The fastest growing and largest churches in the world are cell - based, with all of the church ministry flowing out
of small groupings of people who meet weekly, worshiping together, studying together, praying together and often engaging in highly imaginative service to people in their neighborhoods.
It's a relief because we can finally stop being insanely jealous
of the small group of people who've gotten to experience these incredible events which will never be released to the public.
# 3 — Gone Home (PC)-- The Fullbright Company is comprised
of a small group of people who worked on the BioShock 2 DLC Minerva's Den which became very popular and maybe more popular than the game itself.
It was spurred by the empathy
of a small group of people who understood what was behind the sugar in their tea, followed by actively raising awareness, organizing boycotts, raising funds and writing letters.
I am pleased to report that I am also a member
of that small group of people who have met regularly to figure out a way of extricating divorcing and separated parents from the adversarial divorce contest.
Not exact matches
For chats with a
small group of people who already use Skype, everything worked fine.
Some games were made up
of random
groups of people, while others involved
small groups of people who were connected to one another, similar to how humans tend to congregate in real - life scenarios.
What helped him most was surrounding himself with
people he could lean on and trust, namely has wife, children, and a
small group of friends
who promised to support him, but never pity him.
They have a
small group of friends
who share brilliant ideas and may co-invest or make strategic introductions,» Povlitz has witnessed.She says they understand that
people and information have as much value as money, and that real wealth involves the right combination and proper use
of each.
«Dealing with someone like Andrew is invaluable because his depth
of knowledge and expertise reaches across such a huge array
of people and businesses,» says former colleague Howard Davis,
who is now a managing director at the Shemano
Group, a San Francisco investment bank that provides services for
small and midsize companies.
It is about building long - term wealth and financial independence so you can join a
small, growing
group of people who want to live the life they want without slaving countless hours on work they don't care about.
The city has launched programs to target three
groups in particular:
small - business owners, filmmakers
who are women and
people of color, and students dreaming
of getting into the business.
For a
small group of people, however, the theft — likely masterminded, we now know, by a Russian cybercrime suspect
who was arrested in Greece this past summer — would prove auspicious.
There's a
small group of people around the world
who spend their days coming up with creative ways to scam
people out
of their crypto.
There will always be a
small group of people out there in every market
who are looking to scam you.
This, the
smallest possible fraction
of a Bitcoin is known as a «satoshi», named after the
person or
group of people who created Bitcoin.
But there is a
small group of people who are becoming aware
of these high management fees and they are going elsewhere.
I was a bit wary, then, when in the late 1980s I received an invitation to spend some time with a
small group of Christian scholars and activists — with Tim LaHaye as one
of the
persons who had already agreed to participate — to discuss strategies for representing our convictions in the public square.
We should not all cower at the
small group of atheists and remove a historical item like this just because
of a few
people who are offended.
There is just a
small group of people in the world
who are nazis (and it's extremely likely that there are none on here), so you just keep humiliating yourself by addressing them.
I get
small glimpses and whiffs
of His presence among a disparate
group of people that most
of the time, if the truth be told, I don't give a s ** t about,
who stumble clumsily through worship, and most
of the time deal awkwardly with each other.
A «natural
grouping» is a
small social unit made up
of people whose fives are in some measure interlaced and
who provide for each other a stable context in which the orderly transmission
of values can take place from parents to children.
You can't judge the entire
group of people on a
small fraction
of them
who have big voices.
In January
of this year, the government announced that federal funding for the Canada Summer Jobs program — which subsidizes wages for
small business, government entities, and nonprofits that employ young
people who are full - time students — would be available only to
groups that accept its reading
of the Charter.
Our
group, though
small, is amazingly diverse, including homeless men and women, university and seminary students,
people whose addictions are still active and others
who are in recovery, young professionals and social workers, a mix
of ethnicities and even a handful
of «normal» folks.
However, it has belatedly come to attention that, for example, in concentration camps,
people have a better chance
of survival if they band together into
small groups of selfless
persons who are ready to give the little they have to the most needy among them.
So begins Pope Michael, a weird, intriguing, and distressing documentary about a young man in a
small town in rural eastern Kansas
who, after being elected by six
people, a
group that included his parents and himself, claimed to be the Bishop
of Rome.
Persons who find the richest satisfactions in church membership are almost invariably immersed in the fellowship
of one or more
of its
smaller groups.
They described how Lehi, a prophet
who had lived in Jerusalem some six hundred years before the birth
of Christ, had sailed with a
small group of people from the Mediterranean all the way to the American continent.
And one day, he looks up, and there is a
small group of people following a man
who is teaching them as he walks.
Small growth
groups have added a real flavor to the life
of our congregation... they are the
persons who are most involved in the life
of the church at all levels.
Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the
people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because
of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part
of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the
groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing
who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take
small steps.regards brentnz
substantial, in part because
of the political ties
of many
of its preachers, beginning with their support
of a number
of conservative causes and candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively
small group of people who for the first time found a national public articulation
of their views.
The membership rituals in a large church,
of necessity, can be little more than a perfunctory introduction
of persons who will never know or be known to more than a
small group within the congregation, if they are known at all.
Kaleidoscope - called so because
of the different
groups who came, from mods to rockers and teddy boys to hippies - started in 1968 in a disco in a
small church but now has 320 staff and supports 10,000
people.
Thus, while the electronic church may not be the cause
of decreases in mainline church attendance, it does provide an attractive alternative for a relatively
small group of people who find watching television an acceptable substitute for attending church.
Setting aside the
small groups (the myrters, the 24, the 144,000) there seem to be two
groups of the mass
of people in Revelation; one
group in white robes
who are the guest at the wedding feast and the other
group who make up the bride.
Nevertheless, the mainline churches constantly generate within themselves
smaller groups of highly motivated
people who are at work on the frontiers
of moral advance.
Commit to building genuine community with a
small group of people who are interested in learning the truth rather than doing thing the way they have always been done.
The large number
of people who are involved in
small groups, the depth
of their involvement, the extent
of their caring for each other, and even the degree to which they reach out to others in the wider community all suggest that the social fabric has not unraveled nearly to the extent that many critics have suggested.
Because
of his, the presence model has become largely geared toward a highly motivated but
small group of people who are already committed to the church's mission
of liberation and
who use the campus ministry as a place to become involved in that mission.
I have problems with Franklin because he
groups all
people who are Muslim with the actions
of a relatively
small number
of individuals
who were Muslim and terrorists.
The attachments that develop among the members
of small groups demonstrate clearly that we are not a society
of rugged individualists
who wish to go it entirely alone, but are a communal
people who, even amid the dislocating tendencies
of our society, are capable
of banding together in bonds
of mutual support.
Those
who affirm the primacy
of person - to -
person relationships and the necessity
of understanding, compassion, and forgiveness will give attention to the life
of the family,
small groups, and the church.
A decade later, a study
of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church
people tend to be divided into two
groups: the «locals»
who prefer to live in
small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local
groups; and the «cosmopolitans»
who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.
People who major in
small -
group worship often miss the music
of the sanctuary as well as the liturgical drama related to the church year and the celebration
of the church's festival days.
«This is a
small,
small group of people who made a terrible decision,» Kitchens told the Jackson newspaper, The Clarion - Ledger.
I see a great deal
of people who would other wise not be disciple makers, sitting as leaders
of small groups making disciples.
jesus said that to a
small group of people who wouldn't leave the holy city unless instructed.
The appeal and potential for vegan products is expanding beyond a reasonably
small but growing
group of people who avoid animal products for ethical reasons to include the much larger base
of consumers seeking healthier, cleaner foods.