Sentences with phrase «kinds of church experience»

Many young families were in retreat from certain kinds of church experience and the refreshing secularism of the new approach was welcome.

When I read David's piece, I was struck by the seriousness of this kind of church experience.

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In my experience as a worship leader, there are two kinds of silence in church.

David does a lot of good work on this blog, he is absolutely a compassionate, kind man... but he also leaves a lot to be desired for those who don't see church thru his lens or church experiences.

For triumphalists of that kind, the Church is everything, the teacher of the nations, the wise and experienced mother of mankind.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

Hittinger correctly points out that this new Thomism finds its point of reference in the human experience: «The Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

Various chapters in this book, as well as other reading and my own experience in churches, persuade me that all these kinds of knowledge and more really would be helpful for contemporary ministers.

There is a kind of painful humor now about their early experiences in the Catholic Church.

The churches and the synagogues have long experience with this kind of democratic negotiation.

There is a profound and deepening entertainment value to be discovered in the cycle of the church year (Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, etc.) which in and of itself is resonant with human experience, kind of like the value of Verdi to the non-Italian speaker.

this was my experience of church in the new town I moved into; since I wasn't exactly the kind of «Christian'that they automatically expected me to be, I was on the receiving end of your whole list.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

In this kind of society, small, lively groups in a church offer sorely needed opportunities for persons to drink deeply from the fresh springs of relationship, discovering the reality of the New Testament experience of being «members one of another.»

Special revelations — the only sort recognized by this kind of theology — have always needed to be checked by some more general frame of reference: the written Scriptures coolly and historically studied, the tradition and common experience of the church, and the still more general experiences and tested beliefs of mankind.

In my experience and observation, often when an organization, church, or leader gets accused of being abusive, rather than offering a genuine apology, a kind...

Plus over 20 years of experiencing and observing on the ground the kinds of churches I'm writing about.

Pope John Paul II also embraces this close connection, writing in his letter to artists (1999), «True art has a close affinity with the world of faith, so that, even in situations where culture and the Church are far apart, art remains a kind of bridge to religious experience.»

However, if our church were not in a city — or even if our church were in a different part of the city — this kind of experience would not be possible.

While there is a place for high quality worship services broadcast on true mass media, such programs require a great amount of careful planning and considerable cost, and are tailored to meeting the need for a kind of national worship experience in which those not in church can participate.

The contributions on the one hand of Biblical, historical and systematic theology, of history, the sociology of religion and the theology of culture; and on the other, the practical experiments and experiences in ecumenical, national, municipal and parish organization of church life, will, one may hope, eventually be brought together in some kind of temporary historical synthesis.

And finally: «The members of First Lutheran Church were wonderfully supportive and kind: eight years of service, sighted, were followed by 15 more years, blind, during which 300 parishioners drove for [the pastor] on calls — a great experience for us all.»

I am impressed, however, that at my own seminary the best attitude - changer in this regard is actual experience, under competent supervision, in some kind of church situation.

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When I think back to my students at Creighton, I can see that their experience of the Church» and to a great extent mine» also involves worries about betrayal, though of a different kind.

I knew exactly what he was talking about because I experienced the same kind of dynamic in churches.

Of course, they need to have experience in relevant kinds of «doing,» whether in personal living or in church activities, in order to have at hand the «doing» whose meaning is to be examined critically and theoreticallOf course, they need to have experience in relevant kinds of «doing,» whether in personal living or in church activities, in order to have at hand the «doing» whose meaning is to be examined critically and theoreticallof «doing,» whether in personal living or in church activities, in order to have at hand the «doing» whose meaning is to be examined critically and theoretically.

Second, I believe that people can create, or re-create, this kind of experience in their own churches.

And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.

Now this kind of narrative is possible only because of the equation earthly Jesus = risen Lord and the consequent and subsequent equation: Situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience, which equation is necessarily implied by the methodology of the synoptic evangelists.

I am not a Church groupy that says this kind of stuff to defend my tribe, God has made an honest man out of me and so I can genuinely say I disagree with you fully in Jesus's name because I have experienced much better from God, and this is just the beginning.

For the black church, this kind of theological language may be quite useful, since the language of the black religious experience abounds in images and metaphors.

Our experience has taken us into virtually every kind of commercial situation including: e-commerce, consulting groups, contractors, wholesale, manufacturing, churches / temples, supermarkets, hotels and motels, restaurants, retail businesses and real estate management firms.

Many thanks for sharing such a beautiful part of your life... it makes my heart sing when I hear other people getting the same kind of blessings I experience in church!