Sentences with phrase «services of worship»

In our services of worship should we institute footwashing?

We do not say it by rote in services of worship as we do the Lord's Prayer.

Our inherited services of worship — our prayers, our hymns, and many of the other things that are part of that worship — are not only less than fully Christian in statement but also impossible for us to accept if we have any regard for intellectual integrity, for honesty, and for relevance to the concrete situation in which we find ourselves.

As earlier in the worship services of the Brahmosamaj, which emerged from Hinduism, and of the Bahai and Sufi groups, which emerged from Persian Islam, portions from the various bibles of mankind were read in these services of worship.

There is so much for all of us that hides Jesus from us — the church itself hides him, all the hoopla of church with ministers as lost in the thick of it as everybody else so that the holiness of it somehow vanishes away to the point where services of worship run the risk of becoming only a kind of performance — on some Sundays better, on some Sundays worse — and only on the rarest occasions does anything strike to the quick the way that little girl's cry did with every last person who heard her realizing that Jesus didn't show for any of them — the mystery and miracle of Jesus with all his extraordinary demands upon us, all his extraordinary promises.

He would sanction school - sponsored visits to services of worship so that students could «experience» and «appreciate» ritual.

6:9 - 13), as Matthew gives it, is the one we repeat collectively in our services of worship.

For my own part, I believe that the first condition for such a revision of our services of worship as shall make them fully Christian is theological; by this I mean that only when our doctrine of God is soundly Christian will these services be appropriate to the worship of the community that finds its center in Jesus Christ, who revealed God as «pure, unbounded Love» but who also revealed that this Love is not soft or sentimental — the fact of Calvary makes that truth sufficiently plain.

This for them is the Liturgy; and whatever other services of worship are held are arranged round it as a center, since they prepare for or are consequent upon the anamnesis or «continual remembrance» of Christ in the eucharistic rite.

Effective services of worship, whatever more they may be, are good instruments of group therapy.

In the services of worship in Judaism, a-strong connection had always been made between the act of reading the sacred word aloud and the praise of God in the worshiping community.5 Jesus» for example, chose this important act of oral reading to inaugurate his public ministry:

You will be amazed at the satisfaction which comes from sharing the words of God in your services of worship.

In some situations God's Word may be that women should keep silent in the public services of worship (1 Cor.

Try as we may, our services of worship bear about them the aura of the theatre (mostly, I fear, a very amateur theatre!)

Nor are the services of worship readily intelligible to somebody who has no acquaintance with the tradition of which it is an expression.

Rites and ritual, ceremonies and public services of worship are only means to an end.

Like the Sunday school system itself, this motherly - person image was a recognition that, in terms of method, the family could not be counted on to do the whole needed teaching job along with services of worship.

It reminded me of some church services of worship, when the spiritual fogs drift in.

Liturgically, when this Commandment is read in services of worship, our response is «Lord, have mercy upon us.»

«Experience» should not be the aim of services of worship.

The inference seems to be that the Marcan passion narrative was already in fairly stable form when Mark wrote, and that it continued to be told and retold in practically this form — possibly at the Christian services of worship and quite apart from the written Gospels, indeed before The Gospels were compiled

since this woman entered a Catholic Church to be a part of their service of worship, she shouldn't be surprised that they follow the doctrine they believe in — namely, that someone openly unrepentant of what the Catholic Church teaches is sin should not partake of communion.

Again and again the quality of a service of worship is judged by the kind of music the choir renders, the aesthetic fitness of the minister's voice or vestments or manner, the beauty or ugliness of the sanctuary, the general decorum with which everything is done.

Prayer ought to include the worship of God, and a service of worship without prayer is barren.

Later, the Agape and the church's welfare work were separated from the service of worship.

In the New Testament and in the early church diakonia was inseparable from the service of worship.

The two held together as a single action were to be the main Sunday service of worship for every Christian.

Rather, I shall be considering preaching in a liturgical context, which is the celebration of the Eucharist on Sunday morning or at whatever time the main service of worship is conducted on the Lord's Day.

Georgi points out that since the missionary activity of the diaspora did not have a central organization, the service of worship in the synagogue was the magnet that drew potential converts.

But note that Jesus does not say that the innovative should be sought simply because it is new, or that life should be celebrated in a service of worship simply for enjoyment.

A thoroughgoing biblical inquiry into the relation between the «service of God» and what we have come to call the «service of worship» by the congregation of believers assembled in a specific place has got to be undertaken.

This was not a service of worship in the Lutheran understanding of that term.

Within the service of worship itself much is required of the worshiper in the Catholic service by way of kneeling, standing, saying responses, genuflection, and making the sign of the cross.

Second, what ought the service of worship to do for the worshiper?

When ought a child to begin attending the Sunday morning service of worship?

If such laymen feel free enough to speak with candor, their evaluation and suggestions can be of major help in strengthening the mental health impact of the service of worship.

A Christian wedding is a service of worship, an expression of faith, a high and holy moment in our life together.

But since this doctrine fills about 600 volumes, it is quite impossible for a small monastic community to recite it in its entirety in one service of worship.

The Holy Communion service, which very quickly became the service of worship designed for Christian people on the holy day, took on the original festive character of that Sunday.

Perhaps most of those who will read these words will have had times when they felt sure that God was speaking to them in some great service of worship, through the voice of a modern prophet, or in some soul - stirring personal experience.

We shall presently discuss the rites of baptism and the Lord's Supper; but not every Christian service of worship was «sacramental».

(3) The final section consists of various exhortations perhaps expressed in the community's service of worship.

Not exact matches

In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

We provide our services to a variety of industries and facilities, providing cleaning services and janitorial maintenance for offices, auto dealerships, schools, daycare centers, retail stores, places of worship, medical and health care facilities and the list goes on.

If you are employed by a not - for - profit organization, any time you spend on religious instruction, worship services, or any form of proselytizing may not be counted toward meeting the full - time employment requirement.

Ironicus is correct that allowing religious inst.itutions to hold worship services in public facilities is a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Const.itution.

By Vivienne Foley, CNN New York (CNN)- Pastors and their congregants took to the streets of New York on Thursday to protest and to pray for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse a ban on religious groups» use of public schools for worship service, scheduled to go into effect February 12.

CNN: Pastors protest New York ban on religious services Pastors and their congregants took to the streets of New York on Thursday to protest and to pray for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse a ban on religious groups» use of public schools for worship service, scheduled to go into effect February 12.

I am all in favor of music at a church, but starting out, why do we drop a full - time salary on a worship pastor salary when most church plants take a good year before they hold their first service?

From the pre-service hubbub to the opening worship to the sermon to the prayers to the response songs to the close of service to the post-service coffee meetups, there is just so much noise on Sunday.