Sentences with phrase «little church experience»

I applied to study on the foundation course at Moorlands College, having had very little church experience.

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Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

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?

This is why all the terrible things I have experienced in the name of love, God and the church are not simply written off as little slips or slights in human error, but significant manifestations of a deeper malevolence that need brutally honest detection and committed treatment.

These religious experiences are not narcissistic expressions serving little communal purpose; they provide both the motivation and the basis for outreach that helps the churches grow.

In denominational systems which rely on placement appointments, an increase in the number of women in senior pastorates is slowly beginning to occur; but in systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency of large churches to call male ministers.

Camus shrugged, «My experience is limited to my early church training and the little bit that you have told me,» he said, recalling that baptism is a religious rite performed by a priest or minister on a baby.

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.

Her ministry is shaped by her experience at a little Presbyterian church in South Boston that welcomed her while she was a student at Harvard Divinity School.

With little experience of church or synagogue, many students have no knowledge of what it means to sit and listen to a speaker or to a musical offering.

The Church is the sphere in which Christian faith is known and Christian life experienced; it is the area in which men and women, captivated by the dynamic appeal of the Lord Christ, respond to that Lord and find their little human existence redeemed and enriched and made significant.

Though we are greatly encouraged by the fact that more and more churches are adopting child protection policies, one common mistake is that that many of these policies are being developed by those who have very little knowledge and experience with addressing child abuse.

And I've seen very large, growing churches excited about numeric growth who were experiencing little of Christ at work.

Experiencing it big time in our little village church right now.

Without getting into the intricate controversies that came a little later in the church, Paul, from experience as a Christian, could think of «the Lord» as God, as Jesus Christ, or as the Holy Spirit.

It's a deeply disturbing experience and one that the presence of the very same figure sitting triumphantly in the middle of The King (2006 - 11), an installation positioned on the ground floor of the gallery in front of a group of church pews as if to emphasis its religious / fetishist status, does little to alleviate.

If you're a little light in this area, then highlight any leadership experience you may have had in professional organizations, a sports league, in church, or any other extra-curricular activities.