Sentences with phrase «people in one's congregation»

I don't think we can have two classes of people in our congregation — those who can serve / lead and those who can merely attend.

There are also professional people in the congregation who can share their expertise.

But the same goes for people in the congregation.

During one particularly difficult period, I was an advocate for a commitment that a few people in the congregation did not want to make.

There are some pastors who feel this way and even have people in their congregations like those depicted in the cartoon.

If just a few people in every congregation became faithful advocates for the students in their community, it could change the face of education inequality.

You can hear people in his congregation agreeing with him when he talks about the fence.

Let me just warn you though about church leaders who say it is their responsibility to weed out the bad people in our congregations.

Look out and pray for elderly people in your congregation, remembering that regardless of what our culture promotes, younger doesn't necessarily mean better.

We met so many church leaders who began to really tune in to the young people in their congregations, and found that innovation and change began to follow quite naturally.

The advantage of this program is that it encourages people in the congregation who need help to seek that help because it is more affordable.

I immediately applied it to the personal lives of people in our congregation, and even to the life of our church.

People in the congregation who have had similar experiences may be called upon to help people through the process of making a difficult decision or surviving a crisis.

About half (54 percent) of pastors with less than 50 people in their congregation agree.

We have gay people in our congregation.

There are always certain people in the congregation upon whom a preacher depends because, in various nonverbal ways, they indicate that they are hearing and responding to him.

Alas, there may be more persons in congregations who are disturbed by cognitive dissonance than theologians and pastors acknowledge.

I've been associated with people in some congregations where God seems like a cosmic Orwellian «Big Brother» forever trying to catch you out in....

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

In college, we had been committed to peacemaking, but now, after relatives of people in his congregation died on a plane brought down by terrorists, he said:

Even people in their congregations will get into the voting booth and think, «What was that pastor thinking?

Is it perhaps because people in congregations are so anxious about a possible nuclear war, the economic meltdown, or whatever, that they develop very specific and narrow expectations of ministers and pastors, and then begin to undermine and even bully them when they don't deliver the goods?

«Half of the other people in the congregation have read Stephen King, though they may not want to shout it out to the world,» he says.

If the married persons in his congregation were asked to rate the relative happiness of their nuptial relationship, fewer than half would rate them as «very happy» (Ibid.

These conversations have made their church more sensitive to the concerns of LGBT people in their congregation and in their neighborhood and are guiding them as they seek to embody the love of Christ for all people.

My own view is that the Bible contains so many verses about judging people in the congregation, outside of the congregation (the world), etc., that each Christian has to pick and choose whom to judge and why.

A pastor who challenges the idols of American culture is not likely to find many supportive like - minded people in a congregation.

I figure it's to placate the fairly significant number of divorced people in the congregations today.

In our church we range all the way from what you would perhaps call the real down - to - earth fundamentalists to the other end of the scale with some rather liberal people in the congregation.

Are there people in the congregation who believe a single drink is sin that want to bar people who have the occasion drink from ministry, because that would be comparable.)

Clarification of the legitimate roles of both pastor and people in the congregation depends on being able to distinguish the role of the church from the role of the family in the lives of Christians.

However, a pastor in Seattle could spiritually abuse people in his congregation, and he wrote a book on marriage — REAL marriage to boot.

At the New Northside Missionary Baptist Church in north St. Louis, many people in the congregation struggle to pay their utility bills, the Rev. Rodrick Burton said.

For many people in my congregation, the primary experience of covenants — marriage, family, church affiliation or job — has been their endings.

«We have gay people in our congregation every Sunday.

Evidently at the time we pastored her, the husband was physically abusing her and he felt certain people in the congregation might be tipped off and get wise to it, or expose it.

If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for «abandoning Jesus and the church.»

Our middle son is a member of the Council, a worship leader and a Sunday school teacher, and out of respect for his need for space and because I knew there were a few people in the congregation for whom my transition would be a problem, I have stayed away.

Apart from this love we try to get along with people in the congregation but settle eventually for wary tolerance and the protective distance of cliques.

They don't want to get caught in the crosshairs of people in their congregation who firmly believe that Christianity is compatible with nationalism, militarism, materialism or whatever cultural attitudes they've accepted.

As Bethel grows, you might very well hear from a few people in your congregation who have traveled to Redding to find out if Bethel is «real» — and who come back proclaiming that revival is under way.

Why donâ $ ™ t you designate a wall in the church somewhere (or outside the church) for all people in the congregation to paint or draw what they want to on there (including yourself).

The use of the word «we» implies that all people in your congregation connect with God during the worship service.

Besides, can you imagine the pain in the butt it is for the rest of the people in the congregation every time they show up?

Some people in the congregation thought that they were better than others.