Sentences with phrase «form of worship»

The relationship between contemporary forms of worship and membership growth is as strong for older congregations that changed their worship patterns as for new congregations that have used contemporary forms from the beginning.

It typically shares with other religions the belief that every other form of worship is false.

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, no one form of worship appeals to all.

The deity worship is the greatest form of worship.

Funny, I don't see any independent forms of worship coming out of this whole «relationship» movement.

Too often church feels foreign to those outside it because of cultural forms of worship.

It uncovers different forms of worship in the denominations of Christianity and is aimed to shed context on the expression of religious identity in Christianity.

According to Eisenstein, it was printing, not Protestantism, that finally outmoded Roman Catholic use of the Vulgate Bible, and it was printing, not Protestantism, that set in motion the more democratic and national forms of worship which undermined much of the Roman Catholic church's control throughout Europe.

But, we must not extend that to minor theologies, such as forms of worship.

But the act of preaching, if it is to contribute to the development of new forms of worship and witness, must itself be open to the possibilities of change, just as an instructor can not hope to be a teacher unless he himself is open to being a learner.

Edith also knows that the pastor is bringing a copy of the new denominational hymnal to the meeting because she believes that it «dresses up» the traditional forms of worship with new «inclusive» language and hymn selection.

Some believe that Catholics and Episcopalians make an idol of a liturgical form of worship.

Doubt it not a part of our paradigm; thus, when somebody begins to doubt aspects of Christianity, it's frowned upon, whereas in some Christian traditions — especially Orthodox and in some cases Catholicism — doubt is an accepted form of worship.

Rather, we can look at what happens in any particular congregation and propose ways for working toward more just forms of worship.

Here the prophet inveighs against pagan forms of worship practiced in Jerusalem — another characteristic expression of classical prophetism.

Furthermore, they did not feel that the Prayer Book was the only or highest form of worship.

For instance, many Muslim immigrants from the Middle East, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan will not do yoga (or ban it altogether as in the case of Malaysia) because it is perceived to be a Hindu form of worship when it doesn't have to be.

And, it is the only form of worship that is solely done for the pleasure of God.

And those values are interpreted broadly, not specifically (a great example is our commitment to culturally relevant forms of worship — i.e. popular music styles, which vary regionally, are part of how we organize our worship.)

The other concession was accepting as orthodox Bhagavat monotheism with its bhakti - oriented form of worship and ethic (12:495).

There is no doubt that it has helped many Wesleyan communities to develop or recover forms of worship that mean much more to the participants.

According to this model, an enlightened Christian religion — conceived of as essentially moral and involving state - supported forms of worship — guarantees a moral consensus and a broad religious foundation to which the single non-state religions must conform.

The third form of worship is the religious tax, zakat.

Furthermore, if the magistrates had no power to enforce forms of worship and to prevent insidious beliefs from arising, how then could a holy commonwealth, pleasing to God, be established?

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.

What they have practiced, however, is a very expressive form of worship that includes shouting and crying, dancing and shaking, speaking in tongues.

If there was legitimacy within this «religion» then Obama would not be hiding his true form of worship.

In spite of the prominent role played by the primordial world - view in the worship of the Pulayas, their assimilation into higher sanskritic forms of worship was also evident.

The sects which have stressed the doctrine of the Spirit as a release for ecstatic forms of worship may rightly rebuke a staid and too decorous Christianity in which the springs of religious feeling remain untapped.

Not until the 20th century did we rediscover the sources (such as Hippolytus» Apostolic Tradition) that allow us to reclaim some of these lost forms of worship.

Although the American Christian may seem to have many choices in selecting a church, only three basic forms of worship are actually available to him or her.

The FACT data show that new and so - called blended forms of worship have now made it to the east coast and even into some oldline churches.

It is a beautiful form of worship.

I have also notice that some African Catholic theologians are calling for liturgical pauses that allow distinctive African forms of worship, which are more demonstrative and include dancing, to become part of the worship experience.

From Abraham to Jesus we see awareness of the hope in a promise (not a physical thing) that was echoed in the earliest forms of worship.

It is abundantly clear from the history of the Christian movement that actual enactments of the practice of the worship of God in Jesus» name are constantly assimilated to one or more of these alternative social forms of worship.

There are many in the church, like Mary Needham, who simply want to cling to old rituals, old formulations of truth and belief, and old forms of worship and witness that have hardened into the rigid framework of custom.

The system of parochial worship characteristic of these three religions has one common tradition, inasmuch as the Christian form of worship arose out of the Judaic and the Islamic arose out of both.

(Apology i. 46) Thus Origen, who not only held the view that God had sent prophets to all peoples in all times but also admonished his fellow Christians to respect heathen forms of worship and sacred images.