Sentences with phrase «in local congregations»

Like their donor constituency, the professionals hold Christian faith very dear, are active in their local congregations, and give generously to help the poor.

I also provide continuing education opportunities for people in communication roles in local congregations.

Shows the church's true intent... stemming the losses in local congregations over the past few years.

It continues to create awareness in the local congregation that authentic mission and services must originate in congregations through training and human resource development initiatives.

Several years ago I interviewed the people in charge of some of the country's most successful adult education programs in local congregations.

We will be constantly surprised by what has started taking place in the local congregation if we but look.

In some countries it can arise from pastors in local congregations.

Most can honestly point to repeated appeals to their audiences to get involved in a local congregation.

Yet many concerns obviously are common to both kinds of settings as well as to many in local congregations.

It is an outstanding program that utilizes both his expertise as a marriage counselor and the real life experience of couples in local congregations.

In the local congregation persons can experience supportive, nurturing community and know that the local group is the microcosm of the catholic macrocosm.

Evangelicals maintain that the one Church becomes visible on earth in all local congregations that meet to do together the things that, according to Scripture, the Church does.

(CNN)- Nearly three centuries ago, in Colonial New England in the midst of a religious revival now remembered as the Great Awakening, settled ministers in local congregations complained bitterly about itinerant revivalists sweeping into town and whipping their parishioners into a frenzy.

The Cambridge Platform insisted that the Church existed in its fullness in each local congregation which selected its own ministers and officers for the church.

If being a part of the Body means physically being present in a local congregation, then Paul would be excluded from such a definition of the Body, as he was usually off doing missionary work or getting imprisoned as opposed to faithfully attending one of the churches he helped form once a week!

Sometimes the spirit to be found in secular nongovernmental organizations has put to shame the lack of spirit in local congregations.

However, its message thrived in local congregations and in regional associations around the nation.

A sense of the deep roots in our tradition of passion for personality wholeness can help the mental health concern catch fire in a local congregation.

Only membership in God's covenant and active participation in a local congregation marked one as a Christian.

Although Catholics believe that the Church is visible in its universal dimension and not only in local congregations, we as Catholics and Evangelicals together affirm the statement of Amsterdam 2000:

I believe that the church is simply, theologically, the body of Christ, the communion of saints, the fellowship invisible manifested in local congregations.

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This has happened in some local congregations.

American Baptists believe that God's intention can be sought and followed in local congregations and other gatherings of Christians in associational, regional, national and world bodies as they receive from one another mutual counsel and correction [SCODS].

When one considers the actual conditions that prevailed in the local congregations at the time of the Reformation and is mindful of the fact that the people themselves for many reasons lacked initiative so that, as objects rather than as subjects of action, they were dependent upon the leadership of the princes, magistrates, and church governments, one can understand why the actual calling of the ministers was in fact rarely the result of their decision.

In the local congregation where women did not ask for and were not allowed legitimate power, there was present this other «behind the scenes» power and its demeaning sexism.

Here in the world, the Church becomes visible in all local congregations that meet to do together the things that according to the Scripture the Church does.

Christians have only begun to understand the import of the scandalous particularity of Jesus» Jewishness, and this material remains extremely difficult to preach in local congregations.

Faculty members also take an active role in local congregations and denominational affairs.

I've experienced it in local congregations.

In our local congregations and within our denominations we would be on shaky ground if we based every decision on whether or not sensibilities in the group would be insulted by our conclusions.

Soon after the courses started, he began to realize «that a great deal more was going on in the local congregation than just rational give - and - take among well - intentioned human beings.

2:25; 4:18), and people in every local congregation, such as Aquila and Prisca (I Cor.

Even the Lord Jesus, in the Revelation, addresses his messages to believers who are in local congregations.