Sentences with phrase «particular congregation»

In addition to these high - priority groups, churches should develop other growth opportunities, guided by the need - pattern of particular congregations and communities.

It does not imply any particular recommendations to the effect that theological schooling ought (or ought mostly) to take place within particular congregations, or that classes ought to include selected parishioners along with theological school students, or that only persons who also lead congregations (or have recently done so) ought to do the teaching, and the like.

ChristianMingle has just launched a new initiative aimed to get singles from particular congregations to connect with each other.

There are things I really like about the Vineyard, too, but without this particular congregation, those things would hardly be enough.

What I found in Corinth (the name I have given elsewhere to the town whose two principal churches — Baptist and Methodist — I spent my sabbatical year studying) is that most of the stories I heard in a particular congregation were similar in genre.

An appreciation of the character of a voluntary institution as a vehicle of the life of the church and a willingness to learn how the particular congregation and denomination are organized for nurture and mission so that they may accept responsibility for making these institutions work to these ends.

To all the «Jennifers» out there, know that God's people are not limited to any particular congregation, denomination or fellowship.

Whatever the individual's own point of view and whatever the degree of involvement evident in a particular congregation, the church member belonged to a movement that was related, if not directly connected, to a Martin Luther King, a Eugene Carson Blake and, however remotely, an Angela Davis.

Somewhere along the way I decided that I needed to do the same — commit to a particular congregation of people over the long haul.

Rather, we can look at what happens in any particular congregation and propose ways for working toward more just forms of worship.

Coming into a particular congregation opens the door for the individual to participate psychologically in this many - faceted corporate identity, The depth of an individual's participation depends on the degree to which he is able to enter into the fellowship and its heritage.

One can not become a member of Christ's body without relating to a particular congregation of believers.

It is interesting to speculate on what the Spirit of God would have us preach today on the basis of this passage, but because God's Word is always concrete and specific, in an essay such as this we can not judge absolutely what God's Word might be in the existential situation of a particular congregation.

Though the disposal of a million dollars did not seem very significant to the East Coast church, money is frequently an emotion - laden metaphor that both expresses and provokes the identity of a particular congregation.

Never more evident is the usefulness of our particular congregation than when a community quakes from the faults of ancient ethnic tectonic plates pushing just below the surface of our culture.

The matter to be underscored here is the concrete situation of the particular congregation addressed.

This fact leads to the fourth statement in explanation of the expression of «realistic and responsible Biblical preaching»: the text is to be studied and shared not in dialogue with «the human situation» in general but with the issues facing the particular congregation participating in the sermon experience.

If the program of Bultmann is not carried to the concrete existence of a particular congregation, then we are left with a universally applicable interpretation of Scripture in terms of «the human situation».

In faith we judge for ourselves as a community of Christians, even if the truth we come to know is not the currently accepted «truth» of a particular congregation, denomination, or culture.10

This means, then, that the sermon grows out of the dialogue between a particular passage (not a general and meaningless reference to what «the Bible says») and a particular congregation (not «the human situation»).

«My impression is that so much of the literature that has really dominated our thinking about the church derives from generalized abstractions about what the church ought to be or about what the evils of the church are by theologians who are at best uncomfortable in trying to apply that to particular congregations.

It's one thing to think along with Tillich when he talks in a general way of correlating the church to culture; you find it's quite another when you try to apply that to particular congregations — it gets exceedingly awkward.»

Ways of speaking reflect the aesthetic and communicative values of both a particular congregation's culture and tradition; our language for worship is designed to link the vernacular with the formal.

Just what project a particular congregation should choose to do depends on the unmet needs of its community and the resources of the members who are available to help.

Leave aside for the moment such endearing theological opinions as the one that God refuses to accept the prayers of those outside one particular congregation of certitude — an expression not so much of anti-Semitism, one would guess, as of a peculiarly electronic conception of the divinity: «Sorry, sir, this number is unlisted.»

Usually in the first place family connections, then denominational affiliation, personal acquaintance with someone in the church, geographical convenience, custom, habit, curiosity, and many other matters determine who will be present on Sunday morning in any particular congregation.

Notice here that we do not use the words «spoken» and «heard,» because studies in communication have shown how much depends not only on explicit verbal content, but on appearance, gesture, and facial expressiveness as well as vocal tone and inflection, and how all of these are interpreted through the ethos of a particular congregation.

It seems to me that, for a particular congregation, their «vision» is what part they play in God's larger mission.

They have a small fee for joining the particular congregation but it is nowhere near a tenth of the income.

In this view of the local church, the bishop is understood to preside at the common eucharist, although in fact it is usually a priest and not the bishop who is presiding in a particular congregation or parish.

In the Church Growth: America study of the Billy Graham Seattle Crusade, it was found that of the 7 percent of conversions from the Crusade who were involved in a church a year later, 82.8 percent of them had a friend and / or relative in that particular congregation.

It began to appear that this course had violated a hidden code of worth and meaning that underlay the corporate life of this particular congregation.