Sentences with phrase «urban churches»

And, I shot a little piece about urban church planting.

In cultured urban churches where a great deal is made of the beauty of the service, there is a constant danger lest beauty be made a substitute for both worship and righteousness.

I also agree that being a leader of a church (in my case one of many pastors in a very busy urban church) is very, very demanding.

The challenges of a number of urban churches in Chicago are outlined featuring diverse intellectual energy required in a changing city.

Consolidation and centralization would serve to reduce costs and increase productivity in urban church life as well as in the business world, but denominations have long resisted this trend: they continue to maintain numbers of small, weak churches — «loss operations» that drain the financial surplus from larger, healthier congregations.

My comment came from a lot of talk I kept hearing about the need for urban church planters to be more culturally relevant than they currently are.

Especially in larger urban churches that were the prototypes for the growing sect, the Pentecostal form was still there, but much of the Pentecostal spirit was eclipsed as followers sought to be more like their non-Pentecostal neighbors.

In a sizable, sturdy congregation like mine perhaps two successions can be guaranteed; in a small urban church like Mr. Nuechterlein's, not a single succession can.

There are many urban churches in New York and elsewhere successful with that group, especially the young professionals Rimbo thinks will approve of his impending same - sex union.

In the Western world for nearly two millennia, great urban churches have played a crucial role in unifying the heavenly and earthly cities.

This commitment, it may be argued, is especially incumbent upon large and well - endowed urban churches.

Whether they work with upper - middle - class parishes, ethnic or minority churches, undocumented refugees, small struggling urban churches, hospice patients, the elderly poor, delinquent youth or battered women, all students grapple with questions of class and race in a course on feminist ethics.

Urban churches grew and prospered as a result of that population movement; but the rural ethos continued to be reflected in worship, organization and mission priorities.

Fedora topped females who host Hollywood salons hobnob with tattooed urban church planters and discuss presentations that range from manners to masculinity to marionettes.

The crazy thing is that Tim Keller... a pretty successful urban church pastor... never really jumped on that band wagon at Exponential.

Some people tend to denigrate urban church activity, calling it a Band - Aid ministry.

This present chapter will obviously be of greatest interest to those who work in downtown, urban churches where such alcoholics most frequently are encountered.

Then yesterday, I read at Chris Elrod's blog that someone at Exponential stated that «Urban church planters care way more than rural church planters about cultural relevance... probably because they need to.»

China's urban churches will be a major force in its democratization, for a free society requires a civil society capable of standing up to tyranny and the abuse of power.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

In its moral and social ministries, then, the urban church is called to prefigure the redeemed city in which there will be no more death, mourning, or pain, no more evil or sin.

While some urban churches choose to be fortresses within the city, this glassy church refuses to shut out its urban neighborhood, or to be shut out from it.

He remains conservative on theology and sex while admitting that many of his urban church attenders are socially liberal.

I'm currently worshiping in an Urban Church Plant.

However, I do believe that urban churches are presented with unique opportunities to model the rich diversity of the kingdom of God as seen in Isaiah 11 and Rev 7:9.

The bi-vocational pastor might be found in a small rural church, an urban church plant, a house church, or even on the staff of a large church.

It is vital for the urban church to take seriously its teaching function as a self - conscience Christian Community.

Property development is an easy option to most of the urban churches.