Sentences with phrase «local congregations do»

But local congregations do not necessarily merge just because their denominations have merged.

Campus ministry and fellowship groups are not merely clubs or think tanks; they are parachurch organizations, meaning that they serve students in many of the same ways a local congregation does.

Not exact matches

Lastly, I beg you, please do some research on me and actually talk to more people besides your local congregation about why they believe.

The reason I find that line of reasoning hard to believe is because people don't willingly choose to be ousted from their families, jobs, local congregations, shamed by society in general, hated and even killed for their lifestyle, live a life of denial, etc..

Evangelicals maintain that the one Church becomes visible on earth in all local congregations that meet to do together the things that, according to Scripture, the Church does.

In the local congregation where women did not ask for and were not allowed legitimate power, there was present this other «behind the scenes» power and its demeaning sexism.

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

IOW, that seven day mission work your US - based church does, requires 21 months of work by the local congregation, fixing things that were broken by that US - based church's trip.

When I pastored my last local congregation, we didn't have a vision statement.

However, I do not take this to mean that it is necessarily a healthy choice, nor that I should no longer advocate being a part of a local congregation.

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.

Or a rabbi poses this problem, «With all the other things I have to do, how can I guide my congregation to gear into local mental health strategy?»

Still, many conservative congregations, particularly Southern Baptists, have pledged to cut ties with local troops, and some pastors on Wednesday called on the entire denomination to do likewise.

I had a hunch, based on my own work with local congregations, that in the «mainline» Protestant world that I know best, lots of laypeople really do want to think seriously about their faith, and somehow they aren't getting enough help in doing that well.

But so do ecumenical agencies and local congregations.

But the question is: What do local congregations need most today, agitators or negotiators?

Volunteers, local congregations and the web can do the job, if and when needed.

So closely do local churches accompany the growth and perpetuation of Christianity that their structure may seem an apostolic invention, but the followers of Jesus founded only particular churches, not the pattern of the congregation itself.

Concerning the lack of vision, this is how it worked for me: When I pastored my last local congregation, we didn't have a vision statement.

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.

If a local congregation announced today that it planned to close its church school because it did not see the Christian education of children as the legitimate task of a church, that announcement would, I suspect, produce no little criticism and consternation.

As God laid a prophetic mantle upon the prophets he called in the Old Testament, local congregations could do more to affirm and confirm callings today (including commissioning those who feel called to leave, as God guides them).

Yet it succeeds remarkably in doing this not only on a world scale, as is evident in the very existence of the missionary and ecumenical movements, but in every local congregation where people of many private interests sit together to worship God.

Seldom are the complexities of energy issues seen in moral terms, and seldom does energy appear high on the church's ethical agenda, especially within the local congregation.

This way of doing college and university ministry will require rethinking not only by campus ministers and their boards,, but by local congregations and judicatories, all of which need to understand that the church on campus is an extension of — not an annoyance to or a competitor with — the local church.

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.

I plan to visit mosques in Bradford on 18th February with local clergy and congregation members, and I warmly encourage others to do the same where they are.»

Here in the world, the church becomes visible in all local congregations that meet to do together the things that according to Scripture the church does.

Same is being done today... God is now giving the «bread» to people outside the local congregations all around the world.

Leadership responsibility in the church belongs in the hands of those who place the church first in their lives, Schuller insists, and «no matter how dedicated the members of a local congregation are, the church does not take first place in their lives.»

Adherents can and do choose to leave the local congregation.

By being hospital based, it did not begin with the local community and the Christian congregation and return there.

He did not specifically cite the congregation as the locus of the worshipping Christian community, nor was he sanguine about the long continuation of any institutional form of the church, but his acuity in aligning the essential faith of Christianity with its cultic expression in specific communities provides an explanation for the present strength of the local church.

«Christians are generally against a casino coming to this area and many congregations have discussed the issue because they are concerned at the damage that can be done to individual families and their local communities.»

Even as neighborhoods diversify, local congregations typically do not.

So... we continue to encourage Christian singles to do the hard work it takes to be in community — both within the larger congregation of the local church AND within a smaller group where they can truly be known and share with others.

Because of a person's age, profession, or the size of congregations or local communities, many believe that there are limitations in the number of possible romantic matches; however, this does not have to be the case.