Sentences with phrase «relationships as a congregation»

Augusta, GA About Blog The Purpose Statement for Westminster is, «To please God as we worship Him, make disciples of Jesus Christ locally and world - wide, equip believers for ministry in the church and the world, and practice biblical relationships as a congregation.»

Not exact matches

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

There are some inevitable complications that need to be considered: the barriers to communication that exist in every relationship, including that of preacher and congregation, as represented in the diagram on the following page.

Parents need help in adjusting relationships and family rules as children grow older so they can experience the freedom and the responsibility they need in order to grow up.4 In some congregations, this kind of learning and support occurs in parent - education groups.5

If the married persons in his congregation were asked to rate the relative happiness of their nuptial relationship, fewer than half would rate them as «very happy» (Ibid.

Questions have been asked about the consistency of The Rev. Vosper in regard to her public statements as opposed to her public professions of faith and belief at the time of her ordination and every single time she was covenanted into a new pastoral relationship, including in 1997 with her current congregation.

This places the responsibility on the teacher and the class, as reflecting the larger life of the congregation, to create the kind of interpersonal relationships in which mutual trust is possible.

Its church hierarchies are often housed in organizations such as Focus on the Family and independent congregations instead of in denominations, and their relationship with government is more subtle and more private then that of mainline denominations.

The associate may have far less power in the relationship, yet bring energy that leads to success within a congregation as well as to personal pride and a sense of accomplishment.

Deeply religious people, and they are a small minority in every congregation, have a personal relationship with a God they feel is as present in the church as the next person in the pew.

Secondly, the practising nature of numerous of the congregation's relationships is in the public forum, as Dr Oddie's above - mentioned column shows.

When Justin told one of his pastors that he didn't think the ex-gay ministries could make him straight, the pastor told him that as long as Justin remained celibate, he was welcome to continue worshipping with the congregation, but that if Justin entered a same - sex relationship, he would be asked to leave.

She was also uneasy about this congregation's heavy emphasis on one's «personal» relationship to Jesus, on her secondary status as a woman, and narrow approach to social reform.

The relationship between contemporary forms of worship and membership growth is as strong for older congregations that changed their worship patterns as for new congregations that have used contemporary forms from the beginning.

Such a shifting boundary, he suggests, could have significant implications for the wealthy congregation's relationship to the city, and for its identity as a moral community.

The central issue here can be focused by asking the question as concretely as possible: How does a given theological school understand the relationship between itself as a community and a Christian congregation as a community?

If these relationships are anything but reciprocal, it starts a cycle which becomes abusive to the pastor as well as to the congregation.

Although he recognizes strands of the other approaches present in each theological position, he argues that a particular interpretation emerges in most situations as the most prominent, 22 and he enjoins Christians to reach their own «final» choice.23 The study of the struggle of congregations to grasp the relationship of Christ to their own culture suggests, however, that all four motifs are constantly in play: it is difficult to find one theme dominating the others.

Dr. Cole has authored a number of workshops including: The Unique Challenges of Second Marriages, Ethics in Couples Therapy and Living as God's Family: Relationship Enhancement for Congregations and has presented to a wide range of audiences such as The American Association of Pastoral Counselors and the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology.