Sentences with phrase «worship experience in»

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

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

Those times when I've experienced God speak in silence — both to me and to others — during corporate worship have been immeasurably powerful moments.

Large group gatherings or worship services are the place where the largest number of people within a church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a church.

Honestly, the * last * thing I want to be doing when I'm experiencing what will be the last waking, conscious moments of life, is being worried that I didn't worship some imagined diety enough to buy me a ticket to some la - la land in the clouds.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

In worship, we experience anew the events of salvation history in terms of our own liveIn worship, we experience anew the events of salvation history in terms of our own livein terms of our own lives.

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.

I rarely get swept up in emotional worship experiences.

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.

The new disciples, whether with Jewish or Gentile backgrounds, found in the Christian community not only a transforming experience of divine grace but a sustaining experience of human fellowship, and, in whatever other ways this fellowship functioned, it was bound to express itself in corporate worship.

In the church, worship should gather us together; the experience should be as fully corporate as possible.

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.

The Fourth Gospel offers, in my view, a most profound and moving meditation on the traditions used by the Synoptists, in the light of the experience of Christian believers who truly encountered the risen Lord in the worship and witness of the Church.

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.

Essentially the orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person of Jesus Christ and in the experience of God present in Christian life and worship, the believer was met by very God.

I did however experience two weeks ago at our worship gathering (what I call it cause we do very little serving so doesn't justify the name worship service I feel) and I talked about that church you posted about once — the one where the biker is involved and the pastor leading the church out into their community — and turned it on our congregation asking, what can we do in our community?

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.

Murray shows that if people at the bottom of the economic ladder have high work satisfaction, are married, experience levels of social trust, and engage in weekly worship, they have exactly the same self - reported happiness as Belmont types who have the same qualities.

A former worship pastor who grew up in the church, Travis Klassen has seen a lot from «the inside,» and is currently writing a book about his experiences.

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.»

While these churches are effective in attracting a nonchurchgoing population, the worship experience may begin to seem shallow after awhile.

During this flight of imagination he finds himself in the grips of an inexplicable religious experience, praising and worshipping the maker of the stars above.

To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital, living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served by God's human children.

And as it becomes easier in the coming years to produce impressive [worship] experiences with new technology, how will we help people cultivate their own indigenous, genuine expressions?

It concerns worship, beliefs in the supernatural, prayer, the ecstasy of religious experience, and the escape of meditative withdrawal.

As far as the former is concerned we find a considerable amount of variableness in the nature, intensity, and color of the unifying, basic religious experience, shades or differences in theoretical (belief, myth, doctrine) and practical (worship, activities) expression.

Creative church schools work hard to make everything that occurs in the classroom (worship, problems in interpersonal relationships, teaching - learning, and so forth), laboratories in which religious truths can be brought to life and experienced.

Worship and work go together, as the American religious philosopher William Ernest Hocking so well put it in his book The Meaning of God in Human Experience.

12:10) was probably a constantly recurring phenomenon in Christian worship from Pentecost to the time when I Corinthians was written, but more important was the intelligible prophecy in which the understanding of the speaker contrived to interpret the purport of his experience and to «edify the church» (I Cor.14: 4.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

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.

In any event, what is said, like what is done, in the worship of the Church must be sufficiently in line with the inherited usage that it is recognizably Christian in its historical emphasis, while at the same time it is sufficiently intelligible to contemporary experience and understandinIn any event, what is said, like what is done, in the worship of the Church must be sufficiently in line with the inherited usage that it is recognizably Christian in its historical emphasis, while at the same time it is sufficiently intelligible to contemporary experience and understandinin the worship of the Church must be sufficiently in line with the inherited usage that it is recognizably Christian in its historical emphasis, while at the same time it is sufficiently intelligible to contemporary experience and understandinin line with the inherited usage that it is recognizably Christian in its historical emphasis, while at the same time it is sufficiently intelligible to contemporary experience and understandinin its historical emphasis, while at the same time it is sufficiently intelligible to contemporary experience and understanding.

When you're leading worship in front of a crowd, how do you experience God in such a rich and authentic way each time, and how do you draw people in?

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

It will always be difficult to analyze and to describe the spirit that prevails in a group united by common religious experience, a common faith, and common worship.

Most religious groups expect the arts to contribute their share to the cultic expression of religious experience, but in some communities the arts are frowned upon and excluded from all forms of worship.

Our concern is not with these, but rather to state simply that the reality of the presence of Christ in the Holy Communion is a given fact of two thousand years of Christian experience, and that Christian worship as it has historically developed has found that in the partaking of the consecrated bread and wine, as Christ commanded, His «spiritual body and blood» — which is to say, the reality of His life, divine and human, in a uniquely intimate and genuine way — have been received as His presence has been known and his person adored.

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.

We need one another in this as in other areas of human experience; we need to learn from one another, to worship together and to bear witness together.

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