Sentences with phrase «home church»

With home churches there may be a lack community outreach, i.e. welfare work etc., but there is a closer knit of friendships.

The last time he had been held was in 2009, when he agreed to stop supporting home churches.

Right now I can travel a bit from here and visit my mom's old home church.

August 2007 to January 2011 Baptist Church of New Cityland - New Cityland, CA Church Volunteer - Acted as the head of the church volunteers and coordinated those volunteers to cover different shifts at the church - Implemented a recycling program that cut down on waste and later helped parishioners implement similar programs in their homes

It's a blog (inspired by Julie Anne's valiant blogging) i set up last spring to address some spiritual abusers — some Presbyterian Elders — in a previous home church of mine here in Pittsburgh.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia About Blog St Paul's Cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Primate of Australia and home church for Anglicans in Melbourne and Victoria.

The church I went to for the longest period of time was sort of a mega-church (for lack of a better word) with thousands of members, but they also met in smaller home churches (of 15 - 40 people each).

If they didn't, then they weren't «spiritual» and God «wasn't using them,» ultimately, if the didn't «right the ship» and start growing fast, they would lose their position, be demoted from home church leadership.

Well Uncle John, we do home church because we see it mentioned in the scriptures like Romans 16:5 and 1 Corinthians 16:19.

Much... Christian churches & ministries from large denominations to small home church links can be found here.

Abedini was placed under house arrest before being imprisoned for three - and - a-half years in Iran for participating in Christian home churches in 2012.

Against home churches that refuse to cooperate, the government has waged a large - scale cleansing campaign in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, particularly in the city of Wenzhou, known as «China's Jerusalem,» where 15 percent of the population is Christian.

In China, home churches outnumber government - sponsored churches three to one.

In his conservative home church it would have been dismissed as fanaticism.

We walked away over a year ago to pursue home church and individual discipleship... this is exactly how we felt.

Yes, I'm afraid that running a small home church soon replicates the problems of the larger version.

I can't imagine anyone on a mission trip withholding medical care until the patient first hears a sermon or is coerced into making a (false) profession of faith so that the missionary can notch his belt with the number of «souls saved», nor can I imagine that the missionary's home church receives any monetary benefit from this new member you imagine they have strong - armed into joining.

As white Christians have tried to move beyond the prejudice of their grandparents and second and third generation black British Christians feel less need for the safety of a culturally specific home church, the challenge is to find ways of reintroducing both sides to each other.

On a less than exuberant note, I no longer feel comfortable in the mega-church environment and can not find the type of home church family I would love to experience.

To fight those doubts and the temptations of stardom, Levi has opted to worship among trusted friends and confidantes in an informal home church setting.

Mothering Sunday takes its name from the now - mostly - disregarded European tradition (see «Beyond the Book») of setting aside one day a year when children would return to their ancestral home church and to be with their mother.

The group contends that charges stem from Abedini's conversion to Christianity from Islam 13 years ago and his activities with home churches in Iran.

At least that has been my experience with congregations and groups of Christians gathering in His Name; from home church to high - church in the Anglican Communion churches, wet or dry sides of giftedness, Young Life, et al..

Christian churches & ministries from large denominations to small home church links can be found here.

Caroline, I'm sorry you're experiencing that at your home church.

Some just change venue and do the same stuff at a home church.

Would home churches that existed before Rome's building projects scratch their heads at books on institutional church administration as well?

Betel is run by the recovering addicts themselves and a few missionaries, who do not take payment for their work, but are supported from a home church in the same way as missionaries to the developing world would be.

Much as I would like to think otherwise, it is as if the Holy Spirit is guiding me to start a home church.

When American student Alex Humphrey went on a mission trip to Peru with his home church, a colleague prayed that they would see an eyeball grow into someone's head.

But they soon find that although the setting might be smaller, home churches are not that much different than regular churches.

Some Christians think Jesus is leading them to leave the church they are in so they can follow «the New Testament pattern» and get involved in a home church or community collective.

The third instance was in a home church, where a very unstable woman acted outrageously towards my husband on a regular basis, and made up her mind that my husband was just about as bad as the devil himself.

We left this home church and again took the stand, Christ will defend us.

What section??? He is a non-denominational Christian and attends different churches, with Evergreen Chapel at Camp David being his home church.

I was preaching at my home church just last Sunday in my jeans to my friends and now here I was at a historic church with total strangers and pants that didn't fit quite as well as they did before that fourth baby.

Maria has been writing Bible studies for over ten years and now enjoys shepherding women at her home church in Huntersville, North Carolina.

I wrote about two dozen prayers in as many days, lucid and heartfelt, and the people of my home church distributed them to the congregation in photocopied booklets.

I'm kicking off a relatively quiet spring schedule tonight (April 11) with an event at my home church, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, in Cleveland Tennessee.

The letters of Paul — which were the first NT writings — would generally «make the rounds» among these groups of believers, being read aloud to the group by whoever's home they were in (the genesis of «home churches»).

They don't know the agony and prayer that accompanied our decision to initially leave our home church.