Sentences with phrase «which public worship»

We can even suggest that such attendance, loyal and devout yet critical of inadequacy, may be a way in which public worship will be improved in its quality and made more worthy of the God whom we worship.

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Scripture does do something to us in worship, which is why it is a scandal that Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other traditions have more public reading of Scripture in their services than we Bible - oriented evangelical Protestants.

This is a fiscal worship by which Islam requires the well - to - do to care for the needs of the poor and to pay a subsidy to maintain public benefits like hospitals, educational institutions, and a defense force.

Apart from public worship in church or chapel, of which we shall speak separately, the most important times of private prayer are upon awaking, at bedtime, before meals, at irregular intervals through the day, and in a regular, uninterrupted, unhurried period which can be fixed for any convenient time but which ought not to be left to the mercy of circumstance.

Such developments, however, while they immeasurably deepened and expanded the meaning of personal prayer, did not solve the problem of public worship, which the early Christians only temporarily escaped when they left the temple and the synagogue.

When the true God is unknown, that combination of awe, love, respect, admiration and wonder, which we call worship, becomes diverted toward human beings who exhibit unusual gifts in the public eye.

Citizens of the dictatorship are forced to worship the Kim family, and anyone who does not is subject to immediate punishment — arrest, torture or death, which could come in the form of a public execution.

But in a secular age in which visions of human flourishing are no longer limited to religious belief, other practices — even those that are seemingly private but ultimately public — compete with those of worship in shaping the desires we follow in pursuit of the good.

Similarly, 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 is to be understood as part of Paul's summary concerning public worship which begins with verse 26 and continues through verse 40.

The prayer as it is commonly used, now as for centuries past, in public worship agrees with Matthew's version of it, cast in a form which no doubt had such use in view.

One of the most remarkable features of religion on this campus was the manner in which virtually every public event became a worship service.

Though he prefers the older word «piety» — with its deep rootage in Roman history and Calvinist theology — J. I. Packer offers a succinct positive definition of Christian spirituality as an «enquiry into the whole Christian enterprise of pursuing, achieving, and cultivating communion with God, which includes both public worship and private devotion, and the results of these in actual Christian life.»

If the readers of texts in both the Jewish and Christian communities took their responsibilities seriously and understood that they were making a significant contribution to worship, we too can recapture the enthusiasm for public reading which the early Christians enjoyed!

Particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed more or less purely in them.

This does not of course assume that there are, in the apostolic tradition, clear and commanding directives concerning the form and content of public worship; it affirms, rather, that ways of worship which ignore or distort the liberating message of God's Christly action must be corrected from that central action.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

For Christian worship is one of the articulations, or expressions, of the Christian communal response to the action of the living God in Christ; and this, which is perhaps more obviously true of the public worship of Christians, is also equally true of their private devotions.

In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.

The remainder of this book will be given to further and detailed development of the definition just suggested, to the ways in which we may pray in words and in thought, to the place of prayer in public worship and above all in the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper — which all Christians save the Quakers and the Salvation Army know to be the central act of public worship, however much they may sometimes slight that importance in church practice — and finally to see how it all «fits in» — how faith and action are related to, and find fulfillment in, prayer both private and public.

Public prayer or church worship is the way in which we unite with others in expressing dependence on this Love, opening ourselves to it, and willing cooperation with it as «fellow - workers with God.»

... Beachwear which ostentatiously displays religious affiliation, when France and places of worship are currently the target of terrorist attacks, is liable to create risks of disrupting public order.

It must involve study of the «languages» in which its practice of worship will be intelligible in a truly public way.

That pattern or movement in the stories about Jesus, that structure, functions something like a «depth grammar» in all enactments of the practice of the public worship of God in Jesus» name, by virtue of which all its culturally and theologically diverse instances bear family resemblances to one another.

Worship in the full sense — worship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economicWorship in the full sense — worship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economicworship as discipleship - involves shaping persons as agents and thus involves action in the public realm which consists in arrangements and rearrangements of social, political, and economic power.

There is a second way in which the practice of worship in Jesus» name is a public practice.

