Sentences with phrase «with area churches»

By working with area churches, Compassion is able to provide the aid it promises to children while equipping local churches to carry out the faith - based element of their mutual mission, effectively absolving Compassion of any accusations about untoward proselytism.

We partner with an area church and the community, while using the ABEKA curriculum as our main educational resource.

Not exact matches

Twitter journalists have continued to debate the severity of Lakewood's damage and the role it played in Osteen and Lakewood's response to the hurricane, with supporters and opponents of the church alike posting area photographs to defend their stances.

Fort Bragg's chaplain, Col. David Hillis, sent a letter to surrounding area churches to invite their congregations to the event and ask for help with its organization.

In the DFW area of Texas most churches are now competing like businesses and simply scale into mega churches with a hip presentation.

A spokesperson for the church said; «This new Anglican congregation is growing and we are blessed to share in fellowship with the Nepalis, Punjabis, and Pakistanis living in the area.

St. Tikhon's mission of training a new intellectual cadre to bring Orthodox values into all areas of Russian society is very compelling, with parallels to what the U.S. Catholic Church hopes of Notre Dame or Catholic University of America.

The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the lives of the saints.

Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»

Allen identifies and comments on seven areas of concern that African Christians face in their churches, including the Africanization of theology, relationships with other religions, church and state, pastoral leadership, relationship with Euro - American partner churches, theological education, and struggles with social concerns.

While I agree that the church could definitely be less political and break with tradition in some areas, I think that a lot of this has to do with people hardening their hearts to the truth of the Bible.

They are willing to engage in joint evangelization efforts with the indigenous churches in reaching their own people, or to focus through cross-cultural evangelism on areas not yet reached by the national churches.

More than 3,000 persons signed concurrence when the letter was circulated in a number of area churches, and it was later reprinted in a full - page newspaper advertisement along with as many signatures as could be fitted on the page.

We have to make the inside of the church warm, friendly, with coffee areas, places for young people to come and just be themselves.

We prayed a repeat - after - me prayer, quietly, right there in the bookstore, and I left him with the names and contact information of a few churches in that area.

I was new to the area, had just joined the local Mormon church, and here were these women at my house with a gift, a meal for my husband, a smile, a hug and a sympathetic ear.

«What the government here is doing is so barbaric, they're like bandits and we are furious with them,» says Chen Zhi'ai, a respected church leader in the Wenzhou area.

I am catholic and many years ago in a little community in Louisiana called Malet we went to church with whites and sat in different areas of the church.

A fellow Texan, the pianist Arizona Dranes played her music in COGIC churches in the Dallas - Fort Worth area in the 1920s where she connected with the Rev. Samuel Crouch who was the great uncle of Andraé Crouch.

Churches in inner cities and poor rural areas are closing, while those that remain are often composed of commuting members with little interest in the church's neighbors.

For its «historicity» depends upon the demonstration that it does not present the Church's view and consequently could not have originated there since the new quest of the historical Jesus is primarily concerned with investigating the area in which Jesus and the Church's kerygma overlap, the limitation of current methods for identifying historical material is apparent, and the resultant methodological difficulty must be recognized.

Although one may well assume that the founder of a sect has something in common with the sect he founds, this method is not able to reach whatever area of overlapping there may have been between Jesus and the Church.

Like you I have a problem with the huge amounts of money that are spent on so many church facilities and living in the area I have been shocked at the numbers associated with renovations and additions to the First Baptist Church in downtown Dchurch facilities and living in the area I have been shocked at the numbers associated with renovations and additions to the First Baptist Church in downtown DChurch in downtown Dallas.

This has happened frequently to my wife and I the last few years, with my new job, our adoption process, our attempts at church planting, and a host of other areas.

The comments about liturgy and related issues — a frustration with intrusive front - facing altars in the naves of baroque churches and so on — express in coded language the author's passionate preferences in this area, and will strike a chord with some Catholics.

