Sentences with phrase «with everyone in the congregation»
The leadership would have a way of maintaining regular contact with everyone in the congregation, and I could focus on preaching, evangelism, administration, benevolence, hospital visitation, community involvement, and offering common services.
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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.
Not everyone in my congregation has read my books, but everyone has tasted my food — with rave reviews!
Perhaps a sermon should be regarded as great, not because everyone in the congregation agrees with the preacher, but because at the end of the service those present just can't wait to talk about it; to debate it together, because the text around which it was built has captured their imagination and curiosity.
Church people, like everyone else in America, have grown up on an ideology of competitive individualism coupled with a sense of loyalty, and the local congregation has been the focal point, of effort.
First I would challenge Pritchard with the obvious question, does everyone in his congregation have health care?
As they heard this, many in the congregation remembered Karlstadt's admonition on Christmas Day in the castle church that everyone should go and take the Sacrament both the bread and the wine with their own hands.
St. Gregory's (of Nysssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco) highly participatory worship may not be for everyone, but it would be hard not to be moved by this congregation's way of continuing the long conversation God has had with humanity.
These «men of God» begin to spread lies and false rumors about her to everyone they can, turning most of her family and friends against her, not realizing that they are leaving their own families and congregations open for the destruction they have planned for Sidney.It is with all this going on that God seems to be nowhere in sight, but don't worry... God is not mocked and sometimes He provides help in the most unexpected ways.The Good News Series: Enough Good NewsNo WeaponBlind JusticeLong NightEven MeThird Watch * coming winter 2012