Sentences with phrase «well as the congregation»

These boards are also aware of the dependency that still confronts national church leaders as well as congregations.

Not exact matches

As your attention focuses on the reading — raising the book as you read reveals your focus — the text you hold will become the congregation's center of attention as welAs your attention focuses on the reading — raising the book as you read reveals your focus — the text you hold will become the congregation's center of attention as welas you read reveals your focus — the text you hold will become the congregation's center of attention as welas well.

Tiggy... David has to be able to continue on his own spiritual quest as well as minister to his congregation.

The emphasis on highly produced, band - led worship — which comes from a sincere desire to make worship as «good» as it can be — can drown out the response of the congregation.

I will remain in my local conservative congregation that instinctively knows better than to embrace such dangerous and foolhardy notions as world government.

Many seminarians will become pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false» church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.

It celebrates congregations as layered communities thick with cultural baggage and tradition as well as promise and challenge.

Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, [and] all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name [of the LORD], shall be put to death.

I had a fairly sizable audience - averaging 3,000 viewers for each video or vlog - about the same as a good - sized flesh - and - blood congregation.

And just as the retail workers at Target are left in the lurch, our small congregations were often left to scatter in the aftermath, trying to find healing as best they could.

We see them as obstacles and we complain that but for such and such a person things would have been better in the congregation, in the family and in the community.

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.

Musician and author Carlton Young said it well: «We tend to treat the choir as if it were the congregation; we should, instead, treat the congregation as if it were the choir.»

As I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioAs I have read, ruminated, and wrestled with this I see the trend of Original Sin — that compulsion to seek godliness on our terms & not God's — evidenced in the history of secular humanity and borne by believers, the faithful as well as heterodox, into the congregatioas well as heterodox, into the congregatioas heterodox, into the congregation.

«There are valid as well as nonvalid reasons for not permitting a couple to get married with the blessing of that local congregation of believers,» Land said.

Together with interested members of his congregation, the clergyman could be of inestimable value in personal as well as group counseling during their difficult period of loss and aloneness.

When it becomes a basic part of our regular worship and educational program, the tension between its implications and the normal life of the congregation, as well as the normal lives of the individual members, will be more keenly felt.

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

@Luke: Admire the intention, but I reserve some skepticism, at least for now, on whether # 1 and # 2 can really be done independently of the already present spoken and unspoken expectations in the congregation, denomination and religion, as well as people's preconceived ideas of what church is (as opposed to what it would or should be).

Next, I will deliver to the new American Mormon congregation the coordinates of my home planet, where I am a God as well as here.

As we have seen, having persons with such capacities in its midst is critical to a congregation's well - being.

That is why the effort to understand God Christianly, which must in the nature of the case proceed indirectly, might best proceed indirectly by way of study of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations.

To the contrary, the proposal urges that the best way to affirm any school's theological identity is through study focused on as a wide theological and social - cultural diversity of Christian congregations as possible.

Beside preaching, explicit instruction in prayer by the pastoral leader best acquaints parishioners with the master vision of the life of the congregation as a corporate journey toward maturing in the Christian life.

Since that is precisely what inquiry guided by the first set of questions provides, clearly exploration of congregations» «faithfulness» to their own identities depends on the results of exploration of how best to characterize them, just as we saw the latter inquiry requires the former.

A better measure of the strength of a congregation as a vehicle for maturing would be the number and proportion of the adult membership that meet in groups — disciple schooling, soma, and mission - support — outside the sanctuary at other times of the week.

One major place where the practices (as well, to be sure, as major and demonic distortions of them) may be encountered is the common life of Christian congregations.

Some will be comprehensive and highly structured: This is how this congregation's construal of the Christian thing is best characterized concretely as a whole in contradistinction to other congregations» construals.

Consider the array of questions that arise when we ask, «How do we best understand this particular congregation as «the Christian thing» in concreto?»

The CDF puts out a book containing a model worship service for Protestant, Catholic and Jewish congregations, as well as a series of activity modules for children and adults.

The bi-vocational pastorate may serve as a better model for congregational mission than the «two - point parish model» by which one pastor serves two congregations.

... The Christian Right should consider several points after President Obama's RE-ELECTION VICTORY: look at the Affordable Health Care Act and be pleased with the benefits for their congregation members as well as for ALL AMERICANS. . . . .

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

To make matters worse, the average congregation is more worried about overpaying the staff than underpaying them which leads to the church being crippled spiritually by pastoral changes as the pastor moves to a better deal or leaves the ministry or works multiple jobs just to support his family.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

But I know I was a much better teacher as a pastor in a congregation than I have been as a professor in a school.

Of the teens who attended worship services, 70 percent rated their congregation as a very good or fairly good place to talk about serious issues, such as family problems, alcohol or troubles at school.

As the church community experienced a renaissance, the congregation sought to revive the building as welAs the church community experienced a renaissance, the congregation sought to revive the building as welas well.

Such a confession plants a particular congregation in a wider history that looks to its Hebrew past as well as to an eschatological future, a history in which Jesus Christ is the center.

It acknowledged and validated the pain and anger that many in the congregation felt, used the Word to provide a healing salve, and appropriately called for the church body to pray for Trayvon's parents as well as the Zimmerman family.

While that debate is important, so too is the need for congregations to meet the immediate pastoral needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, as well...

But, over the years, the congregation did, in fact, become more diverse, and by the time I had been there for 12 years, there were maybe 50 gay and lesbian persons, there were about 30 Hispanic individuals, there were a number of African Americans and African natives, and there was other diversity as well; and we talked a lot about how pleased we were that this was all happening.

Marcus could read and write — though he could not write well, and had no inclinations to authorship, even in that publishing center of the western Mediterranean in the days of Nero — and so, as one of the few in the local congregation of Christians who could both read and write, he was commissioned to put together in his free time — probably late evenings, after the assembly of the Christians had broken up — the fragmentary translations of narratives from the story of Jesus and his teaching which were in circulation in the Roman church.

As she worked with the congregation, her roots in the faith grew, as well as her knowledge and experiencAs she worked with the congregation, her roots in the faith grew, as well as her knowledge and experiencas well as her knowledge and experiencas her knowledge and experience.

Former UUA president John Buehrens, who completed eight years in office this year, pointed to some trends that contribute to the drifting away of members as well as to the replenishment of congregations.

The key term — ecclesia — was used for the local congregation as well as for the total community of the followers of Christ, his «body,» the church.

The associate may have far less power in the relationship, yet bring energy that leads to success within a congregation as well as to personal pride and a sense of accomplishment.

In Puerto Rico, Samaritan's Purse has connections with congregations that participate in its iconic Operation Christmas Child shoebox program, as well as pastors like Paz who took part in president Franklin Graham's crusade there in February.

He omitted as well his expulsion from a Massachusetts church for espousing «marriage reform» and putting his theories into practice with a young member of his congregation.

Since we become Christian as we participate in the life of a congregation, the way church leaders order the life and worship of a congregation is crucial to the spiritual well - being of all members of a congregation.