Sentences with phrase «many other congregations»

I do not necessarily know what every other congregation is doing; I only know what my congregation is doing.

There are so many congregations doing the same thing the same way every single week — and the same way as so many other congregations — that people become starved for something, ANYTHING that's at least a change from the monotony.

God's just calling them on to this other congregation.

And what about other congregations?

There he found a minister and congregation sympathetic to his views and determined to retain their independence over against the Massachusetts authorities and the other congregations.

Or merging with other congregations to get critical mass and reduce expense.

During the first two centuries congregations claiming to possess a copy of a letter from an Apostle, or a fragment of a Gospel, or a writing of Paul contested the similar claims of other congregations.

How would the criteria differ were this congregation to adopt the construals of the Christian thing that are explicit and implicit in the practices constituting other congregations that are very different from one another?

Some will be comprehensive and highly structured: This is how this congregation's construal of the Christian thing is best characterized concretely as a whole in contradistinction to other congregations» construals.

Earlier this year, a report by the Centre for Theology and Community looked at All Hallows Bow and four other congregations in Tower Hamlets that have all been supported by the HTB network over the past five years.

There are still standards in other congregations, they just might be different because they are not set by you.

Black tend to be more in Methodist, Pentecostal and Baptist church that does not mean there are no blacks in other congregations.

I quote from the «executive summary» of the report's cold and methodical scrutiny of schools run principally by the Christian Brothers but also by some other Congregations, written after an examination in detail of the documentary evidence of abuse contained in the records of the establishments concerned.

Questions have been asked by church members and at least one other congregation, as is their right in the United Church.

This becomes especially evident when they give lectures to church groups or other congregations of the already convinced and trot out giant «sized Styrofoam mock «ups of mousetraps or other similar toys.

Does this mean you can't reach out to the community with people from other congregations?

They are compatible and I hope that is honored and even becomes a model for other congregations.

Between these two extremes still other congregations assign different responsibilities to different persons through a democratic process in which there is parity of status, but assign different sorts and amounts of power to different responsibilities.

Study of any particular congregation thus inescapably is study of it in its own tradition, in its likeness to other congregations in previous historical periods who share its basic construal of what the Christian thing is all about, what it is to understand God, and so forth (see chapter 2).

Other congregations are deeply concerned about their neighborhood but dislike the «social service» metaphor.

It's interesting to note that the other congregation members that are not being spoken about never turn their heads to make eye contact with him.

They have enjoyed worshipping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, and will choose a church at the time that is best for their family.»

For pastors and churches, this means encouraging loving, open - minded dialogue not only within your congregation, but with other congregations as well... For all of us, productive dialog means reaching out to people whose views and experiences are different from our own and having the patience to really listen to them with a goal of better understanding them and their worldviews.»

Their goal is to help create a tipping point, inspiring more of their members and other congregations in the city and state to follow suit.

Not exact matches

Federico added in a statement to the AP that the office is «vigorously» taking steps to following protocol used by other Vatican congregations.

I'm Christine's partner and thus the other gay member of Frank's congregation.

I don't think about it in our congregation, although I do in any other church.

Although there are those in my congregation that believe my relationship is sinful, the dynamic is a far cry from other environments I have experienced.

Look at ecclesiastical history and you will figure out that the ancient bishops or pastors of single congregations were independent from each other.

How can you say that because Obama takes one stance that doesn't match Christian values, the church congregation must vote for others?

In his conclusion, he calls for additional studies of other orders and congregations in the church: the Benedictines, Dominicans, Franciscans, Pallotines, Ursulines, and others with similarly proud stories of heroism and resistance yet to be told.

Jesus appears to have been followed by a core group of around seventy for at least some of His ministry, but His relationship to this larger «congregation» contrasts with that of the twelve which He lived with for some three years (and others — some of whom only met Him perhaps once, but clearly understood and accepted His care and counsel).

Perhaps Father Rohr's book will spark discussions among church congregations and elsewhere that lead to positive changes in how we try to meet the needs of others, especially the elderly.

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.

Some Evangelicals see the communal office of discerning and teaching the truth in the covenanted congregation of baptized believers, while others see it in a wider synodical or episcopal connection.

They are now active and grace - filled members of other healthy congregations in the area.

I think the other issue is that a lot of Christian ministers suffer from mental health problems but feel unable to share those with their congregation or even more privately.»

The amount of security and commotion that his attendance warrants makes it unfair to the the other church goers in the congregation.

Some will serve in existing AMiE congregations, while others will lead teams engaged in planting new churches.

We are suggesting (with George Lindbeck and others) that it is the task of those committed to the theological enterprise to develop the linguistic skills that can help congregations better understand the common but no less theologically significant activities that constitute their lives.

In this chapter, he writes about how he left the church in order to find the church — not in a building with clergy and a congregation, but in life lived together with other people.

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.

Today 1,100 women elders have been appointed in North American congregations, and the practice has spread to other divisions, especially in Europe and Australia.

This, I learned, happened with other women in the congregation in addition to myself.

Based on the nodding heads of Alexis and scores of other young adults in the congregation, it seemed to strike a chord.

This bully Pastor also targets and does this garbage to other members in the congregation to enforce his personal opinions.

While these authors approach congregations with the semidetached perspective of concerned observers, other writers seek to present paradigms for transformation and renewal.

White pastors (46 %) are most likely to say their congregations are fearful of refugees than pastors of other ethnicities (33 %).

Thousands of congregations around the world — from Lutherans to Anglicans, to Presbyterians, to members of the United Church of Christ and other denominations — stick with this calendar as a way of pulling the days» focus around a common theme.

In light of scripture and the circumstances, he said, the congregation needed to stop in the middle of the service and process together to the homes of the other two families.