Sentences with phrase «lived by some local churches»

«The risk is enormous, as demonstrated by the experience lived by some local churches.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

(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 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....

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.

By year's end I was convinced that parish life, in these two local churches as much as in my own, was a rich and multilayered transaction that seldom got the description it deserved.

A tradition of local governance that resists both a supine dependence on Washington, D.C. or dominance by remote corporate interests; a patriotism that believes in the noble possibilities of the American experiment; vibrant churches and church leaders who remind us that life is more than our economic or political self - interest» it's not surprising that Lauck finds these features of Dakota life attractive.

After the early experiments by individual persons, the group life of special dedication that we know as monasticism began to grow; so that nearly every geographical area had both local churches for people in general and special Christian communities for monks.

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»

My World Relief colleagues both throughout the U.S. and across the globe are eager to help bridge that gap, living out our mission by empowering local churches to serve the vulnerable.

Christians and local churches act biblically when they examine a confession of faith to see if it is backed up by a holy, God - pleasing life (1 John 4:1; 1 Thess.

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.

Shaped by the Church's services and practices, she brought her local experience of the Church to her online life.

A life filled and consumed with Christianity is not validated by merely attending a few Sunday morning sessions at a local church.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

The magazine also studied a «Here's Life, America» campaign in Indianapolis and Fresno, a multi-media evangelistic campaign based in local churches and drawing heavily on personal contact by telephone.

persecutions were local, sporadic and often caused by mob action than the result of definite state policy Tertullian's idea that «the blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church» became a terrible reality in the life of many Christians during this period.

, Mark Molden writes «What Mark Chester has written in this book delivers a rescue plan for dads like me, which if implemented by the local church, could have a «nation changing» effect on family life across the UK».

The lecture was organized by Gilead Medical Team, a voluntary service group of the Living Faith Church, Iriebe, Obio / Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers.

In «Spotlight» they recreate the true - life story of how the Pulitzer - Prize - winning team of Boston Globe Spotlight reporters in 2002 exposed the Catholic Church's systematic cover - up of widespread pedophilia perpetrated by more than 70 local priests.

Oh yes, Don Jon is living the bachelor life which consists of sexual intercourse followed by loads (no pun intended) of porn, and then to his local church where can be absolved of his sins.

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