Sentences with phrase «owned by a congregation»

It is ground owned by a congregation that, in the past, has acted in ways that made the racial tension worse; they are now seeking to change that dynamic.

A private yeshiva, owned by congregation Ateres Yisroel, is now closed.

Not exact matches

By taking us inside the experience of one who is invisible to mainstream society, Ellison challenges us to be attentive to those who are invisible in our own congregations and neighborhoods, listening to their stories and gaining a window — however tiny — into their experience.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

In this regard there is some envy by social workers and counselors who are genuinely concerned for people, but whose own structured roles do not include the opportunity to drop in on a family in a congregation to say, «I thought I would come by; you seem troubled.»

My own meeting, Durham Friends Meeting, is called conservative by many other Quaker congregations and is formally affiliated withNorth Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), but would certainly be considered liberal by others.

Since that is precisely what inquiry guided by the first set of questions provides, clearly exploration of congregations» «faithfulness» to their own identities depends on the results of exploration of how best to characterize them, just as we saw the latter inquiry requires the former.

And when one is despondent about one's own St. John's - by - the - Sea, one can turn again and again from that congregation and its apparent failure to the great fellowship through the ages and find in the thought of that fellowship a cordial for drooping spirits.

That a theological school inescapably has some concrete identity and ethos does not mean that it schools by focusing study only on congregations whose own identities bear the strongest family resemblances to the school's identity.

(One way to encourage candidates for ministry, by the way, is to make the congregation's own pastor's job seem rewarding and honored.)

I know many Pastor's personally that would hate to be «pontified» by their congregations, and work incredibly hard to not be by being accountable, honest, and transparent with their own problems and issues.

So she conducted her research at two sites, one of them a more or less typical second - generation congregation (which she calls «Grace») that meets in the same building as its parent Korean immigrant congregation, and the other («Manna») a predominantly Asian American but remarkably multiethnic congregation that meets in a building owned by an African - American congregation.

Although the congregation knits itself together by inspired strands such as liturgies, musical programs, and water systems, each by the activity of the same congregation also corrupts its nature and threatens the congregation's own life together.

Moreover, the congregation identifies its own membership, initiating its catechumens rather than taking for granted their incorporation by reason of blood.

This is the same man who rejected his lavish apartment provided by the Church to live closer to his congregation, passed on an offered chauffered limousine to take the bus, and cooked his own meals despite being offered a cook.

If the congregation can recognize that God may be involved in their own lives, they are better able to be led by the Spirit to be God's instruments in the world where they work and play and vote.

By its witting participation in its own stories the congregation becomes a mediating structure by which individuals ally themselves with the people of the worlBy its witting participation in its own stories the congregation becomes a mediating structure by which individuals ally themselves with the people of the worlby which individuals ally themselves with the people of the world.

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»

What I hope, though, is that his congregation is so embarrassed by him they fire his azz, and so embarrassed by their OWN behavior that they beg forgiveness and do better in the future.

so if God tells you to pass around your daughter to be used by the congregation to fulfill there need that's for your and her own good

A congregation in Cheshire, Connecticut, is hoping to assure its own musical future by setting aside a regular scholarship to help a deserving high school student study organ.

Taking up where the book on Wiltshire Church left off, this chapter suggests ways by which the congregation itself might, comprehending its own story, better understand its nature, circumstances, and mission.

If anything is redemptive it is God's own peculiar ways of being present in history, and congregations are constituted by the practices in which they respond to that redemptive presence.

This will not happen unless the members of the congregation, out of the validity of the meaning of their own experience, are led by the preaching to engage the meaning of the gospel with the meaning of living.

The vision of the «good» life, the central values, even the corporate identity expressed by a congregation's host culture in its dominant languages will in various ways stand in tension with the congregation's own understanding of its own communal identity, its own picture of the good life, its own central values as they all are defined «in Jesus» name.»

In making this proposal I am building on a suggestion first advanced by James F. Hopewell.Growing out of years of involvement in a group exploring different ways to study congregations [1] and his own ground - breaking Congregation: Stories and Structures, [2] Hopewell wrote an essay, «A Congregational Paradigm for Theological Education.»

However, as a teenager he became disillusioned by what he saw in his own church: a congregation composed of «a young pastor, old deacons, and all women,» a congregation that did not sufficiently support pastors and their families either emotionally or financially.

This internal process» fueled by the leftward tilt of mainline ecumenism and the vigor of Baptist Landmarkism (the idea that Baptist congregations constitute the only true churches in the world and can trace their lineage through unbroken succession back to Christ himself)» reinforced the desire of Southern Baptists «to do our own work in our way,» as E.Y. Mullins, one of the more moderate Baptist leaders of this period, put it.

Consequently, far more to the point would be the deliberate development and institutionalization of practices within and among theological schools that would make prominent the theological school's own particular agenda of interests in congregations, encourage inquiry governed by that agenda, and reward such inquiry in its processes of promotion and assigning of scholarly status and esteem.

In time, de Bruin was surrounded by his own little congregation.

At a speech in church, she surprises the congregation and her own parents (Nick Offerman and Holly Hunter) by announcing she no longer believes in God or religion.

The film focuses on the Herculean efforts of pastor Jay Reinke, who has turned his church into a makeshift home base for the new arrivals — to the chagrin of the facility's neighbours, who are skeptical about the men's scruffy appearance and possible criminal backgrounds, and the open hostility of the town newspaper, which wages war on Reinke's new congregation by publishing a list of former sex offenders harboured in the church as well as in the pastor's own home.

Nestled on the north side of Cincinnati, the financially strapped Eden Grove is owned by Pillar of Fire International, a six - congregation evangelical church organization based in Zarephath, New Jersey.

In a smartly structured narrative, by turns funny, worried, and questioning, Jason watches as his little congregation starts wanting to «worship» in its own way.

The Chapel at Beaver Creek is owned and operated by the Beaver Creek Religious Foundation, which is comprised of clergy and lay representatives from each of its member congregations.

It could be considered even less suited to the congregation of Sheffield Cathedral, which is where it is installed until December 12, alongside work by Do Ho Suh, Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas and Susan Philipz; all have been loaned by the private Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which is based in Turin and owns more than 1,000 artworks made from the 1980s to now.