Sentences with phrase «gather as a community»

An integral part of the infallibility and inerrancy of the Word of God is the way it calls us and leads us and teaches us to be the family of God — living here and now as children of a God of unrestrained love and unconditional grace gathered as a community of justice and compassion who are living lives of generosity, hospitality, and service.

It works for the Amish, it works on a number of communes around the country and world where people gather as a community and work toward a common survival and existance.

The Sattva Summit is a boutique conscious gathering, offering the opportunity for Yogis from across the globe to gather as a community, for a week of deep healing, expansion and reasonless joy at The Sattva Retreat, a luxurious sanctuary nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Twice a day we gathered as a community to receive teachings, and the rest of the day — apart from the 3 meals that were kindly prepared for us — we engaged in our own meditation practice in our rooms.

«The Morning Sing allows us to gather as a community and share many wonderful experiences,» Jenn Simanski, a third - grade teacher at Lake Street School in Spencer, Massachusetts, told Education World.

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Instead, the stores act as community gathering places; customers are as likely to be drawn in by the barbershop in the Toronto location or the photography exhibits in the Halifax store as they are by a desire to buy clothes.

CenterCal's team begins by creating a place where community members can gather — somewhere people don't feel as if they have to spend money.

Since most food courts have a lot of natural light, they could be used as gathering spaces for community groups or daycare centers if they closed down, Williamson says.

As global leaders gather in Paris - a different Paris now - for epic climate talks this week, the US business community is divided.

These locations have been given the special designation as a place of welcoming and support for military communities around the country, serving as an important gathering place to reconnect veterans with their communities, support successful transitions and create career opportunities.

In addition to creating jobs, serving as a community gathering place, and delivering a fantastic retail experience in the community, this store will be the first to offer a dedicated onsite training space where local youth can sign up for retail skills training courses provided in partnership by two local nonprofits.

Surrounded by several affordable housing complexes, Downey serves as a central gathering place for the surrounding community, offering an afterschool program with the Harrisburg Boys & Girls Club and a health clinic in partnership with the Hamilton Health Center.

During the coworking phase, PIE served as a hub for community, regularly hosting gatherings, hackathons, and educational meet ups.

Menchie's frozen yogurt franchise is a great community gathering place as well as a good spot for a guilt - free treat Every neighborhood needs the perfect hangout, a family - friendly place to treat the kids while rewarding the grown - ups, too.

Last month, Amazon made waves across the auto industry when it said it would look to the car portal business, Enter Amazon Vehicles, which the company defines as a «car research destination and automotive community,» where car enthusiasts and the automotively curious can gather to swap reviews, photos and basically kibitz.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats stood up for residents of coastal communities Tuesday as several hundred British Columbians gathered at the legislature to protest the B.C. Liberals» reckless cuts to ferry services.

From the colorful website one gathers that ThinkKora is a space where a connected community that seeks and finds knowledge and inspiration, as well as a space where you will find support for you to grow and scale.

The gala — which took place in MacEwan Hall — glittered and buzzed with a celebratory vibe as 330 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community supporters gathered to celebrate the business school.

These DAO's — or online creation communities as they're sometimes called — are powered by a concert of voluntary participants who contribute their energy and resources to an open - source project, either by gathering information, delivering code proposals or simply using an open - source technology.

«Then, can free people gather in such a way as to respect one anotherâ $ ™ s freedom and not impair it, but to give it the opportunity for fullest expression in the context of community?»

It is the supreme expression of «faith in action,» as is Christ's presence with the gathered community the source of all other faithful actions.

Maturity comes as we learn the hegemonic skills by which communities are build up, by which one and one become a pair, pairs become families, families are gathered into a gens, the gentes become a state, the states a united nations of the Earth, the worlds a galactic federation.

As they do this, they naturally gather with others who also want to love Jesus in a tangible way in the community.

I am passionate about how people can find and follow their own spiritual path with courage and joy, as well as in how people can freely gather and form community in healthy ways.I help people deconstruct without the self - destruct.

So while the «church» as it is today did not begin until Acts 2, we can say that throughout the history of God's people, there have been local gatherings of believers to accomplish God's will in their lives and communities.

I was trying to give what I perceive an internal script would be like for what I gather the overall storyline was in how the spiritual / legal marriage issues went down, as best I could track them, and how LGBT communities were brought into it.

