Sentences with phrase «other congregations»

There are still standards in other congregations, they just might be different because they are not set by you.
Or merging with other congregations to get critical mass and reduce expense.
The good side of this statement is that it does serve as an invitation to those who feel marginalized or excluded from other congregations.
They are compatible and I hope that is honored and even becomes a model for other congregations.
Does this mean you can't reach out to the community with people from other congregations?
This can only happen if their primary associations are with other groups of Christians in their immediate neighborhood, not with a denominational officer, or with other congregations of the same denomination many miles away.
How would these judgments differ were its self - description changed to be like that implicit in the construals of the Christian thing by other congregations (and vice versa), each very different from the other?
When a minister refused to raise his voice in the church struggle against the Nazis to defend other congregations, or to protest persecutions outside his congregation, his own flock was eventually lost.
They have enjoyed worshipping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, and will choose a church at the time that is best for their family.»
For pastors and churches, this means encouraging loving, open - minded dialogue not only within your congregation, but with other congregations as well... For all of us, productive dialog means reaching out to people whose views and experiences are different from our own and having the patience to really listen to them with a goal of better understanding them and their worldviews.»
Our team at the Fuller Youth Institute spent the past four years studying The District Church and over 250 other congregations of diverse sizes, ethnicities, denominations and geographic regions that are unlocking the potential of teenagers and emerging adults.
Black tend to be more in Methodist, Pentecostal and Baptist church that does not mean there are no blacks in other congregations.
There are so many congregations doing the same thing the same way every single week — and the same way as so many other congregations — that people become starved for something, ANYTHING that's at least a change from the monotony.
I do not necessarily know what every other congregation is doing; I only know what my congregation is doing.
God's just calling them on to this other congregation.
Other congregations «blend» generations by designing programs that appeal to multiple groups.
There he found a minister and congregation sympathetic to his views and determined to retain their independence over against the Massachusetts authorities and the other congregations.
During the first two centuries congregations claiming to possess a copy of a letter from an Apostle, or a fragment of a Gospel, or a writing of Paul contested the similar claims of other congregations.
Earlier this year, a report by the Centre for Theology and Community looked at All Hallows Bow and four other congregations in Tower Hamlets that have all been supported by the HTB network over the past five years.
Other congregations were imposing a creed concerning the eating of meat sacrificed to heathen idols, or which Sabbath day to choose.
I quote from the «executive summary» of the report's cold and methodical scrutiny of schools run principally by the Christian Brothers but also by some other Congregations, written after an examination in detail of the documentary evidence of abuse contained in the records of the establishments concerned.
Questions have been asked by church members and at least one other congregation, as is their right in the United Church.
Every congregation is unique, not quite like any other congregation.
In other congregations, joyful prayer and song burst through the seams of the worship service, and hours pass before anyone is ready to leave.
(There must be deaf people who'd like to attend many other congregations.
Other congregations are deeply concerned about their neighborhood but dislike the «social service» metaphor.
This congregation becomes aware that the preaching has a dimension not found in other congregations, coming to see themselves as corporate partners with the preacher, and his preaching.
It's interesting to note that the other congregation members that are not being spoken about never turn their heads to make eye contact with him.
Their goal is to help create a tipping point, inspiring more of their members and other congregations in the city and state to follow suit.
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