Sentences with phrase «worship experience for»

I see value in the communal worship experience for those who need it and criticize no one's method of seeking the Truth.

Not exact matches

From the opening worship and other opportunities for experiencing «aboriginal spirituality» to plenaries where calls for declarations of «aboriginal sovereignty» over Australia were heard, the efforts to link the Assembly with the aboriginal cause were obvious.

Religious fanatics are the source of most evil today, and to use your experiences as some kind of support for worshipping invisible and non-existent deities does a disservice to humanity.

CONVERSELY, I recently experienced a church CLOSURE (it died) where there was NEVER an opportunity for folks to express themselves, either in worship, in meetings, amongst themselves, with the pastor, with the elders... etc etc — strangely, eventually, it died.

chris «Personal experience» has been used over the centuries as evidence for lots of things including fairies, UFO aliens, leprechauns, mermaids, ghosts, and... yes... all of the other gods and goddesses we've worshipped as well.

I am looking for authenticity, relevancy, no ovewhelming bands that take away from the experience of worship, clergy who are willing to answer my hard questions, who understand doubt is a stepping stone to deepening my belief, who accept everyone as Jesus did (and we know Jesus was a rebel who accepted and led all sorts of people), who don't feel the need to try to be hip, who speak about things without inserting politics, who are wiling to trash the temple to bring us back to the truth, who will step out of the box of comfort and be real.

We decided that we were going to do our best to model for others how to grieve: how to experience deep sadness and loss; trust God; worship God; find beauty in life again.

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

I hadn't intended it to be a comprehensive piece on the faith of millennials, just a commentary on how — generally, based on multiple surveys and my own experience — millennials in the U.S. long for change in the Church that goes beyond worship style and marketing.

Now, I have nothing against a worship experience, for I have had some of my most powerful, most moving, most transforming experiences in the midst of Christian worship.

Those who worship with the expectation that the act ought to generate certain experiences for them will undoubtedly have many experiences.

And I think that that's part of the experience and what they're looking for and why they're being drawn to more worship bands and worship - type events and gatherings.

Robert Burns has a telling picture of such a nightly experience in his poem about the Scots peasant on Saturday, preparing for the observance of the next day as the time for worship and rest: The Cotter's Saturday Night.

Part of our problem with worship is that we ask for a particular experience to designate as the «worship experience.»

Sunday worship is also an event for those making a transition to life in the Spirit, since the trinitarian liturgy invites and provides for an explicit experience of the presence of the Godhead in the Spirit.

Directly relating my Bible reading with my longing for relationship with Him... sitting alone in my living room, no worship music, no lights, no bulletin, no 3 points... it was really a blessing, and felt a lot more like worship than most of my Sunday morning experiences.

Hartshorne is able to unite thought and experience for the believer because he has largely succeeded in developing a concept of God that is internally coherent and externally adequate to religious faith in God as the proper object of worship.

The longing to belong in some ultimate sense, to feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness of «the mystical unity which underlies all human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense of cosmic loneliness, the feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»

Worship space should make us aware of our senses, remove us from the ordinary experiences of life, and prepare us for worship and fellWorship space should make us aware of our senses, remove us from the ordinary experiences of life, and prepare us for worship and fellworship and fellowship.

If we find the life of the Church a continual support and fulfillment for what the pastor seeks to do, we also discover that the experience of personal and mutual ministry in the Church deepens our participation in the Church's worship, sacraments, and witness to the world.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

You have already been in situations where you experienced readings that enriched worship for you and many more of those that distracted from worship.

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.

Except for worship, basic religious situations reside in secular experience, in terms of issues that are faced and relationships that are both nourishing and nurturing.

With his taste and experience, Cardinal Sarah is called to rebalance the Congregation for Divine Worship.

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.

Worship for men and women alike is a birthing experience.

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.

A living worship service is a centering experience for a particular religious community, simultaneously expressing and strengthening its unity.

It has been shown that corporate worship contributes to positive mental health to the degree that it helps the individual experience a sense of belonging, personal integration, diminishing of his guilt and narcissism, re-establishment of a sense of trust, worthy self - investment, and strength for handling his problems constructively.

An accepting, nonjudgmental spirit on the minister's part sets the tone for a worship service in which grace becomes a living experience.

I have also notice that some African Catholic theologians are calling for liturgical pauses that allow distinctive African forms of worship, which are more demonstrative and include dancing, to become part of the worship experience.

The conviction I felt during this church service stemmed from the reality of what I have allowed worship, to become for me: an experience that makes me feel good.

So, basically what you are saying is that it would be okay for someone who came from an indigenous society with no experience in technology to worship someone who could make a cell phone?

But for many churches in the «90s the return to the tradition of the church catholic will mean an increasing reliance on the historic experience of the church at worship.

Thus he pictures a future in which the maintenance of distinctions between male and female has largely given way to the cultivation of androgynous personality aided by surgical and biochemical manipulation (UP 371 - 84); in which the notion of a substantial self enduring through time (and responsible for its actions) is superceded and «one is freed to be a career of selves strung out in time» (UP 390; cf. 384 - 97); in which the worship of a single all - powerful God has given way to the experiencing of a pantheon of «momentary deities» (UP 397 - 411) 4 Morality in our sense will no longer have a place in Hall's «anarchic» world.

I suppose that it is inevitable that the most intimate human experiences, such as worship and sex, will supply the basic content for our oaths.

If man's loving worship of God were as autonomously unavoidable as the conceptual innovation in the vibration of an elementary particle, it would not have the same experienced value for God as if it were voluntary love.

Seen in this way the other elements of spirituality meditation, participation in sacraments, worship — all become a source of strength for the liberative experiences.

Among the gratifications from church mentioned most often in a national survey of regular church attenders, for example, were feeling close to God (77 percent), the experience of worshiping God (60 percent), and a sense of companionship or fellowship (54 percent).

We can become cynical and hard, questioning the motives and honesty of every pastor, preacher, evangelist or worship leader, choosing never to trust anyone while telling others that we are older and wiser for the experience.

The reasons for this preference are partly to be sought in his own personal development (Hindu home, Christian instruction), partly in his primary interest in the intellectual expression of religious experience or, in other words, the philosophical bent of his nature, and, last but not least, in his often voiced conviction that we have to «get behind and beneath all outward churches and religions, and worship the nameless who is above every name.

For, without a knowledge of the worship experience of the church throughout history, we are left without adequate tools for either critiquing contemporary worship or reconstructing a worship that is faithful to the Christian traditiFor, without a knowledge of the worship experience of the church throughout history, we are left without adequate tools for either critiquing contemporary worship or reconstructing a worship that is faithful to the Christian traditifor either critiquing contemporary worship or reconstructing a worship that is faithful to the Christian tradition.

A vital function of growth groups for all ages is to help people break out of «the heavies» and experience «little moments of ecstasy» — in playfulness, joy, celebration, worship, deep sharing, mystery, and pain.

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

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What is important, according to this line of thinking, is to let the adherents of each religion speak for themselves about the nature of their own religious experiences, their views of the world and of life, and their own forms of beliefs and worship.

My own experience testifies to the need for a balanced worship / prayer life.

The result was a recipe for a consummate cookie, if you will: one built upon decades of acquired knowledge, experience and secrets; one that, quite frankly, would have Mrs. Wakefield worshipping at its altar.

Despite his dismissal for the last two games of his junior season, Namath worships Alabama and his experiences and successes there.