Sentences with phrase «not as a congregation»

They, at least not as a congregation, were ready to explore your path.

Not exact matches

Then there was the pastor who demanded that the congregation «fill in the blanks» of a not - so - old song by a guy the minister described as the «dysfunctional poet savant Lil» Wayne.»

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

Sometimes I feel the need to do a cartoon such as this one to show that I do not hate the church or despise pastors and congregations.

If you can not speak to what is right, when you know it is right, then you have no business as pastor to a congregation.

As, islamist extremists do with their own faithful infidels, christians now can't wait to do the same within their own congregation to protect the pure christians from the infected ones.

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

«As I read it, the message of the Christian Men's Movement is this: Following Jesus is not for women only, nor is it merely a spectator sport, which it tends to become for men in our domesticated, mostly female congregations.

It is not clear who will pay for replacement windows, as the National Cathedral still struggles to raise millions of dollars for repairs dating from 2011, not to mention basic ongoing maintenance for a sprawling magnificent church that lacks a strong supporting congregation.

I think I said doing so was stealing and lying, but in any case I said it was wrong, and also pointless, since the congregation is not going to think less of the preacher because he says, «As John Smith says.»

Some congregations began to ordain women as elders even though the issue had not been officially addressed.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

In his 1984 presidential address to the Society of Christian Ethics, Tom Ogletree noted that most Christian ethicists do not see their task as that of providing moral guidance for Christian congregations.

Even while preaching absolute truth, propositions, sin, and hell, Keller will quote the Apostle Paul in the same breath as a quote from Bono, and all to make a point meaningful to his congregation, not to win cool points.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

When the members of the congregation saw me in pain, they ministered to me — not from a distance, but as fellow travelers on the same patch of winding road.

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioAs I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioas well as heterodox, into the congregatioas heterodox, into the congregation.

«There are valid as well as nonvalid reasons for not permitting a couple to get married with the blessing of that local congregation of believers,» Land said.

This corporate thrust is made through the direct effort of innumerable local congregations and through the thousands of varied denominational institutions, all of which constitute a manifold witness to the Lordship of Jesus Christ as they set forth the fact that there is no human need and no human concern which is not His concern.

The practice of psychotherapy as the only real ministry to their congregation has led the Suffragan Bishop of Washington, Paul Moore, Jr., to write: «Too many priests forget their priestliness when they learn some of the basic skills of counseling — or perhaps they have not been trained properly in the use of priestly techniques and therefore are not confident in their exercise.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

One thinks not only of the personnel that the Jesuits and other religious institutes devoted to teaching young men but also of the teaching congregations of religious women, such as the Ursulines, who educated young women in virtue and learning.

The community of Central Florida is not accustomed to hearing white Christian leaders say, «Our concern is for the community as a whole, not just our personal congregations.»

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.

A differentiation among the world views of various congregations such as I have laid out here is not widely employed.

Using congregation members as resources in this way is not only extremely beneficial, but also reflects the importance of the community of faith as the family of God.

Christian congregation; some have seen a theological school as distinct from but interrelated with congregations in ways analogous to the relation in the Reformed tradition between the congregation and its clergy; others have seen a theological school as related, not to congregations, but to a cadre of active clergy for whom it provides «in - service» or «extension» education.

Though isn't it the case that it is the congregation enabling a leader to be like that as much as the leader appearing to be loving but being controlling?

Fundamental to all barriers is the condition of general ambivalence that all human beings — and specifically, here, preacher and congregation — experience in communication: that is, as human beings, we both want to speak and do not want to, and we both want to hear and are afraid to do so.

At the end of my talk, a pastor, who described his congregation to me as white suburban dwellers, said to me, «You know Pastor Mike, I am just gonna» be honest, why don't your people just get a job, stop asking for a free pass and stop committing crimes?

Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.

With God the Father setting the pace and God the Spirit enabling as we go, the church in its local congregational expression can become the body of the Son whose full ministry continues to unfold in the congregation's midst, not as our doing, but as Theirs.

To speak of a «Church of the congregation» (Gemeindekirche), as distinct from the established Church (Volkskirche), is not unobjectionable.

@Brett The early leaders of the church, Popes, Cardinals and Bishops used the generic term «wife» as church, collection of people or congregation because they knew they were about to screw the sheepies over not matter their gender.

So too, congregations may require theological schools as their intellectual centers, but a theological school can not be an adequate intellectual center «for» Christian congregations if its defining interest is to be an intellectual center for congregations.

We are about as far as you can get from a user - friendly church â $ «not because our congregation is unfriendly but because our services are unpredictable, unpolished, and inconsistent.

Sorry, David, I was reading «financial disaster» as on the part of individuals, not on the part of the congregation as a whole.

Just as anyone else in our congregation is not allowed to advocate their sin, whatever it may be.

According to this model, each congregation took a specific neighborhood as its designated mission area and built its facilities deep within housing developments, not on major streets or intersections.

In my years in seminary, I can't remember the topic of heaven, at least as my congregation would recognize it, ever coming up.

I would urge them to think about their congregations from the perspective of social capital, and with the realization that we are in a period when America as a whole, and not just the church, needs to build more connections.

There is everything to commend in the attitude of humility, or thanksgiving, or petition, or intercession before God, so long as the person with the attitude is not usurping prerogatives either of God himself or of the whole congregation of Christians.

I couldn't stand that and in front of the whole of the congregation during his sermon matched his energy with an out bust using the word «eaasy» as in «go easy» to which I saw him physically recoil.

«There are plenty of people there who are not real,» he says, as he acknowledges the growing discomfort of hearing his own name more often on the lips of his congregation than the name of Jesus.

We do not believe by ourselves, as individuals in isolation; we believe as part of a community of believers, whether the community is a Benedictine monastery, a communist cell, a Protestant congregation, a Jewish minyan or a Hindu ashram.

Paul told the congregation at Corinth: «When you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat»; or, as the NEB has it, «it is impossible for you to eat the Lord's Supper.»

A United Church of Christ minister confided that he uses grape juice in his cup while the congregation receives fermented wine — a deception he feels he can not share with his official board or parishioners, but a necessary one following hospital treatment for alcoholism (his absence was reported as a hunting trip in Canada).

I do nt get on my soapbox and preach to a congregation and warn them they will go to hell if they do not believe as I do.

As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate cultural influences or ideological contexts.