Sentences with phrase «in a large church»

Those in small churches often find it hard to meet enough single people, while singles in large church communities feel under the spotlight, or find it hard get to know people well.

In a small church like ours, unlike in a large church, nobody is anonymous.

Members of small churches served by part - time lay ministers are not necessarily worse off spiritually than their counterparts in large churches — and perhaps they are better off.

Osinbajo was also a Pastor in the largest church in the entire country, and this would answer those who wrongfully tried to paint Buhari as intolerant.»

A few years later I was part of a pastoral staff in a large church in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C..

This has been the dominant pattern in the largest churches, since, following the conversion of Constantine.

In larger churches orphan care can simply become one ministry among many, many others.

In small congregations which pay all benefits, which meet all salary guidelines, and which are not exploitative, the fact remains that there is more openness to the leadership of women than is found in large churches.

It does so by becoming financially self - sufficient, by having its own building (often ethnic parishes remain in lease or rental arrangements for years — a sign that they have no physical or psychological territory in the larger church) and by providing both lay and clerical leadership in the multicultural society and church structures.

The church at Corinth was a microcosm of the tensions in the larger church.

Tensions grew volatile in his large church in Van Nuys, CA, when he declared to the congregation on Easter Sunday of 1960 that he had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The membership rituals in a large church, of necessity, can be little more than a perfunctory introduction of persons who will never know or be known to more than a small group within the congregation, if they are known at all.

As I said below, I'm sure other blacks have married in that large church, what is the REAL reason the congregants objected to THIS couple?

For many years in a large church production of an Easter drama I played the part of Christ through a long and drawn out (50 minutes) crucifixion scene.

She has been in leadership in large churches and organizations for the past fifteen years, including North Point Ministries in Atlanta, Ga. and Cross Point, in Nashville, Tenn..

As a result, our written materials require a college education to understand, denominational leaders are drawn from large congregations only, seminaries train ministers to work mainly in large churches, and even presbyteries devalue those who work and worship in small - membership churches by rarely making use of their leadership.

But it is likely that the preachers in the large churches where the power lies were silent or skirted the issue.

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One of the largely unspoken phenomenon of the past decade has been the decline in large churches located at only one site.

Yet many seminary graduates, male and female, receive their first appointment or call as the assistant or associate pastor in a large church.

You know, I have been «bullied» multiple times myself, both in a large church and in a small house church.

Like those in large churches, the house church members felt bad about this, but didn't know what to do about it.

In a large church, less emphasis is placed on personal relationships.

Yet the mainliners are offering at least some «blending of worship styles,» or in larger churches, multiple worship services «cafeteria - style.»

In larger churches, the eventual aim of the first thrust should be to make a variety of growth experiences available to all interested persons at each stage and interest category.

In a larger church it is possible and desirable to have at least two groups of this kind divided on the basis of the children's ages.

In a large church, no - one gets to see the pastor... average size, some people do... again, same gang over and over.

In larger churches it is especially crucial to keep communication lines open and coordination procedures operative.