Sentences with phrase «large congregations»

All the speakers at the Church Growth Convocation were pastors of large congregations who told their stories of how to bring more people into the Kingdom.

There are large congregations with social views similar to the author's.

It was a large congregation, with hundreds in attendance and a woman minister I greatly enjoyed.

In a sermon 14 months ago, pastor Nicky Pop of the Philadelphia Romanian Pentecostal Church, Portland's largest congregation for Christians of Romanian descent, allegedly decried the Transylvania.

Hmm... I do remember someone posted about old churches and then the growth of larger congregation churchs....

... I see this more within our larger congregations staff and leadership positions... wonderful ministries and outreach, just not so friendly anymore.

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.

This means that half of all congregants are in the largest congregations, while half of all congregations (often churches of under 75) claim only 10 percent of congregants.

It had already been recognized at that time as the fastest growing church, and he wanted to leverage that growth into the largest congregation.

It is not easy to lead, whether we are talking about a large congregation or small group, so having grace and compassion for leaders who show up every day and do their very best is something we can bring in order to be great followers.

Written in 1942 and today, unfortunately, available only online, it is the tale of a theology student in the 1930s whose father, pastor of a large congregation in Magdeburg, bravely attempted to prevent the Nazi - sponsored «German Christians» from taking over the Protestant Church.

were finding it difficult to connect Benedictine spirituality with the life of the larger congregation.

In a small congregation, groups can be organized on an ad hoc basis in response to particular needs of members; in larger congregations, the size of the congregation may warrant ongoing groups that parents conjoin on a short - term basis.

And shouldn't Bridget enjoy some measure of responsibility to the larger congregation worshiping around her — a joyous love for the whole that would supersede her own set of likes and dislikes?

A senior minister of a large congregation in suburban Chicago compared the associate's job to a sewage treatment plant.

Lakewood is a nondenominational church that hosts about 52,000 attendees weekly and is one of the largest congregations in America.

Jack Marcum, head of research services for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence of a literal shortage of ministers... We are training more than sufficient numbers of ministers of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»

It's not easy to make the Church at Brook Hills, Alabama's second - largest congregation, look like a slum.

Or maybe you could bring in the pastor of a small local congregation to praise him for how he faithfully served God without giving in to the lure of a larger congregation and a larger salary elsewhere.

In a large congregation only a small percentage of adults will ever be asked to participate actively as leaders of the congregation.

Current statistics indicate that the larger the congregation the faster it will grow.

Every normal person accepts that the greatest happiness is achieved when it is spread amongst the largest congregation.

(To be sure, within that large congregation there are probably 21 small groups that give people the advantages of smallness and informality.)

Few Protestants seem to realize how very many small churches exist, and what a drain they are on the resources of the larger congregations.

For example, during a sermon on race relations which was being preached to a large congregation, a man rose to his feet to dispute a point being made by the preacher.

In 2005 I visited a large congregation in Copenhagen, Denmark, with my wife Janet, a...

«It's sort of an additional type of social control, so kids aren't just accountable to their parents, they're accountable to this larger congregation,» Petts told LiveScience.

Several congregations have memberships of more than 1,000, and St. Peter Lutheran Church, with more than 3,000 on the rolls, is the largest congregation in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod denomination.

So... we continue to encourage Christian singles to do the hard work it takes to be in community — both within the larger congregation of the local church AND within a smaller group where they can truly be known and share with others.

After that loss, Toller's wife left him; his assignment at the small First Reformed church upstate was given to him out of pity by Pastor Jeffers (Cedric the Entertainer, credited with his real last name of Kyles), who heads up the larger congregation nearby.

I'm in a boat that contains a large congregation of traditionally published writers who now own all rights to their previously published work.

Some scientists believe that this region annually boasts the largest congregations of whale sharks at any one time.

Nevertheless, not only are more species sighted at this remote island than at anywhere else on the planet, but this gathering represents one of the largest congregations of wildlife in the world.

Although the guided, 16 - mile roundtrip hike to Point Bennett requires some stamina, visitors get a chance to see one of the largest congregations of wildlife in the world - over 30,000 animals and up to five different species.

Even if you are somewhere that has a large congregation, at some point in time you will know nearly everyone there.

Not exact matches

folks are willing to drive one or two towns over to worship in a congregation that is 10 times larger than their home town one.

Today many priests, especially in large urban congregations, are trying to change Eucharistic practice.

Jesus appears to have been followed by a core group of around seventy for at least some of His ministry, but His relationship to this larger «congregation» contrasts with that of the twelve which He lived with for some three years (and others — some of whom only met Him perhaps once, but clearly understood and accepted His care and counsel).

Within both of these churches one can find large numbers of local congregations in which orthodox faith, sacramental integrity, sound preaching, and missions of charity live and flourish.

Magid said it was unprecedented to have a ranking American military official address the All - Dulles Area Muslim Society, which he said is one of the largest Islamic congregations in the U.S.

Given the waves of change that course through the larger society, they reason, it is inevitable that congregations will be buffeted.

After departing from the university, Morrison returned to the Monroe Street Church, where he ministered somewhat restlessly while the congregation and neighborhood changed with the large influx of immigrants.

Although the congregations of Jesus» followers no doubt fell short of their ideal of mutual love, those who participated in them knew a profound difference from the larger society.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

On Sunday, the senior pastor of Singapore's second - largest megachurch bowed three times to his congregation and apologized.

His reasoning seems to be that such a large community should have enough power to sway political tides — if these leaders and pastors would just guide their congregations toward a kind of political activism.

Jeffress said the church's fundraising consultant, Doug Turner, had determined that this is the largest building program undertaken by a single congregation in recent history.

The Mormons will probably be the last denomination to build mega-churches because they don't let congregations get much larger than 300 people.

Certainly being an active part of the fellowship of believers matters, but that fellowship of believers is always larger than (and not necessarily always inclusive of) the local congregation.

A congregation, undeniably Christian, nevertheless uses forms and stories common to a larger world treasury to create its own local religion of outlooks, action patterns, and values.