Sentences with phrase «person in a church meeting»

When I was the only person in a church meeting of a hundred plus, who voted against spending thousands on a building (mainly because of dodgy fiscal justification and concerns over leadership empire building), I obviously became villein of the peace!

Not exact matches

Community programs are tailored to meet the need of the consumers in the community and include investor education and protection programs in high schools, on college campuses, in libraries, churches, senior centers, sports venues and anywhere else in the community where people meet.

But for these people in the linoleum - floored church meeting room, the stakes are higher and more pressing.

I met my spouse in Latin America and I was introduced to a church I had never known before — a happy, festive place where people gathered to share family.

I can't easily offer face to face meetings being on the other side of the Atlantic, however, these «celebrity» preachers impact people in the Churches and communities I serve.

at least in this wild and crazy church full of some of the most loving people I would ever meet Jesus reached me.

«I think that's a great opportunity for the Church to go in, be the hands and feet of Jesus, and really meet that community where it's at, just being the presence of God, being a listening ear and being able to help people.»

In this current economy where people are struggling to make ends meet the catholic church wants a husband and wife to abstain from intimacy because that is the only form of brith control they approve of.

But I don't meet these people in a church but in the real world and they are also my friends that I sincerely care about.

Our culture doesn't want to accept what is biblical, tithing especially, and actually we should be meeting daily as in Acts, not twice a week, but let me tell your living in dream world if you think people in the church are somehow serving away after they leave.

People get discouraged and disillusioned with the institutional church so they go drop out altogether meeting in a local assembly trying to making it on their own.

I was raised in the Church and have met many wonderful people, lay and religious, who do wonderful work every single day.

I am a big believer in giving people freedom from church buildings and front - led church meetings.

Every year, millions of people abandon the institutional way of doing church, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His discchurch, not because they are abandoning God, Jesus, or the Church, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His discChurch, but because they find that intimate relationships with others and loving service in the community apart from the systematized and scheduled meetings on Sunday morning is a more natural way of following Jesus and living life as His disciples.

Church does not occur just because a group of people who follow Jesus meet on a certain day, at a certain time, in a certain building.

The proper thing to teach young black males is to stay in school, get good grades, choose a respectable career field, attend church regularly, be kind and couteous to everyone you meet, repect and support the police, stay off drugs, don't steal, don't assault people, and quit thinking the man is out to get you.

In many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group settinIn many cases, it's appropriate to mark a person's departure in a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group settinin a «state of the church» community meeting, congregational prayer time, or a small group setting.

As much as I love meeting readers in person and connecting with all these cool universities, churches, and conferences, I'm exhausted.

Despite the fact that I endured the most frightening flight of my life into Louisville, Kentucky Last week, I had a wonderful time with the good people of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church and all the readers who came out to hear my presentation on Sunday night, including the delightful Connie Esther, who I met in the bathroom of all places!

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

In order to operate one church meeting in multiple locations it will absolutely demand that you learn how to identify, recruit, equip, release, and lead a team of people to carry out the vision of the churcIn order to operate one church meeting in multiple locations it will absolutely demand that you learn how to identify, recruit, equip, release, and lead a team of people to carry out the vision of the churcin multiple locations it will absolutely demand that you learn how to identify, recruit, equip, release, and lead a team of people to carry out the vision of the church.

We go to church, we participate in leadership meetings to shape the conversations of our communities, we pray for our friends, we make meals, I write posts and articles and books about God, we wash our minivans, we set up the sprinkler for the neighbourhood kids and hand out freezies to hopeful hands, we go to work, we talk about the people we know.

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

Valley Church in Allendale, Michigan, sponsors gatherings for craft beer enthusiasts, designed to «reach out to people in a loving, grace - filled way that meets people where they are and as they are.»

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.

Our church bought a house to use as a meeting hall; after the purchase, the church was denied a permit to meet because in order for 30 or more people to meet, the proporty zoning stipulates that the footprint has to be greater than 15 thousand sq. ft.. We are AT 15K sq ft, and two variances requests have been denied.

