Sentences with phrase «life of local churches»

Even those who automatically are members of state churches undergo baptism and thereafter participate to varied degrees in the distinctive life of local churches.

Part of the life of a local church is the ebb and flow of people, and not all of that is bad.

The enormous variety in the literature notwithstanding, many of the subtleties and nuances of the lives of local churches remained unaccounted for, he felt.

Restoring the gift of the Evangelist to the life of the local church should be a top priority for every leader that wants to have a missional congregation that impacts their community with the gospel.

Either for a season or indefinitely in the life of that local church.

One attitude is to give up on world mission altogether, saying that the era of mission has ended, and concentrate only on the life of the local church.

A single model for structuring social responsibility into the life of the local church is neither necessary nor desirable.

The ongoing corporate life of the local church is not a muddle of atomic incidents connected merely by the regularities of church worship and organization.

Suggestions of the enquirer's becoming involved in the life of a local church were minimal and none of the broadcasters referred the enquirer's name to a local church for subsequent follow - up.

The implications of this alternative counseling service provided for church members must be considered in evaluating the effect of paid - time religious programs on the life of the local church: is it a complementary service or a substitutionary one?

The life of the local church was therefore terra incognita to me.

Essential in itself to the worshipping congregation, the Eucharist also symbolizes a larger liturgy played throughout the whole life of the local church.

Only within the symbolic approach does narrative serve an essential role, and this book, rooted in that approach, will depend upon narrative both to examine and to explain the life of a local church.

Not exact matches

Mark lives in Salem, Oregon, where he serves on the school district budget committee as well as a number of church boards and committees at the local, state, and regional level.

Bernice had left the church in profound humiliation when, as a little girl, one of the more prominent ladies in the congregation insulted her in the local general store, but near the end of her life she had reconnected with the church of her childhood.

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.

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

In studying those topics they learn about many a congregation's life, and they learn too that there are alternatives to the merely contemporary and local stories of a church.

One of the secrets of the swift access the new theology has found into the life of the Continent is that it takes its beginning from the scene in the local church rather than in the university library.

Serendipitously, two weekends ago when he did that, it was a chapter about how discussions of theology need ordinary people to be involved, how well - educated and well - read and well - travelled scholars also need us low church experiential local folks talking about how we see and experience and know God, about how theologians are hiding in every walk of life.

We are committed to our local church and we ridiculously believe Jesus meant all of that stuff he said while he walked among us here on here so we're committed to justice and peace - making in our everyday lives, too — making space for work we believe in.

Roberts's idea (that a local church must be a global church — thus «glocal») may indeed transform American church life, because it is timely: We live in the age of the flat earth, when we can not only communicate around the world, but more Americans than ever have enough disposable income to travel the world.

So while the «church» as it is today did not begin until Acts 2, we can say that throughout the history of God's people, there have been local gatherings of believers to accomplish God's will in their lives and communities.

I have begun to see how astonishingly thick and meaning - laden is the actual life of a single local church.

If you aren't a part of a local church and you claim Christ as important in your life, you need to follow his teaching and add your gifts and abilities to those of others who are trying to make a positive difference in this world and the next.

It is in these events, which often seem to be parenthetical moments in church life, that the local church represents its participation not only in its own story but also in that of God.

It is about the big things: Inviting people to church but loving them just the same if they say «no,» actually making it a priority to participate and serve in the ministries of the church, financially investing in the mission of the local church and yielding to God's direction of my life over my own ideas of how this life should go.

By pairing practical ministries of coaching, career counseling, and mentoring along with the Truth of who Jesus is, regardless of the season of life in which we find ourselves, I believe that the local church can have a real impact on the largely unreached twentysomething population.

We offer groups for every other category of life, but when it comes to singles — if you're past college, there's a good chance you're out of luck when it comes to finding a group to connect with at your local church.

During the week, we will talk to local leaders, workers living here permanently helping local churches, and also some of those who came with me.

As a full time pastor of a local church who loves the Church and God's people and all people, I concur that the Church is often the biggest stumbling block in the potential life of faith in an unbelchurch who loves the Church and God's people and all people, I concur that the Church is often the biggest stumbling block in the potential life of faith in an unbelChurch and God's people and all people, I concur that the Church is often the biggest stumbling block in the potential life of faith in an unbelChurch is often the biggest stumbling block in the potential life of faith in an unbeliever.

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

As to special speakings, sermons, large group discussions, and so on, my general observation is that these are successful according to the degree: (1) that they are competently planned; (2) that they fit both fore and aft into the ongoing life of the organization, be it local church, college, hospital, or some other institution.

Each of the three vital aspects of the Christian church's life — theological agreement, episkopé (oversight which holds together both catholicity and apostolicity) and the local congregation where it all comes together — will be central at Baltimore.

When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a group of well - educated couples who were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings for a freewheeling discussion of life, social issues and various cultural challenges to the Christian faith.

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

To do so, they will examine each of the areas of a local church's life from the perspective of a single, guiding question: How can this area of the life of a church make the maximum contribution to the spiritual health and growth of persons?

If he knows the great tradition he will also know that it is his duty to represent it, interpreting the mind of the Church rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church meChurch rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church mechurch members.

(By the way, I'm an LDS bishop familiar with life in the Church in many parts of the country and the world, so I'm not just speaking from experience in my local neighborhood.)

In the lay academies of the continent, the «house churches» of Britain, the ecumenical retreat centers in the U. S. and elsewhere, in denominational and local church camps, youth assemblies, parent education and Bible study groups, hundreds of persons are discovering the excitement of life - to - life communication in small groups.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

The primary reason apostles were so important in the early church is because they did not have an accurate account of the life of Jesus which they were to follow, or reliable examples of what other local churches were doing, or precise guidance from teachers on how to live and apply the life of Jesus to their lives in their cultures.

Have a chat with your local landlord and arrange a date for your church to provide live music, free of charge.

While such piety might seem more evident among people who live in clans and who honor ancestors, it also characterizes family reverence in societies such as our own.10 Consider the motivation of the crowds that attend Christmas and Easter services in any local church.

The local church is specific, with commonplace boundaries that prevent flights into generalities about the church, humanity, and the nature of the redeemed life.

Aided by judicatory and seminary personnel to whom the congregation seems more beneficiary than source of Christian praxis, local churches usually assume that a more definitive form of church life exists somewhere else.

There are three further reasons why I and other students of congregational life invite a wider probe of the idiomatic local expression of church life.

Such mission begins with a greater appreciation of a local church's own finitude, its own ethos drawn from the world's symbols but particularized in a cultural pattern specific to its own corporate life.

In part, local church people's lack of responsiveness to immediate issues such as the Indochina war represents an earlier failure to provide for social issues in the dynamics of congregational life.

Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.