In some areas, it is very common to be asked where you go to church (not «if»), and your answer can have a lot to do with your advancement, stagnation, or eventual extermination.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

Not only was the most primitive kerygma soon seen in the light of the varied patterns of thought found in wider areas of the Mediterranean world, but the inevitable contacts of the Church with the culture of that world brought new intuitions and perceptions about the kerygma itself.

It took nearly a decade before I sent an email to my pastors outlining some areas at church I struggled with.

They believe that the churches can do a more effective job than any other agency in this area of great need and that such involvement can bring churches alive with a new sense of mission.

You will learn more about young adults, understand some of the many reasons they leave the church and often stay away, network with other leaders in your area and walk away with some do - able next steps and encouragement for your ministry.

Kuhns delineates five areas in Bonhoeffer's thought that hold particular fascination for Roman Catholics: (1) «his idea of community» (the church is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch is the community where Christ is); (2) «his search for the true nature of the Church's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rChurch's authority» (in the concrete situations facing the church who can speak with authority about wrong or rchurch who can speak with authority about wrong or right?)

As a «someone» with a very public view that is contrary to the «official» party line, and who has ministered in so many different churches — evangelical and otherwise — what has your experience been in this area?

Gunmen armed with grenades targeted Notre - Dame de Fatima Church on the border of the predominantly Muslim PK 5 area where 21 people were killed during clashes last month.

CNN: Gingrich meets with pastors in South Carolina The first stop on Newt Gingrich's three - day swing through South Carolina was a town hall - style event at a church in Summerville, where the rising GOP presidential hopeful answered questions from area pastors on a range of issues.

In some ways, we can not compete with the many big, dynamic, well - run churches in our area for the church shoppers.

As I have been struggling with the whole idea of what church really is... I find that your writings in this area the most applicable to my station in life.

Whatever balance may be struck in these areas of mixed secular and religious services funded by tax money, the mixture is inherently unstable and will tend to move in one direction or the other, usually toward increased responsiveness to broader interests than those of the sponsoring church (which is often called «secularization»)-- a process seen in church - related colleges and hospitals even without tax funding, which merely makes it happen quicker and sometimes with the force of law.

Last year, I read about a bunch of churches that decided the way to defeat evil in their town was to write Bible verses on wooden stakes and then go drive them the ground in certain areas with the hopes that this would drive away any territorial sprits and reclaim the area for God.

If these churches hire a pastor and give them a job description, then it is fair and reasonable to give them a fair salary that is commensurate with the salaries of similar professions in the area where they live.

These are but a few areas of church - state entanglement that would come with church property taxes.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

Eventually, therefore, the ministry of the church will be cooperative in these areas with the patterns set up by society to deal with them.

Bob Roberts suggested that the biblical model, and true discipleship, allows people to enter into «church life» through any of the three areas (Note that «church life» is NOT to be equated with «eternal life.»)

There are many motivations, and they are described in various ways: «(Our understanding of) God's plan for women» «Faithfulness to (our interpretation of) the Bible» «Conformity to the tradition (of our Church)» «Shared culture and values (with those like us)» «Fellowship and community (with those like us)» «Well - understood and clear - cut roles (in some areas)» «Gender - specific roles and responsibilities (again, in some areas)»

The denomination's organizational structure is arranged on an area basis that deals with churches in a vertical, special - interest fashion, not horizontally and in relation to the community in which it finds itself....

For the last 22 years he has been responsible for Presbyterian Church (USA) relationships with Latin America and the Caribbean, and since 1988, he has been area coordinator for South America.

A Sri Lankan pastor told me that the time of a church service in his area had to be changed recently because of a conflict with the broadcast of the American television drama, Dallas.

In the Introduction to his book he mentions, «It will be suggested in this book that the founders of the Church were «East Syrian'traders, from the Persian Gulf area, and it will be apparent that a most important feature of its history is the succession of contacts with foreign Christians, drawn to the Malabar coast by trade.»

It has concerned itself with many issues and problem areas — the church's ministry to marital discord, alcoholism, youth, the elderly, the emotionally disturbed, and the delinquent.