Sentences with phrase «of local churches»

About Blog Georgia Baptist Mission Board Worship and Music Ministry exists to strengthen, enhance and encourage the praise and proclamation ministries of local churches.

Then check out some of the local churches across Canada.

My parents often talk about when they went to one of the local churches and Brian was speaking for the MP Phillip Whitehead (who was a good friend of the Cloughs).

The first «bishops» in the monarchical sense were bishops of local churches; they were not diocesan superintendents in the later sense.

Having now left the UMC, the congregation remains part of the Wesleyan Covenant Association, a growing network of local churches who want to maintain a more conservative theological profile.

The necessity of proximate opportunity for behavior expression will be seen to be a major issue in considering the contribution religious television programs are able to make to the growth of the membership of local churches.

television programs increasing the membership of local churches?

Also, hundreds of local churches have services aired on local radio and TV stations.

There are several ways in which religious programs on television may be effective in building the membership of local churches: One is by the addition of new members, the other is by the reactivation of old ones.

In many ways the problem was and still is how to provide close representative connections between local churches and national policies: education curriculum, youth work, national ministries, and international ministries, etc, without the insights of the local churches being filtered through states and regions in a typical connectional system.

Practically, the resources of the local churches offer valuable support and service opportunities that can not be provided by the religious broad - casters in their highly centralized and generally impersonal structures.

As noted, the majority of the audience of religious television programs are people who are already actively involved in a local church and there is therefore little empirical evidence to support the contention that religious programs on television are «draining people out of the local churches.»

National denominational offices and interdenominational organizations need the understanding and support of local churches and their leaders as they attempt to act as leaven within the loaf of social communication.

But there are real needs in the community that ten years ago, none of the local churches were meeting.

I admire what I have read of the work of some local churches in Chicago.

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

We further observe that sometimes parts of our churches have subjugated the spirit, mind, will and voice of our people, particularly when Christian media initiatives invade other countries and cultures without an understanding of the life, realities and involvement of the local churches and Christian councils in a particular nation.

Further, it is being recognized that the Spirit's work also involves the bringing about of righteousness, peace and justice (cf. Isaiah 32:15 - 20), and that this is accomplished through the collaboration of local churches (or the church catholic) rather than through individual members.

Have Pentecostals so focused on the witness of the individual member that they have neglected the corporate witness of local churches and of the church catholic?

«Neither the stereotype that people in seminaries have of local churches nor the stereotypes the churches have of themselves hold up very well if the congregation is really studied carefully and conscientiously,» she says.

The elders of local churches are a good reference point in the New Testament.

Even those who automatically are members of state churches undergo baptism and thereafter participate to varied degrees in the distinctive life of local churches.

Structurally, the early Church was a communion of local churches (communio ecclesiarum).

Ask some of the local churches if they help the homeless or know who does.

With the help of local churches and volunteers, World Relief has resettled 271,500 refugees since 1975.

In the absence of any recognised central authority the leaders of the local churches were faced with greater responsibilities.

Nicholls, who is also a minister at Christ Church Haywards Heath in West Sussex, told Premier about the importance of local churches effectively reaching out to a community.

This kind of organization of service may be of genuine value not only to members of local churches but also to others who, while sympathetic to religion or the church, have nevertheless not gone so far as to join a church.

More of our local churches are growing larger, and the phenomenon of multiple - staff ministry has come upon many of them unaware.

(12) «Unless here in America literally thousands of new frontiers missionary societies are founded, in thousands of local churches in most churches (denominations), «the Unreached Peoples» will not be reached.»

The Conference Message declares:»... many expressions of mission lead to unethical forms of coercion and proselytism which neither recognize the integrity of the local churches nor are sensitive to local cultures... We therefore commit ourselves to promote common witness and to renounce proselytism and all forms of mission which destroy the unity of the body of Christ.»

For this speaks of the local churches as the place where the presence of the Church as such is actualized in the highest form.

The enormous variety in the literature notwithstanding, many of the subtleties and nuances of the lives of local churches remained unaccounted for, he felt.

«Mississippi Baptists both reject racial discrimination and at the same time respect the autonomy of our local churches to deal with difficulties and disagreements under the lordship of Jesus,» said Dr. Jim Futral, the executive director the Mississippi Baptist Convention.

The key concept here is that the bishop of Rome, as the first in the ecclesiastical «taxis», the order of the local churches and their pastors, has a responsibility for ensuring the harmonious functioning of that taxis as a whole.

The official position of all local churches is that the Holy and Great Council is desirable.

A majority of the local churches desire to «walk together» (the literal meaning of the word «synod» or council) towards unity, while a minority desire ethnic isolation.

The picture of the Church that emerged was distorted by this apologetic context — too much emphasis was being given to points that were disputed (the authority of the pope, for example) and not enough given to other important points (such as the nature of the local churches).

We hosted mission teams from the states and served at the pleasure of the local church there.

The National Churches Trust has said that everyone can contribute to the survival of their local church, by clearing drains or gutters so churches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to the police.

Also, how many people go to a doctor for a serious problem instead of their local church?

Pastoral and administrative authority rests with the bishop of the local church, by which is meant the diocese.

«With many churches now offering alternative services to those of the traditional morning service, Christians are now finding workable solutions to both being committed to their sports club whilst continuing to be a part of their local church.»

And in O'Malley's defense, it must be remembered that he is the pastor of a local church which may aptly be described as an ecclesiastical Chernobyl, the ground zero of the American abuse crisis.

This globalization of the local church makes it possible for somebody to simultaneously never miss a Sunday service and never physically step foot in a church.

I don't think Mr. Rainer's book is any where near as dangerous or as damaging as your legitimizing the abandonment of the local church.

Second, women pastors may be more effective in dealing with the feminization of the local church which has taken place increasingly, and which troubles many mainline congregations.

(The controlling, abusive patriarchal hierarchy of my local church.)

Once one has mastered the basic tasks of ministry, there are other ways to develop beyond the limits of the local church.

This book is showing those who want to be a member of a local church how they can be a better member and in so doing having a deeper relationship with Christ.