Sentences with phrase «together as a congregation»

The most healing thing we did together as a congregation was make a safe space for everyone to have coffee after the worship and just talk.

Founded in 1882, today it is a lively congregation committed to serving in the community, connecting to our neighbors, and joining in doing God's work - in our daily lives individually and together as a congregation.

Not exact matches

Together with interested members of his congregation, the clergyman could be of inestimable value in personal as well as group counseling during their difficult period of loss and aloneness.

Matthew 18 described how the community could live as a free congregation of brothers without having any members placed in positions of superiority and control, held together only by brotherly service, imposed upon all» (Schweizer, p. 398).

Thus, congregation members perform the healing function of pastoral care as they come together in the midst of chaos, offering hope and wholeness in the midst of fragmentation and despair.

The beauty that Whyte saw in these coordinated crowd movements is not totally unlike the beauty of a congregation that understands itself as a community moving forward together.

It is further bound together by Hopewell's strong theological convictions about how narrative functions as God's work with congregations.

Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

Paul told the congregation at Corinth: «When you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat»; or, as the NEB has it, «it is impossible for you to eat the Lord's Supper.»

What emerges is a new ecclesial identity as a «household» of local congregations, defined as Christians together meeting the needs of a particular place.

A historical and theological analysis of one or the other of these emphases shows each to be wanting as an adequate expression of the ministry.9 In the measure to which these are used to focus ministry in turn or together, the result has proved to be unresolvable conflict within a congregation or a denomination10 In the pluralistic churches of today, both emphases are always present to some extent, so that the ideal ministry attempts some balance between the two.

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

For a Christian to be unattached to a congregation is «unthinkable» as a reality.31 The church also comes together for the sacraments.

Although Catholics believe that the Church is visible in its universal dimension and not only in local congregations, we as Catholics and Evangelicals together affirm the statement of Amsterdam 2000:

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.

If my congregation only had a month to live, I would want all the members to be together as much as possible.

For instance, Roy Steinhoff Smith, professor of pastoral care at Phillips Graduate Seminary in Oklahoma, requires students to work together in small groups in his introductory courses to evaluate their different congregations as «caring communities.»

«As a congregation, we help each other during the preparation time, pray together a lot more, and help on relief efforts after the event,» said Ríos, lead pastor of La Iglesia del Centro, a congregation of about 350 in Arecibo.

Yet it succeeds remarkably in doing this not only on a world scale, as is evident in the very existence of the missionary and ecumenical movements, but in every local congregation where people of many private interests sit together to worship God.

«A Christian congregation is a group of persons that gathers together to enact publicly a much more broadly practiced worship of God in Jesus» name, regularly enough over an indefinite period of time to have a common life in which develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story, and that holds its conduct, outlook, and story accountable as to its faithfulness to biblical stories of Jesus» mission and God's mission in Jesus.»

Thirty children from a black Baptist church in San Francisco showed up at the hospital to sing carols for Clover and other people with AIDS (commonly referred to as PWAs) In the ensuing months he was able to bring together the congregations of Double Rock Baptist Church, which condemns homosexuality as a sin, and MCC - SF, which preaches that homosexuality is a gift from God.

Head of property, Alex Glanville was quoted by the BBC as saying: «We're grouping a lot more parishes and congregations together, about ten - 15 churches in an area, and thinking which ones can we sustain.»

Since last fall, the church says, «members of congregations elected to serve as ruling elders have come together to pray, discuss, and try to discern the mind of Christ» on the issue.

Can a pastor lead in such a way as to equip his / her congregation to accomplish something together that separately they may not be able to accomplish on their own without being burdensome?

A letter issued by the dean of the College of Cardinals on Friday calls the cardinals to come together Monday morning for the first in a series of meetings, known as general congregations.

It seems to me, though, that a better course of action would have been for him to call together the deacons and other church leaders and any law enforcement in the congregation and ask them to act as «security» for the wedding — directing parking, riding a golf cart around the parking lot, keeping an eye on the cars while the wedding is going on, for example.

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, caused a rumpus earlier this summer by proposing to a meeting of liturgists in London that the Catholic Church return to the practice of priest and people praying in the same direction during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: a change in liturgical «orientation» the cardinal described as the entire congregation looking together toward the Lord who is to come.

As readers of Evangelical Catholicism, my book on deep reform in the 21st - century Church, will remember, I proposed just such a change in the orientation of celebrant and congregation during the Liturgy of the Eucharist: Priest and people would face each other during the Liturgy of the Word; celebrant and congregation would then pray together, facing the same direction, throughout the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

«Who would have thought we'd wind up at Easter Mass together,» Hein said as we stood waiting for the congregation to file past our pews.

Often within deep wooden frames, Ossorio's congregations bring together such disparate found objects as glass eyes, shells, animal bones, shards, pearls, feathers, and driftwood — synthesizing beauty with decay, refinement with crudeness, and reanimating (or resurrecting) these dead objects as vivid art.