Sentences with phrase «same as a congregation»

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As, islamist extremists do with their own faithful infidels, christians now can't wait to do the same within their own congregation to protect the pure christians from the infected ones.

There are so many congregations doing the same thing the same way every single week — and the same way as so many other congregations — that people become starved for something, ANYTHING that's at least a change from the monotony.

Even while preaching absolute truth, propositions, sin, and hell, Keller will quote the Apostle Paul in the same breath as a quote from Bono, and all to make a point meaningful to his congregation, not to win cool points.

I had a fairly sizable audience - averaging 3,000 viewers for each video or vlog - about the same as a good - sized flesh - and - blood congregation.

When the members of the congregation saw me in pain, they ministered to me — not from a distance, but as fellow travelers on the same patch of winding road.

At the same time, and without modifications of the «againstness,» a theological school's study may be «for» Christian congregations because it is the place where people can be helped to acquire the capacities for theological judgment that, as we saw, congregations inherently need in their common life.

Most are small and neighborly, with the pastor living in the same block as his congregation.

Many of us have been giving considerable attention in recent decades to the importance of cultural context: you can't preach exactly the same sermon in a suburban Omaha church as you would to a congregation in rural Thailand.

So she conducted her research at two sites, one of them a more or less typical second - generation congregation (which she calls «Grace») that meets in the same building as its parent Korean immigrant congregation, and the other («Manna») a predominantly Asian American but remarkably multiethnic congregation that meets in a building owned by an African - American congregation.

As the leader of leaders in the congregation, a pastor can ask the same questions of his or her ministry.

Although the congregation knits itself together by inspired strands such as liturgies, musical programs, and water systems, each by the activity of the same congregation also corrupts its nature and threatens the congregation's own life together.

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.

The substance of what is proclaimed is the same as what is recollected, the same as is now acknowledged by the congregation in thanksgiving as God's salvatory and present power, the same as is offered and received in participation of the members in the Head of the church.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

Congregations perpetuate the illusion that membership in a congregation is the same as confessing faith in Jesus Christ when they refuse to consider alternatives.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

As I stand before a small congregation to preach and pray I give thanks that others are filled with the same passions, questions, doubts, longings and joys.

And surely it is this kind of attraction, the necessary condition of our unity, which must be linked at its root with the radiations of some ultimate Center (at once transcendent and immanent) of psychic congregation: the same Center as that whose existence, opening for human endeavor a door to the Irreversible, seems indispensable (the supreme condition of the future!)

Imagine what would happen if all the evangelical institutions — youth organizations, publications, colleges and seminaries, congregations and denominational headquarters — would dare to undertake a comprehensive two - year examination of their total program and activity to answer this question: Is there the same balance and emphasis on justice for the poor and oppressed in our programs as there is in Scripture?

Paul insisted on the same thing as he sought to deal with the pluralism of the Corinthian congregation, with Paul, Apollos, Cephas, or Christ as supposed champions of factions (I Cor.

I would agree that many congregations operate under the same psychological conditions as an «Abused Spouse Syndrome».

The Christian thing itself, I suggest, can be encountered concretely in and as Christian congregations; its major and most demonic distortions can also be encountered in the same place.

I have read «Runaway Radical,» and quite honestly, as a member of the same congregation as Jonathan, I had nearly identical conversations with the same senior pastor.

Its guidance to church leaders says: «Clergy credentialed by the ECC may attend the wedding or blessing of a same - sex couple... but may not participate in the service other than as a participant with the congregation.»

Hunter S. Thompson Jr. commented on the millennium, which was signaled with the same giddiness as Pentecost in most congregations.

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

As far as I can tell from its website, Marble is a mainline, Protestant congregation, committed to progressive causes like diversity and same - sex marriagAs far as I can tell from its website, Marble is a mainline, Protestant congregation, committed to progressive causes like diversity and same - sex marriagas I can tell from its website, Marble is a mainline, Protestant congregation, committed to progressive causes like diversity and same - sex marriage.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus earlier this summer by proposing to a meeting of liturgists in London that the Catholic Church return to the practice of priest and people praying in the same direction during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: a change in liturgical «orientation» the cardinal described as the entire congregation looking together toward the Lord who is to come.

As readers of Evangelical Catholicism, my book on deep reform in the 21st - century Church, will remember, I proposed just such a change in the orientation of celebrant and congregation during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: Priest and people would face each other during the Liturgy of the Word; celebrant and congregation would then pray together, facing the same direction, throughout the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

This means that the people of each congregation view one another as neighbors, people who are in the same proverbial boat.