Sentences with phrase «many urban churches»

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

Groups of young, well - educated, active professionals have gathered in urban churches, smashing the stereotype in many Chinese people's minds of Christians as elderly, infirm, sick, or disabled.

Urban churches grew and prospered as a result of that population movement; but the rural ethos continued to be reflected in worship, organization and mission priorities.

While some urban churches choose to be fortresses within the city, this glassy church refuses to shut out its urban neighborhood, or to be shut out from it.

There are many urban churches in New York and elsewhere successful with that group, especially the young professionals Rimbo thinks will approve of his impending same - sex union.

He remains conservative on theology and sex while admitting that many of his urban church attenders are socially liberal.

The challenges of a number of urban churches in Chicago are outlined featuring diverse intellectual energy required in a changing city.

However, I do believe that urban churches are presented with unique opportunities to model the rich diversity of the kingdom of God as seen in Isaiah 11 and Rev 7:9.

My comment came from a lot of talk I kept hearing about the need for urban church planters to be more culturally relevant than they currently are.

Then yesterday, I read at Chris Elrod's blog that someone at Exponential stated that «Urban church planters care way more than rural church planters about cultural relevance... probably because they need to.»

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

Unlike the later contextualist interpretations of the urban church, an instrumentalist emphasis characterized studies and plans of the 1950s.

In cultured urban churches where a great deal is made of the beauty of the service, there is a constant danger lest beauty be made a substitute for both worship and righteousness.

Pastoral calling has assumed a new importance as the urban church has sought to develop a sense of community among its members.

The bi-vocational pastor might be found in a small rural church, an urban church plant, a house church, or even on the staff of a large church.

Some people tend to denigrate urban church activity, calling it a Band - Aid ministry.

Not exact matches

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Cho describes Quest as «an urban, multi-ethnic, multigenerational church that is compelled to the ministry of reconciliation».

Amy L. Sherman is Director of Urban Ministry at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Va., and author of Restorers of Streets to Dwell In: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcoming).

Listen to Paul Hackwood from the Church Urban Fund having his say on the Archbishop's comments.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

Redeemer is a church that is ministering to a young, urban congregation because of ¯ not despite — the fact that it is dedicated to historical Reformed theology.

C. Christopher Smith lives and writes as part of the Englewood Christian Church community on the urban Near Eastside of Indianapolis, where he is the Senior Editor of The Englewood Review of Books.

For some Wesleyans today the greatest challenge confronting the church is to respond to the diversity of cultures and ethnicities that now characterize urban American society.

Biblicists will no doubt reject this approach as being wishy - washy and insufficiently prophetic, just as some activists have criticized Riverside Church's proposed «center for health of the city,» a think tank on urban problems.

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

Standing in front of his congregation at Ecclesia Church, a congregation he admits is different - more diverse, more urban - than many evangelical churches - Chris Seay encouraged them to do so something he said combines the ideas of sacrifice and devotion that mark the Lenten season, the 40 - day lead up to Easter.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

It has been the means for the transformation of many socially marginal groups in the U.S., from poor rural whites in Methodist and Assemblies of God churches to rural and dislocated urban blacks in Baptist and Church of God in Christ churches.

His church and ours, along with some other ministries here in the city, collaborate to do an urban high school camp every summer.

Many left to plant other churches here in Chicago or for some other ministry venture, and many left by virtue of the fluidity of being urban in the 21st Century.

Spend at least 15 hours volunteering at Greenville - Urban Ministries, or one of the other service agencies which our church helps to support.

The opportunity to confront privilege, bigotry and systemic racism is not exclusively a responsibility of the black church or the more liberal / urban wing of evangelicalism.

In a village the church may still be one of the centers of community life, whereas in urban areas when people move, they may find it hard to relate to a new church.

People make a lot of assumptions about women pastors — that they have to be aggressively ambitious, that they can only survive in a liberal and urban environment, that they can't serve in Reformed churches, that they must devote all their work and writing to defending their call.

In the great welter of urban and rural communes, political and religious collectives, sects, cults, and churches that have sprung up in recent years, there are many interesting developments.

Despite the criticisms, there's widespread agreement that when it comes to church planting in urban areas, the Church of England is experiencing considerable gchurch planting in urban areas, the Church of England is experiencing considerable gChurch of England is experiencing considerable growth.

«Church Urban Fund is working hard alongside other charities, churches, faith groups and community organisations to support those affected by food poverty, isolation and financial difficulties.

But it could be the nucleus of a complete neighborhood, one which has a church community at its enter, and the potential to promote growth in an urban rather than suburban sprawl pattern (much as the most beautiful parts of contemporary London grew in the 17th and 18th centuries around small residential - square developments).

Sam Hailes investigates the successes of church plants in urban areas

While churches in rural areas often struggle, urban centres are seeing more success.

If the suburb was the reverse side of the American family's plunge into the rush, complexity and work of urban life, it was there that people were met and received by the Christian church.

The church therefore would seem to have much to offer the New Urbanist enterprise out of its own long intellectual and spiritual traditions — not least a serious and sophisticated view of human nature and human community, a pastoral mandate to serve rich and poor, and a long history of urban and architectural patronage.

The Church Urban Fund said more must be done to help hard - pressed Britons as figures from its food survey suggest almost a million adults used a food bank last year.

If the experiences of today's church planters is anything to go by, there's every reason to believe that when it comes to urban areas, a long period of uprooting is slowly but surely giving way to life.

Both Kavanagh and Jesuit theologian John Baldovin have shown how early Christian worship was a highly civic affair, just as the Church itself was from the beginning a public, urban institution.