something he said combines the ideas of sacrifice and devotion that mark the Lenten season, the 40 - day lead up to Easter.

In no congregation studied so far are world views of members so diverse that one could consider that church a mere aggregate of miscellaneous believers.

Reality Community Church is a diverse Converge congregation (a mix of Latino, Anglo, African - American, and Asian, with no designation at more than 35 %).

«Praying congregations are lively places made up of diverse people who are longing to take prayer seriously.»

What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.

A way to make this point is to exploit two metaphors: We could think of questions about the communal identities and common life of diverse Christian congregations as the lens through which inquiry about all the various subject matters studied in a theological school could be focused and unified.

But, over the years, the congregation did, in fact, become more diverse, and by the time I had been there for 12 years, there were maybe 50 gay and lesbian persons, there were about 30 Hispanic individuals, there were a number of African Americans and African natives, and there was other diversity as well; and we talked a lot about how pleased we were that this was all happening.

His ability to relate to people of diverse conditions became apparent here in this congregation of small businessmen whose religious and cultural advancements had been small.

My own congregation, like other UU congregations, is made up of diverse people with a wide range of beliefs — Christian, Pagan, Humanist, Atheist, Agnostic, Buddhist, Jewish, etc...

Silverton Friends Church, for instance, (where my co-author John Pattison is a member) gathered a diverse group of its members and spent most of the past school year reading about the LGBT community and discussing how they would respond together to tensions about sexuality in their congregation and their denomination.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

Within a diverse and loosely associated «brotherhood» they have borne witness to their local congregations as whole and autonomous manifestations of the church.

Having refined the characterization in this way and made it the property of diverse representatives of the parish, the larger group then was able to portray and dramatize the story to the congregation as a whole.

In their diverse ways, all construals of the norms to which a congregation holds itself accountable tie worship of God to a commitment to truthfulness.

Among the structures of the church, only the congregation persistently addresses the diverse personal goals of its members.

Setting the stage for international producers to foray into the increasingly affluent Southeast Asian market, ProWine Asia 2018 - the largest trade fair of its kind in the region, will feature a wide congregation of international wine and spirit labels and an extensive scope of solutions and concepts tailored for the region's diverse consumer markets.

You are not being objective comparing a cattle rancher who only dealt with mute animals, with a former university professor cum pastor who dealt with congregations of students and worshippers... Osinbajo has been solving people - related problems all his life, he knows what to say to diverse folks with divergent points of views.

Research also has shown that even when congregations become more diverse, there is a greater turnover rate among members of smaller racial groups.

But until the people in the congregation embrace that, things are not going to change... And the burden of making a congregation diverse always falls more heavily on members of the smaller racial groups than on those who say «Come join us.»»

Interfaith Power & Light is an organization helping thousands of diverse religious congregations limit their carbon emissions and organize campaigns to urge lawmakers to take action on climate change.

Takoma Park, MD About Blog We are a Christ Centered Seventh - day Adventist congregation with a beautifully diverse group of kind and loving Christians.