Sentences with phrase «worship experience»

Assist in the planning and implementation of new worship experiences with modern, contemporary and traditional styles of worship music and formats.

It's totally possible for a small church with limited resources to produce an excellent worship experience in multiple locations.

Although they were not asked specifically about worship experiences, most focused on them.

We need to ask ourselves what a true worship experience is so that if we had one, we could recognize it.

I rarely get swept up in emotional worship experiences.

The most significant forms of giving should, of course, occur in one's daily life between worship experiences.

For one thing, says Barbara Sholis, the seeker type of worship experienced during the Alpha class would have ended once the course ended, and, that didn't seem fair to Alpha guests, who sing praise songs during the course.

Serving the Fort Worth, Texas community by providing cutting edge worship experiences, offering outstanding children's, singles, music, youth, adult ministries, community outreach and mission programs.

Persons should be challenged to invest the new understanding and power they derive from worship experiences in helping others and improving society.

Except on wholly commuter campuses, this means that campus ministries should offer Christian worship experiences.

Our ideas about worship space come from our different religious traditions, our social enclaves, our sense of history (or lack of it), and our personal worship experiences and desires.

PS I did find a positive worship experience for a season after that on an early week morning with about three other people.

You have to let people understand that you're not just doing this for a buck — you sincerely want to lead them in an intimate worship experience with God — no matter the progression of their walk.

With religious organizations focusing their efforts on individual spirituality, on meaningful worship experiences, on music, youth pro grams and small groups, is it likely that reli gious commitment is going to challenge people to be con cerned about economic justice as well?

Becoming people who love like God is not something that can happen in a single worship experience.

Language is, as Kenneth Burke says, symbolic action.5 The church should be asking its artists to create worship experiences that work.

People sometimes assume that because I'm a progressive 30 - year - old who enjoys Mumford and Sons and has no children, I must want a super-hip church — you know, the kind that's called «Thrive» or «Be» and which boasts «an awesome worship experience,» a fair - trade coffee bar, its own iPhone app, and a pastor who looks like a Jonas Brother.

Like a groggy - eyed Jonah waking up from a nap in the dark hull of a boat and giving incoherent answers to questions from desperate sailors caught in a life - threatening storm, we step out of our churches still tingling from the goose - bump worship experience, and give incoherent answers to our neighbors about the problems with their marriage, their wayward pregnant daughter, their drug - abusing son, and what God wants from them to fix it all.

I prefer more cognitive, than emotive worship experiences.

Purposeless community is how I remember church back in the late 1970s, when I had my most meaningful group worship experiences.

It was clear from the way James lit up when he talked about his former church that he prefers a more emotionally expressive, physical worship experience to the formal, liturgical format of the Lutheran service.

First Ultra had subscribed to the multicongregational superchurch model, Glibface explained, offering distinctive worship experiences catering to differing tastes.

I am a pastor and I have been part of the fine dining worship experience: a lot of fanfare and you go home hungry.

That's an interesting question, especially since both of our current worship experiences take place in spaces that have a bit of local infamy.

Some of them find small contemplative worship experiences, some get involved with an enormous social justice component rather than the worship piece.»

The pastor can assist in providing an atmosphere for the person to deal more adequately with his basic attitudes toward himself, man, the universe, and God through pastoral care (counseling, visiting, and group work) and worship experiences thereby enabling him to develop a more satisfactory style of life.

While there is a place for high quality worship services broadcast on true mass media, such programs require a great amount of careful planning and considerable cost, and are tailored to meeting the need for a kind of national worship experience in which those not in church can participate.

So, raise the pleasure quotient of your lives by enjoying a warm whirlpool bath, a show, an evening on the town, a stroll along the lake, a relaxing book, an uplifting worship experience, a leisurely roll in the hay — whatever you both find pleasurable.

It is within the milieu of a reviving worship experience that the challenge of the sermon can best be received.

Most COGIC worship experiences will include a «praise break» where the ritual movement pauses while the musicians move into high gear, the congregants begin to dance, and the preacher starts shouting.

If I stand and sing «Oceans» with a thousand other people in a church building, but I leave feeling unchanged, with no desire to reach out to my neighbors or spread the Gospel further than my own heart, have I truly worshipped God, or have I simply worshipped an experience?

He has bound himself to his word, and though he is God anyways, always, everywhere, powerful, etc., we do not seek him in self - chosen places, or in mystical experience or in what I call self - masturbation worship experience of whipping up emotions, or whatever else we come up with on our own.

Ammerman reminds congregations that inclusive eating is as important as inclusive worship experiences.

In becoming more oriented to the self, in paying more explicit attention to symbolism, in developing a more flexible organizational style, and in nurturing specialized worship experiences, American religion has become more complex, more internally differentiated, and thus more adaptable to a complex, differentiated society.

Since it was my first cross-cultural worship experience, a lot was going through my mind, but to be honest, it kind of made me wonder what these poor people had that we didn't have back home.

«@EmbassyCity fully plans on making aerialists a FULL PART of our normal worship experience!

What is overtly present and observable in the black worship experience of Allen Temple is also present in Dr. Smith.

Serving the Fort Worth, Texas community by providing cutting edge worship experiences, offering outstanding children's, singles, music, youth, adult ministries, community outreach and mission programs.

For the messianic congregation that is seriously attempting to foster a first century, Jewish - Christian worship experience, repeatedly defending Rosen's actions exacts too high a price for them to pay.

But Burnetti, now a personal injury lawyer in Florida, told me, «My personal worship experience has changed because of those people, and the way I see God's active involvement in my life has changed because of that.»

A religion professor predicted that megachurches would one day resemble abandoned retail stories «on the edge of town» because they were so expensive to maintain, and a younger generation wanted a more intimate worship experiences.

In the midst of worship we experience the ambivalence of Christian community: its joy and its agony.

I have since grown to love silence — and I need it to be a regular part of my worship experience.

We clutter our worship experiences because we simply don't know what to do with ourselves or with God during moments of silence.

And to be honest, most of our worship experiences rarely incorporated silence.

Nonetheless, I am dismayed by the popular phrase «worship experience» to describe the church's corporate worship.

However, the phrase «worship experience» suggests that worship is important because it induces feelings.

Therefore it is wrong to suppose that worshipfulness comes from an experience that we might isolate as a «worship experience.»