Sentences with phrase «perhaps small churches»

In that case, perhaps small churches with part - time pastors should be embraced for their special gifts and the contributions they make to the vitality of the denomination.

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While research by Barna Group has found that women are more involved than men in church «extracurriculars» such as Bible studies and small groups, plenty of today's churches lack robust women's ministries — perhaps due to lack of resources, or deliberate efforts to do away with stereotypical ladies teas and craft bazaars.

Members of small churches served by part - time lay ministers are not necessarily worse off spiritually than their counterparts in large churches — and perhaps they are better off.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

I too am grieved, very seriously grieved, but I try not to look at the denominations, I know in time those that are truly born again will have their eyes opened and perhaps leave churchianity and will become a small remnant meeting in people's homes in humility to God and not striving to build larger churches and giving heed to seducing doctrines.

When we read about Paul struggling mightily so that Christians in small churches will learn to live in Christian harmony, perhaps we see an alternative vision of church — one in which all the theological muscle of the author of Philippians is marshaled merely to get Euodia and Syntyche to get along (Phil.

, and rush out of the house with four minutes to spare for a five - minute sprint to church, and then... then I would simply turn north, through the small woods between our house and Mass, and head to the village bakery, perhaps, or just stroll unconcernedly along the railroad tracks, a free man, subject to no ancient religion and its pompous authority, bound by no rules and regulations — an independent spirit, a young man choosing his road for himself.

Instead, they have fun with it all, thanks in no small part to hilarious supporting performances by Stanley Tucci and New Orleanian Patricia Clarkson — playing perhaps the coolest parents in the world — and Thomas Haden Church as Olive's English teacher.

Perhaps you are a «higher up» at the Church of God who operates an independent small business.