Sentences with phrase «such as a congregation»

And now, signs of new ventures — such as congregation - based teaching and related counterinstitutional forms — are questioning both oldline and evangelical teaching habitats.

Not exact matches

Sometimes I feel the need to do a cartoon such as this one to show that I do not hate the church or despise pastors and congregations.

I will remain in my local conservative congregation that instinctively knows better than to embrace such dangerous and foolhardy notions as world government.

We see them as obstacles and we complain that but for such and such a person things would have been better in the congregation, in the family and in the community.

Andy Stanley, a prominent evangelical leader, said some in his congregation cheered when he launched a preaching series called «Recovery Road» to talk about politically touchy issues such as personal greed, the federal deficit and the sins of subprime loans.

Supposedly, then, no body such as a synod or presbytery had any power over congregations.

One thinks not only of the personnel that the Jesuits and other religious institutes devoted to teaching young men but also of the teaching congregations of religious women, such as the Ursulines, who educated young women in virtue and learning.

A differentiation among the world views of various congregations such as I have laid out here is not widely employed.

Some concern abilities and capacities normally acquired by reflective participation in practices that comprise other quite different institutions, such as hospitals, congregations, agencies providing assistance to the disadvantaged, and the like.

-- test the picture by a survey instrument (such as the one described next) that asks similar questions, and by inviting members of the congregation to review and comment on the results of your observations.

As we have seen, having persons with such capacities in its midst is critical to a congregation's well - being.

The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is studied:

There will be some people, of course, who will resist and be alienated by such honesty between preacher and congregation, but their responses have to be accepted as inevitable.

It also would have been useful for these writers to consider C — Pop within the broader context of niche — driven evangelicalism, exemplified by congregations such as Willow Creek and Grace Chapel, publishing houses that market things like «the women's Bible,» and even those evangelist muscle men who thrill pre — teens by shattering bricks with their heads — all for Jesus of course.

A development approach such as this also has the potential to help congregations finance their building projects by forming partnerships with developers to build the non-church portion.

EPC requires all churches to hold to «essential» tenets of the Christian faith, but allows each congregation freedom in forming opinions on «nonessential» matters, such as whether women can be elected as deacons and elders.

As such, when African - American congregations are referred to by Euro - American denominational titles, one must understand that, ironically, such titles signify differences more than similarities.

VOICE congregations on the West Side have conducted another round of neighborhood interviewing and are now working on issues such as housing, economic development and recreational facilities for youth and seniors.

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.

Such a confession plants a particular congregation in a wider history that looks to its Hebrew past as well as to an eschatological future, a history in which Jesus Christ is the center.

Members of this St. Paul, Minnesota, congregation, also known as the Recovery Church, have come to expect God to orchestrate such moments.

Much of what Paul writes addresses problems and concerns in the Corinthian congregation, such as the problem of eating foods that have been offered to idols in sacrificial worship and are now offered by a host to an unsuspecting Christian guest, one who might be offended.

With the group there is a distinction between those members who will engage in religious activity from personal choice or in deference to tradition such as converts and parishioners of a local congregation, and those who are actively religious — temporarily or consistently — such as lay - deacons or the participants in a procession.

Even spiritual associations such as religious orders and congregations were influenced by this perspective, though rare individuals stood up for the oppressed indigenous peoples and slaves as in Americas.

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.

Such pride can splinter a community, as in the Gardena congregation's case.

And many (not all) respond with knowledge in love, such as Michael Brown and his congregation over in Charlotte, NC.

Bloggers such as Hatmaker and Ann Voskamp — with books popular enough to land on TheNew York Times bestseller lists — have triple as many Facebook followers as the biggest congregations in the biggest denomination in the country.

Its church hierarchies are often housed in organizations such as Focus on the Family and independent congregations instead of in denominations, and their relationship with government is more subtle and more private then that of mainline denominations.

Doty and other epistolary theorists agree that the letters were written by an author who was conscious of his responsibility as an apostle in the congregation and thus fully intended such letters to be read aloud to the gathered community.

Other churches such as Santa Maria dei Miracoli, having lost their parishioners or religious congregations, have dispensed with the daily or weekly mass altogether and have become galleries of sacred art, with the occasional Vivaldi concert or upper - class wedding.

praise music — buttressed by output from Calvary Chapel's stepdaughter, the Vineyard International Fellowship, and any number of praise - oriented companies spawned by evangelical music publishers; by the wildly popular imported oeuvre of Australia's HillSongs Church; and by the work of British praise tunesmiths such as Graham Kendrick, Chris Eaton and the band Delirious — have now conquered thousands of American congregations.

The close attention to such parish features as ritual process and the use of Scripture encouraged in my courses does indeed help forge links to other religions, but studying the congregation because it provides a rationale for courses in other faiths remains only a part of the reason for my interest.

To prepare for mission, in this view of things, would require the members of a congregation to discount their self - serving stuff, attempting to slough it off in order to offer their more recognizably Christian hopes and actions, such as the grace and love witnessed in their Communion, to other people.

In the process of being interviewed, called, and beginning his ministry, the pastor has discovered that the congregation is primarily concerned with institutional maintenance, such as raising the budget and adding new members to the rolls.

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.

Though organized into larger ecclesial units such as dioceses, denominations, and, ultimately, the worldwide church, the congregation is nevertheless the persistent and immediate form by which the church is manifested in almost every community.

Churches increasingly see missions in the streets of American cities; segments of church membership stirring up controversy; urban congregations moving to the suburbs; such issues as birth control, draft resistance, rebellion.

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.

And if the language indigenous to the congregation's life seems unworthy of such a lofty task, it should be recalled that «Jesus... particularly in his parables, exalted everyday life as the «stuff» of the revelatory event».15

This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative biblical scholarship, it does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.

Many congregations have adopted such post-Vatican II reforms as the new lectionary and common calendar, but are left largely untouched by the sacramental reforms.

Perhaps we ought to encourage our pastors not to think of themselves as «above» such mundane conversations as gossip or as prohibitors of gossip, but rather as those who help us to gossip well in the congregation.

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

Similar to Diocesan Share payments made by Church of England congregations in the UK, the Common Fund raises money for services which benefit the diocese as a whole, such as safeguarding.

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

So, as governments oversee matters of security, we will care for the hurting, calling Christians to embrace refugees through their denomination, congregation or other non-profits by providing for immediate and long - term needs, such as housing, food, clothing, employment, English language classes, and schooling for children.

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

Almost all Houston - area churches — including the Bayou City's biggest congregations such as Second Baptist, Houston's First Baptist, Church Without Walls, Wheeler Avenue Baptist, and Woodlands Church — canceled all Sunday activities as a precaution.

Such concerns about the efficiency of a dwelling also characterize a type of inquiry about congregations that came to national prominence as contextual approaches receded.