Sentences with phrase «relatively small congregations»

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.

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.

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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.