To everyone's surprise, this rapidly became a global
movement as congregations from York to the Lake District had their imaginations reignited by the Spirit and created new ways to worship, make disciples and influence their neighbours.
Not exact matches
Preaching is frequently done to an invisible
congregation because the lights have been turned down; yet the facial expressions and bodily postures and
movements of the
congregation are communications in response to the preacher, and he needs to see and note them
as at least partial guidance for his speaking.
The beauty that Whyte saw in these coordinated crowd
movements is not totally unlike the beauty of a
congregation that understands itself
as a community moving forward together.
His seminary is considered the seminary of choice for the
movement, just
as the large Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Virginia, is the flagship
congregation.
Yet it succeeds remarkably in doing this not only on a world scale,
as is evident in the very existence of the missionary and ecumenical
movements, but in every local
congregation where people of many private interests sit together to worship God.
As someone who has spent and been a leader both in the home church
movement for about 15 years, and more formally structured
congregations for the rest on my life, I can honestly say that there is more than ample room for the Holy Spirit to lead and be rejected in both paradigms.
As a part of a sequence of
movement, pause and stillness, a dancer begins by kneeling, with back to the
congregation.
Because of a traditional Dutch rationalism (which can be conservative
as well
as liberal), it has never made the headway in the Reformed churches that it has in some others, though there are some RCA
congregations in which the charismatic
movement has proved to be divisive.
Most remembered for his expansive, found - object assemblages (known
as Congregations), Alfonso Ossorio was an important part of the Abstract Expressionist
movement, in which Jackson Pollack and Jean Dubuffet were his contemporaries.