Sentences with phrase «focus of worship»

There is no Confucian clergy and no deity that is the focus of worship.

Jesus remains the primary focus of our worship.

It all boils down to the focus of the worship and the ability to keep the self at a safe distance.

The question that remains is the focus of our worship.

If some Westerners find the images of gods off - putting, they may also express surprise at finding that the lingam, the male organ, is the focus of worship in many temples dedicated to Siva, the third god of the Hindu trinity.

Rather, the person and power of Jesus allow us to come boldly to the throne of grace through our prayers, are the focus of our worship, are a model for how we live, are the means by which we face the tragedies and turmoil all about us, and inform our eschatology.

It is certainly easy to make ourselves and our interests the focus of worship — our feelings, experience, needs, even our growth.

Peyote is the focus of the worship service, much as the consecrated bread and wine are the focus of mass and communion.

Most agnostics and atheists were in your shoes, have studied the bible and more importantly the history behind it's composition but at some point most realized that the reason for the current focus of worship was no more valid than worshiping any other god.

Not exact matches

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

As it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's good).

I don't focus on my regrets or failures but on what I've done right, and that includes the family of friends I've made during my 50 years on this planet, not how well I worship God.

It is precisely in the community gathered for worship, and most expressly in the Eucharist, that the Church «puts its faith into action,» «focuses on Christ's teaching,» including the command to «do this» in remembrance of him, and offers its chief service (Greek: leitourgia) to God and to the world.

One such group has focused its attention on worship seeking the deepening of the church's life through liturgical renewal.

The article said that Focus on the Family described its 600 employees as «ministers» and its cafeteria, which is apparently sometimes used for worship, as a «place of worship.»

If praise extols the excellence of another, and if praise is the heart of Christian worship, then worship is secularized when the focus shifts from the character of God to the enhancement of ourselves, when theocentrism is replaced by anthropocentrism, however much talk of God remains.

Lots of Pagans I know worship Eastern Gods, and use Native American Ritual Techniques, but if they wanted to focus exclusively on those things they would join a Shinto Temple or petition the Lakota tribe for membership.

Every summer since 1992, Icthus has met at Ashburnham to get away from life's distractions and focus on a time of worship, Bible study and fellowship.

Preoccupied with abstract theories about the proper role of liturgy in the Church's life, the reformers focused on the rationale behind forms of worship and devotion not on their latent vitality and potency.

Since Tillich's preaching was so incomparable, I felt that no form of worship that focused on the sermon was going to be satisfactory to me.

(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.)

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

I don't know what his problems and difficulties might be, but whatever they are, he knows that when he is in the presence of God, when he is worshiping God, when he is focused on God, he is like that bird, without a care in the world.

What they do, how they live, who they love, who they worship or don't, what they teach their children is none of your business unless you are paying their way and given that you're not, you might wish to learn to focus on your own life and not that of others.

To become a church in mission St. Andrew had to let go of clericalism and convert the members into ministers; let go of the myth of size and develop a vision of what a small church can do; move beyond «coffee fellowship» in its conception of worship and food; and leave behind traditional notions of church in order to focus on the congregation's mission on the margins.

While many quickly growing churches deal with growth by starting new ministries to handle the influx of new members, Warehouse 242 leaders decided to focus on doing three things well: small groups, the Sunday worship service and community outreach.

For much of its history, the church focused on tasteful worship and good works.

Much of Christianity today is focused on the structure of leadership, how to worship, the format of services, and so on.

Although the madness currently seizing Sudan and Algeria is not the focus of her book, one concludes Ye'or's brilliant monograph realizing how fragile the recognition of human rights can be and how long the road will be before all the globe admits what Vatican II taught: that the right to worship God according to one's conscience is an essential component to what it means to be a human being created by this same God» whom we all worship, however unawares.

As Christians who worship a crucified and risen Lord, we, of all people should know that failure too can be gift, a refining fire, a creative catalyst, a way to focus on what really matters and to identify with Jesus.

In 1979, Christopher Monckton, then Editor of the Universe, focussed the complaints ofmany of us in his widely influential paper for the Association of English Worship, published in this magazine (Dec 1979) as «Caught in the Act.

a very thin skinned religious person who basically focuses all of his energy on worshiping on himself... What do you call it when the President disregards the definition of radical islamic muslims... wolf in sheep clothing... The bigger issue at hand is the economy, job creation, national debt, and maintaining a good middle class... all of which over the last 4 years has been failing..

The function of worship is to make us more sensitive to these depths; to focus, sharpen and deepen our response to the world and to other people beyond the point of proximate concern (of liking, self - interest, limited commitment, etc.) to that of ultimate concern; to purify and correct our loves in the light of Christ's love; and in him to find the grace and power to be the reconciled and reconciling community.

The music and Scripture should focus our attention on the character and holiness of God and be a reminder of the reason we worship Him at all.

That is our focus in the time ahead of us, as we consider the topics of Scripture, community, worship and discipleship.

Be it through creative prayer or singing a new worship song, the focus ought to be on the arrival of our promised King.

Darren had the girls by himself at church and his primary focus ontop of everything else was leading worship!!

«Up hearts,» or «Lift up your hearts,» is the moment when we put away every other thought so as to focus all our energy on the one and most important act of any given day: the worship of God through our participation in the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ renewed on our altars.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

What Hunter is describing is precisely a shift from worship to politics as the chief focus of the Church's life and mission.

If you do pick and choose, you should worship me, because I'll make millions of claims and when some of them come true, people like you will ignore all the times I was wrong and focus in on when I was right.

By focusing on the subject — the ontological identity of the object we worship and the names we use to set it apart — we enter into an area of common understanding and broad consensus.

The FACT data show that contemporary worship is more strongly associated with membership growth than with what Dean Kelley called «strictness,» or with the outward focus of mission - minded congregations, or even with shifts in population.

Many ancient religions were focused around the worship of the sun, moon, and stars.

However, in the worship of the Church, the focus is on the worship of Christ, not country.

The very medium of conferences conveys a message louder than anything spoken from the stage, and I hear a sermon about our values and our focus, our materialism and worship, our energy and our dreams.

The Holy Communion is the central focus of Christian prayer and worship; it is the Liturgy, all other services being ancillary to it.

The search for musical roots goes on in many ways, but in the hymnals and worship books — the basic resources of the church musician — one sees the process focused more clearly than in any other endeavor.

For instance, prior to the start of a service, projecting scripture verses or art appropriate to the day's themes may help to settle and center worshipers, discouraging the chatter and fidgeting that often persist up to the start of the service, and encouraging the whole community's focus on the worship to come.

A more promising line of thought is Mouw's focus on the actual practice of worship and the religious life in general among Latter - day Saints.