Sentences with phrase «seen by the congregations»

The risk, however was seen by the Congregations in terms of the potential for scandal and bad publicity should the abuse be disclosed.

Not exact matches

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

Because seminarians have been trained by theologians who are more shaped by their graduate school training than by their ecclesial identification — they see themselves as process thinkers or Barthians rather than as Baptists or Episcopalians — we have seminarians who attempt to make congregations fit the images of their theological allegiances rather than trying to respond to the theological resources of the congregation.

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregation.

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

Since that is precisely what inquiry guided by the first set of questions provides, clearly exploration of congregations» «faithfulness» to their own identities depends on the results of exploration of how best to characterize them, just as we saw the latter inquiry requires the former.

I have to leave my immigrant church, a concern for first generation congregations who saw and still see churches as a both a strategy and physical space to connect generations divided by language, education, power, and levels of assimilation through faith.

It was further encouraged by the Holy See's approval in 1922 of the dialogue Mass, at which the congregation would together say responses to prayers of the priest.

I feel put in a special category by the image that many people in my congregation and community try to put on me (and it's hard not to feel it even if I don't see myself in this way).

When we analyzed the results, we began to see why Christian congregations have been so unshaken by years of sermonizing.

On one Sunday when the majority if not all the congregation is expected to be there have an unannounced special pastor deliver the sermon... say Al Sharpton... and make it a long sermon... See who walks out... Nothing in the article or the responses by the church says that they would allow African American couples to wed in the church.

I could never see myself being hired by some nice, traditional congregation to be their rector or something — no way.

He just happened to drop in on a congregation one Christmas Eve and, in a liminal moment, «started to see the deeper connections and more expansive framework offered by the sense of our small daily drama in relation to the higher meaning that many people call God.»

Furthermore, when ministers get discouraged and seem to be accomplishing nothing, again and again their hearts are warmed by the fidelity of those laymen — perhaps only one or two in a congregation — who can always be depended on, who see at least partially what the minister is driving at, who in an unpretentious way are genuine Christian saints.

«I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn't get it past the Congress,» Pastor Charles L. Worley can be seen telling his Providence Road Baptist Church congregation in the video, which had more than 250,000 YouTube views by Tuesday.

Indeed, it is by comparative study of congregations that one can see how different construals of the Christian thing make real differences in the ways persons» lives are shaped and empowered.

The congregation's hour - long Sunday morning television service, «Hour of Power,» is seen in 45 cities throughout the country by an audience of from 2.5 million to 10 million.

However, as a teenager he became disillusioned by what he saw in his own church: a congregation composed of «a young pastor, old deacons, and all women,» a congregation that did not sufficiently support pastors and their families either emotionally or financially.

The last element of analysis has to do with the particular theological heritage that has influenced many of our congregations, especially in regard to two issues The first is the false spirituality that sees little connection between faith and questions of material well - being, the environment, and so forth ~ The sermon deals with that by stressing God's concern for all of creation, even the animals.

Some of us have danced the Sardana in front of the Gothic cathedral and a few have been to Montserrat and heard and seen the congregation rise and sing with tears In their eyes in memory of all those who died during the long dark night of oppression by Franco and the Fascisti.

And please don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying we shouldn't check corruption, but if we come to office and to power — I've been preaching for 40 years in this country and I've seen governments come and go, from CPP, my father's government, and NDC and NPP, they are here, I've seen them over the 40 years — and this thing where we come into office with vindictiveness and bitterness because of the way we've been mishandled and mistreated, and we target people to go after them, settle scores, I pray that during the reign of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, because of the fight and the betrayals and the suffering and the pain he went through to become president, he will not allow his presidency to be used by people who have problems with others and their opponents to settle scores, but that during his watch and his reign, that vicious cycle would be broken in the name of Jesus; that every Ghanaian, irrespective of your political party, if you're doing the right thing, you'll prosper», the founder of Action Chapel International (ACI) told his congregation on Sunday, 22 April.

We are left seeing only remnants of a Lamentation scene by Jacopo da Pontormo in The Weightlifters, 2015, and a congregation of arches and buttresses in The Square, 2014 — symbols reduced to formal exercises.