Sentences with phrase «held by the congregations»

It is equally important to identify the world views (and their social effects) that are held by the congregation.

NEH funds are supporting 253 humanities projects across the United States, among them, «a video - based web platform allowing scholars to publish papers in sign language, and a new tool that uses digital analysis of architectural floor plans to show how Frank Lloyd Wright's structures changed over time,... and a local community digitization projects will preserve historic materials held by the congregations of African - American churches in Georgia»

Not exact matches

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

Each was held in a congregation, was taught by a Candler faculty member and the church's pastor, and took as its subject matter an actual issue or topic in that congregation's life.

It aims to counter the rise of Christian fundamentalism by means of holding conferences and seminars that will bring church congregations up to date with biblical scholarship.

(CNN)- The pastor of a Florida church says his congregation has decided to call off the burning of the Quran that was to be held Saturday - the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States by the al Qaeda terror network.

Thus a congregation is held together by much more than creeds, 3 governing structures, and programs.

When one wonders what holds the man together, enables him to bring equal enthusiasm to his practical decisions and his pastoral and proclamatory function, one learns that he is held together (if he is) by his public role of responsibility for the external advancement of the congregation.

Most of the congregation accepted their willow wands with equanimity, but there were a few older women, led by Mrs Dealey, who disdained the willows and held out for palms.

This suggests that the attitudes about the family held by most adult church members are not very different from those of any other American.4 One difference is that members of congregations expect the church to help them achieve fulfillment in their family relationships.

We hold to forms of worship designed centuries ago by people very different to us and ignore the massive cultural changes of the last few decades (and I'm not talking about replacing organs and songs with good theology and no tune with guitars and songs with good tunes and bad theology, either) for fear that in attracting anyone new we might alienate imaginary figures we are sure are in the congregation.

Members of the congregation who were upset by something I said could not, at the end of the day, hold me solely responsible for upsetting them, unless I had grossly misrepresented the passage under scrutiny.

A congregation, according to our working definition, is constituted by the practice of the worship of God; and «worship,» we warned, will be understood too narrowly if its public and its universal features are not held together.

When the Azusa Street Mission (generally considered the cradle of modern Pentecostalism)[1] was born in Los Angeles, a Methodist congregation in Valparaiso had already taken its first steps toward Pentecostalism by holding prayer groups and studying the book of Acts.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Kingsbridge - Morris Heights - University Heights - Fordham: District 14 In the Bronx's District 14, incumbent Fernando Cabrera, who is pastor at a local Christian congregation, easily held off a challenge from Randy Abreu, who was appointed to the Energy Department by Obama, to win a third term on the Council.

Legal title to all real property held by any Parish or congregation in the Diocese is registered in the name of The Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Huron, which holds it in trust for the benefit of the Parish or congregation.