Sentences with phrase «worship experiences with»

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

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.
I'd say my own experience with a God - connection at church, as one who is «up front» leading worship, runs the gamut.
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.
I also know, from personal experience, that these people love Jesus, worship Him with all their hearts (or at least as much us Calvinists do!).
It's totally possible for a small church with limited resources to produce an excellent worship experience in multiple locations.
Those who worship with the expectation that the act ought to generate certain experiences for them will undoubtedly have many experiences.
Part of our problem with worship is that we ask for a particular experience to designate as the «worship experience
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.
Much of its recent membership gains have been drawn from charismatics who have left their former churches to find a place of worship more compatible with their new experience.
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.
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.
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?
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 understanding.
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.
Several women's groups turned from primary concern with the institutional church to community projects, as a result of the «new flavor» developed in the groups through interpersonal deepening.20 It has been my experience that many larger church meetings, including worship services, can be enlivened by incorporating small group communication and awareness experiences into the proceedings.
With his taste and experience, Cardinal Sarah is called to rebalance the Congregation for Divine Worship.
If I selfishly love my frozen yogurt, microbreweries, and Pinterest, or dislike tattoos, noise, slow decision - making, or fill in the blank, more than my brothers and sisters who are different; if I prefer this church, or neighborhood because of the schools, the safety or because the worship resonates with me; if I am committed to my ways of doing life; if I let me self - comfort, self - enjoyment, self - security, or self - convenience guide my decision making; I will never experience the gifts that accompany thriving relationships with people who are different from me.
Its intention is to affirm and explain the faith, life, and worship of the Catholic Church, and the fact is that - historically and theologically - the disputes with Lutherans, Calvinists, Zwinglians, and others in the sixteenth century is far from being the most formative experience in the Church's understanding of her faith, life, and worship.
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?
The Roman Catholics, with whom I am especially familiar, go to church, have some appreciation of their theological underpinnings and are hoping to find a slightly different style of worship, teaching and activity from what they had experienced in their home parishes.
Worship, we have seen, is an indestructible element in human experience; and in the Christian tradition it is inextricably associated with the faith and the moral life of the believers in the community that responds to the action of the living God in Christ.
Many people may feel disillusioned with church worship services, especially when our worship words say one thing but our experience says something else.
The weekly experience of corporate worship is supportive to many persons, including those who can not identify with other group experiences demanding more intimate participation.
Feelings from our early experiences which continue as important, though hidden influences in our lives as adults are activated and dealt with in worship.
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 reminded me of long nights, struggles with homelessness and poverty and desperation that I had experienced over the years, and the power of pure worship to shout down life's loudest dins.
Sometimes those who have experienced the most tragedy are the only ones who can truly teach us how to worship the Lord with delight.
It's what limits my worship experience to only a small part of my worshipping life, and upholds serving God with my actions as the bigger part.
Indeed one might say that liturgical worship by and large speaks not so much to the conscious attention of its participants as to those profound and almost unconsciously experienced areas of human life where men live in terms of feeling - tone, of unutterable emotion, and of profound subconscious relationships, with an almost intuitive awareness of the «more» which is deep down in the structure of reality.
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?
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.
Above all, public worship is the experience of sharing with our fellow - Christians in an action that is distinctively Christian and which, by our very presence there, is to become (like all prayer) an intentional, attentive, and conscious openness to the presence and action of God himself.
Psychologically, the structure of worship brings the worshiper through the experience of his or her relationship with God.
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.
Some persons of long experience in silent worship can move to meditation upon God and communion with the divine Spirit without any external devotional aids.
The idea is based on his experiences with a similar worship service called The Bridge back in Ventura, where he feels the «very community - based» approach made worship services «very real, more about relationship and less about religion.»
But whereas most seeker churches work with the models of the shopping mall and the television audience in designing their space and worship service, Fabian likens worship at St. Gregory's to a rock concert, which he calls the modern secular experience that most closely resembles the divine liturgy.
It was an amazing experience to watch my body swell with life, to experience and worship every pregnant symptom with joy and trust, to innately know that I was so capable and specifically designed to grow and nurture this life within me, and one day when they where ready they would emerge with the same ecstasy and love that conceived their life.
But one thing you may experience when dealing with Christians from other cultures, is that their methods of worship may not be exactly the same as yours.
Ministries is a women's ministry that has been engineered to fill women with the power of unchanging Word of God; with the commitment to living life on one's knees; to the wonder and beauty of worship; and, to experiencing life not alone but with other girls who are in love with Jesus.
She is currently leading the church through a revitalization process that involves aligning the church's purpose and vision with its worship experiences, faith formation programs, community outreach and mission.
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Learning experiences in museums, theatres, places of worship constitute Route 1 for the activities with least risk, whilst field studies, expeditions, study tours, farm visits and adventurous activities constitute Route 2 where the regime is more rigorous.
Pentecostals share the separatist stance of fundamentalists, but their style of worship — their emotional and experiential faith, with its emphasis on spiritual experiences such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy — contrasts with the more - staid expressions of fundamentalism.
The contemporary religion most associated with witchcraft, Wicca, has been described as «an anti-dogmatic, anti-authoritarian, diverse, decentralized, eclectic, experience - based, nature - oriented, religious movement whose followers... in some sense believe in, experience and / or invoke and / or worship the Mother Goddess and... her God - consort.»
She is currently leading the church through a revitalization process that involves aligning the church's purpose and vision with its worship experiences, faith formation programs, community outreach and mission.
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