Consider how the early church met in homes, how the underground church in the Former Soviet Union flourished before 1991 and how small groups of 2 — 20 + people are meeting together at coffee - shops or pubs today.

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.

But if I don't talk to those people I knew from the former churches that I have worked before, it is going to be really hard for me to make any sell in order to meet the quota from the insurance company.

In addition, when I travel, I meet many progressive ministers who are eager to welcome new people to their churches.

Aside from the fact that I am just not sure these ideas are true, it seems that these sermons and slogans really don't get people to pray more, but simply guilt them into showing up for another meeting in the church building.

I have met people who, as their follow the movements of their heart, seem to be very close to accepting Jesus (if the church was n`t in the way and had n`t stained his glory so much!)

Has it ever seemed strange to you that although there can be dozens of people out in the community loving others, serving the poor, meeting needs, and helping the homeless, the «truly spiritual people» are those who come to church on Wednesday night for the prayer meeting where they pray for the poor, the homeless, and the other needs of the community?

I believe you have raised a pertinent issue here though with church attendance being likened to a «badge», a sort of measurable physically viewable achievement that people measure community, commitment and faith by — which is sad in a way because the regular meetings during the week aren't always for everyone.

A useful group - life checklist allowing participants to rate a group on communication, acceptance of persons, leadership, climate of relationships, and other aspects can be found in Philip Anderson's Church Meetings that Matter.10 Evaluation is not a frill; rather it is essential to discovering what you are accomplishing in groups and how you can do better.

This little secular community of unemployed people who meet in a church once a week is discovering spiritual truth more deeply than many of them ever had.

When I go through David Kinnaman's research, which reflects just about every concern I express in my «15 Reasons» posts --(young people are leaving the church because they believe it is too exclusive, too combative with science, hyper - political, out - of - touch when it comes to sexuality, and an unsafe place in which to wrestle with doubt)-- I am often met with blank stares.

We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.

In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.&raquIn a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.&raquin the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.&raquin Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»

The Meeting House is a multisite Anabaptist congregation in Ontario, Canada where thousands of people connect to God and each other through Sunday services, online interaction, and a widespread house church network.

Essentially the orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person of Jesus Christ and in the experience of God present in Christian life and worship, the believer was met by very God.

In its initial and subsequent meetings, the Roundtable has continued to advance its goal, which, according to Mr. Boisi, is to provide a «check and balance» on the role of the bishops and, according to Mr. Butler of Foundations and Donors, to «allow lay people to speak in the name of the Church.&raquIn its initial and subsequent meetings, the Roundtable has continued to advance its goal, which, according to Mr. Boisi, is to provide a «check and balance» on the role of the bishops and, according to Mr. Butler of Foundations and Donors, to «allow lay people to speak in the name of the Church.&raquin the name of the Church.»

I have attneded Evangelical churches and other Evangelical meetings like Young Life back in the day, and the people there had absolutely no problem cheerfully consigning people to hell in the absence of any atheists or other critics at all.

In fact, some of the most ferociously religious people I've met have been outside the church.

In a meeting a few days later with thousands of journalists, the pope reminded his rapt audience that the Church can not be understood, or reported on, as if it were simply another political agency; the Church has to be understood from the inside out, as «the holy People of God making its way to encounter Jesus Christ,» without whom «Peter and the Church would not exist or have reason to exist.»

Remember their are two churches, the mainstream church of whats happenning now and how we draw people in, and the underground church that needs no terms to describe that we were blind but now we see, adhore politics in our meetings, and we will take the time at the alter if necassary.

The church is the people of God who follow Jesus into the world, whether they meet in a building or not.

These needs of people could be met much more fully than they are now in most churches.

Many people are still hoping that the church can meet the new challenges dramatized by the rising consciousness of women in search of spiritual rebirth for themselves and for all of human society.

I'd love to have a rule that everyone voting in a church meeting should first personally plead with the person they are about to exclude.