Sentences with phrase «for smaller churches»

The law would in effect make it illegal for smaller churches to meet in homes or other buildings.

This year, the FIEC is launching a Church Revitalisation Initiative for its smaller churches and hopes that in time it might become the go - to for other small churches seeking revitalisation.

But this growth and the change that has resulted from large numbers of refugees converting to Christianity can present challenges for smaller churches.

This number is within ballpark range for small churches and mega churches.

It's totally possible for a small church with limited resources to produce an excellent worship experience in multiple locations.

That does make it difficult for small churches to support a pastor at a rate commiserate with his congregation's income.

So the higher ups are going to go for a smaller church and then get bigger.

Small church: what to read Celebrating the Small Church Martin Robinson and Dan Yarnell (Monarch) A Toolbox for Small Churches Hilary Taylor (Thankful Books) Small Church, Big Vision Lynn Green and Chris Forster (Zondervan) Being Church, Doing Life: Creating Gospel Communities Where Life Happens Michael Moynagh (Monarch)

It's all about the tax - free goodies, even for a small church.

After reading about Pie Day on your blog, we organized a celebration for our small church.

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I was going to mock these, but, in truth, for a small congregation, where somebody's personal car has to double as the church car, these could be useful.

(1) Churches on base of all religions are funded by the government... yes, your tax dollars are paying for me to be able to enjoy whichever religious service of the 10 denominations that my small base has (not Fort Bragg)... and if I want to be Christian one day, switch to Muslim another, or Jewish another then your tax dollars are still going to pay for me to have freedom of choosing my religion on base.

Mega churches are nothing but a sea of nameless faces, except for the small few who decide to or can spare the time to get involved in the running of the church.

The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) as members of a small Kansas church that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand prochurch that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand proChurch during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

But he does not forget (except for the Seventh - day Adventists) the churches and temples of smaller and more marginal religious communities, buildings typically overlooked in standard surveys of American architecture.

If the Zhejiang authorities think there is a safety concern to have an oversized cross, it only needs to order the church to change for a smaller one.

Authorities have previously said they have taken down church crosses because of «health and safety» concerns, but Most Revd Kwong has said if this really was the case, it would allow churches to replace the crosses for smaller equivalents, rather than forcefully remove them permanently.

I went to a small town in the midwest to work for a non-profit thinking it'd be like chicken - soup - for the soul... INSTEAD it was a fundamentalist nightmare... it was NOT just small town mindedness... I could hardly find a church with out people wondering — why is this attractive woman in her early 30's unwed (or at least divorced with 3 kids) people were cold and unfathomable judgmental and sometimes downright hostile eager to quote scriptures seemingly un-lead by the Holy Spirit.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

But, if a small or large church is not welcoming, no matter how much they say there a there for the community, it's not welcoming if the people don't care that you are there.

He kept criticizing and attacking me for my church attendance and how I didn't attend small group.

The Lutheran groups most likely to identify as evangelical are small and functionally free - church (the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ).

Our love of the past conflicts often with your plans for the future; our love of order does not show up on abstract statistics; our tendency to look to each other for affection and support stands against a minister's wish to obtain emotional support away from the small church.

Small group Christians free yourselves from the burden (and some instances tyranny) of the institutional churches and go forth into the world and do what God always intended for us to do........

I share my talents generously to my church, and have never requested any payment for them, I pledge as much as my limited finances will allow, and spend much time at my church, instituting new worship programs (as my priest requested), and yet I am constantly criticized for the smallest «infraction» by this same person.

For all churches, large or small, my exhortation is to think biblically about how the church might make much of Jesus, multiply and grow disciples, and, ultimately, die and be forgotten.

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

When God does show up in the ways these small churches expect, we'll know it is definitely God, for they can not accomplish these things by their own power.

A small group of California churches has pledged to stop calling the police for help in emergencies, saying they'll utilize a «more community - based» crime fighting system.

SmallGroups.com offers a diverse set of adaptable training tools for small group models that can be customized to a church's unique needs.

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I began to attend a small Episcopal church in San Antonio on my lunch breaks, for Eucharist, and fell head over heels in love with it, right down to the smell of waxed wood and candles.

I guess I'm also trying to account for how similar patterns get played out on a much, much smaller scale in local churches the world over.

The technically nonpartisan nature of the Church's religious liberty campaign was further drowned out by a small chorus of strident bishops who left no doubt about how Catholics ought to vote for president.

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This was a full year for our family: Haiti, book writing, book deals, finishing seminary, working, three small tinies, church, family, friends, life, change, home making, blogging, working, all of it.

Finally, all agreed that the best forms of ecumenism, for the foreseeable future at least, should be local and ad hoc, involving such small but powerful gestures as learning to pray with and for local Catholic and Orthodox churches.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Sunday morning, a weeknight for small group, regular service on a ministry team, occasional church projects and retreats... Add the expectation to be friends and find community with other church members beyond the organized settings, and I have little time left for my neighbors.

And after the farmer there came small villages, the need for churches and schools.

To the extent you treat your church like a business, behave less like a major corporation and more like a networking group for small start - ups.

He is noted for his work in the field of Biblical translation, and in particular for two books: Letters to Young Churches and Your God is Too Small.

It struck me on reading this how woefully lacking in Britain are proper support and encouragement for those Catholics / Christians who carry this cross, desiring to be faithful to Christ, notwithstanding small groups such as Encourage, which receive negligible financial and public support from the Church.

370 is not a large number for a European conference, with over 50 from Oasis Church itself, but the group is perhaps like the Toronto church itself - in being small but bringing large blessings to many other chuChurch itself, but the group is perhaps like the Toronto church itself - in being small but bringing large blessings to many other chuchurch itself - in being small but bringing large blessings to many other churches.

Their new home, in the Catholic Church, was a small 1960's concrete dual use hall / chapel with a tiny altar (on wheels), a pool table stored in the confessional and a defunct freezer in the sacristy used for laying out the vestments.

For Megas, sure, but most churches are small neighborhood churches with modest budgets.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

What this means for us is prayer in solitude, prayer in the family or in a small group of friends, prayer at church.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.