Sentences with phrase «single congregation»
The phrase "single congregation" refers to a group of people who come together to worship and practice their faith. It means that there is only one particular group or community at that location, and it is not divided into multiple smaller groups. Full definition
It is the evangelicals who power massive communities like Willow Creek in Chicago and the Vineyard Fellowships with all their huge appeal to the young, as well as what is claimed to be the largest single congregation not just in London but even in Europe - Kingsway International Christian Church.
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When Congregational and Presbyterian people were found together on the sparsely settled frontier they were to combine to form a single congregation and were to call a pastor from either denomination, depending on which they could get.
Jeffress said the church's fundraising consultant, Doug Turner, had determined that this is the largest building program undertaken by a single congregation in recent history.
The experience of MICAH shows the result: even though the organization has adopted controversial positions, not a single congregation has dropped out.
Whether it is a calling to evangelize the world or a calling to provide for the material needs of the world (or both), no single congregation can do it alone.
What makes you think that the increase in a single congregation is not due to recycled churchers?
But though I dealt with a constituency of several hundred churches, I do not remember a single congregation's cutting its support of my council of churches while it was itself solvent and growing.
There would have been many congregations — at any rate, house congregations — in such a city as Ephesus or Antioch in the early second century; and therefore the bishop of Ephesus or the bishop of Antioch would have been more than the head of a single congregation.
This is just the first step and we are eager to continue to work with our church partners to help them serve their singles congregations.»