Sentences with phrase «traditional church experience»

She is passionate about giving voice to those outside the bounds of traditional church experience.

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So how does a Pentecostal church with traditional Christian values rebrand the church experience?

Undoubtedly, one of the reasons men often hate «church», is the entire traditional experience conflicts with how they identify themselves.

It is refreshing change to the browbeating you experience, or put upon yourself, in the traditional church.

Rather than accepting as authoritative Scripture's total witness, the interpreter uses either his subjective experience with the Christ, or his contemporary sensibility, or the church's traditional understanding of the gospel, or perhaps some combination of these to judge what reasonably the «whole Bible» might be saying.

On the other hand, pentecostally oriented evangelical churches, such as the Johannesburg - based Rhema Church movement, as well as the African indigenous churches, such as the Zion Christian Church (whose worldview is an amalgam of Christian teaching and traditional African religious expression), have experienced an explosion of membership.

An ecclesial life characterized by communal repentance and renewal may not excite the managers of mega-churches and their clients, or anyone else suspicious of traditional church trappings, but it is hardly the suffocating and stultifying experience Mr. Benne fears....

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In the words of Taylor, in a desire to communicate an experience of communion with evangelical Protestants, Weigel has traded «the traditional Catholic concept of a social communion with Christ through the Church with the classically Protestant concept of a subjective personal communion with the person of Jesus.»

Doing this will require moving beyond the sterile polarities that have defined the church in the modern era: liberal vs. conservative, traditional vs. contemporary, reason vs. experience, faith vs. science, megachurch vs. maintenance church.

This is the same thing that the traditional church structures attempt to do through a gathered community of believers that meets to celebrate with Word and sacrament the Christian way of understanding and experiencing life.

They want to be independent of traditional values, they are suspicious of Marxist parties (even if they vote for them) and of too much piety in church (even if they attend services) Yet they experience a crisis of moral drift.

It will be as different from the traditional church of our experience as the great cathedrals were from the church in the catacombs.

I have two different church experiences to relate to: One of an older, more traditional church.

The effective disestablishment of Christianity in its traditional «Western» form is experienced by all of us at levels of recognition which go deeper than our knowledge of church membership rolls and finances and other readily quantifiable data.

Cut off from traditional values of the church, the law, and the state, personal experience is elevated to the status once accorded those foundations for communal good.

«It's obvious that people are searching for a spiritual experience outside of traditional church gatherings and in an on - demand world this trend will accelerate.

Not surprisingly, problems arose for «innovative young pastors faced with traditional don't - change - anything older adults and new pastors in churches that had just experienced long - gratifying pastorates,» the study said.

Here is a story from a former pastor with lots of experiences and knowledge about church, but who has followed Jesus away from traditional church.

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