Sentences with phrase «worship as a church»

A lot of people think of worship as a church service.

When you're around other Christians, you can get excited about Jesus together, therefore you worship as a church together.

In the course of the argument the noetic force of time in the process of apprehension and the significance of the revival of liturgical worship as the church's pedagogy have been pointed out.

Not exact matches

In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

In my experience as a worship leader, there are two kinds of silence in church.

Places of economic value, such as farms, markets, and places of worship — mosques, of course, but also churches, monasteries, and convents — are not to be targeted for attack.

And to further the statements previously made, blacks were always allowed to worship in the same place as whites since the church's inception, unlike many christian denominations that shall remain nameless.

Besides, many churches use a school as a temporary spot until they have funds to get their own house of worship.

His prayers were answered last September, less than three years after the fire, when the Macedonia First Church of God in Christ opened the doors to its new worship facility, built on the same site as the previous building.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

And if as a university they stay within their limited mission of the formation of disciples through the formation of the Christian mind, then it is not clear to me why their worship as a university has to take the same form as the local church.

Thank you - as an avid reader and featurer of your cartoons and insights in worship... (and you translate well to a rural Methodist Church in North Yorkshire, England)....

As it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's goodAs it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's goodas long as they do the Christian things that's goodas they do the Christian things that's good).

When I rebranded myself from church work to prison work to worship leading to taking food to the woods as a woman... I submit I do know what I am talking about.

Separation of Church and State is at the very core of this country, to allow all the right to worship, or not, as they see fit.

I'd say my own experience with a God - connection at church, as one who is «up front» leading worship, runs the gamut.

If your god used the catholic church as a conduit for his message, he quite simply is an idiot and is not worthy of worship.

God has assured us that in and through the faithful worship of the Church, both our minds and our hearts will be opened, and that we will learn both to know God in truth and love God as God in fact is.

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

I will tell you and many others who read this... people think we worship Joey Smith... not so... we respect him as our prophet who helped reestablished the church in the latter days.

If he isn't the church going type then by all means worship at home but don't publicly go to church as a reminder to the American people that your still a believer.

Necessary too was the recovery of Bible - based proclamation at the heart of the church's worship, for as the Second Helvetic Confession of 1566 puts it, «The preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God.»

We are meeting together as church when we worship together, pray together, have spiritual conversations together, etc..

I will actively pursue Jesus as a member of His church through worship, prayer, scripture and service.

The country not only worshiped in Protestant churches, but embodied Protestant morals and mores in its social, cultural and political activities as well.

If the church truly functioned as the church Sunday's would be about fellowship, prayer, worship (not rock concert that I can't sing too), and the gifts of the people displayed.

The ministry of the church will become more inclusive as adoptive families are understood and fully incorporated and as the worshiping community realizes its own adoption.

On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and human communion.

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

The most progressive of these churches target Gen X adults, many of them single, who seek contemporary worship and music as key elements of their spirituality.

I share my talents generously to my church, and have never requested any payment for them, I pledge as much as my limited finances will allow, and spend much time at my church, instituting new worship programs (as my priest requested), and yet I am constantly criticized for the smallest «infraction» by this same person.

At the same time as Bishop Chartres was making it plain that he would sooner demolish an unused Anglican building than allow an Ordinariate parish to use it, Archbishop Vincent was saying that the natural place for Ordinariate Catholics to worship would be their local Catholic parish church.

In terms of intimacy, I find my closet friends come as much churched as unchurched; but above all that I need to worship to receive and give thanks, in good times and in bad.

This weekend, 26 people were killed and at least 20 more were injured when a gunman opened fire on the congregation of a small community church as they worshipped during a Sunday morning service.

In the image of Psalm 82, whatever we claim to do in our churches, as a people we have worshipped the gods against whom the God of Israel speaks in the council.

But it is past time for the Church as a whole to bring that prayer into the very heart of her worship.

The «liturgical circle» begins by observing and listening to what the church does and says when it gathers for worship as the primary witness to what Christians believe, moves on to theological reflection on the meaning of these data, and then proceeds to reform worship so as to express these meanings more effectively.

I have heard church members remark that if the sermon makes them laugh or cry, they feel as if they have worshiped.

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

Worship should be shaped in the light of understanding it as the church's unique contribution to the struggle for justice.

With lyrics like, «My lover's got humour... I should've worshiped her sooner» and «My church offers no absolution... She tells me, «Worship in the bedroom,» The only heaven I'll be sent to... is when I'm alone with you,» you're saying that sex is more freeing, more real, more human, more worthy as a site of worship than any Worship in the bedroom,» The only heaven I'll be sent to... is when I'm alone with you,» you're saying that sex is more freeing, more real, more human, more worthy as a site of worship than any worship than any church.

I was already serving my own local parish as a churchwarden (responsible for the church, its worship and administration), and was commuting weekly from my home in rural southwest England to CNN's London studios.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

A thousand things would never have crossed their minds as they drove through Colorado Springs toward New Life Church's enormous concrete worship center - including the prospect of being assaulted in their minivan by a young man with a high - powered rifle.

From another angle, defenders of the Church's creedal heritage have worried that unqualified talk of divine suffering forfeits our reason for worshiping God as Other, as wholly and radically transcendent.

The ministry of the church encompasses a variety of things such as worship, preaching, teaching, administering programs, and prophetic witness.

The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds of God's people as the corporate worship not just of the local but of the whole Body of Christ, the universal Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:

To cite a present - day example: Many people were not at all surprised at the report (in January, 1968; whether the report was correct I do not know) that so noted a theologian as Helmut Thielicke had called on a number of officer - candidates to prevent leftist students from disrupting the worship service at a Hamburg church by their demonstrations.

Within the church, the Quakers are united through orthopraxy: We have a similar set of practices, even as certain churches push those boundaries with liturgies (programmed worship) and pastoral leadership of worship.