Sentences with phrase «met by church»

First, Paul is talking about wages in the immediate context, and furthermore, in 1 Timothy 5:3, Paul writes that widows deserve to be «honored» which in that context, means that their daily needs are to be met by the church.

The abandonment of the church in the city centre gave rise to secularism among the poor as needs were not met by the church.

When society became more stabilized, increasingly the needs of the people were met by churches whether in cities, towns, or hamlets.

Not exact matches

Far from seeking his own advancement, each move up the echelons of the episcopal ladder has been met with surprise by Justin Welby, perhaps influenced by the fact he was told there wasn't «place for him in the modern Church of England» when he first applied for ordination.

He was meeting with an EU delegation in Brussels at a meeting organised by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need.

It can only be met by a robustly evangelical Catholicism that proposes the gospel in a compelling and courageous way, and that insists that public authorities permit the Church the free space to be itself, make its gospel proposal, and offer the service of charity to others.

«Conservative Bishops Laud Outcome of Meeting, Archbishop's Leadership,» by George Conger, The Living Church, 5 February 2009.

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

How is could the Catholic Church (as stated by the author) meet the needs of young people today... there is no welcoming of gay people etc.?

Or are captured by the fact that we meet in a downtown L.A. club called the Mayan, defined by the thousands of pagan gods that cover the entire complex, and label us an emerging church.

Church women's meetings were held in parishioners» homes and announced privately by phone to prevent the wife of the «outsider» minister from attending.

But being hung up on voting every action, a meeting was called after church by the pastor with all the ladies, (what?

1) No one under 18 (maybe even 21) is ever to meet with a catholic church representative without a buddy (a buddy can be a parent, uncle, aunt, sibling over 18, etc.)... at least until items 2 and 3 below are addressed (this is a policy that has been VERY successfully adopted by the Boy Scouts of America)...

I've never met anyone in any religion more convinced of their personal experiences and testimonies than Mormons, yet the entire Christian community outside the Mormon churches dismisses their beliefs as false and their experiences as either delusions or deceptions perpetrated by Satan.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

And in the biggest apology ever for Christian persecution by other Christians, 145 global church leaders met in Albania last year and said they were sorry for having abused each other.

Whether he met her at our church or elsewhere is beyond me (as I said, we were preoccupied by other issues at the time).

Sanctuary Under the Sky, which meets in a high school parking lot in Lucas, Texas, is the third outdoor church launched by Pastor David Ray, according to CNN Dallas / Fort Worth affiliate WFAA.

«We are still confused, including ordinary Muslims, and ask why this is happening,» said the woman, who was interviewed by ENI during a meeting of the executive committee of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, in Bangalore, India.

The meeting is held in the parish house of a church, rented by the AA group at a nominal rate.

As the two Churches faced the tremendous need of the frontier they saw that they could best meet the challenge by co-operation and not by competition.

Remembering with pleasure our meeting in Washington some years ago, I am prompted to write by what I once hoped was a common concern for the unity of Christ's Church and a shared commitment to bridging the chasm that opened between America and Russia during the Cold War.

They met those problems on the new level of an inter-racial, international fellowship entered by free personal choice, but all subsequent Christian history bears witness to the fact that the adjustment between society and the individual, both within the church and out of it, still remained one of the most crucial problems of mankind.

For me, my needs are met in the Church... being fed by the Sacraments I not only kept my Faith alive but it has flourished; it is by the grace of God and all I have to do is bask in his goodness offered freely to me.

Would not greater strength be found for meeting this new challenge by pooling the wisdom, energy, and plans of the Churches?

One steamy night in August 1960, my family was met by the general secretary of the Church of Christ in Thailand as we arrived at Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok.

Methodism came into being to meet individual and societal needs that were not being dealt with by other church institutions, first in England and then elsewhere, especially on this continent.

I believe you have raised a pertinent issue here though with church attendance being likened to a «badge», a sort of measurable physically viewable achievement that people measure community, commitment and faith by — which is sad in a way because the regular meetings during the week aren't always for everyone.

The pilgrims would gather at a church, known as the collecta, where they would be met by the bishop and other clergy of the city.

Seminaries, especially those that have been influenced by liberation theologies, recognize that professional ministerial education should not be defined only as meeting the institutional needs of the churches.

We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.

Some had been hurt by churches and were just wanting to meet in our home when we arrived.

Since the churches aspire to speak in the name of God, they have to direct every criticism, first of all, against themselves, admitting in this way that they are met by the same judgment as those criticized by them.14

Essentially the orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person of Jesus Christ and in the experience of God present in Christian life and worship, the believer was met by very God.

In its thematization at the 1983 Vancouver Assembly, the phrase integrity of creation was clear in general implication but lacking in exact definition.2 In meetings of the Church and Society Working Committee, the phrase has come to name the intrinsic value that each and every living being has in and for itself as a creature loved by God, and the instrumental value that living beings can have for one another and for God as instances of an evolutionary and web - like creation.

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.

A series of meetings organized by the Full Gospel Church in Kenya (FGCK) at Afraha Stadium, Nakuru, ended with leaders of the church reaffirming their total support and confidence in President Daniel arap Moi's leadership, the government and the ruling party,Church in Kenya (FGCK) at Afraha Stadium, Nakuru, ended with leaders of the church reaffirming their total support and confidence in President Daniel arap Moi's leadership, the government and the ruling party,church reaffirming their total support and confidence in President Daniel arap Moi's leadership, the government and the ruling party, KANU.

Immediately following the New Orleans convention, members of the Southern Baptist Executive Committee — a body of seventy - seven members appointed by past and present presidents to carry on the business of the church between annual meetings — demanded the resignations of the director and news editor of Baptist Press, an agency charged with writing and distributing news stories concerning Southern Baptists.

Both kinds of church goers — those who fulfill their weekly duty by attending the Sunday morning service, and those who gorge themselves on a weekly smorgasbord of services, Bible studies, and prayer meetings — have the same problem.

While agreeing with the Latin American bishops that the new churches were supported by «powerful ideological forces as well as economic and political interests [in the United States],» the document admitted that the evangelicals were fulfilling «needs and aspirations which are seemingly not being met in the mainline churches.

She also spoke about her meeting with an Iraqi priest who gave her a Bible saved from a church which was destroyed by Islamic State.

The statement, read at the closing session of the annual meeting by the FGCK secretary general, Rev Simon Kariuki, added that the church supported the Nyayo Philosophy of peace, love and unity as expounded by the president.

Many churches that own buildings seek to justify the cost of the building by holding every possible meeting and outreach within the building.

Many people are still hoping that the church can meet the new challenges dramatized by the rising consciousness of women in search of spiritual rebirth for themselves and for all of human society.

But the church did try by meeting with, praying with, and offering a hand up.

There is a kind of research and development climate produced by continuing to seek better answers to, How can this church meet the growth - healing needs of its congregation?

I could give a clarion call to the minister to be the minister, as the church is to be the church; and cap the climax by allocating all financial matters to a business administrator, all telephones and letters to a host of efficient secretaries, all committee meetings to something known as a «responsible laity,» and all denominational program materials to limbo.

This was brought sharply into the foreground by the discussions of the main theme of the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches which met in Evanston, Illinois, in 1954.

Seeking, said their reunion plan, to create a church marked by «diversity and harmony, liberty and love,» both assemblies met in Pittsburgh in separate halls from which their members marched to opposite sides of a broad avenue.

In Crooked Heart, a first novel by Cristina Sumners (herself a parish priest), we meet Kathryn Koerney, rector of a small church in a New Jersey college town that resembles Princeton.