Sentences with phrase «much smaller churches»

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

Not exact matches

But while our communities and churches certainly benefit from photographers, artists, writers, musicians, artisans, chefs, carpenters, fire - fighters, hard - laborers, entrepreneurs and small - business owners, those who have found themselves in a corporate gig have just as much to contribute to both the Church and the Kingdom as any other talented individual.

The late 1980s merger of the old American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC, a much smaller body that broke earlier with the Lutheran Church» Missouri Synod) resulted in an organization of 5.3 million members that has been producing red ink, membership losses, and general demoralization since its start.

But, if a small or large church is not welcoming, no matter how much they say there a there for the community, it's not welcoming if the people don't care that you are there.

I share my talents generously to my church, and have never requested any payment for them, I pledge as much as my limited finances will allow, and spend much time at my church, instituting new worship programs (as my priest requested), and yet I am constantly criticized for the smallest «infraction» by this same person.

For all churches, large or small, my exhortation is to think biblically about how the church might make much of Jesus, multiply and grow disciples, and, ultimately, die and be forgotten.

I guess I'm also trying to account for how similar patterns get played out on a much, much smaller scale in local churches the world over.

A total of $ 125,000 was donated by a few members of the church to be given to members after seeing the results of a similar experiment with young pupils who used much smaller amounts of money.

I think of Rachel and Ed, who were devoted to their small church community, giving it much time and love.

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).

The observable world was much smaller, and the penalty for not kowtowing to the church was much, much higher.

While this can separate some churches too much from society, it can also assist the small church in living on the margins of society, where opportunity for mission knocks.

Aside from one or two, the vast majority of these house churches sound almost identical to any other church, except they are much smaller, meet in a home, and don't have a pastor.

I think smaller churches usually pay their pastors much less, but in those churches, the pastoral salary often eats up 70 - 80 % of the budget.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

Having been involved in church planting, I have seen how communal small churches are, how much the members have access to each other.

I know this is an older thread, but our VERY small church is trying to decide how much we should pay our pastor.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

But what must be admitted is that there is quite a gap between the list of «Christians» on church rolls or in church pews and the much smaller list of Christians in whom the Spirit of God is working.

At a small Hartford United Methodist Church we heard, «I think that's true across the U.S. People are no longer loyal to a denomination so much.»

(3) The small and failing Q community knew about the much more successful gentile church.

Pioneers often go it alone or with a much smaller crowd and if you think about it, we probably wouldn't have much of the advancements we have in the world today (even some of the changes in the Church) if pioneers listened to the naysayers.

10 Church Street Small Town, U.S.A. Dear Pastor: It was only after much hesitation that I decided to write you this letter.

When I walked in, my very first reaction was that the church was much smaller than I thought it would be.

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 peChurch's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 peChurch is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 peChurch are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 peChurch, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 pechurch teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

Find out how much he spends on clothes, or cars, or houses, and don't forget to look at fringe benefits from the church, his personal income may be small, but like many CEOs, he may be getting benefits that outweigh his salary.

If we had a better quality of religion in our homes and churches, we would have a much smaller problem with irreligion outside them.

I love the idea of joining a completely new church, though, one I've never attended, maybe much smaller, maybe much larger.

While overall audience size is much smaller than claimed (in 1980 Jerry Falwell boasted 25 million when he had no more than l. 4 million viewers), the cultural impact of the electronic church has been

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

It may be that the church's role will be much smaller than that of others.

If the gospel were authentically preached and lived, he writes, «our churches will of course get much smaller than they are.

Small churches perform these vital functions as well as big churches do and frequently much better.

Some of our clergy are paid four or five times as much as those who work in rural or small - membership churches.

On average in a small church the attendance at worship represents a much higher percentage of the membership, the stewardship is better per member, the instruction is in smaller groups and may therefore be more effective, and leadership development is much better because there isn't pressure to function on a «professional» level.

The new nation which arose to the north of the United States, in British North America, while much smaller in population than its neighbor, had a larger percentage which claimed a church connection.

A much smaller group of executives and elected officials think a publishing program that aims to reach not only the denomination's members but also the broader public is itself an important form of the church's mission.

We do this for a couple of reasons — to acknowledge that our small church is part of a much bigger Church and to remember that our young community springs from a very old Commchurch is part of a much bigger Church and to remember that our young community springs from a very old CommChurch and to remember that our young community springs from a very old Community.

However I have seen small churches do this just as much as mega churches are accused of it.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church is facing very hard times.

Though it has had almost no strength in the CRC and only a small representation in the RCA, it has had a much larger effect on the worship of both churches than its numbers would seem to indicate.

It's hard to gauge how many Americans fit this description, but if one uses the number of Evangelical Christians, it's a much smaller figure than the one Tilson's banking on (about 20 % of Americans are affiliated with Evangelical churches).

I do have a small dog who I love it very much so must love animals and grown kids.lol I am a Christian go to church every other Sunday, pray every night before I go to sleep.

Much... Christian churches & ministries from large denominations to small home church links can be found here.

It's a gloriously written film, with jokes that are crafted rather than excavated from reams of on - set improvisation1; the success of the punchlines is scattershot and up for debate (connoisseurs of the Borscht belt should find much to admire, but a rehash of Lloyd's lovesick daydream flatlines, due in no small part to an overestimation of the comic chops and kitsch appeal of Honey Boo - Boo's mom), yet there is something bracing about its structural classicism after the last few years of watching the Church of Apatow whack off.

My first long hike began the next morning as I ventured west, past a number of little churches (India is much more Christian than I expected) and away from the main roads into thicker forests along progressively smaller paths.

The Ball Court was close by to The Church and looked like the typical Mayan ball court that I had seen at other ruins sites but on a much smaller scale.

For a start you find the inflatable raft in a box in the school's attic, which is much closer to the church than in later games, while the traversable water area is considerably smaller.

Between 1901 and 2010, global sea levels rose by 0.19 ± 0.02 m, albeit at varying rates and spatial distribution (Church et al. 2013)-- these past values (including their uncertainty) are potentially much smaller than those associated with future projections.

Once again I am blown away by how you take things that are so ordinary (i.e., candles, raffia, Goodwill finds) and turn them into extraordinary... Thank you so, so much for the inspiration and also the photo... There's a small white church I pass on my way home from work each day and I am always tempted to pull over and snap a photo but I kept tellling myself it was a silly idea....