Sentences with phrase «planting a church congregation»

In a new regular column Lizzie Lowrie writes on the ups and downs of planting a church congregation in a Liverpool coffee shop More

In a new regular column Lizzie Lowrie writes on the ups and downs of planting a church congregation in a Liverpool coffee shop

In a new regular column Lizzie Lowrie writes on the ups and downs of planting a church congregation in... More

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Summary: «When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.»

Some will serve in existing AMiE congregations, while others will lead teams engaged in planting new churches.

He has a reputation for being a prolific church planter (more than 100 congregations planted out of his church), but his church - planting work in America is very much connected to his global vision.

A common criticism of church plants is that they can become an exercise in rearranging the deckchairs, with Christians leaving their existing congregations and moving to a new church plant.

Hence the strategy among UK churches has tended towards planting new congregations rather than creating single behemoths.

After a generation or two in which paid quartets, in the better - heeled parishes, praised God weekly as surrogates for the congregation, and professional organizations raised the money for «plant expansion» (all, of course, with a well - oiled unction that would have glazed the eyeballs of St. Paul) it is not surprising that the counsel to stewardship should be preceded, according to some church programs, by an inquisatorial scrutiny of the share of each of the sheep in the gross national product.

Some will go on to serve in existing AMiE congregations while others will lead teams engaged in planting new churches.

And even if you do, planting the stars and stripes in the sanctuary won't instantly transform your congregation into patriotic idolaters, but the iconography in our churches tells a story by memorializing in glass and steel and thread and fabric who we are and who we are called to be.

The ability to access school space has been used by some anti-gay congregations as part of a «church planting» effort across the city.