Sentences with phrase «larger than the church»

During the tumultuous period of mission discussion in the 1950s, Johannes Hoekendijk sought to define the missio dei as larger than the church.

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I would bet — big money — that the fraction of FUBARLiberals who exhibit these characteristics is in fact larger than within the Roman Catholic Church....

The church back then was 3 or 4 times larger than it is now.

The Christian Post: Churches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in KaChurches Attacked in Nigeria Following Wave of Bombings Two churches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kachurches and a security checkpoint were attacked in Nigeria as President Goodluck Jonathan visited the country's second - largest city Sunday, following the wave of Islamic extremist attacks Friday that has left more than 150 people dead in Kano City.

Historically, small churches are on the fringe of denominational attention and thus are less influenced by central decisions than are larger parishes.

The impetus was Cardinal Bernard Law's charge that the CTSA, the largest and most prestigious association of Catholic theologians in the United States, had become little more than a «wasteland» of dissent against official Church teachings.

Thanks in large part to his personal verve and social action within and without, the church reaches more people at Yale than on any other campus I know about.

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that, less than a month before and still a few weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Shevchuk had been elected Major - Archbishop of Kyiv - Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine in liturgy and governance while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.

graduates are more likely than other ministers to have made a recent job move and to be serving somewhat larger churches in larger communities with more highly educated members.

(WWM) Less than a week after Niger's president marched alongside dozens of world leaders in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Muslim protests in Niger have claimed the lives of 10 people and destroyed more than 70 Christian churches in the desert nation's two largest cities.

A large proportion of those respondents having much higher than average yearly figures were those having AA groups meeting in their church halls, or otherwise having a close relationship with AA.

Since the relationship of faith about which we are speaking is essentially a belief in Jesus, the entire structure of the Church is obviously larger than simply those who are card - carrying (or basket - contributing) members of a particular Christian sect.

I, too, am saddened to see what many large churches have become, and, I think when someone enters a church with 25,000 members, I wonder how much of the collection actually goes towards ministry rather than the physical structure and upkeep itself.

I have actually found that smaller churches are often more effective in caring for orphans before a watching world than larger churches are.

I suggested in the blog post that no speaker should be a pastor of a church larger than 200 people, that we should call our speakers «Experts on Failure,» and that there should be no green room, lanyards, merchandise tables or honoraria, and that we would end the event with communion.

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.

As to the former, popes have had none for more than a century; and as to the latter, while the financial resources of the Catholic Church as a whole are very large, the pope has direct command of very little of them, and even the entire budget of Vatican City is scarcely more than a mote in Bill Gates» eye.

Is the church any less riddled with hypocrisy, avarice and power - drunkenness than society at large?

Plans are afoot to build a «temple school» for the training of new church leaders, but no major expansion of the church is presently contemplated even though, with a current membership of 213,399, the Reorganization is larger than it has ever been.

To say that there is not unity in the canon and biblical theology, though not everything is explainable since God is larger than we, would similarly disqualify you from being a pastor in our church.

It is smaller than the gap discernible in the 1920s, and only slightly larger than those for the «40s and «50s (see Yearbook of Amen can and Canadian Churches for the years 1920 - 1984)(I have made these calculations without including one denomination on the Carroll graph — the Lutheran Church in America — whose antecedents in earlier decades are too complex for reliable figuring.

The church - at - large was no more forthcoming: fund - raisers sent round the conferences took in less than their own expenses.

they can be more moral than you are the italian mafia were and are some of the largest donors to the catholic church ~ certianily no morality there all the «christian» preachers who sodomize young men, cavort with wh0res, steal all the manna ~ high morals because they are forgiven ~ again and again and again and again... ad naseumn....

Moreover, the churches, as nearly as this study was able to determine, are not devoting much more attention to mental health than is society at large.»

As a result the church often played a much larger role in the lives of the settlers than it had played among them before they came.

But an effective, person - centered church, when known from the inside, is recognized as being much more like a large, busy family than a circus.

If, instead of gospel, what is proclaimed in the churches is nothing more than the kinds of «musts» and «shoulds» and «ought to's» that one can hear from many other quarters — along with the ubiquitous language of «rights» — then we can not expect church people to be any more receptive to such exhortations than are their counter parts in society at large.

It's not that worship has lost its centrality in the larger life of the church, any more than the mighty Mississippi slowed to a trickle in Twain's time.

But in fact they allowed theology to become one academic discipline among others, with theologians writing more for one another and for seminary students than for the church or the larger society.

As is the case in most fringe sects, there is a prosaic clairvoyance which foresees a less - than - enthusiastic response from the church at large.

Although women are now ordained to all three orders within the Church of England (deacon, priest and bishop), fewer than a quarter of those seeking ordination under the age of 30 are female and fewer than two per cent of leaders of larger Anglican churches are female.

This smacks to many of a deep - seated hatred of homosexuals, rather than of a recommitment to biblical principles of marriage, especially in light of the small number of homosexuals who seek to be married in the Church compared with the large numbers of heterosexual Christians who have actively sought divorce.

Those in the spiritual - but - not - religious camp are peddling the notion that by being independent - by choosing an «individual relationship» to some concept of «higher power», energy, oneness or something - or - other - they are in a deeper, more profound relationship than one that is coerced via a large institution like a church.

(6) Have people discover what the bible has to say in community rather than by someone telling them what it says and like someone else said «stop idolizing the bible» (7) Stop making the weekly worship gathering the main part of church — this may mean not having large gatherings every week.

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.

Your experience at present is so much closer to Jesus» command to take up your cross and follow him than if you were living a comfortable life as a rich and famous pastor of a large church.

The fact that such large and powerful churches are led by people who are are more concerned with being seen to be strong and right than with reading the Bible humbly and seriously is scary, and so far from the example of Jesus and the witness of the Bible itself.

By and large, the churches have lived by adapting themselves to the reality of the power rather than transforming it.

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.»

The church is large, the building lovely and in excellent condition; the decoration appeals to me less than the architecture does.

Graham spent less than two years as a local church pastor before joining Youth for Christ, which sent him all over the country as a speaker to increasingly large youth rallies during the 1940s.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

But the church defines «Christian» differently than culture at large, and the distinction is an important one to make.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

That share was much greater than that assumed by the Roman Catholic Church of Latin America, a Church which once had been far larger and wealthier.

Washington (CNN)- Few issues divide the Supreme Court - and the country at large - more than church - state matters, and arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday involving a workplace discrimination lawsuit against a Lutheran church proved especially touchy.

We must also note that the large majority of those who migrated from the Old World to the Thirteen Colonies did so from other than religious motives and that as late as A.D. i8oo less than one - tenth of the population of what by then had become the United States held membership in any of the churches.

The message of this book is that the role of the churches is much larger and more challenging than many of us had even dared to dream.

Today a far larger proportion of our population in the United States are members of Christian churches than ever before in our history.

It is less than the church because it is a product of the church and can be understood only in the context which the life of the church provides; it is greater than the church because it is, by and large, the only record we have of the events which not only brought the church into being but also through which its reality must be continually renewed.