Sentences with phrase «of local church»

Iain served on the ICAS Charities Committee from its inception until 2015 and is a treasurer of his local church in Glasgow and of Guidelines International Network.

About Blog The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) is an organization dedicated to assisting pastor in the study and production of biblical and theological scholarship for the ecclesial renewal of orthodox theology, for the renewal of the local church.

If you are caught committing a traffic violation in Church Point Louisiana, you will be issued a traffic ticket on behalf of the local Church Point Louisiana court with jurisdiction over the region where you committed the violation.

We are lead counsel in a significant Maryland case regarding ownership of local church property and the role of trust language in a hierarchical denomination's governing documents.

Born to a poor but close - knit Byzantine Catholic family, young Andy Warhol absorbed images of both the saintly icons on the altar of his local church and the glamorous stars he saw in the movies at his neighborhood cinema.

Situated right on the seafront, just 300m away from Meloneras beach, this five - star hotel is beautifully decorated with traditional Canarian architecture, a reception set inside a replica of a local church, a central square with gourmet restaurant, well - maintained gardens and traditional wooden Canarian balconies.

At just seven weeks old, this German Shepherd mix had been taken from his mother and placed with his brothers and sisters in a cardboard box on the steps of a local church in New Mexico.

As she investigates, Flanagan interviews Roberta Garrick, Henry's widow, who is comforted in her grief by Reverend Peter McKay, rector of the local church and a close family friend.

A lawsuit has split a South Georgia town between supporters of a local church and those who are deeply troubled by allegations of child sexual abuse involving church members.

Even some of the local church groups want to use Above the Line with kids, she said.

In the main section of the film, Plainview drills on the family farm belonging to the Sundays, with grown son Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) as the hell - and - brimstone preacher of the local church.

Brian finds allies in the pastor of a local church (Wilford Brimley) and a wounded U.S. Marine (Jeremy London).

With the help of local church leader Phillip Abubakar, the missionaries make the difficult journey, only to have their troubles compounded by a rebel fighter bent on killing one of their own.

About Blog The Center for Pastor Theologians (CPT) is an organization dedicated to assisting pastor in the study and production of biblical and theological scholarship for the ecclesial renewal of orthodox theology, for the renewal of the local church.

The overwhelming message was that many single people struggle to feel part of their local church.

So... we continue to encourage Christian singles to do the hard work it takes to be in community — both within the larger congregation of the local church AND within a smaller group where they can truly be known and share with others.

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I'm a wife (of 28 years), mom to two amazing young adults, full time Controller of a physician organization, and very active member of my local church.

«The vast majority of people in Britain are not members of any local church, religious group or community, and so to lay such emphasis on religious identities as being the ones most important for encouraging voluntary work or community building is misguided.»

I use the fact of my own Christian faith, and membership of a local church to give an indication to the public about how I am likely to make decisions.

THE BIBLICAL PATTERN FOR CHURCH IS THIS: Every Christian should gather together to hear the Scriptures and worship Jesus together with other believers weekly (see Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Acts 2:42; Colossians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Romans 16:5; Acts 20:20; James 2:2; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 37:17; Psalm 92:13) It is also good to meet for smaller groups of Christian community in each other's homes regularly (see Acts 2:46) It's good to have leaders overseeing the work and needs of each local church — this is the Biblical pattern — not all of us are called to church leadership, and so we should submit to, and serve whoever God has called to lead at the place we find ourselves (see Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5; Hebrews 13:7, 17; 1 Timothy 5:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 - 13; Philippians 1:1 b; Ephesians 4:11 - 12; 1 Corinthians 12:28; 1 Peter 5:1 - 2; Acts 20:17;) If there are believers who are unable for physical reasons to attend a church weekly, they should find a church or believers who will gather together with them regularly for worship in their own home.

No less important to me, and always a big honour, is designing the cover of the local Church community magazine, which comes out quarterly.

Still another creature inhabits the organicist conception of the local church: the leviathan.

Almost all its canons dealt with episcopacy and were authoritatively made a part of canon law by the Council of Chalcedon.4 These canons made clear that the bishops of a province, meeting semiannually in synod under the presidency of their metropolitan, constituted a collegium with a relationship to the metropolitan much like that of the second - century collegiate presbytery in relation to the bishop of the local church.