And the public worship of the Church, in which he is to take part, must somehow be relevant to all these aspects of human existence.

Such a restriction is an error, however; the Greek word from which «liturgy» comes is defined in the lexicon as meaning «a public work» — and all corporate worship is such a public work.

Above all, public worship is the experience of sharing with our fellow - Christians in an action that is distinctively Christian and which, by our very presence there, is to become (like all prayer) an intentional, attentive, and conscious openness to the presence and action of God himself.

He also took vigorous measures against both Roman Catholics and Puritans and reintroduced some features in public worship which the Puritans abhorred as savoring of Rome.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

Thanks to the activities of the Aisjiah even at mosques which did not have a special compartment for women the Friday public worship was attended more and more by women.

A resource which ought to find wide use is the Methodist Book of Worship for Church and Home, which has a section admirably arranged for personal and family devotions as well as material for public wWorship for Church and Home, which has a section admirably arranged for personal and family devotions as well as material for public worshipworship.

There is a well - known tradition, which is appropriate to the mystical atmosphere of these two tenth - century documents, that the founding saints of Java unanimously condemned one of their number, Seh Siti Djenar, who taught the hidden knowledge and neglected the performance of the Friday public worship, and also asserted that he and God were identical.

The freedom of assembly is another right guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States which Christians have used to defend their right to gather in church buildings and other public areas for the purpose of worship and fellowship.

She made this statement while visiting Saudi Arabia, a country which sentences people to death for converting to Christianity and where all public Christian worship is illegal.

The loop system, which enables hearing aids to serve as wireless speakers, is popular in Great Britain and Scandinavia but less widespread in the U.S. Proponents of the system say it works especially well in public spaces with background noise or reverberant sound, such as train stations and places of worship.

In 1795, Kant launched this opuscule which had great success with the public worship of his time.

However, the court ruled the programs did not violate the state constitution's «Religion Clause,» which provides: «No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise, or instruction, or to the support of

However, the court ruled the programs did not violate the state constitution's «Religion Clause,» which provides: «No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise, or instruction, or to the support of any religious establishment.»

In May 2008, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that the programs: (1) did not violate the state constitution's bar to public money being «appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise, or instruction, or to the support of any religious establishment»; but (2) did violate the Arizona Constitution's «Aid Clause,» which the court declined to characterize as a true Blaine Amendment.

Art Dynamics Pertujukan Bali Tourism Culture in Context In general, the performing arts of Bali can be categorized into three: wali (sacred performing arts), which only made when the ritual worship; bebali performances are dedicated to the ceremony but also to visitors; and Balih - balihan nature for mere entertainment in public places.

Presented to the public for the first time, these works include large - scale mural and installations, sculptures, paintings and sketches, which aim to reveal essential paradoxes in international relations, political theory and religious worship.

Far from a rosy reimagining of America's pastimes, however, the show explores how Rockwell used these four 1943 paintings — which also include Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, and Freedom from Fear — provided a call to action in response to President Roosevelt's public entreaty to defend liberty and equality across the globe in the face of World War.

The centre of Jen DeNike's the performance at Art Public forms a star - shaped sand - castle on the beach, around which seven women worship the Brazilian sea goddess Iemanjá, with dance and song.

The argument was that the Temple was used in connection with the Stake Centre, which admitted the public and was accepted to be a place of public worship.

The House held that the words could not apply to places used for religious worship from which the public was excluded.

Those included «the Stake Centre ``, which included a chapel used for public religious worship and a multipurpose hall, together with some small meeting rooms, an office and a baptistery; and «the Temple», access to which was generally restricted to «patrons» who were members of the church of particular standing.

The exemption from rates in para 11 of Sch 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (LGFA 1988) in respect of «place of public religious worship» can not apply to places used for religious worship from which the public is excluded; such exclusion is not discriminatory on religious grounds.

Opting not to undertake expensive and time which would cost millions of dollars, many of these cash financial settlements with patent trolls sacrificing scarce resources that should have to providing needed public transportation to move people to their jobs, school to providing needed public transportation to move people to their jobs, schools, and places of worship.»