Sentences with phrase «very small congregations»

Hence the larger number of very small congregations.

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But the focus was very small in the midst of major need in these congregations.

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

It is not easy to lead, whether we are talking about a large congregation or small group, so having grace and compassion for leaders who show up every day and do their very best is something we can bring in order to be great followers.

My congregation is very small and in the country.

Chaves is right that many congregations do very little social - service work and that their direct financial contributions toward social - service delivery are relatively small.

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.

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