Sentences with phrase «experiencing as a congregation»

I used to cling to those kinds of promises because the pain we were experiencing as a congregation is so intense.

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As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

As they reflected on this finding, Hoge and Wenger «came to believe that the conflicts most often experienced by our participants are ones that could probably be resolved and in the process offer growth experiences for both pastor and congregation.»

I had never experienced nor considered it so much as having borne the pain and sorrow associated with a particular bully in my congregation.

I doubt this, as the more conservative congregations seem to be experiencing the most shrinkage, but maybe you're right.

Efird has a passion for teaching churchpeople, a passion perhaps born from his experience leading a congregation as a teenage college kid.

What the preacher has to do is to make sure the congregation experiences the story as fully as possible — by giving the context of the story.

Fundamental to all barriers is the condition of general ambivalence that all human beings — and specifically, here, preacher and congregation — experience in communication: that is, as human beings, we both want to speak and do not want to, and we both want to hear and are afraid to do so.

As the church community experienced a renaissance, the congregation sought to revive the building as welAs the church community experienced a renaissance, the congregation sought to revive the building as welas well.

If members experience service to others in the congregation as their ministry, it is much easier for them to see that their work in the world is also service to God.

Parents need help in adjusting relationships and family rules as children grow older so they can experience the freedom and the responsibility they need in order to grow up.4 In some congregations, this kind of learning and support occurs in parent - education groups.5

As she worked with the congregation, her roots in the faith grew, as well as her knowledge and experiencAs she worked with the congregation, her roots in the faith grew, as well as her knowledge and experiencas well as her knowledge and experiencas her knowledge and experience.

A group of believers confessed their respective experiences of faith to one another and determined to form a congregation as the Bible commanded.

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

But Romney, who has both led a Mormon congregation as a bishop and a regional group of churches as stake president, will speak to specific practices of his church and his experiences.

The stories are usually about famous people or the enduring stuff of universal experience, but they can not satisfy the congregation's deepest longing, which is to explore its own life before God in as concrete a fashion as possible.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

As early as 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincAs early as 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincas 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincas fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever since.

The Word of God comes alive as a congregation hears the Word in worship and preaching, learns what the Word is about through study, and discovers what the Word means as it is experienced through life in a fellowship of Christians.

The congregation's demonstrated integrity, its fullness and wholeness, present a striking contrast with many experiences elsewhere in the church, Wheeler observes: «experiences often described as cleavages, divides, separations, gaps or even gulfs.»

It also obscures the capacity to realize that some members of every congregation experience family life as a nightmare.

Most importantly, we could also see our lives and congregations begin to bring the good news of that Easter feast to many who have experienced little of God's hope and healing as we race towards the turbulent 2020s

The idea is to help us as congregations carry what we experience on Sundays out into our Monday - through - Saturday lives — to help all of us understand our story as Christians in the context of the stories we encounter in the media every day.

Ammerman reminds congregations that inclusive eating is as important as inclusive worship experiences.

If, as we are maintaining, to become a Christian is to live a life and not merely to have a conversion experience, then the congregation must exemplify that life if it is to be the place where that life is nurtured.

While I was gratified by his request and believed that he genuinely hoped to enrich his congregation's worship experience, I also realized that much education was required if dance was to be taken seriously as a valid and vital liturgical resource.

To participate in the life of a conservative congregation is to experience life as it seemed to be in the post-war period.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouAs Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouas we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

For pastors and churches, this means encouraging loving, open - minded dialogue not only within your congregation, but with other congregations as well... For all of us, productive dialog means reaching out to people whose views and experiences are different from our own and having the patience to really listen to them with a goal of better understanding them and their worldviews.»

As one experienced minister observed: «The church staff that achieves spiritual maturity infects the congregation with its spirit.

That accords with my observations and experience: powerfully descriptive and formative as myth and ethos may be, for congregations that authentically «have character» the future is not preternaturally determined.

The prophet, endowed with this ecstatic character and given access to these sacred mysteries, reports his experiences and interprets their meaning, as far as he is able, to the congregation.

Often employing experimental methods and materials, she describes her work as «based on ideas from memories and experiences that are a congregation of the conscious and unconscious absorbed in daily life.»

Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light, serving MD • DC • NoVA, is committed to serving as a meeting point for congregations undertaking solar projects, and to ensure that each project benefits from the experience and lessons learned of all of those that came before.

In many ways this resume is going to resemble more of a CV resume as it must include doctrinal information as well as experience the individuals has in leading congregations, counseling and other duties specifically related to that of the clergy.