Sentences with phrase «gather as a congregation»

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As a result, we tracked almost 3,000 new prayer initiatives in April alone, ranging from simple prayer meetings in churches that would never normally gather to intercede, right through to 24 - 7 prayer rooms in rural congregations that never imagined they would ever in 1,000 years manage to pray all night — let alone enjoy the experience!

The graduates may in the short run have the relevant skills to help congregations organize themselves to engage in the several practices that comprise their common life (religious education, worship, pastoral care, social action, gathering and maintaining resources, etc.), to nurture and sustain them in those practices, and to grow as organizations.

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.

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.

The minister has a responsibility to teach the choir, ushers, custodian, and congregation to grasp the uniqueness of worship, as contrasted with other gatherings of people.

The congregation, as a community in crisis, gathers to decide one more time about its identity and its vocation.

«A Christian congregation is a group of persons that gathers together to enact publicly a much more broadly practiced worship of God in Jesus» name, regularly enough over an indefinite period of time to have a common life in which develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story, and that holds its conduct, outlook, and story accountable as to its faithfulness to biblical stories of Jesus» mission and God's mission in Jesus.»

Any group of persons who gather to worship God regularly enough for an indefinite period of time to have developed a common life in which arise intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story and explicitly do so «in Jesus» name» as a deliberate act of self - identification should be considered a Christian congregation for our purposes.

The ultimate agenda item for clergy gathered as body of Christ will be finding how to lead the parishioners as individuals and as a congregation to fulfill their mission in the world.

American Baptists believe that God's intention can be sought and followed in local congregations and other gatherings of Christians in associational, regional, national and world bodies as they receive from one another mutual counsel and correction [SCODS].

If the regional and worldwide associations of Christians were structured according to that paradigm, they would exist as communions of communions, communions of local congregations gathered around the celebration of the liturgy.

«Each week our congregation of neighbors and friends who need groceries is as big as our combined Sunday liturgical gatherings.

It's a fascinating piece of ephemera; while Hollywood regularly depicted America as a homogenous glob with a singular religion, «Sons of Liberty» has Rains gathering support from the congregation inside his temple.