Sentences with phrase «such congregations»

To be sure, there are times in such a congregation when equilibrium is legitimate and a genuine offer of the text, but for now we have posed the question in another way.

Yet such congregations often have a profound spiritual hunger.

But perhaps it is good for such a congregation to be connected to a mainline church, thereby raising profound questions about Jewish and Christian identity.

For example, the mobility of the population works against stable local churches and therefore against those denominations that have organized themselves around such congregations.

But I can not and do not yet dare organize or establish such a congregation or gathering.

The lives of such congregations often appear to be centered in the consequences of the gospel — peace and justice — not, in the heartwarming experience of God's saving love in Christ Jesus.

What do such congregations look like?

What does such a congregation look like?

Most such congregations have some ethnic diversity.

Chicago is a wonderful treasure chest of such congregations from all across the spectrum — Catholic, nondenominational, mainline and Pentecostal.

In turn, such congregations appreciate, support and emphasize the importance of pastoral leaders, for they understand the crucial importance of articulating this theological vision and nourishing it through worship, education and ministries.

There are also numerous black congregations in predominantly white denominations; though these are properly covered by the rubric «black churches,» it is not with such congregations that this article is concerned.

I assume such a congregation, because that is the context in which I characteristically do my interpretation.

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

I find this reflection, comforting, especially as I know a few such congregations.

Writing to such a congregation at Corinth, Paul noted that the way its members went about the Lord's Supper reflected the unhealthy state of their congregational life.

The Word itself inspires such congregations, or did Ms. Miller not read that in her Bible?

One such congregation on Key Largo consists of 500 cats and is just north of the Dagney Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park, home to the endangered wood rat.

We know by faith that the Lord has promised to be present in such a congregation and is mysteriously there among those who share the meal.

I think the fact that we can have such a congregation in the first place, the type of group we have, is very encouraging, and one of the clear benefits of the Vineyard.

Drawing on a consumer model, such congregations will hold multiple and different styles of worship services each Sunday to appeal to the varying liturgical tastes of adherents.

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

Such congregations — perhaps because they are made up of a disproportionate number of parishioners who are in management — commonly think of labor unions as corrupt and grasping.

On the other hand, as the Big Book puts it, in discussing the alcoholic who returns to church, «He and his family can be a bright spot in such congregations.

While no such congregation exists in the RCA, a growing number of churches have forsaken the traditional pattern of a quarterly and very penitential observance for a more frequent and joyous form of celebration.