Sentences with phrase «little church community»

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The church has little proof that they are a cloister; the mil community has much stronger proof.

They have their own little communities and often their own little churches.

Such churches provide a little bit of warm fellowship, but community is where people, as Paul writes so graphically in the book of Galatians, «bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ» (6:2 KJV).

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Little did he know that grandmomma's church has been and will continue to be the cornerstone of the community.

Sunday morning, a weeknight for small group, regular service on a ministry team, occasional church projects and retreats... Add the expectation to be friends and find community with other church members beyond the organized settings, and I have little time left for my neighbors.

I am catholic and many years ago in a little community in Louisiana called Malet we went to church with whites and sat in different areas of the church.

I would go as far to say that the church communities I have known have been, mostly, at least a little better than life in the non-church world.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Eric: Ed, you and I worked on this book together, so I know a little bit of your thoughts on groups and community, but why did you see a need for a book on church groups and community in the first place?

A little over a year ago, God gave us, Cornerstone Community Church, an ethnically reflective church in the small city of Orangeburg, S.C. (that has the greatest BBQ in the wChurch, an ethnically reflective church in the small city of Orangeburg, S.C. (that has the greatest BBQ in the wchurch in the small city of Orangeburg, S.C. (that has the greatest BBQ in the world!)

This little secular community of unemployed people who meet in a church once a week is discovering spiritual truth more deeply than many of them ever had.

As it turns out, very little of the 51 % of the church budget for «missions» goes toward serving the poor and helping the needy in the community.

I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship service I feel) and I talked about that church you posted about once — the one where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?

There is no way of knowing how far this little leaven of ours will go in our big church, now in conspicuous confusion, or in a Christian community in the throes of world revolution.

Too often the church has taken a stance of concern for the world, but has understood itself as a delivered community having little ultimate stake in the fate of the world.

9), the Galilean communities appear to have played little part in the development of the Church, and the apostles and brethren of Jesus seem either to have remained in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem from the time of the crucifixion or to have taken up residence there within a comparatively short time.

I'm there, too, though not because of any childhood church experiences... the town church in our little rural community had kicked my parents out long before I was born.

The problem is that organized religion is as much political animal as any other human convention involving more than 2 people, and spiritual, thinking individuals are intelligent enough to know that churches / mosques / community reprogramming centers actually have very little to do with what one actually believes...

The Danforth Study of Campus Ministries, published ten years ago under the audaciously inclusive title The Church, the University, and Social Policy, has probably had little measurable impact on any of the three communities addressed — which focus respectively on goodness, truth and power — much less on strengthening their linkage with one another.

Or are we hoarding our money and God - given talents in our little safe community church bubbles?

I think about this little online community through every stage of the writing and publishing process, and I am so grateful for all the ways in which you have influenced how I think about the church.

«The bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and the subsequent death of four little girls who were there for Sunday school, shocked the nation with the violent lengths to which racists would go to disrupt and destroy black churches, and by extension, black communities.»

The book itself was little read, but Time magazine featured «the death of God» on its cover and the church was not able to conceal from its members that the dominant cultural community no longer affirmed the reality and activity of God.

The conclusion is inescapable that there was in general a twofold origin of the church, with two centers in Palestine from the lifetime of Jesus down at least to the war under Hadrian, in Galilee, and down to the war under Nero and later, in Judea — and then on into the following centuries, when successive conquest and exodus scattered the little Christian communities far and wide, down to the Mohammedan conquest in the seventh century, and even to this day.

When people enter the community it matters rather little what status they have had in church or society.

Because the Unitarian Congregationalists were usually the leaders in the community and appeared to stand for a more common - sense and liberal position, they had little difficulty in obtaining the support of the majority in the parish and so gained control of the church property.

Therefore, the church must be attentive to the myriad of seemingly little things that it does to make people feel a part of a community — the daily, unspectacular acts of caring and living together: the hospital visit, the covered - dish supper, the birthday card, the hour spent preparing food at the church's soup kitchen.

If women remain at home raising children, they will simply have more time, more opportunities, and more incentives to become a part of a church community, and the stats will continue to be a little lopsided.

I serve two tiny (and I do mean TINY) rural churches that have little to offer except community.

That executives and bureaucrats often act in a self - serving manner and with mixed motives needs no further empirical proof, but we in the grass - roots communities and churches do not have to continue to give our national officers the responsibility for solving everything and then condemn them for solving so little.

At such a gathering as the World Conference on Church, Community and State — the title currently used almost to the exclusion of «Life and Work» - in such a place as Oxford, it requires a little time for the mid-American participant, even if he is not unfamiliar with the scene, to adjust his mind to the serious and urgent issues of the conference.

When the Church finally begins to demonstrate that abuse survivors are greatly loved and valued members of our Christian community, I have little doubt that many of them will be the greatest supporters of those influencing for change in this area.

If domestic abuse is as rife as the statistics indicate, why do we hear so little from victims particularly within the safety of the Church community?

This programme will build your confidence so that you can minister to other little ones in your church or community.

If you pay close attention to your community news, you'll often come across a swap - meet of sorts, whether it's in your local library, a church basement, or in the case of our NYC fave, Little Swappies, at the incredible Avenues private school!

Wrapped in ring roads or peeking above a grey urban swirl, one can often discover - as if they had been lost forever - beautiful, centuries - old little churches that stand as timeless reminders of the small village communities that went before.

«It attacks our schools, our churches, our community, our Little Leagues.

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Sensing opportunity, Plainview sets out with his right - hand man, Fletcher Hamilton (Ciaran Hinds, above right), and young son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dusty Little Boston, a hardscrabble community where the main excitement comes from the holy - roller church of charismatic preacher Eli (Dano again), Paul's pious twin brother.

Thirteen years ago, I first lurched — very hung over — into a little church in one of the poorest communities in California.

The Sweetest Sound is a little unusual in that Cadence's church community plays such a strong role that they seem almost like extended family.

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Covered in this website is the historical background to famous homes, communities, monuments, temples, revered shrines, old churches, quaint little museums located in obscure corners of the city, even roads, old hotels and the areas these hotels are in.

Two of the world's largest platinum mines lie just outside Rustenburg, earning it the nickname «Platinum City», which is hardly a fair description of the city that started out as little more than a church and farming community centre, named as a «place of rest» that still manages to retain its small town atmosphere.

Marking the 50th anniversary of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the photography project pairs locals from Birmingham's black community, young people about the age of the four little girls killed in the blast with a counterpart 50 years older, the age the girls would have been if they had survived.

About Blog AACC is committed to assisting Christian counselors, the entire «community of care», licensed professionals, pastors, and lay church members with little or no formal training.

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