Sentences with phrase «personal worship experience»

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chris «Personal experience» has been used over the centuries as evidence for lots of things including fairies, UFO aliens, leprechauns, mermaids, ghosts, and... yes... all of the other gods and goddesses we've worshipped as well.

I also know, from personal experience, that these people love Jesus, worship Him with all their hearts (or at least as much us Calvinists do!).

These liturgies encourage people to freely and spontaneously share their emotions and personal experiences as part of worship.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

If we find the life of the Church a continual support and fulfillment for what the pastor seeks to do, we also discover that the experience of personal and mutual ministry in the Church deepens our participation in the Church's worship, sacraments, and witness to the world.

My defensiveness was sparked not by James» personal preference, but by his suggestion that my preferred worship style is less Spirit - filled and a less authentic way to experience God.

It has been shown that corporate worship contributes to positive mental health to the degree that it helps the individual experience a sense of belonging, personal integration, diminishing of his guilt and narcissism, re-establishment of a sense of trust, worthy self - investment, and strength for handling his problems constructively.

The reasons for this preference are partly to be sought in his own personal development (Hindu home, Christian instruction), partly in his primary interest in the intellectual expression of religious experience or, in other words, the philosophical bent of his nature, and, last but not least, in his often voiced conviction that we have to «get behind and beneath all outward churches and religions, and worship the nameless who is above every name.

We are looking for a wide range of features covering personal experiences that impacted your life and ministry, «how to» stories, practical ideas for worship, ministry and mission or resource reviews.

Perhaps most of those who will read these words will have had times when they felt sure that God was speaking to them in some great service of worship, through the voice of a modern prophet, or in some soul - stirring personal experience.