Sentences with phrase «of everyone in the congregation»

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The general attitude needs to be that EVERYONE needs to be welcomed and loved at church... thats the job of the congregation... dealing with the issues of someone's life is up to the pastoral staff and unless you're part of it whats going on in someones life is none of your business.

The leadership would have a way of maintaining regular contact with everyone in the congregation, and I could focus on preaching, evangelism, administration, benevolence, hospital visitation, community involvement, and offering common services.

They should have everyone of those people come in, stand in front of the congregation and offer an apology to them for bringing shame upon them as a congregation.

And I remember a pastor giving a sermon once in which he held up a picture of a mom and dad and two kids and prayed that everyone in his congregation would find that for themselves.

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.

It is easy to let small things balloon out of control in a congregation while everyone avoids the deeper problems lurking beneath the surface.

Being Italian, my mother just knew I was going to burn in hell for leaving the Catholic faith, just like every Evangelical knows that everyone outside of their congregation will burn.

If members of a congregation can see that the forces of good and evil in the world affect everyone in some way, but not the same way, then they may realize that all problems are human problems.

The purpose of evangelism in New Testament congregations was not to make everyone the same; it was to offer everyone new life in Christ.

«It seems be couldn't keep his body and his soul aligned,» the young pastor said, and seemed a little lost for words until he left the pulpit, walked over and opened the casket, took out a harmonica and began to play «Just As I Am» while everyone in the congregation nodded and wept and smiled, some of them mouthing the words of promise and comfort to themselves.

Church people, like everyone else in America, have grown up on an ideology of competitive individualism coupled with a sense of loyalty, and the local congregation has been the focal point, of effort.

One is not preaching to «everyone» but to «this people» in «this setting» as an ongoing part of the congregation's struggle to be faithful to the God who has claimed their lives in a special way.

Because ours was a relatively small congregation made up of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.

You and almost everyone in your congregation have no reason to believe and aren't anticipating that someone will choose to become a follower of Christ at every large group gathering.

I only attend one church on a regular basis, Lighthouse of Hope Christian Fellowship in Vancouver, an amazing little Pentecostal congregation where the motto is «everyone is welcome... and we mean it.»

St. Gregory's (of Nysssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco) highly participatory worship may not be for everyone, but it would be hard not to be moved by this congregation's way of continuing the long conversation God has had with humanity.

In Geneva, the Lord's Supper was regarded as a service of the whole congregation that everyone had to attend.

These «men of God» begin to spread lies and false rumors about her to everyone they can, turning most of her family and friends against her, not realizing that they are leaving their own families and congregations open for the destruction they have planned for Sidney.It is with all this going on that God seems to be nowhere in sight, but don't worry... God is not mocked and sometimes He provides help in the most unexpected ways.The Good News Series: Enough Good NewsNo WeaponBlind JusticeLong NightEven MeThird Watch * coming winter 2012