Sentences with phrase «what congregations»

Caring for the Abuse Affected Child and Family: Facilitator's Guide for Clergy Maine Child Welfare Training Institute and Cross Disciplinary Training Project (2004) View Abstract Interdisciplinary curriculum designed to train the clergy in the areas of domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and substance abuse, including information on what congregations can do to prevent abuse.

I do not necessarily know what every other congregation is doing; I only know what my congregation is doing.

What does this leaver's exit tell us about what our congregation values and disdains?

The generalized aim to spread the love of God and neighbor is too vague.12 The metaphor should also provide a reference by which the minister can strike a satisfying balance between what the congregation wants of the minister and what the minister needs in order to satisfy a sense of calling.

In chapter 7, 1 will then follow my own suggestion and offer a sketch of what a congregation is.

What the congregation senses in the marijuana incident to be its own structure is doubly disappointing.

David, I would have like to have been present in that service, although I also believe that part of what a congregation shares is its common - unity with each other.

A purely sociological or anthropological study of a Christian congregation or of «the church» that purports to give a full account of what a congregation is, how and why it functions as it does, and when and why it succeeds or fails, would meet severe objections in most theological schools.

Inquiry about setting focuses on what the congregation assumes, presupposes, and believes.

Observers must pay special attention to the congregation's «street wisdom» about how things really get done; to evidence about what the congregation seeks to avoid; and to expressions of wishes, desires, and instances of their fulfillment.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Not exact matches

Not that I simply accept the situation in the Vineyard or don't think it should change, but I haven't let it push me out of what is a very welcoming congregation.

The general attitude needs to be that EVERYONE needs to be welcomed and loved at church... thats the job of the congregation... dealing with the issues of someone's life is up to the pastoral staff and unless you're part of it whats going on in someones life is none of your business.

If you can not speak to what is right, when you know it is right, then you have no business as pastor to a congregation.

Rector William Taylor told his congregation his first question to the next Bishop of London, who is yet to be named, would be whether he's willing «declare as sin what God calls sin».

And what's wrong with funneling the newcomers into local church congregations?

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

For when Father Freelance scratches his itch to show just how congregation - friendly he is by making what he imagines are nifty changes to the Mass text, he instantly sets up sonic dissonance for anyone with a reasonably well - tuned ear.

What kind of witness could we be to our communities, as fragmented as they are by race and class and economics and politics, if the very makeup of our congregations signaled the «manifold wisdom of God» (Eph.

Even the various forms of theological activity can be redescribed in narrative terms, as when Newbigin writes of «the congregation as hermeneutic of the gospel»: interpretation of Scripture for Newbigin is not so much what a particular scholar writes as what a particular community of believers enacts.

(tons of support, grace for yourself) and «What happens if the congregation turns on the staff?»

Why donâ $ ™ t you designate a wall in the church somewhere (or outside the church) for all people in the congregation to paint or draw what they want to on there (including yourself).

In my own denomination, congregations often enthusiastically endorse what comes forth; but what does that prove - that all who are there agree with the message?

The fact that one of your congregation a) was able to articulate such faith and doubt so eloquently; b) felt that he could ask you to share it in a Sunday service and c) that you did so — speaks wonders to me about what your community is about.

Unfortunately, my experience with religion was that too often the congregation was controlled by fear of consequences and not the desire to do what was right and good.

Not much... he could've done the same thing by going in front of his congregation wearing flesh - colored underwear, sticking his tongue out, standing up on the baptistry and twerking... then crying foul when he gets fired... what this tells me is that we're all idiots for being so predictably drawn into these types of stories... this is shameless self - promotion, plain and simple... and he wins because we're dupes...

So it was encouraging today to read what Paul Leader at his Perspectives blog wrote today: If there was one message I had for pastors and leaders of congregations, churches and gatherings it would be this.

What is my deepest wish for those entering our congregation?

They relied on clergy members to tell them what it said and lots of clergy liked keeping their congregations reliant on them and focused mainly on hell and damnation sermons.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

Most congregations also prefer predictable entrees, no matter what God happens to be serving.

I wonder what would the more fanatic congregation think whatever that is.

Can you imagine what would happen today if you were to write a Corinthians type of letter to a congregation?

They're like teachers and parents, in the sense that what they say and do (or fail to say and do) is going to echo in their congregations forever.

What quality of life could my congregation offer that would attract outsiders?

What difference does it make when people leave a congregation over some tiff, join another congregation, and allow us all to avoid the difficult and arguably primary Christian work of forgiveness and reconciliation?

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

«Ferguson and Stephens, Riverside Baptist Church's media minister, traveled to Indonesia with Imam Sugianto, a member of Riverside's Indonesian mission congregation, to videotape the persecution Ambonese Christians are enduring.Members of that mission congregation — many of whom have friends and family in Indonesia — are extremely distressed that U.S. media aren't telling the story of what is happening...

But a pastor can't exactly approach the lectern on a Sunday morning, shrug her shoulders, and declare to the congregation, «You know what guys?

I spent a good deal of time preparing that sermon and I delivered it with confidence, even though I knew that there would be many in the congregation who would take issue with it, because I believed that what I was saying had integrity.

In short, the bleating of divided congregations has turned unbelievers into savvy consumers («What does your church offer me?»)

if the congregation that God has called me to lead are anything like me then they wouldn't know what to do with me!!!

Even people in their congregations will get into the voting booth and think, «What was that pastor thinking?

And what about other congregations?

The congregation is listed under the government - approved Three - Self Patriotic Movement, reports AsiaNews, yet it occupies five times more square feet than what regulations originally designated — complicating the common narrative of «atheist government persecutes Christians.»

The congregation I serve has been wrestling to discern what changes in the church, what fresh wineskins, are needed to keep us faithful and open to the Spirit.

What if those who made the calls don't want to repent and refuse to come before the congregation and the Wilson's?

Yes, there are white missionaries handing out bulletins at Washington's Third Ward - what Mormons call their congregations - but there's also Ruth Williams, an elderly African - American woman, decked out in her Sunday best, doing the same.

I don't know what happened, or why he left, but he is no longer the pastor at that church, and I believe has since joined a «Plymouth Brethren» congregation, though they don't use that name themselves.

Prudence emerges as the members of the congregation learn to request only what they can cope with receiving.