Sentences with phrase «voting by the congregation»
Personally I prefer to use some system of voting by the congregation.
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By Spring of 2002 we hope the congregation will be ready to wholeheartedly vote for application to TCPC for membership and listing in the directory.
Revd Calum MacLeod was voted in by the congregation at St Giles» in Edinburgh and says he's «humbled and honoured».
If the congregation can recognize that God may be involved in their own lives, they are better able to be led by the Spirit to be God's instruments in the world where they work and play and vote.
The aftermath of these votes is the absence of reception by the church's ministers and members, and an ecclesial landscape littered with continuing legislative maneuvers, invocation of parliamentary rules, judicial appeals, trials in church courts, and the departures of congregations and ministers.
There is even a hint in Acts 14:23 that elders were elected by the congregation: the word which most Bibles translate as «appoint» is actually the normal Greek word for «to vote».
Wanting to become president of the Republic of Ghana «at all cost» after having failed twice in 2008/12, Nana Akuffo Addo, campaigning in some churches in Takoradi and Effia constituencies in the Western Region Sunday, begged the congregation and for that matter, the good people of Ghana to try him, by voting for him, as president.