Sentences with phrase «life of the local church»

Even those who automatically are members of state churches undergo baptism and thereafter participate to varied degrees in the distinctive life of local churches.
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.
Essential in itself to the worshipping congregation, the Eucharist also symbolizes a larger liturgy played throughout the whole life of the local church.
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.
A great deal of their nonwork and nonfamily activity after college and before seminary is related to the life of a 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.
There is a reason that the local bishop is more central to the life of the local church than any remote pope or denominational head quarters.
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.
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.
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