Sentences with phrase «relatively small congregation»

Because ours was a relatively small congregation made up of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.

The problem is for most people is time and the fact that often they attend churches with relatively small congregations — or even churches that are so big that it can be quite hard to really get to know people and their friends propely.

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Chaves is right that many congregations do very little social - service work and that their direct financial contributions toward social - service delivery are relatively small.

The point is that each of these is a different way in which congregations» social space may be structured as a concrete, if relatively small, political and moral reality.