Sentences with phrase «traditional congregations»

I see grace and love more and more with people who are outside traditional congregations.

If, in the latter case, these followers begin to become a more traditional congregation, then there is a «routinization» and the prophet becomes more like a priest or gives way to a priest.

If you would have asked me this question as a teen, I would replied with an eye roll and a list of grievances that may sound familiar if you also attended a highly traditional congregation.

I launched this effort in January of 2000 by initiating a study of «Mourners or Midwives», a video course outlining the challenges to traditional congregations in this changing world.

African Christianity by itself is a many - splendored thing, with prophet - healing churches, radical charismatic sects, new Pentecostal groups, plus strong traditional congregations.

This is the glitziest application of computer technology, one that even very traditional congregations are seeking to use.

Churches embracing millennial - friendly marketing are attracting and maintaining audiences better than more traditional congregations, but their retention rates are still suffering in comparison to 10 and 20 years ago.

I could never see myself being hired by some nice, traditional congregation to be their rector or something — no way.

A traditional congregation is a community of memory because it not only maintains its own congregational story but is part of a larger moral tradition that extends back through time.