Sentences with phrase «people of each congregation»

I was taught in my ministry education to keep distant from the people of my congregations.

I'm also on the lookout for ways that the people of the congregation can share work, beyond the good work of projects like Habitat for Humanity.

The children and young people of every congregation need adults who are able to help them think critically about life values to be their teachers, leaders, and role models.

The Christian minister enters into a distinctive relationship to the Church and to the people of a congregation when he is ordained.

Instead of working frenetically and compulsively to harness their own powers and energies, pastors are somehow set free to receive, draw upon, release and share in the multiple energies and capacities of the people of their congregations and of the whole body of Christ.

This means that the people of each congregation view one another as neighbors, people who are in the same proverbial boat.

Not exact matches

Not to be outdone, my current pastor (who is white, by the way, but pastors a very diverse congregation) recently did a cooking demo onstage and had a few of the thousand people in the sanctuary come up to get their piece of the hero sandwich he'd constructed.

After I left New Orleans, I joined a Houston congregation made up of people who relocated to the city as a result of Katrina.

2 of the 3 have started to allow gay people into their congregations and the orthodox is also considering concessing on the issue.

i have actually had this happen to in my internship and the person is still a member of the congregation i was at!

Churches should challenge their congregations to love all people instead of judging them and making legislation that further judges them.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

I eventually found him a church, but it wasn't contemporary worship and was inhabited by a bunch of stodgy people even though they were a welcoming congregation.

The reason I find that line of reasoning hard to believe is because people don't willingly choose to be ousted from their families, jobs, local congregations, shamed by society in general, hated and even killed for their lifestyle, live a life of denial, etc..

However, in the case, of the formally organized, local congregation, the congregation has a properly called person to administer such holy acts.

The church website lists the congregation's beliefs: The Bible is «without error;» Jesus is the «sole basis for the forgiveness of sin,» and people are «incapable» of having a right relationship with God through their own efforts.

«The Trinity House of Prayer congregation are such a loving environment of peoples,» John says.

That is, some people feel that since I am a pastor of a local congregation, I should keep my sometimes heterodox and dissenting thoughts to myself, for the two are incompatible to each other.

By asking lots of clarifying questions, the members slowly began to realize the level of abuse they had experienced from this pastor and came to realize that all the people who had left their congregation had been publicly berated by this man at some point.

To help direct the congregation's reflection, he offered two principles: «(a) unconditional respect for the human being as a person from conception to natural death; (b) respect for the originality of the transmission of human life through the acts proper to spouses.»

When no person or team of persons provides leadership, communities and congregations are disabled.

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.

Former congregations still speak with pride of «Doc's» familiarity with the neighborhood people and his influence with officeholders «downtown.»

Even persons who claimed to feel satisfied with their work and to enjoy the support of their congregations seem to wrestle with low self - esteem.

As a young pastor I tried to maintain control of the congregation and each person in it.

Gods judgment rest upon all the corporate and local churches temples, tabernacles, TV evangelists, ministries and congregations ever for all their false teachings and deeds, and God does not want any of His people to suffer the spiritual plagues which are being brought upon them.

They need to be detached from your ministry; it can't be a member of your congregation because you can't be vulnerable with people that you need to lead.

A series of sidebars warns against «myths,» and one of them is that «congregations grow by attracting new people who are not attending religious services elsewhere.»

Here's how to help people and congregations face outward and share the good news of Jesus Christ.

What difference does it make when people leave a congregation over some tiff, join another congregation, and allow us all to avoid the difficult and arguably primary Christian work of forgiveness and reconciliation?

This weekend, 26 people were killed and at least 20 more were injured when a gunman opened fire on the congregation of a small community church as they worshipped during a Sunday morning service.

So many of my seminary friends talk like this and I am constantly asking them how these conversations and 10 dollar words help lay people in the congregation.

I wrote about two dozen prayers in as many days, lucid and heartfelt, and the people of my home church distributed them to the congregation in photocopied booklets.

Aren't we talking about a group of pastors that had an aggregate congregation count of like 500 people?

Could football fans — this group of people gathering in weekly congregations, building community, worshipping and putting their money where their mouth is — be the great untapped mission field of the UK?

Each person in your church congregation and youth group has a set of weighing scales and places your invitation on one side of the scales: «We're going away together to a beautiful country location, with fantastic speakers for youth and adults.

Both the number and size of congregations can be striking for people accustomed to a Catholic world that has only in recent decades been broken by a Pentecostal beachhead.

He finds the idea of the priest's facing the people a most disedifying factor of the modern liturgy: «How wise the old liturgy was when it prescribed that the congregation should not see the priest's face - his distractedness or coldness or (even more importantly) his devotion and emotion.»

The only one's I see are the fleeting school auditorium and shopping mall meeting room congregations and the gigantic charismatic churches with people falling on the floor babbling during the services, whose congregants are in serious need of mental health professionals.

On March 20, he held a mock trial of the Muslim Holy Book, and the jury — consisting of twelve people from his congregation — found the book guilty of five «crimes against humanity,» including the promotion of terrorist acts and «the death, rape and torture of people worldwide whose only crime is not being of the Islamic faith.»

I was a bit envious that week, both of King's gifts — he'd go off and preach at neighborhood Baptist churches several times a night — and of the long - oppressed people who made up these ministers» congregations.

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

First, if a congregation is even in the remotest sense Christian and not totally a reflection of the culture, its church musicians feel the gnawing sense that simply meeting people's needs is wrong.

In some liturgies the whole congregation places itself at the disposal of those being baptized, confirmed, married and ordained by taking vows to support these persons in their new life and ministry.

However, he encouraged people to not let their initial passion for the issue fade away, and said churches should invite speakers so congregations are more aware of the issue.

When you speak of faith you apparently picture a church with a congregation of people reciting a creed.

They should have everyone of those people come in, stand in front of the congregation and offer an apology to them for bringing shame upon them as a congregation.

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

He said that the majority of the people in his congregation did not come from a Presbyterian background, but were drawn to the church because it is a place where the Word is being taught and where the people genuinely care for one another.

The peace between members of the congregation and one another, between them and strangers, between them and enemies, and between them and the whole creation is an emblem of the overarching peace between God and God's people, brought about in Christ.