Sentences with phrase «most rural churches»

Yeah, most rural churches say they want to grow, and they think they want to grow, but they really don't.

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Most of the church's ministry was in the hands of coarsely educated rural evangelists.

Failure to develop strong centralized structures can be attributed to polity (particularly among the Baptists), accidents of history, patterns of church growth, migration to the cities by rural blacks and, most critically, lack of money.

For the most part, Transforming Church in Rural America is just another book touting the mega-church mentality, but repackaged for a rural setRural America is just another book touting the mega-church mentality, but repackaged for a rural setrural setting.

The most common issue for small, rural churches is the lack of resources, both human and material.

Rural churches across the country worked with the government to find and vaccinate groups of girls on Sunday mornings, ensuring that even girls in the most remote villages received the vaccine.

This is especially true in small, rural churches, which can provide none of the kinds of support most seminary students have become used to.»

The rural ministry gradually became a stepping stone for young men on their way to more prosperous city churches or a final resting place for the man who had given his most vigorous years to urban centers.

That impromptu acapella worship service in the church bus on a country road in rural Iowa surrounded by the raging storm remains one of the most meaningful ones in my life.

While Christian single interracial dating or married couples can live peacefully in most urban societies of the world, they may still be stigmatized in rural areas, and sadly even within the confines of their own church and family.