Sentences with phrase «for local congregations»

Sam, it is not a personal preference, it is what God has clearly commanded in his Word as the order for His local congregations on earth.

The key term — ecclesia — was used for the local congregation as well as for the total community of the followers of Christ, his «body,» the church.

Not exact matches

The reason I find that line of reasoning hard to believe is because people don't willingly choose to be ousted from their families, jobs, local congregations, shamed by society in general, hated and even killed for their lifestyle, live a life of denial, etc..

That is, some people feel that since I am a pastor of a local congregation, I should keep my sometimes heterodox and dissenting thoughts to myself, for the two are incompatible to each other.

In the local congregation where women did not ask for and were not allowed legitimate power, there was present this other «behind the scenes» power and its demeaning sexism.

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

The Cambridge Platform insisted that the Church existed in its fullness in each local congregation which selected its own ministers and officers for the church.

The local congregation has to budget three month of clearing up the damage, for every day the group is in - country.

«There are valid as well as nonvalid reasons for not permitting a couple to get married with the blessing of that local congregation of believers,» Land said.

One local Christian pastor, meanwhile, publicly criticized First Presbyterian Church for sharing its space with my congregation, arguing that Muslims worship a different God than Christians.

The city had used local historic preservation laws to prohibit Saint Peter the Apostle Church from renovating its 74 - year - old building for its growing Catholic congregation (CT, April 28, 1997, p. 76).

Restoring the gift of the Evangelist to the life of the local church should be a top priority for every leader that wants to have a missional congregation that impacts their community with the gospel.

«This year - long tour has given me a real understanding of how the innovation and vibrancy displayed by cathedral staff and their congregations is ensuring that these important churches continue to play a crucial role at the heart of local communities now and for centuries to come.»

In regard to local Mennonite congregations, there is the example of Assembly Mennonite Church (Goshen, Indiana), which has proposed a «season of solidarity» with Muslims during Ramadan, in which church members fast, pray for peace and collect blankets to be sent to those suffering in Afghanistan.

The demand for higher standards needs to come from denominations and through the hiring practices of local congregations.

They appointed elders — that is, local pastors to care for each congregation.

One denomination has a program for encouraging local congregations and groups of churches to establish telephone crisis counseling centers.

This concluding statement will suggest some key aspects of such strategies, designed for leaders of local congregations, denominational and ecumenical leaders, those in the mental health field, and seminary teachers and administrators.

It is certainly no minor accomplishment if a local congregation provides the communal support for such a vocation.»

A sense of the deep roots in our tradition of passion for personality wholeness can help the mental health concern catch fire in a local congregation.

See James C. Fenhagen, Mutual Ministry: New Vitality for the Local Church, (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1977) for a fuller development of the concept of mutual ministry among members of a congregation.

They're just going to church with their friends, unaware that their congregation is a model for how to be «post» many things (postevangelical, postliberal, postconservative, postmodern) precisely by sinking its roots deeper into the local, the particular and the church catholic.

Well, Marty tells us, that phrase — which is not found in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights but comes from a letter that Thomas Jefferson sent to a group of Connecticut Baptists — will not be of much help to a congregation that needs to challenge a local zoning ordinance, or to ask the city police force for help in keeping the neighborhood noise level down during Sunday morning worship hours.

Church leaders have not given adequate attention to the local congregation as a vital context for addressing social issues.

Were it to recognize its own structured custom, a congregation might find in other societies, bodies in their own right, a strange consonance, distinct but bonded to that local church in a similarly symbolic toil for community.

A survey of recent studies of the local congregations is the basis for chapter 2 of this book.

It is unscriptural for a woman to be in the position of a pastor / elder (1 Timothy 3:2), it is also unscriptural for a woman to teach scripture to men in the setting of the local congregation (1 Timothy 2:12).

Concerning the lack of vision, this is how it worked for me: When I pastored my last local congregation, we didn't have a vision statement.

We grant permission for any original article (not a book excerpt or adaptation) to be photocopied for use in a local congregation or classroom, provided that no more than 1,000 copies are made, the material is distributed free, and the copies include the notice: «Copyright (year), (author).

Or maybe you could bring in the pastor of a small local congregation to praise him for how he faithfully served God without giving in to the lure of a larger congregation and a larger salary elsewhere.

In literally thousands of local congregations a minister or a lay leader has raised the question of why a disabled member of the congregation has to go elsewhere: «Of course we must make it possible for him [or her] to attend here,» they say, and then they intentionally work at overcoming two kinds of barriers — architectural and attitudinal,

Particularly notable is the region's role in care for seminary students and in the oversight of ordination — responsibilities formerly left to the local congregation.

Even for the «cooperative» Christian Church, missionary and benevolent societies were organized and maintained strictly as adjuncts to the actual church — that is, the local congregations.

«For many if not most of the people I was coming into contact with in local churches, talking about their congregation meant citing statistics of one sort or another, or details of particular programs.»

A consultation convened by the WCC in cooperation with the Innere Mission of East Germany's evangelical churches issued this statement: «We affirm the continuing need for institutions in which the most severely disabled experience help, protection and care, even while at the same time we call for the integration of the disabled and the able - bodied within the local congregation.»

For some, valuing the congregation is an outgrowth of their Christian faith; for others, the congregation is simply the most interesting social institution that they've ever got their hands on; for still others, the local church body is a microcosm of the human conditiFor some, valuing the congregation is an outgrowth of their Christian faith; for others, the congregation is simply the most interesting social institution that they've ever got their hands on; for still others, the local church body is a microcosm of the human conditifor others, the congregation is simply the most interesting social institution that they've ever got their hands on; for still others, the local church body is a microcosm of the human conditifor still others, the local church body is a microcosm of the human condition.

Of the several recent schemes that assess and promote accomplishment in the local church, the church growth movement has best captured mechanist hopes for competent congregations.

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

Some key aspects of such strategies, designed for leaders of local congregations, denominational and ecumenical leaders, those in the mental health field, and seminary teachers and administrators are here presented.

Many consultants and others who study the congregation are listed in Elizabeth Whipple, The Study of the Local Church: A Directory of Participants (Atlanta: Project Team for the Study of the Congregation, Rollins Center for Church Ministries, Emory University, 1983).

Congregational researchers also use contextual, mechanical, organic, and symbolic approaches to assess the local church, because congregations are also dwellings, but for a different kind of household.

In the end students seeking a place for dialogue or service have often found themselves referred to a local congregation that really wanted someone to tend the nursery or sing in the choir.

Another local congregation is presently acting as catalyst for a community services workshop to assist churches and public - service groups in planning how to use electronic media, especially the «public access» channel of the newly formed cable system in the area.

A.E. Medlycott points out that the value of the report of Theophilus is its evidence that by the middle of the fourth century India or its adjacent territories had indigenous, worshipping congregations ministered to by local clergy, with customs such as sitting for the Gospel, that were well adapted to the Indian culture though divergent from accepted western practice.

And to what extent is the local congregation any longer able to serve as a school for the creation of a self - disciplined, independent, public - spirited, in a word, virtuous citizen?

The congregation Valentin led personally, a Pentecostal group 130 strong, was finishing a new building and planning another to house a sponsorship program for around 75 local children.

The local associations appeared to exert the greatest power and threat to congregational autonomy, so the Baptists gradually nullified the power of these groups, and thereby eliminated the most effective instrument for balancing the powers of the state and national conventions in their relations with the congregations.

I remembering my local Mormon congregation fasting for a couple months in a row for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In Worcester, for example, a local congregation provided some of the critical gap - financing for the rehabilitation of two buildings containing 11 apartments with an interest - free, five - year loan for $ 15,000.