To me, one must be a part of a local church to in order to fellowship with other believers.

The ministrant became much less an organ of the local church and spokesman of the community before God and much more of a professional cleric, appropriately trained and promoted, even from one parish to another.

While religious broadcasters have continually said that their task is to supplement the work of the local church, there is little evidence of a sustained attempt by broadcasters to do this.

I've been thinking about establishing the shelf life of our particular expression of local church here.

By purposely separating yourself from participation in fellowship, and accountability to biblically qualified eldership, both of which are found in the context of the local church, it would seem that you are out of God's ordained scriptural order.

In thus individualizing ordination Augustine witnesses indirectly to the extinction in the West c. 400 of the older catholic feeling for the corporate ministry of the local church.51 Within four centuries the hereditary priesthood of Israel had been replaced by the indelible priesthood of Christendom, valid not by inheritance and birth but through a kind of rebirth in the solemn rededication of ordination in the descent of the Holy Spirit, an action which also represented a tactile succession going back to the apostles.

In the plot of the local church the story of Christ weaves itself throughout the erotic narrative, sometimes accepting and affirming the church's story as it stands (thus linking Christ and Eros), sometimes teasing (or unfolding) the congregational narrative toward the promise of the kingdom, sometimes prophetically contradicting the erotic story by disputing (thus thickening) its development, and sometimes actually transforming congregational culture by twisting its plot.

He did not specifically cite the congregation as the locus of the worshipping Christian community, nor was he sanguine about the long continuation of any institutional form of the church, but his acuity in aligning the essential faith of Christianity with its cultic expression in specific communities provides an explanation for the present strength of the local church.

Essential as abstractions are to the analysis of the congregation, however, a greater use of story is today required to round out an understanding of the local church.

Story may be more than the mere play of children or the protoscience of primitives; it may relate the essential negotiation of the local church in realizing its own identity.

Only within the symbolic approach does narrative serve an essential role, and this book, rooted in that approach, will depend upon narrative both to examine and to explain the life of a local church.

I have noted several different ways of understanding congregations — as textures, machines, organisms, and idioms, all necessary approaches, and none diminished by the emphasis this book places upon the last image, that of the local church as a dialect.

And my blog: I think I've already lost some readers because I'm no longer a pastor of a local church.

Networks of Baptist moderates, like the Cooperative Fellowship, have sprung up with the stated goals of preserving Baptist principles of priesthood of the believer, autonomy of the local church, religious freedom and separation of church and state.

These types of cultures often — not all the time, but often — can frown on transparency and accountability outside of the local church.

Essential in itself to the worshipping congregation, the Eucharist also symbolizes a larger liturgy played throughout the whole life of the local church.

There was no sense yet of «Catholics» versus «Reformers»; a separate structure for religion was not thought of by Luther or anyone else, But Luther's own theology was now clearly committed to the importance of the local church, the relative unimportance of any centralising religious agency, and a conviction of the positive evil of the papacy as it was.

A group of twelve or more laymen, representing a cross-section of the membership of the local church, are also asked to attend and to remain for a postservice discussion.

The life of the local church was therefore terra incognita to me.

This is a haunting reality that should motivate us all to realize and remember that missions is not one of the many ministries of the local church, nor is it a passion and calling of «some.»

In the last 15 years of being a pastor of a local church, I employed the dialog format for preaching.

The autonomy of the local church and the separation of church and state are still vaunted and familiar hallmarks of Baptist identity.

The magazine in other research asked over 4,000 people in 35 states and three countries why they had become part of a local church.

This behavior is reinforced by the broadcasters» general lack of emphasis on the centrality of the local church to Christian faith and their apparent unwillingness to channel persons who contact them toward involvement in a local church or to encourage local church members to establish contact with the respondent.

But while many churches are actively seeking to address and speak up on social issues, Cinnamon Network founder Matt Bird points out that there are 50,000 branches of the local church in the UK and many remain «too internally focused».

The implications of this alternative counseling service provided for church members must be considered in evaluating the effect of paid - time religious programs on the life of the local church: is it a complementary service or a substitutionary one?