Sentences with phrase «public worship»

Nevertheless, they find that changing the language used in public worship is such a painful task that they wonder if it is really worth it.

Fortunately for public worship, our heritage is rich with great materials.

Those planning public worship begin to think their task is to create an audience or to answer to an audience.

If these are clips of people in public worship services it would be more like watching a video of an orgy than two people in their bedroom.

Many of the congregations that are willing to tackle the problem of inclusive language appear to be ones in which public worship has been intellectualized into sterility.

Permission is granted to use or adapt these prayers in public worship with the condition that if a prayer is reproduced in a printed order of worship attribution is given.

Malik al - Zahir held meetings with theologians for discussion of religious matters and the recital of the Qur» an, went to Friday public worship on foot, and from time to time went to war against the unbelievers in the interior regions.

Most of the seminaries, if not all, teach young ministers how to conduct public worship, but the ministers less often teach their people how to worship when they get to church.

When public worship moved from the house church to the large basilicas to accommodate the growing numbers of Christians, worship settings became much more grandiose and formal.

Apart from public worship in church or chapel, of which we shall speak separately, the most important times of private prayer are upon awaking, at bedtime, before meals, at irregular intervals through the day, and in a regular, uninterrupted, unhurried period which can be fixed for any convenient time but which ought not to be left to the mercy of circumstance.

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

It is equally useless to belabor people for not attending public worship when they have only the sketchiest idea of what Christianity really means and even less of what the Church stands for.

If a mosque ever opens, Islam will be able to promote itself in our midst through public worship, despite its beliefs and practices being alien to the religious convictions of the vast majority of our community.

Similarly, 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 is to be understood as part of Paul's summary concerning public worship which begins with verse 26 and continues through verse 40.

Unconsciously we have eliminated from public worship major portions of God's Word so that the people never hear them read in church.

What resources must we marshal for overcoming ignorance and indifference about public worship?

Niggardly in their own provision for worship, they would allow no others on Manhattan to provide for any other public worship services.

Public worship revolved therefore around this release of the spirit through the exegetes» performances.

Particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.

Yet public worship like private prayer requires time enough to relax before God, center attention upon him and upon holy things, enter into his presence without any sense of pressure.

I must earnestly disagree with you in your use of scripture to attempt to prove that God is not specially present with His people during public worship.

(Deu t. 7:13) The holiest of holies, the different courts (jews and gentiles), and all the religeous rites, etc., demonstrate the importance God, and thereby we, should place on worship, particularly public worship.

Because the liturgy gives us our best image of heaven, because the words and actions of public worship mimic the divine service performed by the angels and saints who attend God's throne, a rumor has gotten out that heaven will be church services that never end, This is a terrifying prospect to my 13 - year - old.

It is used only for the communal performance of the five daily salats, for religious meetings, and for religious instruction, but not for the Friday public worship since it does not meet the requirements for a mosque.

The «Way of the Future» church will have its own gospel called «The Manual,» public worship ceremonies, and probably a physical place of worship.

It can be a great aid to worship, for tested forms and the direction given by a person whose vocation it is to conduct public worship can go far toward eliminating trial - and - error.

Within a traditional understanding liturgy refers narrowly to the forms by which public worship is practiced.

Permission is granted to use or adapt these prayers in public worship with the condition that if a prayer is reproduced in a printed order of worship attribution is given.

The compulsory Friday public worship in the mosque is observed by a far larger number of people, so many that the mosques are usually overcrowded and often have more worshipers than can get into the building.