Sentences with phrase «local congregations into»
More worship songs than ever are flowing out of local congregations into the worldwide Church.
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And what's wrong with funneling the newcomers into local church congregations?
The appalling fact the local ministers confronted was that their parishioners would not accept these new older people into the life and work of the congregations.
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?»
And the vast majority of congregations assume that they can make many (if not all) the necessary choices about how they stitch those scraps into a unique local patchwork.
Local providers, now drawn together by the NCC into the Ecumenical Child Care Network, frequently lament the seeming indifference of congregations.
They're just going to church with their friends, unaware that their congregation is a model for how to be «post» many things (postevangelical, postliberal, postconservative, postmodern) precisely by sinking its roots deeper into the local, the particular and the church catholic.
Second, because the Christian world view transcends local culture, illustrations and references to people from beyond the local situation help the congregation enter into the fullness and inclusivity of that world view.
«For many if not most of the people I was coming into contact with in local churches, talking about their congregation meant citing statistics of one sort or another, or details of particular programs.»
Appended to the resolution are a dozen pages of information on site development, ramps, entrances, doors, stairs and rest rooms, The UCC — on Independence Day 1977 — called on «each local congregation to take affirmative action assuring the full integration of persons with handicaps into membership of the Christian fellowship at all levels.»
The local church or a group of churches may move into various forms of action that from the purist position may seem problematic, but at a given moment these may be actions of enormous importance in giving dignity and opportunity to the people of the various congregations and their neighbors.
Brooklyn congregations desperate for a financial boost are now tapping into the local real estate market as a sort of saving grace.