Sentences with phrase «worship community»

Are you involved with a local worship community or organization?

«Is the Minister aware that the recent guidelines of the House of Bishops state clearly that those who enter a same - sex marriage, together with children in their care, should be welcomed into the life of worshiping communities, and also that the Church of England is about to begin a two - year process of structured conversations to explore the changing attitudes to human sexuality and their implications for the life of the church and its disciplines?»

This project is one of several synagogues being excavated near the epicenter of Jesus» ministry, providing new insights into worship communities in the centuries after Jesus.

[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.

I'm involved in Grace, an alternative worship community in London, that has been going for about 13 years.

The bishop in my own diocese just announced plans to establish 100 new worshipping communities in the next ten years (this would have been unthinkable five years ago).

In recent years PowerPoint has become a dominant force in worshiping communities across the theological and liturgical spectrum.

Actually, that emphasis on worshipping communities supporting diverse vocations doesn't just apply to us older folks.

Educated on the clerical paradigm, church leaders end up being ill - equipped to provide the most important sort of leadership worshiping communities require.

If we were to take an imaginary tour through church history and visit pious worshiping communities all the way back to the New Testament times, the overwhelming impression we would have would be the awareness of the incredible diversity and infinite variety of styles and customs.

Justice within the church's worshiping community ascribes full human worth to all members of the body of Christ.

Extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist are vastly over-used in U.S. parishes, a practice that risks of signaling that the Mass is a matter of the self - worshipping community celebrating and feeding itself.

At times, worshiping communities lose sight of this: hymns drag, elders judge, children fidget, fancy clothes constrain, and the minutes tick slowly by.

The only question that worship communities need to ask about music is: «Does it bring people closer to God?»

It is precisely as a liturgical worshiping community that the church is most effectively a sign of the ultimate destiny of every human being and of humanity as a whole.

Fowler's «back to basics» call can be misread as promoting a transcendent, introverted, self - enclosed worshiping community.

Heartsong Church in Tennessee and Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Virginia have hosted Muslim worship communities in their church buildings, prompting the question of how much hospitality is too much.

I am involved in Grace, an alternative worship community in London, that has been going for about 13 years.

In November 2015, Ric Thorpe was appointed as the first ever «bishop for church plants» and tasked with establishing 100 new worshipping communities in the capital by 2020.

The Episcopal Church in Connecticut («ECCT») is the collective witness of its 168 parishes and worshiping communities across the state.

He suggests that the Christian «thing» is present in concrete reality «in and as various Christian congregations or worshiping communities in all their radical pluralism.»

But there is no monopoly on worship and resources for the worshiping community.

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.

Although it is a byproduct of worship, which exists for its own sake, constant exposure to words, actions and roles within the worshiping community does more to reinforce a Christian's attitudes about justice than anything else the church does (see my articles «The Words of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» Dec. 13, 1978, and «The Actions of Worship: Beyond Liturgical Sexism,» May 7, 1980).

Christians who desire to be orthodox rely upon the testimony of Scripture, and, when biblical texts are ambiguous or appear to be in conflict, upon the «rule of faith» as expressed in the Great Tradition of the worshiping community, the teaching of the Fathers, and conciliar definitions.

People depended on him to take care of their problems, and he was the star at the gathering of the worshiping community.

Sacraments recall God's promises and presence to the worshiping community, binding it together ever more tightly and to clearer purpose.

Yes, the accompanying rituals are gone, but the power of the worshiping community is awakened in the oracle of comfort.

culturally engaged communities that wanted to reach (at first) hippies and then just about everyone else, bringing them into a worshipping community.

Finding it hard to minister without a worship community that feeds me.

The vision scripture gives us of a worshipping community of people of every nation, tribe and tongue resonated deeply with us.

I made sure that Robyn was safe with the officer and a couple of other women, then returned to our worshipping community, who had been waiting patiently and prayerfully throughout.

In his work the pastoral director carries on all the traditional functions of the ministry — preaching, leading the worshipping community, administering the sacraments, caring for souls, presiding over the church.

Students coming to Moorlands are studying as part of a worshipping community something which makes a big difference to the way the theology is implemented.

In the Christian tradition, this means that participation in the life of a worshipping community provides the «means of grace».

Since Christology is fundamental to Bonhoeffer's thought, the Word of God is not an idea but a person and is to be studied in the worshiping community.

In the services of worship in Judaism, a-strong connection had always been made between the act of reading the sacred word aloud and the praise of God in the worshiping community.5 Jesus» for example, chose this important act of oral reading to inaugurate his public ministry:

The temptation to be a community organization is strong and old and contrary to the purposes of a worship community.

For myself, many of the «confessing and worshiping communities of God», while they are filled with well meaning, lovely, faithful folk, fail to «stimulate and incite» and tend towards actually stifling and diverting away from «love and helpful deeds and noble activities».

As much as I get we need a break from church and church politics, absolutely, at the same time to conciously remove ourselves from the confessing and worshiping community of God concerns me?

Rob >> to conciously remove ourselves from the confessing and worshiping community of God concerns me

But the concern I feel is over those aspects within the «confessing and worshiping community of God» (or at least the supposedly «valid» systematic expressions of it) which are leading many good, strong, intelligent and educated folk to forsake meeting together under their auspices.

By contrast, the institutional church is a specific differentiated community charged with the task of preaching the gospel, administering the sacraments and being a witness to God's love in the context of the worshiping community.