Sentences with phrase «more traditional congregations»

Churches embracing millennial - friendly marketing are attracting and maintaining audiences better than more traditional congregations, but their retention rates are still suffering in comparison to 10 and 20 years ago.

If, in the latter case, these followers begin to become a more traditional congregation, then there is a «routinization» and the prophet becomes more like a priest or gives way to a priest.

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However, many of those were older, more traditional churches led by entrenched, autocratic pastors well into their 60s and composed of a congregation and worship style that was far from contemporary.

Healthy congregations in the 21st century will undoubtedly be more «seeker friendly,» but they will balance marketing efforts with a more judicious use of traditional understandings of the church and its ministries.

I see grace and love more and more with people who are outside traditional congregations.

Catholic bishops around the world have been told to make mass more «solemn» by stopping the congregation kissing during the traditional handshake and sign of peace.

Jack Marcum, head of research services for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence of a literal shortage of ministers... We are training more than sufficient numbers of ministers of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»

The closest thing to this today are the remaining «traditional» denomination congregations that are losing all of their young members to mega-churches that offer services with more pizzazz.

I see myself more as a traditional preacher in the Reformed mode who tries to interpret Scripture to the needs of the congregation.

While no such congregation exists in the RCA, a growing number of churches have forsaken the traditional pattern of a quarterly and very penitential observance for a more frequent and joyous form of celebration.

Worship had been almost uniformly stiff and formal and largely dominated by the domine (the traditional Dutch term for minister) to the extent that in many congregations he read the Apostles» Creed and the Lord's Prayer as a solo; in recent years the liturgy has become more varied and relaxed, with a great deal more participation by the people.