Sentences with phrase «of small church»

He writes about church health and innovative leadership from the perspective of small church.

Armor Hall was perfect for me because it has some of the religious architectural atmosphere of a small church.

When Dean was seventeen, his father quit the church on Mayodan Mountain and moved the family out to the eastern part of the state, near Greenville, where he took the pulpit of a small church in the town of Ayden.

The pastor of a small church in upstate New York (Ethan Hawke) spirals out of control after a soul - shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife (Amanda Seyfried) in this taut, chilling thriller.

Synopsis: The pastor of a small church in upstate New York (Ethan Hawke) spirals out of control after a soul - shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife (Amanda Seyfried) in this taut, chilling thriller.

Synopsis: A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul - shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

I am an associate pastor of a small church.

He writes about church health and innovative leadership from the perspective of small church.

«Yes, a contractor who has worked and continues to work in Bayelsa State and other parts of Nigeria thought it fit, in fulfillment of its Corporate Social Responsibility, to facilitate the renovation of the small church in the President's home town of Otuoke.

Bill was the new pastor of a small church in a once - rural area who formed a new Bible study group.

I'm not sure what to do but I know of a small church that is being sold and the pastor not only will keep all the proceeds $ 750,000 but a handsome severance pay package and a guaranteed new job at the church making the purchase, this is a pastor that let the congregation die and got the family and friends left over to vote to ok this...

Harris says he's trying to «have our cake and eat it» by marrying the benefits of small church («intimate, relationally strong, your contribution matters») with big church («finances, staffing, influence»).

Does our enthusiasm to grow our churches lead us to overlook the benefits, beauty and unique missional potential of the small church community?

A few years ago, Swedish pastor Ake Green was sentenced to one month in prison for preaching on the biblical teaching against sexual immorality from the pulpit of his small church in Borgholm.

«Of course there is nothing I can do about war,» the pastor of a small church declared.

In Crooked Heart, a first novel by Cristina Sumners (herself a parish priest), we meet Kathryn Koerney, rector of a small church in a New Jersey college town that resembles Princeton.

Thom Rainer, LifeWay President, will be joining me along with a panel of small church pastors as we talk through how small churches are making a biblical impact in the lives of their members and in their communities.

I dream I'm standing on a stage in the middle of a small church, delivering a eulogy.

What advice would you give a leader of a small church who doesn't have such strong resources?

I am a pastor of a small church and love the followers I serve, but we have problems too.

It isn't always so easy to rebrand oneself when you have a 10 year work history as a pastor of a small church, a worthless Th.M degree, mountains of student loan debt, and a family to feed.

Maintaining groups of small churches which are ineffective and not growing, but simply keeping going, really is not where the future lies.

Pastors of small churches, mark your calendar for Tuesday, September 7 (the day after Labor Day).

Jack is writing today about an issue that many pastors of small churches must deal with — bivocational ministry.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

Members of small churches served by part - time lay ministers are not necessarily worse off spiritually than their counterparts in large churches — and perhaps they are better off.

His own concentrated study of the dynamics of small churches and churches in changing communities has made him increasingly in demand around the country as a perceptive observer of the dynamics of congregational life.

The survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors in the United Stated revealed that 39 per cent of small churches (100 to 249 attendees) offer online giving.

While a small minority of larger churches do experience some success with this approach, the overwhelming majority of smaller churches attempting to be Hillsong clones continue to haemorrhage members every week because they can not offer the same quality of music, preaching or other services that their mega-mall comrades down the road are able to provide.

You can definitely limit the size of the church (in a healthy way) by making sure that you multiply small groups that grow beyond a specified size (18 - 20 works nice, at that point you are losing a degree of intimacy already) but more important you make sure that you cultivate the gifts needed to lead these groups — otherwise you end up with a bunch of small churches and a burned out pastor.

Do think there are lots of small churches that have a goal but are not very successful in accomplishing it and just limping along, but actually doing okay anyway?

At this time it was one of the smallest Churches in America, but within a few decades it was to be one of the largest.

During the seventies, Dean's father had a series of small churches in little towns, and in each church his dogmatism and rigidity created a rift in the congregation.

There are also plenty of small churches, nestled between the old buildings, that create an awesome atmosphere.

However, the requirements severely limit the ability of smaller churches, theologically convinced of the moral parity of same - and opposite - sex unions, to manifest that conviction in their practice: they can witness to equality only by declining to host opposite - sex solemnisations.

Not exact matches

First responders quickly converged on the church in Sutherland Springs, a small town east of San Antonio with a population under 1,000.

In exchange, they say, Gross helped the operator of Coin.mx, Anthony Murgio, take over a small credit union Gross ran from his church.

(1) Churches on base of all religions are funded by the government... yes, your tax dollars are paying for me to be able to enjoy whichever religious service of the 10 denominations that my small base has (not Fort Bragg)... and if I want to be Christian one day, switch to Muslim another, or Jewish another then your tax dollars are still going to pay for me to have freedom of choosing my religion on base.

Use this guide in your small group, house church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth about how we should live now in light of the future reality.

Mega churches are nothing but a sea of nameless faces, except for the small few who decide to or can spare the time to get involved in the running of the church.

The incident occurred shortly before 10 a.m. (11 a.m. ET) as members of a small Kansas church that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand prochurch that protests at military funerals and counter-protesters stood nearly a block away from First United Methodist Church during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand proChurch during services for Staff Sgt. Michael Bock, 26, who died August 13 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

But he does not forget (except for the Seventh - day Adventists) the churches and temples of smaller and more marginal religious communities, buildings typically overlooked in standard surveys of American architecture.

The campaign against the Jesuits was, of course, a small part of the Nazi persecution of the Church and of Christianity in general and it is immensely helpful to have at hand the kind of documentation Lapomarda's work supplies.

I attend a small group of local gay Christians on Sunday nights, most of whom attend a local accepting (but not affirming) Methodist church.

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

Eight of the 35 churches taught or celebrated giving in small ways every single week.

A large church constructed nearby displays photographs of victims, a small collection of personal items (such as shoes and glasses) recovered from the site's mass graves, and icons of those who have been canonized.

We began attending a church and small faith group, which helped us learn to give of ourselves, our time and our resources.

While there maybe small varying of opinion as to text, it's the church that sets standards based on the word of God.

Goshen is a small school in northern Indiana that's owned and operated as a ministry of Mennonite Church USA.