Sentences with phrase «long as a congregation»

As long as a congregation seems to surmount its problems of social interaction, it is easy to forget its congregational aspects and to view its members as free agents who spontaneously collaborate to practice high Christian precepts.

Were their sermons valid as long as the congregation didn't know about the secret sinning?

Not exact matches

You sometimes take too long to assert yourself as pastor and leader of the congregation.

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

As long as there is one person of color in a church congregation, it is not segregated, and thus there are many many thousands of churches in America that are not segregated (here in Atlanta, I don't know of anyAs long as there is one person of color in a church congregation, it is not segregated, and thus there are many many thousands of churches in America that are not segregated (here in Atlanta, I don't know of anyas there is one person of color in a church congregation, it is not segregated, and thus there are many many thousands of churches in America that are not segregated (here in Atlanta, I don't know of any).

He would make the entire congregation stand in prayer, their heads bowed for as long as 20 minutes, waiting for someone to be saved.

If Eddie Long was innocent he owed it to his congregation and his position as a teacher of God's word, to «vigorously fight» the charges.

When Justin told one of his pastors that he didn't think the ex-gay ministries could make him straight, the pastor told him that as long as Justin remained celibate, he was welcome to continue worshipping with the congregation, but that if Justin entered a same - sex relationship, he would be asked to leave.

The stories are usually about famous people or the enduring stuff of universal experience, but they can not satisfy the congregation's deepest longing, which is to explore its own life before God in as concrete a fashion as possible.

In a meeting later hailed as «probably the most healthy conversation that ever occurred in the church,» the congregation overwhelmingly voted not to take on the large debt of new construction but rather to remodel what they already had: a long, low fellowship hall.

The place of origin is not important so long as both text and congregation are permitted to respond to each other.

«God Himself Is Present» is no longer a sensible song for a congregation that is regularly addressed as if its members had never felt that God himself is absent!

Even if this ideal is no longer as important to Americans in general, research indicates that the life of many congregations revolves around their reputation for being «a family church.

So, as governments oversee matters of security, we will care for the hurting, calling Christians to embrace refugees through their denomination, congregation or other non-profits by providing for immediate and long - term needs, such as housing, food, clothing, employment, English language classes, and schooling for children.

As I stand before a small congregation to preach and pray I give thanks that others are filled with the same passions, questions, doubts, longings and joys.

The school must not be undertaken, that is, as a brief experiment only; it must be a genuine part of a long - range parish program over several years, with the definite intention of continuing the school so that it will be accepted in time as a normal and expected part of the total life of the congregation.

Again, the evasion is readily applicable to feminist theology: «I can accept women as equals and co-workers in the public world, as long as my wife remains a traditional homemaker; I'll support the ERA, but I won't have to change my own life style; it's all right for women to become ministers, but my congregation will never call one as pastor; it's OK for a few women to come into our system, as long as their presence requires no major structural changes.»

As has been said... some stay too long out of wrong loyalty and, also, not knowing the true definition of what the Church is... if someone goes to the congregation up the road, as long as it is a Christian church, why worrAs has been said... some stay too long out of wrong loyalty and, also, not knowing the true definition of what the Church is... if someone goes to the congregation up the road, as long as it is a Christian church, why worras long as it is a Christian church, why worras it is a Christian church, why worry?

And to what extent is the local congregation any longer able to serve as a school for the creation of a self - disciplined, independent, public - spirited, in a word, virtuous citizen?

That clause has a long history of interpretation that I shall not review here, but it certainly does not mean and has never meant the American state has no interest in or concern for religion, or churches either, for that matter, and it certainly does not me and politics have nothing to do with each other.8 To the extent the «wall of separation» image leads to those conclusions it distorts the entire history of the American understanding of religion and leads to such absurd conclusions as that religious congregations should have no tax exemption and legislative bodies should not be opened with prayer.

Youth can be «indoctrinated», as Hitler did, and as many congregations try to do, but winning their hearts through love is much more powerful and long lasting.

It is possible, therefore, that some of the paid - time religious broadcasters may show signs of becoming more «established,» consolidating basic identities and service functions in order to maintain their audiences similar to an extended congregation, withdrawing their programs from areas that are no longer profitable, and developing as extended independent church organizations in line with their particular theological emphases.

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.