Sentences with phrase «how congregations»

The recruitment kit provides information and guidance on how congregations can support foster and adoptive parents.

Interfaith Power & Light recently hosted a call about the Paris Pledge, and how congregations can reach 50 % carbon reductions and higher.

«Continued research is necessary to determine if and how congregations are capable of helping solve longstanding racial divisions in society.»

We need to specify how congregations are not only located within but are somehow integral to larger social and cultural systems.

His broader interest is in how congregations change, how tradition is handled and reinterpreted, and what is gained and what is lost in the process.

By observing the religious ecology of congregations through these categories, Ammerman draws out certain patterns and tendencies in how congregations have adapted to their changing environments.

Ammerman's excellent book attempts to say how congregations adapt to social change, but it does not ask how they try to do so «faithfully.»

Aware of the limits of relying on one - to - one counseling and the expertise of the pastor, the pastoral care curriculum has focused increasingly on how congregations provide care and on clergy as developers of networks of care rather than as the chief sources of care.

A correlative question is how congregations might become more active in helping pastors strike this balance.

For when Father Freelance scratches his itch to show just how congregation - friendly he is by making what he imagines are nifty changes to the Mass text, he instantly sets up sonic dissonance for anyone with a reasonably well - tuned ear.

It would not be difficult to show how the congregation could function in a variety of healing capacities.

Some will be comprehensive and highly structured: This is how this congregation's construal of the Christian thing is best characterized concretely as a whole in contradistinction to other congregations» construals.

I was, in general, very proud of how the congregation accepted this.

CNN's Carol Costello talks to pastor Marshall Mabry of Beacon of Light Christian Center in Dublin, Georgia about how his congregation will be praying at the pump this weekend.

Landry regularly raises questions about what difference the scriptural text makes to the hearers as a community and constantly envisions how the congregation can react corporately to the implications of the Word in Scripture.

Consider how a congregation's deepening awareness of its historicity parallels the struggle of oppressed people reported by Paulo Freire.

In other words, a New Testament course becomes concerned with how the congregation perceives the exegesis of Matthew, and its relevance to its own particular situation.»

Since prevention was discussed in detail in that chapter, the consideration here will be limited to illustrations of how a congregation can contribute to prevention on two of the four levels.

Rather in hope, seeking the city which is to come, the congregation exits from its own structures and safeties to find the Christ who appears in societies whose histories repudiate the local church's unfolding plot.24 How a congregation that currently avoids the quest might twist itself outward to Christ is the topic of the next chapter.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Not exact matches

It encapsulates in words I hadn't found yet how I've discerned my calling in the church... and thankfully, most parishes / congregations I've served have allowed me to help them seek

A couple weeks in the parish looking around at things, assessing the state of the Sunday school or catechetical education or the decrepit office equipment, with your head simply bubbling with all the latest liturgical gizmos plus a really whiz - bang theory about the authorship of John, and you will wonder how this creaky old congregation ever managed to survive without you.

How can you say that because Obama takes one stance that doesn't match Christian values, the church congregation must vote for others?

the only thing that keeps me away from going to a religious establishment for congregation is I don't like being told how to think.

Sam Allberry shares tips on how to overcome obstacles that stop us thriving in our congregations

The problem is how the accepting congregation is tolerated within its denomination or an accepting domination within the Church.

how would you welcome them into your congregation and make for them a home in your congregation and a home for them in «my Father's house, that has many rooms.»

I was not at all interested in how changing these things would impact the spiritual effectiveness of our congregation or how much glory God would or would not get out of us cutting something from our service schedule.

Perhaps Father Rohr's book will spark discussions among church congregations and elsewhere that lead to positive changes in how we try to meet the needs of others, especially the elderly.

Seminary these days seems to be more female than male — wonder how many of these graduate to find a placement in a congregation?

It would be just as logical to rant about how Christians all go around protesting at dead soldiers» funerals, just because of those wackos in the Phelps congregation.

In this chapter, he writes about how he left the church in order to find the church — not in a building with clergy and a congregation, but in life lived together with other people.

Depending upon how one defines «Sunday Morning attendence», then one has to go to either the fifth, or thirty - fifth item of the worldwide list of «largest congregation» on Sunday morning.

The emphasis on the congregation for rethinking seminary education, if it is to be productive, requires seminaries and their faculties to recognize that their legitimacy depends on how well they help congregations to eat and drink with Jesus.

How are we doing generally as a Western church in engaging abuse which those in our congregations has had some intersection with?

He explained that though it is the tradition of the church, that the Eucharist be served every Sunday, the congregation no more had the right to decide how often the Eucharist would be celebrated than to decide whether it would say the Lord's Prayer.

Now the focus is on congregations and how to make them grow.

The mindset of a percentage (how much I do not know) of professional ministers focuses totally on growing and maintaining their congregation.

The people being helped see how those who are helping are just like them, couponing, struggling, being frugal; the people don't know who is being helped (churches don't reveal that information to their congregations), but do gain respect for the working poor who live, work, and worship among them.

Similarly to the article, and how George W. Bush used his presumably Evangelical faith to benefit his campaign, every interpretation of the bible has been used to the advantage of those who will benefit the most within the congregations walls.

Here's how to help people and congregations face outward and share the good news of Jesus Christ.

How do you respond to church leaders who are afraid of making education a priority within their congregations because they fear the public policy issues related to education are too political?

That's how the Church sees its congregation.

So many of my seminary friends talk like this and I am constantly asking them how these conversations and 10 dollar words help lay people in the congregation.

He finds the idea of the priest's facing the people a most disedifying factor of the modern liturgy: «How wise the old liturgy was when it prescribed that the congregation should not see the priest's face - his distractedness or coldness or (even more importantly) his devotion and emotion.»

How will I care for the needs of this aging congregation?

In the following two chapters, I shall examine more precisely the various forms that parish stories assume and show how by observation and inquiry one can explore the setting of a congregation's narrative.

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).

How do you measure whether the ultimate outcomes of steps 1 and 2 are reliable representations of the views of the congregation as a whole.

I have no doubt that John, our choir director at one of the congregations where my father served, sincerely believed that «Whispering Hope,» a number frequently chosen by him as the choir's offertory piece, was a profoundly Christian hymn; but it was really an expression of vacuous hope without any substantive theological grounding: «Wait till the darkness is over / wait till the tempest is done / Hope for the sunshine tomorrow, after the darkness is gone / Whispering hope, oh, how welcome thy voice / Making my heart in its sorrow rejoice.»