Sentences with phrase «gather as the church»

So if we change from «attend church» to «gather as church» would that be more biblically accurate for you?

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For me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visited.

The celebrated Orthodox sobornost» (variously rendered as synodality, conciliarity, catholicity) needs to find its concrete expression in the church that gathers at the council.

The study has found that being part of a regular social gathering like a church lunch club or a book club had nearly as much benefit to an elderly person's health as regular exercise.

For as I noted in a toast at the anniversary dinner the Maleckis» sons had arranged, the network of now - not - so - young friends that had gathered around Karol Wojtyla — men and women who resolutely refuse to think of themselves as something special — had in fact helped bend the history of the Church, and the world, in a more humane direction.

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!

Groups of young, well - educated, active professionals have gathered in urban churches, smashing the stereotype in many Chinese people's minds of Christians as elderly, infirm, sick, or disabled.

Yes, we can go to social gatherings elsewhere, but for people of faith who don't want to look at the world as hopeless and destined for disaster, we wish the churches we know and love would join us and do the same.

Two of the favorite passages trotted out to defend the idea of mutual edification as the commanded purpose for church gatherings are 1 Corinthians 14:26 and Hebrews 10:25.

One takes place in the Church gathering as in Hebrews 10: 25.

There were around 60 artists gathered in his Art House, a converted church that doubled as his home; a venue with a recording studio attached.

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

I was rather surprised to find myself quoted in the recent issue of FIRST THINGS as claiming, «Any church excluding Christians at a given place is not merely a bad church, but rather is not church at all, since a Eucharist to which not all the Christians at a given place might gather would not be merely a morally deficient Eucharist, but rather no Eucharist at all.»

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.

Valley Church in Allendale, Michigan, sponsors gatherings for craft beer enthusiasts, designed to «reach out to people in a loving, grace - filled way that meets people where they are and as they are.»

The «liturgical circle» begins by observing and listening to what the church does and says when it gathers for worship as the primary witness to what Christians believe, moves on to theological reflection on the meaning of these data, and then proceeds to reform worship so as to express these meanings more effectively.

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

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.

Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches today.

In the church, worship should gather us together; the experience should be as fully corporate as possible.

To put it bluntly, most churches do not reflect Jesus» vision of the kingdom of God as a place where all nations and all races gather together to worship.

As we gather with our neighbors, the homeless and those overlooked and rejected by the church over a simple meal or even over a bottle of water and a few potato chips, we remember the One who not only created us, but who walked among us and gave Himself for us.

The pilgrims would gather at a church, known as the collecta, where they would be met by the bishop and other clergy of the city.

At some point will you describe for us what a group of gathered Jesus followers looks like (if they have a person who they call «pastor», what that looks like), what they do when they meet, and how they live out their lives as the church the rest of the time.

While we do have a «right» to model our regular gatherings we call «church» as we see fit within the bounds of scripture, we must always remember that our «rights» end where the gospel of Christ begins.

They gathered in this district, first to plant a cross and then later, after bloody fights with the State and its forces, to build a church — a church which is due to the sweat and resistance of the workers — as Pope John Paul expressed it at his first visit to his home country.

As a result, even our pastor is starting to realize that what started out as «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing thingAs a result, even our pastor is starting to realize that what started out as «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing thingas «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing things.

Apparent randomness can be explained as the movement of the Holy Spirit, who calls and gathers the church.

Phil Kenneson, who teaches at Milligan College in east Tennessee, said he needed the gathering as a reminder that he's «not crazy» and that it is the world, not a church dedicated to the radical politics entailed by Jesus» way of peace, that it is out of line.

In the Pauline churches official leaders such as apostles, prophets, and teachers were present, but in the act of gathered worship their role as leaders was muted by the Spirit's urging and prompting of contributions by every group member.

A horrific scene unfolded in the Pakistani city of Quetta this weekend, as hundreds of worshippers gathered at a church for a pre-Christmas service.

Isn't that, or shouldn't that be the most important reason to gather as «church»?

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.

A week - long «Colloquy on the Loss and Recovery of the Sacred,» it had been designed as a small working conference of church leaders gathered from a broad spectrum of the various Christian traditions.

The fact that this church welcomes this as a spiritual discipline is proof for me that Christians can gather.

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.

As we gather with our neighbors, the homeless and those overlooked and rejected by the church over a simple meal or even over a bottle of water and a few potato chips, we remember the One who not only created us, but who walked among us and gave Himself for us, and together we say «God bless us».

The examples of Jesus gathering crowds and what happened with the early church are not written in Scripture as examples to be followed for all Christians everywhere.

As Karol Wojtyla himself put it, the concern of the Church's pastors gathered in council was not so much

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.

During the period when a college simply functioned as a gathering of the church, with its foibles and deficiencies as well as its advantages and virtues, its Christian identity seemed not to require affirmation or reflection.

Let us humble ourselves and recognize that there are many valuable and helpful and relational ways for believers to gather together and to assemble that do not look at all like what many people think of as «church.»

Even when the minister begins as missionary to some people in the world he soon gathers a Church that claims his special attention; even when he begins as a shepherd of a separated flock he is bound to have relations to those who seem to be the wolves that prey upon it or the dogs that protect it.

The evangelists lives out the gospel in front of others as a way of gathering people together as the church.

Speaking during it he said: «It is literally heartbreaking to learn of the attacks on Christians and on the churches where they gather, such as the mindless, brutal destruction of the Armenian church in Deir el - Zour earlier this year.»

«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.

To find a better way to do youth ministry, we need to begin by asking the young what they themselves see as the supreme sacramental moment of their church gatherings over the past year.

Maili Tamang clapped and sang along as the remnants of her husband's Kathmandu church gathered for a noon prayer one week after a massive earthquake collapsed the «roof of the world.»

Though he choked on the word «ecumenical,» Sanders emphasized the inter-denominational character of Evangelicalism, which he portrayed as a gathering of those who still believe that Jesus rose from the dead, and who found themselves together on the curb after being expelled from liberal churches.