Sentences with phrase «functions as a community»

We value gracious flexibility, not only in terms of how we think, believe and live, but also in how we function as a community.

I've seen some pretty screwed up things happen in our community, yet the community still functions as community despite no one establishing group ground rules.

What does it mean to say that the church functions as a community of memory, especially at a time when so many of its actual historic links are being weakened?

In the second place, as one community agency among many, the school also serves the ultimate social objectives indirectly, insofar as its immediate concern is to teach men who will be able to guide and carry on the activities of other agencies; so it functions as a community of teachers.

Function as a community mental health leavener.

He is not to be a king giving orders without consultation, nor a hired man performing only such functions as the community votes.

It continued to function as a community for Nintendo Online for almost a year before a more permanent home was secured in the form of The Joypads.

What's more, SoFi functions as a community for its members.

This page is meant to function as a community hub for those that love the Funk Zone.

The stadium's design will also enable it to function as a community resource and civic meeting point, with the exterior and end - zone plazas serving as key gathering and entertainment spaces.

Siqueiros — one of the «Big Three» of Mexican muralism along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco — believed mural art should function as a community service, but it was through his easel painting that he evolved his extensive variety of techniques and styles; it was also at the easel that he experimented with new tools and materials, and with radical works such as these.

In its function as a Community Partner, CCBC will play a primary role in meeting the physical, behavioral and long term care needs of members, including individuals with disabilities, mental illness, substance misuse disorders and co-occurring disorders.

Not exact matches

The CEO reminded the international community of one very basic lesson: in today's global market, effective communication functions as the starting point for successful business growth.

They are mounted in a dummy head, inset in ear - shaped molds to fully capture all the audio frequency adjustments — known in the psychoacoustic research community as head - related transfer functions (HRTFs)-- that happen naturally as sound wraps around the human head and is «shaped» by the outer and inner ears.

As one of the few remaining, functioning businesses, Smith could supply desperately needed services to his community, including care to the dozens of cats, dogs, goats, horses and other animals in the community that suffered from burns and smoke inhalation.

Many dead retail spaces, Williamson says, will most likely morph into businesses that have community functions, such as apartments, public libraries, indoor farms, and refrigerated spaces for processing food for local restaurants or grocery stores.

They believe UTXO has much more in scalability terms for business functions by having limiting information and «Proof of Consensus» model, and they wanted to build something that could act as the ether for those who were hard at work mining in the bitcoin UTXO community.

As Tufekci writes, Facebook is a surveillance engine — that's the core of its business and the sale of that surveillance to bidders is the way that it functions to connect its «community.»

Immediately following Sandy, our Regional and Community Outreach function reached out to all of the affected communities as part of a needs assessment.

I have had to function as an individual rather than being a part of a community that will take care of me when I need help.»

And whilst I understand concerns surrounding institutionalisation of the church we can't get away from the fact for a community to function effectively requires structure, strategy and systems as well as values and vision to carry out its purpose's.

The authors judge, correctly I reckon, that however individualistic conservatives» political and theological ideology may be, their churches are apt to function more like authentic communities — close - knit groups, commitment to which is viewed by their members not as optional but as integral to individual identity.

They too insisted on a thorough education for the minister, whose task it was to function in a community as a teacher as well as a pastor.

It also underestimates the degree to which various religious communities can themselves function as subcultures, complete with expectations, economies, peer pressure, blacklists, marginalization, and spoken and unspoken rules.

Some of these pioneers in changing the church find that the best way to function as the Body of Christ is to leave the institutional church behind, and live and love like Jesus with other people in their community and their neighborhood.

And as urban neighborhoods disintegrate, the least skilled members of our society find themselves alone, deprived of a functioning community within which they can find safety, self - respect, and the challenges that are prerequisites for self - fulfillment and happiness.

This does not mean, of course, that other staff people are not involved, but it does mean that the staff clergyman can help to integrate and focus the information so that the community clergyman is functioning as an effective clergyman and not as a clergyman with some mental health information.

Also, the church can function as one of the finest stabilizing forces for senior citizens, providing a sense of purpose and significance to their lives and incorporating them meaningfully and creatively into the religious group life of the church and community.

This means that the lections, though similar in function to preaching, also have a distinctive role as the written record of the community of faith's common memories.

[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.

Even if we were certain of the original meaning of the root underlying the Hebrew noun we could hardly take this as conclusive evidence of the basic understanding of the Old Testament prophet in the middle centuries of the first millenium B.C. Rather, we will have to understand the sense of the term nabi» from the person of the prophet himself as he appears and functions in the community of ancient Israel.

Consultation may become a primary function of the entire mental health center staff as more is learned about how to use the resources of community caretakers more effectively.

perform a significant community service by functioning in part as a referral agency.

There would, accordingly, be various units of process in the universe with the larger units generally incorporating the smaller units within themselves, But each unit, from the smallest (a given actual entity) to the largest (the divine community) would be structured the same way, i.e., as a self - sustaining unity in totality of functioning parts or members.

In this light, the Holiness Code functions to establish Israel itself as a holy entity, as a community different in certain ways from other peoples.

Others will conclude that families in their community seek and need programs with a Christian emphasis, as well as with educational and custodial functions.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

As well as providing a venue for Christian worship, the hub will also provide a place of learning and well - being, and be available for hire for, among other activities, community development programmes, children's theatre, art exhibitions, business functions and interfaith celebrationAs well as providing a venue for Christian worship, the hub will also provide a place of learning and well - being, and be available for hire for, among other activities, community development programmes, children's theatre, art exhibitions, business functions and interfaith celebrationas providing a venue for Christian worship, the hub will also provide a place of learning and well - being, and be available for hire for, among other activities, community development programmes, children's theatre, art exhibitions, business functions and interfaith celebrations.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

His first function is that of building or «edifying» the church; he is concerned in everything that he does to bring into being a people of God who as a Church will serve the purpose of the Church in the local community and the world.

Whereas primitive and archaic cultures required little specialization of functions and little work beyond that required to provide food, clothing, and shelter, civilization required a high degree of specialization and a great amount of disciplined labor directed to providing wealth for the community as a whole and for a small class within it.

The deacons had hands laid on them by the apostles (Acts 6:6), and it is probable that the elders were similarly appointed by the apostles with the consent of the Christian community as a whole; their functions included the control of finance (Acts11: 30) and must also have involved the arrangement of worship.

«God» can function as a rallying cry of one religious community against others or as a call to be concerned for all communities and all creatures.

Just which members are so bound will depend upon variables specific to particular communities — such things as the authority structures in place, or the function of representative intellectuals.

It would be that the people of God from long ago understood (in God's great purpose) «function in being» far better than we; that men & women (and children) participate extensively with community life in Christ, doing so with some understood, intrinsic variation / rolls — Not because they must, but rather because doing so continues as God's ideal for His children.

Second, I learned that I did not function as the primary expression of the gospel in an African community.

There are good reasons to be hopeful that the church can function better than in the past as a community for the moral education of persons.

This is hardly a utopian idea, because the local church already functions as such a community.

But the vision of a more humanizing community can become a reality only as these institutions function more fully as human growth and development centers!

marks the apex of new voluntary spiritual communities that have increasingly taken over the functions of family, extended family, and neighborhood, as well as the social functions of the church and workplace» (pp. 162 - 163).