Sentences with phrase «such a congregation at»

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Of the teens who attended worship services, 70 percent rated their congregation as a very good or fairly good place to talk about serious issues, such as family problems, alcohol or troubles at school.

During the Civil Rights era, even though progressive elites such as seminary professors T. B. Matson (1897 - 1988) and J. B. Weatherspoon (1886 - 1964) managed to persuade the denomination to officially endorse Brown v. Board at its 1954 convention, most congregations continued to embrace segregation.

He acknowledges that the book is aimed at people who have suffered more extreme forms of pain, such as those in his own congregation who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers fell on 9/11.

At the same time, there is some truth in the remark made by a very young clergyman who when rebuked by a lady in his congregation because he was such a young man that he had no business speaking so forcibly to his congregation replied, «Madam, when I put a stole around my shoulders I am two thousand years old!»

More often this is so because such congregations tend to be ideologically trapped in a social world at odds with the gospel.

If there are such congregations, the «lukewarm» church at large has in its mist some models of vitality.

Such a grounding casts in new perspective issues that may at first have seemed unwelcome impositions from outside the characteristic life of the congregation and its members.

Such consultation may occur at many levels: consultation to pastors concerning problem clients with whom they are working; consultation to a pastor and the church administration regarding human relation problems in the congregation; consultation to groups or programs in a congregation that are designed to assist people in the church; consultation to a local, regional, or denominational administration in regard to evaluation of religious candidates, human relations problems in the administration, or denominational programming related to mental health issues; consultation to a group of churches who sponsor a joint community program.

Indeed, confession might be (and often has been) made before the congregation; the clergy, as such, need not be a party to it at all.

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.

As individuals demonstrated their ability to administer such matters, they would more and more be relied on; but the congregation as a whole would be expected to determine policy at every point and often, no doubt, would be called on to make ad hoc decisions in questionable cases.

One slight turn of the head as he sits listening to the preacher in his hometown church inveigh against his kind of music as the work of the Devil promises an explosion — not at the windy parson or the congregation or his dubious parents, but through a series of compositions and performances that will simply give such nonsense the lie.