Having said this, however, we must also notice what ought in any event to have been obvious: that the several gospels are collections of brief tales, remembered incidents, bits of sayings, and the like, all gathered together in the interest of giving what St. Mark's opening words so well describe: «the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God» — the account of the historical happenings, as the Christian community remembered them, which gave rise to the faith that Jesus is the promised Messiah and the divine Lord.

In contrast Jesus took away the power and riches motivation as he spoke against hierarchical leadership withing the community he is building, against giving titles to anyone, and against using the place were people gather together for monetary gain.

Peter and the early Christian community believed that the church was a paroikia (the root behind the words «parish» and «parochial»), a community of aliens gathered to commemorate the death of one who died outside the gate, one who died as an illegal.

However, we do know that Bart Campolo is now serving as a Humanist chaplain and speaking at Secular Student Alliance conferences designed to gather a «community of atheists, agnostics, and nonbelievers.»

On Sunday and Monday nights, the community gathers to cook and share a sacred meal, just as the first followers of Jesus did.

For there a concrete community is gathered round the altar, there the death and resurrection of the Lord are announced in his gospel, there the congregation knows itself to be united as the body of Christ and thus as a brotherly community of those who love one another.

The gospel, however, describes the Christian community as a gathering of persons, each one of whom is particularly gifted by the grace of God, and it defines the church as the place where these individual gifts are to be discovered and expressed.

Evangelism offices and commissions gather and affirm the various groups that identify themselves under their broad banner; they sponsor workshops on church growth, offering helpful techniques for how to make church life more inclusive, how to bring back those who drift away, how to incorporate new members more quickly, how to set up and carry out community - building activities such as lay visitation.

Sometimes, when they outgrew homes, they met other gathering places, such as community educational centers (Acts 19:9).

The public worship of the Christian community gathers up the liturgy of the human city, what Teilhard de Chardin called the «Mass on the World,» the «Hymn of the Universe,» and what Karl Rahner spoke of as the «Liturgy of the World.»

In such a summoned, gathered, confessional community «not only is Christ present among them, but a Christian church is there as well.»

In light of that pivotal text, Volf understands the church as «a community of grace» which gathers in Christ's name in a particular locality.

«Church» as a community gathering in a building, Sunday after Sunday, doing good within its own community, (with an occasional bonus mission trip) living as a private culture in itself.

Doty and other epistolary theorists agree that the letters were written by an author who was conscious of his responsibility as an apostle in the congregation and thus fully intended such letters to be read aloud to the gathered community.

That in turn has allowed a glimpse into the earliest phases of the Jesus movement, including its transition from a community gathered around the wisdom of Jesus to a sect that looked for his return as an apocalyptic messiah.

Are they not at least the gathered community which the Mass «holds,» directs, and reconstitutes — and, so being, the co-authors and co-readers of Jimmie's story as a lost - and - found sinner?

But because the homogenizing worldview of liberal individualism exalts individual autonomy over all standards outside the will, adherents regard with suspicion all communities based on non-individualist assumptions, especially those such as marriage, family, and even the gathered church which are not obviously reducible to private contract.

He doesn't waffle in the «bishopese» favoured by other prelates (eg, «today we cherish our gathered - ness as a community»).

Here, perhaps due more than to any other single factor, to the doctrine set forth in their scriptures, of the «Gathering of the Saints,» they tended to draw together into a compact social body, building their own communities as they did at Kirtland, Ohio; in Jackson County, Missouri; at Far West, Missouri; at Nauvoo, Illinois; and finally in Utah.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

As you may have gathered, I like nearly everything in your «Call to Covenant Community» manifesto; but most of all I appreciated your central ecclesiastical statement, «The church we seek to strengthen is built upon the hospitality of Jesus.»

For us, we gather to discuss Scripture, to encourage each other, to hear each others stories of where we saw Jesus working, to work alongside each other as we serve the community in Jesus» name Then we each depart to follow Jesus in our everyday day lives, to find opportunities daily to love our neighbors.

It therefore seems strained at best to speak of most classrooms as communities; perhaps they are best described, to borrow a term from Erving Goffman, as «focused gatherings.»

It is that one social gathering where people can go and have a sense of community without fear of rejection as long as you play along with it.