Sentences with phrase «local gatherings of»

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.

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.

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.

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«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.

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