Sentences with phrase «many local congregations»

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 leaders of the local congregations).

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..

However, in the case, of the formally organized, local congregation, the congregation has a properly called person to administer such holy acts.

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.

Within both of these churches one can find large numbers of local congregations in which orthodox faith, sacramental integrity, sound preaching, and missions of charity live and flourish.

That is, some people feel that since I am a pastor of a local congregation, I should keep my sometimes heterodox and dissenting thoughts to myself, for the two are incompatible to each other.

Many of us understand the church as the body of Christ, and a local congregation can be a part of that.

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.

Even though in many instances denominational structures had not been formed when independence came, invariably there were networks of local congregations ready to become denominations.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

He reports that in retirement in Arizona he and his wife have found a congenial local congregation.

Shows the church's true intent... stemming the losses in local congregations over the past few years.

Apart from occasional local congregations, the most promising place to begin is with small educational institutions closely tied to the church.

It continues to create awareness in the local congregation that authentic mission and services must originate in congregations through training and human resource development initiatives.

Fresh wineskins, as local congregations adopt new administrative structures.

According to the Cambridge Platform, synods had no real jurisdiction or authority over local congregations or pastors, but now even the Government was no longer interested in enforcing discipline.

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.

The Cambridge Platform insisted that the Church existed in its fullness in each local congregation which selected its own ministers and officers for the church.

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.

The children of the holy experiment found it impossible to maintain the faith without the recognition of a power beyond the local congregation.

The local congregation exercised judgment in such matters.

The local congregation has to budget three month of clearing up the damage, for every day the group is in - country.

«There are valid as well as nonvalid reasons for not permitting a couple to get married with the blessing of that local congregation of believers,» Land said.

Here they have insisted that the national church restrict the freedom of annual conferences with respect to ordination and the freedom of local congregations with respect to the kinds of services they are allowed to hold.

This corporate thrust is made through the direct effort of innumerable local congregations and through the thousands of varied denominational institutions, all of which constitute a manifold witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ as they set forth the fact that there is no human need and no human concern which is not His concern.

The Massachusetts Proposals, 1705, advocated by Increase Mather and his son Cotton, represented an attempt to exercise discipline on all pastors and churches at some point beyond the local congregation.

Massachusetts churches refused to accept discipline and control over the local congregations.

Not only was I asked to speak to religious groups, from local congregations to denominational assemblies, but I was even asked to preach — at a time when I had no church affiliation.

The promise of God's grace made manifest through the symbol of baptism is that we will always belong to the body and no matter of works (which, in my mind, includes the work of attending a local congregation) can change that.

Certainly being an active part of the fellowship of believers matters, but that fellowship of believers is always larger than (and not necessarily always inclusive of) the local congregation.

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

Sean, again it's probably semantics but Paul's missionary work always put him in the context of a local congregation, even if it was one that he brought there with him.

There is more here than meets the eye, and one's local congregation is a participant in that family of faith which endures through the centuries as what Paul called the Body of Christ.

One student remarked that if it had been up to her local congregation to choose and support seminary candidates, they probably «wouldn't have sent me.»

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.

It was the last piece of a 1,000 piece puzzle that finally made the picture clear that I and this local congregation were no longer compatible.

Many denominations have their own experts preparing programs and helping the local congregations in family education.

Sometimes the spirit to be found in secular nongovernmental organizations has put to shame the lack of spirit in local congregations.

Sometimes I'm asked if I will ever pastor a local congregation again.

However, its message thrived in local congregations and in regional associations around the nation.

After a perilous escape and difficult crossing, he and his friends managed to get to the U.S.. His case was taken over by a church social - welfare agency, and one of the local congregations began sponsoring him.

When I pastored a local congregation I was well aware of the fact that most often the visitors were disaffected members from other churches.

I was mainly talking about those who would consider themselves «members» of a local congregation that meets on Sunday mornings.

Smaller and more flexible than most government bureaucracies, local congregations and charities can also spawn creative social innovations that benefit those in need.»

We will be constantly surprised by what has started taking place in the local congregation if we but look.

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

By this he means the tendency to center both practical theology and theological education on the skills that professional ministers need in order to run local congregations effectively.

The demand for higher standards needs to come from denominations and through the hiring practices of local congregations.

One denomination has a program for encouraging local congregations and groups of churches to establish telephone crisis counseling centers.