Sentences with phrase «preaching by the response»

He is not to measure the effectiveness of his preaching by the response of the people.

Not exact matches

The responses of laity to preaching and teaching and other pastoral leadership activities are extremely important; pastors referred to «feeling that preaching and teaching are falling on enthusiastic ears,» «the recommitment of the faith by members who had fallen away,» or «helping the laity to use their gifts.»

They have been taught» by words, and more importantly by silence» that religion is basically an emotional response, either to good music, effective preaching, or a feeling of belonging to a community.

15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, was pleased 16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being.

The alarm felt by those of us still concerned about preaching is not a response solely to the noise outside in the street where public disfavor and ridicule have been heaped upon the pulpit.

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a man at a Sunday worship service in a Reformed Protestant church, who was giving expression to his feelings by shouting «Amen» in response to various comments being made as the minister preached.

Let me suggest a two - step approach to the action phase of the response to preaching: (a) Motivation — Healthy motivation moves people, not primarily by guilt but by the warm, wonderful experience of reconciliation.

The man who is shaped and molded by his continuing participation in the round of Christian liturgical worship is the man who comes gradually to be informed by the spirit which animates and governs the liturgy — and that spirit is nothing other than response to the gospel of Christ, made known and communicated through the preaching of the gospel, but not through verbal symbols alone; the response becomes effective through the whole action which includes mind and body, will and emotions, in an offering to God in union with his brethren.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Preaching has power when it is dialogical, when preacher and people become partners in the discernment and proclamation by word and action of the Word of God in response to the issues of our day.

The staple of LCMS preaching was the three - point sermon: you have sinned and by that sin merited eternal separation from God; Christ died to save you from the consequences of your sins; you should in grateful response strive to live in obedience to God's will.

The Puritan had found his major support through the emotional response awakened by his preaching, and he came to stress more and more the paramount importance of an awakened conscience and the work of grace in the heart of the believer.

Victor, you no right to complain about lack of response, meaningful or otherwise, since you are guilty of practicing what you preach against: You have not responded — meaningfully or otherwise — to my comments at 120 and 156, in which I exposed the general illogic underling all your argumentation, this general illogic being the falsity that, given a cause and effect relationship established by the laws of physics, effects not manifesting as strongly as we would like is somehow some sort of legitimate argument that this cause and effect relationship established by the laws of physics is false.