Sentences with phrase «local church body»

Before any local church body can act in this way, you must first choose to live this way.

For some, valuing the congregation is an outgrowth of their Christian faith; for others, the congregation is simply the most interesting social institution that they've ever got their hands on; for still others, the local church body is a microcosm of the human condition.

Not exact matches

He has learned to recognize the «toxic dance steps» that the local church leaders signal: the «Be a Servant Until you Drop» square dance; the «Do not Question the Leadership» waltz; and the «Local Body is Us, is God, is You» self - identity - absorbing slocal church leaders signal: the «Be a Servant Until you Drop» square dance; the «Do not Question the Leadership» waltz; and the «Local Body is Us, is God, is You» self - identity - absorbing sLocal Body is Us, is God, is You» self - identity - absorbing salsa.

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

I think my main concern was that Rainer seems to ignore or pass over the importance of being committed to the «Body of Christ» and emphasizes instead the importance of committing to a local «church group.»

Many of us understand the church as the body of Christ, and a local congregation can be a part of that.

There is responsibility in being a church member both the local body and the universal body.

He seems to imply that if someone is not committed to a local church group, then they are not committed to the universal Body of Christ.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds of God's people as the corporate worship not just of the local but of the whole Body of Christ, the universal Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:

With God the Father setting the pace and God the Spirit enabling as we go, the church in its local congregational expression can become the body of the Son whose full ministry continues to unfold in the congregation's midst, not as our doing, but as Theirs.

«Are we a global church, or are we a federation of local bodies?»

Local video footage shows the church strewn with broken furniture, blood and clothing; witnesses described seeing bodies and parts being removed from the church building.

The Conference Message declares:»... many expressions of mission lead to unethical forms of coercion and proselytism which neither recognize the integrity of the local churches nor are sensitive to local cultures... We therefore commit ourselves to promote common witness and to renounce proselytism and all forms of mission which destroy the unity of the body of Christ.»

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

But I'm not sure about just ditching the idea of a vision that the Body has (I'm talking local church)... I mean, although I want sometimes to ditch it, I can't find justification in Scripture.

Bodies like the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God were built up by a complex agglutinative process as various independent ministries, small groups, and local or state associations came together in merger.

Considered autonomous churches, these congregations freely associate with the SBC (a national body), other national Baptist bodies, state bodies (generally known as state conventions), and local bodies (generally known as associations).

As church members gave to their local congregations, those congregations passed a portion of their receipts on to the state Baptist body.

The identity of the local church is, in turn, strengthened by an awareness of sharing in larger circles of identity — the denomination, other branches of the mystical Body of Christ, and in the largest circle — the family of God.

The key term — ecclesia — was used for the local congregation as well as for the total community of the followers of Christ, his «body,» the church.

I believe that the church is simply, theologically, the body of Christ, the communion of saints, the fellowship invisible manifested in local congregations.

In 1834, during the Turkish period, local Muslim police on Easter Sunday collected bodies stacked five feet high at the church entrance, near the spot where the Virgin stood during the crucifixion.

While it is true that many denominational bodies and leaders protested vigorously against our government's Indochina policy, it is all too evident that by and large the local churches failed to confront the theological and moral issues of the war.

Were it to recognize its own structured custom, a congregation might find in other societies, bodies in their own right, a strange consonance, distinct but bonded to that local church in a similarly symbolic toil for community.

I don't care if it's the LDS leaders, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses, The Unification Church, Orthodox Church, Amish Bishops or your local priest, pastor, imam or rabbi — men love to control other men and tell them what to believe, how to dress, what to eat, what to wear, who to marry....

My explorations along this new path, leading, I hope, to insight into the structures of expression in local churches, form the body of this book.

A consultation convened by the WCC in cooperation with the Innere Mission of East Germany's evangelical churches issued this statement: «We affirm the continuing need for institutions in which the most severely disabled experience help, protection and care, even while at the same time we call for the integration of the disabled and the able - bodied within the local congregation.»

Theologians such as Joseph C. Hough have since insisted that the congregation needs to be analyzed «in the light of the universal theological dialogue in the church about the mission and ministry of the church as the body of Christ in the world» (in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry, 112), but most theological studies of the church since 1970 do not analyze the local church.

And whatever «form» of church one attends (small group, house, small local body, mega-church) has some form of leadership (some good, some not - sThe biblical issue isn't, in my opinion, about whether women can teach in a church — it is the issue of qualifications for elders.

Urbanization has called forth two types of reaction in Protestantism: first, the church and the ministry have devised numerous means of reaching out to all kinds of people and groups in the cities; and second, attempts have been made to strengthen the inner fellowship of the local church, to bring about a genuine community in which each individual has a sense of being a member of the one body.

But considering the vast number of churches that do not acknowledge the problem, it seems that most denominational bodies and local congregations are in denial — the primary symptom of a dysfunctional person, organization or system — even though one substance - abusing minister can sicken, dishearten and dispirit an entire church just as one alcoholic can infect an entire household.

So when a local gathering of believers is trying to decide whether or not they are accomplishing God's will for the church in their community, they must not look at the numbers of bodies who sit a pew, the amount of money collected in the offering, or the square feet of the building in which these things take place.

How to define it properly continued to worry Melancthon, and he continued to try to see the reformed local churches in Germany as bodies that should really be in communion with the rest of the western Church, centred in Rome.

The New Testament example is for the local body to train and raise of their own leaders and the leaders for new missionary churches.

Millennials who are able to distinguish between the body of Christ (church) and the local building / assembly (church) recognize the difference between being the church (Christian) and doing church (adherent).

Much is made of the metaphor of the body as a pattern for organizing the local church.

But all churches share the challenge of inspiring local bodies to care intelligently about broader national and international moral problems.

These sectarian as well as para - and extra - and occasionally anti-ecclesiastical developments have put a severe strain on a number of local congregations and church bodies.

Scripture does say that marriage is to be upheld — but does it say that that kind of loyalty and bond is supposed to be there in a local body or «church?»

Stop Dating the Church by Joshua Harris calls readers out to wholeheartedly commit to be engaged in a local body of Christ.

From our humble beginnings renting space in a local church for 77 6th - 9th grade students, we have now moved into our own campus which will easily accommodate our growing student body of close to 500 students this year.

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