Sentences with phrase «very small church»

I was raised in a very small church, but I like the worship at the bigger ones.

Prayer ended, doors opened and I walked in, the majority looked up (very small church) including the pastors.

We have a very small church that don't have too many people who can provide leadership in the traditional sense.

I know this is an older thread, but our VERY small church is trying to decide how much we should pay our pastor.

I now go, when I can, to a very small church with less than 20 people.

It's taken me 10 years to do this and a church that has supported my efforts (we're a very small church so the needs are limited).

Meanwhile, I am in a very small church that meets only twice a month.

I have been a member of very small churches and am just now affiliated with a small church that is a plant of a mega church.

Not exact matches

I saw one of these people once in a very small rural church.

Another factor is that the church was very small with an ageing congregation, which doesn't help in that situation either.

I'm a bit biased in my opinion as I go to very small denominational church in «the mega-church capital of the world,» but I've always wondered why, while my small church does just fine (though we do have our own problems), the leaders of mega-churches feel the need to spend all this money to keep their churches mega.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

Their books may not be known to most of the general public interested in questions related to Jesus, the Gospels, or the early Christian church, but they do occupy a noteworthy niche as a (very) small but (often) loud minority voice.

There is a small community of Muslim background believers — Christians from Muslim families — as well in Egypt, and that's a community that Open Doors also works with, although we are also very involved with the Coptic church.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

A big church can bring in experts to lead classes; smaller churches have fewer resources and very busy pastors.

It is possible that we are on the verge of a new era in the history of the Church, under circumstances very different from those we have faced in the past, when Christianity will resemble the mustard seed [Matthew 13:31 - 32], that is, will continue only in the form of small and seemingly insignificant groups, which yet will oppose evil with all their strength and bring Good into this world.

It may seem bad form to single out what might appear to be small potatoes from the rich and delectable stew that is an otherwise very thoughtful, hopeful, and encouraging essay pleading for a return to the writings of the Church Fathers («The Return of the Fathers,» November).

For Christendom in earlier times the Church was the plank of salvation in the shipwreck of the world, the small barque on which alone men are saved, the small band of those who are saved by the miracle of grace from the massa damnata, and the extra ecclesiam nulla salus was understood in a very exclusive and pessimistic sense.

That's some pretty serious early Christian company, and Euodia and Syntyche were in this very small, significant, influential circle of co-workers... Maybe many today don't know who these women are; but Paul did, and God did, and God used them as gospelers in the church at Philippi, a church founded with Lydia and some God - fearing women (Acts 16:13 - 15).

When I walked in, my very first reaction was that the church was much smaller than I thought it would be.

The church was very small (only about 35 people), and I had made some pastoral decisions which had angered the main financial backers of the church, and so they stopped tithing.

I also echo Cindy's concern that the Bridging the Gap material produced for small groups seems very «us / them» and more attention to and recognition of gay people in the church is needed.

I actually asked in my very small caregroup - «Has the church ever taken a survey of what people actually believe?»

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

In a plant like ours, we are small and simply don't have enough mass yet to do very many things, and so I have been doing some teaching on the universal body of believers, which is call «Big C Church,» and how we can be involved in other churches in town to get what we ourselves can not offer.

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

I have gone to svreeal churches over my life so far, ranging from very small (10 - 20 people) to somewhat large (750-1000 people).

I too am grieved, very seriously grieved, but I try not to look at the denominations, I know in time those that are truly born again will have their eyes opened and perhaps leave churchianity and will become a small remnant meeting in people's homes in humility to God and not striving to build larger churches and giving heed to seducing doctrines.

A very small percentage of women from her denomination seek ordination, and their chances of finding a church that will receive their ministry are small.

As Wade Clark Roof points out in a recent study, this neglect will lead to «a crisis of plausibility» resulting in alienation of growing numbers of persons and finally in the church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6 - 9).

Few Protestants seem to realize how very many small churches exist, and what a drain they are on the resources of the larger congregations.

Seminaries provide very little instruction about the unique ministry required for success in small - membership churches, and no one is inspiring seminarians to aim their work in this direction.

As for charity should go to as many place as possible such as orphan or elderly houses or building a church or mosque there are many places that deserve assistance but to give it all to one place is a bit strange if a very big amount but if small then there is no problem....

In 2007 Mars Hill changed its bylaws to limit power to a very small group, effectively giving Driscoll unfettered free reign over the church.

We do this for a couple of reasons — to acknowledge that our small church is part of a much bigger Church and to remember that our young community springs from a very old Commchurch is part of a much bigger Church and to remember that our young community springs from a very old CommChurch and to remember that our young community springs from a very old Community.

With the exception of a very small minority of Roman Catholics, they were Protestant by background, but at the mid-eighteenth century probably only about five out of a hundred were church members.

Do think there are lots of small churches that have a goal but are not very successful in accomplishing it and just limping along, but actually doing okay anyway?

Though some of these are very large, some are too small to be eligible to join the World Council of Churches.

In 1836 there was one very large and influential Presbyterian Church in America in addition to several smaller ones, but by 1861 the large Church had split into four Churches.

We talked about our frustration with the institution of the church, how we could work together, what he does, and what Shema does — it was a very transparent and mutually beneficial conversation — all sparked by a small email.

This is not to say that activity («going to church») can not be included in following Jesus, but at best it is a very small part of following Jesus.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church is facing very hard times.

What a privilege it has been to serve the Church in some very small way.

then we violate the very teachings of our lord... If u do not understand... I wont blame u coz lot of people are being mislead by money hungry small Chritian communities who do not come from the apostals of the lord and it is only the Catholic church which does and pls read well about our church before u criticise the Holy father coz he is not self appointed NOR he has contested a currupt election to be in this place today

It began as a very small program in the North Park Covenant Church in 1970 and continued to expand over the next three decades.

I'm also very involved at my church and really look forward to getting together with my friends for our small group every week.

I am very involved in my church, I am a middle school small group leader, I volunteer in the preschool room once a month, I also am a childrens greater once a month.

I do have a small dog who I love it very much so must love animals and grown kids.lol I am a Christian go to church every other Sunday, pray every night before I go to sleep.