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.
So while the «church» as it is today did not begin until Acts 2, we can say that throughout the history of God's people, there have been
local gatherings of believers to accomplish God's will in their lives and communities.
For several centuries before it came to characterize Christian assembly, a congregational form of organization shaped
the local gatherings of both Judaism and some Mediterranean mystery religions.
Not exact matches
«This «split the baby» approach fails to accomplish one
of the critical requirements
of net neutrality because it allows paid prioritization,» says David Pashman, general counsel for Meetup, a startup that provides a network for
local groups to
gather.
Other students at the
gathering told deputies that the victim, who was rushed to a
local hospital, had ingested alcohol along with unknown amount
of the pain reliever Oxycontin, the sheriff's department said.
Every summer in Bianqiang village in northwestern China,
locals gather for three nights
of Chinese opera.
Again,
local beer festivals have been helpful in building interest in the beers, but many craft and microbreweries are becoming
gathering spots
of their own.
When targeting a non-traditional market, Hogue's team
gathers information from every branch
of local government, and studies key competitors, the regulatory environment and tax rules.
Black also hosted a series
of informal «town hall»
gatherings on college campuses, inviting college students and
local high school kids to talk about how they see their futures.
However, this representative did not explain that this means
of gathering finances often entails
local governments leading a process
of urban gentrification.
Secondary research involves
gathering statistics, reports, studies, and other data from organizations such as government agencies, trade associations, and your
local chamber
of commerce.
But when a
local school principal recently introduced him as a war hero to a
gathering of students, Scardino felt embarrassed.
It is going to be much more difficult for a competitor to enter a business which requires hundreds
of millions
of dollars in startup capital than it is for a retailer, which can be opened for a minuscule fraction
of the cost (e.g., there are very few entities in the world that could start an airplane manufacturer to go head - to - head with Airbus or Boeing, but you and your friends could probably
gather the capital necessary to lease a space at the
local mall and start your own business).
That is why we are hosting our Los Angeles Family Office CIO Summit on June 6th and why we will visit San Francisco for a Direct Investment and Co-Investing Conference on September 26th, because these
gatherings present
local family offices with an opportunity to learn from other family offices and improve their operations in a way that is not otherwise possible outside
of these meetings.
F50 is hosted a private
gathering with Shunwei Capital and a small, exclusive group
of local investors and CEOs
of rising innovative companies.
F50 is hosting a private
gathering with Shunwei Capital and a small, exclusive group
of local investors and CEOs
of rising innovative companies.
The program culminates in an opportunity for you to pitch your idea before a
gathering of local business leaders at the Pre-Accelerator Pitch Showcase which is open to the community.
In those pre-social media days, families
gathered at a
local library serving as a communications center and waited by fax machines for lists
of injured who had been transported to hospitals.
The massive
gathering at a
local bar may result in you rubbing shoulders with lots
of like minded individuals but it will be loud and crowded and not particularly conducive to building real relationships.
From our monarchy to the smallest
of gatherings in the
local parish hall, traces
of the Christian faith are all around us.
Last night, my wife Janny and I had the honor
of sharing a table with a
gathering of local Muslim's for an Iftar meal.
Thinking that God is not involved in the
local assembly
of churches that
gather in an organized way is certainly short sited on your part.
So for the past three years, dozens
of Christians from GKI and HKBP have been
gathering on Sundays to worship in a plaza near the country's national monument and presidential palace as a way to protest the
local government's inaction.
The families
of the trapped miners
gathered in the
local Baptist church.
Each Wednesday, thousands
of us from Liberty and our
local community
gather in the 10,000 - seat basketball arena on our campus, or in the sanctuary
of Lynchburg's Thomas Road Baptist Church, but this week they're both unavailable.
The global - virtual model will over generations inform and inspire new
local models, and maybe we'll once again look like the kind
of organic people and community that simply
gather and love in the Hope.
The formation
of the home leads quite naturally to the
local parish, Tabernacle
of God with men, around which the
local family
of God
gathers for the common life in Christ
of the Eucharist, Sacrifice and Sacrament
of the world.
Every fall, I and several hundred
of my high school - aged peers would
gather in the auditorium
of the
local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.
That's what I
gather, anyway, from a recent edition
of a
local legal newspaper.
This dramatic vision
of the universal church in no way minimizes or mitigates the importance
of the
local congregation, the covenanted community
of God's pilgrim people which regularly
gathers to worship, praise, sing, pray, proclaim, discipline, love, serve, and send.
Find out if your community has a
local chapter
of Black Lives Matter or attend the next Gay Christian Network conference or Reformation Project
gathering.
Bottom line: there is no bypassing the universal communion
of local communions
gathered around the bishop
of Rome.
I like to think that everything from the
gathering of the berries to the raising
of my tinies to the feeding
of the hungry to the advocating for my
local community's needs is a sacrament, and a foretaste, that we embody the Gospel by our roots, too, by our transforming love, by our unhurried community development, by our friendships, by our casseroles, and our wanderings.
This was the Lord's Supper, and it is also likely that this was the primary weekly
gathering of the
local church.
The fruits
of their considerable labors were displayed before an audience
of more than 300 consultants, church executives, pastors and seminary educators who
gathered in Atlanta last March for a three - day conference on «Understanding the
Local Church.»
I think that a «
local church» is nothing more than a
gathering of believers who are part
of the larger, universal church.
I then attended a
gathering hastily convened by the
local member
of parliament - taking place in a room above a
local supermarket — followed by a much larger public meeting with the police later in the day.
My time as a pastor
of a
local church came to an end because it is a scarier ride to strap yourself into than the traditional way
of gathering around common belief.
Christ in us is the one who move's us to support
local gathering places to have resources to take care
of what is needed.
Jill Michel, the pastor
of the
local South Joplin Christian Church, has said that several churches have offered their buildings as space for the Islamic Society to
gather in until they are able to rebuild.
A summary
of a sermon preached in a
local church, and a transcribed discussion
of a group
of church members (three adults and three high school students) who
gathered to discuss the service and the sermon immediately afterward.
The
local church is the
gathering of believers who hold fast our confession
of our hope all the while stirring up one another to love and good works (Hebrews 10:23 - 25).
«Fathers are our first teachers and coaches... they're our mentors, our role models» the President told a
gathering of local students, families and womens advocates.
American Baptists believe that God's intention can be sought and followed in
local congregations and other
gatherings of Christians in associational, regional, national and world bodies as they receive from one another mutual counsel and correction [SCODS].
If the regional and worldwide associations
of Christians were structured according to that paradigm, they would exist as communions
of communions, communions
of local congregations
gathered around the celebration
of the liturgy.
On the other side
of the church stands the rectory, where in a basement room the five children
gather every evening at 7:30 to pray the rosary and listen for the Blessed Mother's voice (the
local bishop won't let them use the church for these vigils).
In fact, events such as the recent world youth
gathering in Paris are organised by the
local church, but more interesting is the reassurance that properly liberal Tablet types would not be caught dead attending, never mind helping to organise, such
gatherings of the great unwashed.
There may be greater catholicity in church
gatherings above the level
of the
local congregation, and that was the case when this sermon was preached.
As the worldwide church tries to look ever more like Jesus, I firmly believe that
local expressions
of the church that have no buildings or paid clergy will become standard, and
gatherings with buildings and paid clergy will become less frequent and more rare.
Combining over 20 years
of experience working in some
of the world's most prestigious restaurants with research
gathered as a consumer and operator
of local supper club Dogwood Table, Hucks cultivates a dining experience focused on seasonal ingredients, accommodating service and a sense
of culinary celebration.