Sentences with phrase «new congregation»
The phrase "new congregation" refers to a group of people who have come together to worship or practice their religious beliefs, and this group has recently formed or been established. Full definition
The relationship between contemporary forms of worship and membership growth is as strong for older congregations that changed their worship patterns as for new congregations that have used contemporary forms from the beginning.
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The demand of seminaries today is for pastors with skills to do quite specific things: organize youth groups, start new congregations, attract young adults, and so on.
Café churches, network churches, new congregations within existing churches and missional communities will all be deployed as a way of reaching the 91 % of Londoners who don't go to church.
Hence the strategy among UK churches has tended towards planting new congregations rather than creating single behemoths.
Suburban churches can generously host new congregations, and partner with them prayerfully and financially.
With its recent addition of 89 new congregations due to the slow break up of the mainline Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA), the EPC is the elephant in the room of the New Calvinism since it reflects the charismatic and revivalist impulses while also being firmly committed to allowing Presbyteries and local churches to ordain women.
The denomination has recently raised a $ 5 million church growth fund, part of which is to be used in developing new congregations in the Sunbelt, particularly in Texas, where up to this point the Reformed Church in America has been totally unrepresented.
With some ambitious new paintings waiting in the wings, Schulnik is eager to unleash a whole new congregation of her trademark hobos, clowns, cats and wilting flowers.
In America all churches had to begin as new congregations.
It was as though he had been swallowed up by the city and his new congregation.
A young rabbi found a serious problem in his new congregation.
Without exaggerating the piety of that primitive church, I wondered how my new congregation had come to its sorry pass.
The latter is being realized in the new congregations of believers in Jesus.
Thankfully, the elder board in my new congregation saw things differently.
In other words, if the church has lost its purpose, the best thing may be for it to give up its facility and let somebody with a purpose use the space for the glory of God in a new congregation.
How the competences of the many minor dicasteries that will be subsumed into these new congregations will be arranged is yet to be decided.
Mine was about a year long when I got seriously nudged into getting back into the ministries I had before the departure and change to a new congregation.
The new congregation later aligned itself with the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA), which is connected to the Anglican Church in Rwanda.
The new congregation...
The ecclesia is the new congregation of hope.
We wonder what he is thinking as he turns away from the boat and faces the fearful crowd, the men, women and children of his new congregation.
It is also one of the fastest - growing Lutheran church bodies in the world; in 2016, they counted about 4 million members, and they are opening a new congregation every week.
Have you been to any new congregations?
«This project will share the Good News with people living on our urban estates by planting a number of new congregations.
Beginning in 1975, a new congregation grew up around me.
To communicate effectively within the new congregation the pastor must master its particular language.
Sociological confirmation of the heterogeneity of congregations within a single denomination is found in the various articles of James D. Davidson listed in chapter 2, n. 22, of this volume; in Donald L. Metz, New Congregations: Security and Mission in Conflict (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1967), 25; and in William H. Anderson, «The Local Congregation as a Subculture,» Social Compass 18 (1971): 287 - 91.
Strangely, as the old churches in Pittsburgh are turning into music venues and brew houses, many of the new congregations are moving into store fronts.
«Most of these new congregations are renting facilities from schools, community centers or other churches.»
We are starting a new congregation in another part of the city.
Suddenly throughout America's denominations, almost as if by divine fiat, a moratorium on building was declared; new congregations were discouraged, and questions about the meaningfulness of many church programs were articulated.
Those things were clearly written into the vows we said at ordination, and are repeated in the services of covenant that take place whenever we am settled with a new congregation in The United Church of Canada.
Assigned there by my denomination to start a new congregation, I started out with a fair amount of confidence and energy and with strong personal, organizational and financial support.
He suggests that the best church growth is possible with a new congregation which has no building to outgrow, and which can be intentional in its description of church membership before people start joining.
A unique opportunity to study the effectiveness of television in contributing to the growth of a church was provided in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1974, where the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination strategically planned for the establishment of two new congregations.
The new congregation combined perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with missions at home and abroad.
Robert Schuller began his ministry in 1955 when the Reformed Church in America sent him to Orange County, California, to begin a new congregation.
My only complaint: The Apostle suffers from poor editing, most notably in Sonny's last session with his new congregation.
With The Lazarus Foundation losing members to a new congregation headed by a former Satanist, Dennis Fontaine (Will Forte, Last Man on Earth, Nebraska), Lazarus needs some physical evidence to woo the current membership and bring in younger people.
The film focuses on the Herculean efforts of pastor Jay Reinke, who has turned his church into a makeshift home base for the new arrivals — to the chagrin of the facility's neighbours, who are skeptical about the men's scruffy appearance and possible criminal backgrounds, and the open hostility of the town newspaper, which wages war on Reinke's new congregation by publishing a list of former sex offenders harboured in the church as well as in the pastor's own home.