Sentences with phrase «in the congregation»

The advantage of this program is that it encourages people in the congregation who need help to seek that help because it is more affordable.

There are also professional people in the congregation who can share their expertise.

Or they may worry their position is contrary to that of many in the congregation.

This, I learned, happened with other women in the congregation in addition to myself.

It seems fair to say that there are members in every congregation for whom family commitments are the strongest motivating force in their religious beliefs and practices.

Our communion of saints is a more familiar crowd — those who died in our congregations in the past year our own parents and grandparents.

Women tend to have more flexible schedules than men, allowing them more opportunities to get involved in church life and to build close relationships with others in their congregations.

As the leader of leaders in the congregation, a pastor can ask the same questions of his or her ministry.

During one particularly difficult period, I was an advocate for a commitment that a few people in the congregation did not want to make.

I know several members in my congregation who pay nothing.

What will stick with me is my relationship with a young man in my congregation who was in jail awaiting trial for murder.

Though I'm identified by many in my congregation as a «social - action minister,» surely I have been called to a pastoral as well as a prophetic ministry.

This is a time when children are highly motivated to do what they see and hear parents and adults in the congregation doing.

I spoke to a clergy member recently about a couple in his congregation who are separating.

If someone in the congregation asked for my opinion, I would tell them.

They might reach out to a community resource before talking with anyone in the congregation.

For me, agreeing to disagree doesn't have to happen in every congregation, but it does have to happen in the wider church community and in society at large.

In every congregation there will be some who need to be carried on the shoulders of others.

Neither feature seems Christian, and life in the congregation appears all too human, cramped, and predictable.

What about when members or groups in the congregation do the abusing?

They can increase the outreach dimension of marriage by developing a «couple investment plan» — a strategy for responding to particular marriage and family needs in the congregation and community.

Depending on the makeup of membership in a congregation, growth groups for parents might include all parents, whether they are married or single, in one group.

I know that I've been watched carefully because of my relationships in congregations.

Neither setting was a local congregation, and the needs may well have been somewhat different from those found in a congregation.

I think I might make these with some of children in my congregation.

We see them as obstacles and we complain that but for such and such a person things would have been better in the congregation, in the family and in the community.

There were several concerns that were present in the congregation.

In any event, when level of attendance at religious services is taken into account, those with more friends in their congregations actually think less about their responsibility to the poor.

As far as we are aware, there is no one in our congregation who has been directly affected.

They think the church is sustained by the services it provides or the amount of fellowship and good feeling in the congregation.

There is a great correlation between those who are group participants and those who have leadership in the congregation....

Some people in the congregation thought that they were better than others.

And there is evidence that small groups do encourage people to become more active in their congregations.

* How can a process of theological and ethical reflection begin or continue to take place in your congregation on an ongoing basis?

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.

Membership in all but a handful of congregations today is relatively casual, making few demands of persons who indicate interest in a congregation.

But I know I was a much better teacher as a pastor in a congregation than I have been as a professor in a school.

We saw how people were pushed into some kind of service role in the congregation.

Ok, so clearly you have many differences of opinion in the congregation.

So secret you are not allowed to worship in their congregation nor walk in the door.

Beyond that, leadership in educational activities in a congregation requires capacities for theological judgment.

It helps though, too, that I am not alone on the issue in my congregation.

There are some pastors who feel this way and even have people in their congregations like those depicted in the cartoon.

Every pastor experiences some cultural shock during the early years of service in a congregation.