Sentences with phrase «house churches meet»

Like large churches, when house churches meet, they fellowship, sing a few songs, pray, have a time of Bible teaching, and finish up with a few «reminders» (aka announcements).

With more than 1,000 Protestant house churches meeting in Moscow alone, cracking down to the letter of the law will not be easy.

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The time before, at another abusive church, also when I was an elder, when I confronted the two main leaders in the church at a meeting at my house with similar behavior, the pastor said «This is the craziest thing I've seen.»

The meeting is held in the parish house of a church, rented by the AA group at a nominal rate.

Our church bought a house to use as a meeting hall; after the purchase, the church was denied a permit to meet because in order for 30 or more people to meet, the proporty zoning stipulates that the footprint has to be greater than 15 thousand sq. ft.. We are AT 15K sq ft, and two variances requests have been denied.

** NEW ** October 18, 2018 — LEAD with Be in Christ Church of Canada at The Meeting House in Oakville, Ontario (Details TBA)

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Beyond that, I'm the teaching pastor at The Meeting House: A Church For People Who Aren't Into Church.

Bruxy Cavey is the senior pastor at The Meeting House, a church for people who aren't into church.

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Aside from one or two, the vast majority of these house churches sound almost identical to any other church, except they are much smaller, meet in a home, and don't have a pastor.

You are not so moral... and the recent events with in the catholic church, and the amazing silence from its adherents to the pope to clean house, is proof that the church holds society to a higher standard than it is able to meet itself..

So also, the concept of the man as the head of the household carried over into the idea that the pastor was the head of the church, especially since early churches often met in houses.

About a year ago, I met a man who is pastor of a church in my area that together made the decision to completely stop having meetings in their building and use it instead for housing and feeding the needy.

When members of one family share the same learning experience each week, they have an ongoing topic of conversation between house - church meetings.

A typical house - church consists of three or four families who covenant to meet together regularly in homes for a minimum of three months.

But I am impressed with what I am seeing from churches like The Meeting House and Woodland Hills.

I hope you can find a church that can be like Woodland Hills and the Meeting House — we need more of them.

A typical house - church format includes a commitment to meet for a minimum of two hours at least twice a month.

He belonged to the Christian church in that city — a church still meeting in the house of one of the great families, (See F. V. Filson, «The Significance of the Early House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 -house of one of the great families, (See F. V. Filson, «The Significance of the Early House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 -House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 - 12.)

Christian Baroness Cox joined other members of the House of Lords and church leaders to hold meetings with the Assad regime.

In his epistle to the Romans Paul mentions both the church at Rome that met in Priscilla and Aquila's house, 16:5 and «the whole church» in Rome, 16:23.

«Christians therefore have the right to deny entry to any religious department officer who requests entry into a meeting at a house, church premise, or any private property used for Christian worship and activities,» wrote Eugene Yapp, secretary - general for the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), in an advisory to the nation's nearly 2,500 evangelical churches.

All of these items could show up in the White House, said Grant Bennett, an old Romney friend who spoke at the Republican National Convention and has known the Romney family since they met through church in 1978.

Our church, The Meeting House in Ontario, just did this series with a similar logo: http://www.themeetinghouse.com/teaching/archives/2013/wrecking-religion/

Church buildings are often called «meeting houses».

They are called «house churches» because, as they are not officially registered organizations, they can not independently own property, and hence they meet in private houses.»

It is our responses to the particular meeting houses — us, relative to those houses — that make the local church what it is.

It appears the couple then planted a church in the region, for when Paul writes back to the Christians in Corinth, he passes along greetings from «Aquila and Priscilla and the church that meets in their house.»

The «holy church has resolved itself into «meeting houses,»» and the meeting houses are not only plural but «in the making» (LWJ 123, 121).

When Paul said «the church who meets at Pricilla's house» he meant «the people» who meet at Pricilla's house.

And as far as «the church», why can't they just meet in a school, house, park... why do millions of dollars have to be invested in stone, carpet, iron, wood, stained glass windows, etc..

, the contemporary university makes the Catholic Church look like a Quaker meeting house.

If we assume that the symbol of the holy is not a particular beauty, but beauty of any sort, then it is not surprising that we can love equally places as diverse as Chartres and Vierzehnheiligen, the Old Ship Meeting House and Christ Lutheran Church.

«With thousands to choose from, there is no shortage of fantastic churches, chapels and meeting houses to explore.»

Orchard, Ronald K. (ed), Witness in Six Continents: Records of the Meeting of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches, Mexico City, 1963, London, Edinburgh House, 1964.

Several UK church figures and House of Lords members met Syrian officials on Saturday in a trip described by one journalist as «nuts».

Elsewhere in much of Europe churches of all denominations struggle to slow down the decline in membership, although conservative Christian groups, perhaps meeting as house - churches, have increased their following.

We seek for strength, for peace, for a path through the forest, but Christians are people who maybe more than for anything else seek for Christ, and from the shabbiest little jerry - built meeting house in the middle of nowhere to the greatest cathedrals, all churches everywhere were erected by people like us in the wild hope that in them, if nowhere else, the one we seek might finally somehow be found.

Occasionally, local bars, restaurants, or coffee houses will allow churches to meet for free, as long as people buy food and beverages.

It may be fine for a church of a dozen people to meet in someone's house, but that is unrealistic for a church of 50 or 100, let alone a church of 1000 or more.

So on Sunday morning, in a great city church, folk are to be found who, amid the glorious architecture, stirring music and highly paid preaching of a metropolitan cathedral, are lonely — lonely, it may be, for a wooden meeting house on a country hillside, lighted by oil lamps, with an organ that squeaks every time the boy pumps it, and a man in the pulpit who can not preach for sour apples, but where they have friends.

In an act of public cleansing after the Fairmount Park incident, Liston spent three months living in a house belonging to the Loyola Catholic Church in Denver, where he had met Father Edward Murphy, a Jesuit priest, while training to fight Folley in 1960.

The meeting at Mary White's house had been sparked by a church picnic a week or so earlier, when White and her friend Marian Tompson sat beneath an apple tree in Elmhurst's Wilder Park nursing their babies.

The scarcity of affordable housing, drug abuse and mental health, and preservation of the town's character dominated discussion when the Democratic candidates for East Hampton Town Supervisor and town board held an informational meeting on Monday night at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church's Session House.

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

Since the Rabsky Group began to push for the rezoning last fall, rowdy protesters — wrangled by North Brooklyn community groups like Churches United for Fair Housing, St. Nicks Alliance, Make the Road and Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A — have shut down and disrupted a slew of public meetings.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

The House members met with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al - Sisi in Cairo, just one day before suicide bombers set off blasts in two Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday.

A group of concerned residents called the Inwood Community Group was organized early Wednesday and plans to meet on Friday, Jan. 6 at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Parish House at 20 Cumming St., at the corner of Seaman Avenue, from 5:30 p.m. to discuss how locals can help the victims.