Sentences with phrase «worship life of the church»

And let us also encourage and support those persons and groups that are providing spiritual direction for solitude, seeing that their efforts are vitally linked to renewal of the total worship life of the church.

In other words, no insight, whether generated in the worshiping life of the churches or in the research life of university professors, can be automatically dismissed; for in the words of Milton's own manifesto attacking government oversight of the press, «If it come to prohibiting, there is not ought more likely to be prohibited than truth itself; whose first appearance to your eyes, bleared and dimmed with prejudice and custom, is more unsightly and unplausible than many errors.»

Not exact matches

«We love The Church of England but would like to end our days in a church where we can live and worship in anonymity and without constantChurch of England but would like to end our days in a church where we can live and worship in anonymity and without constantchurch where we can live and worship in anonymity and without constant fear.

A disgraced former Church of England bishop who was jailed for sexual abuse, and his twin brother, want to switch faiths so they can «live and worship in anonymity».

Plenty of self - professing «sinners» attend church regularly throughout their lives, so does that imply that those of us who no longer see a need to believe or worship are «healed»?

What has happened is that some Protestant churches have accommodated charismatic beliefs about the gifts of the Spirit, praying in tongues, etc., into their worship and church life.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

I was one of those cutting edge ministers who was hired by a mainline church to start a «contemporary» service (read: a church service with a live band and worship team instead of an organ and choir) in the late 90's when it was the trendy thing to do.

The Catholic Church exists for the worship of God (First three commandments) and is a means to live well and piously (next 7 commandments).

Generations of family's lived in the community and worshipped at those churches.

One such group has focused its attention on worship seeking the deepening of the church's life through liturgical renewal.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Several of the book's features are shared with other British theology: a basic concern for intelligent orthodoxy informed by worship; the Trinity as the encompassing doctrine, strongly connected to both church and society; a well - articulated response to modernity; a wide range of «mediations,» through various discourses and aspects of contemporary life (philosophy, history, friendship, sex, politics, aesthetics, the visual arts and music); a special affinity for the patristic period; and a preference for the essay genre.

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.

A thousand things would never have crossed their minds as they drove through Colorado Springs toward New Life Church's enormous concrete worship center - including the prospect of being assaulted in their minivan by a young man with a high - powered rifle.

When the passion for worship and service is gone, the church loses its soul and is no more than a shell of former life.

Preoccupied with abstract theories about the proper role of liturgy in the Church's life, the reformers focused on the rationale behind forms of worship and devotion not on their latent vitality and potency.

[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.

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

But Duffy never wanders too far from this one persistent argument» that much of the vitality and resiliency of Catholicism is found in its rituals and worship, in lay devotions and Marian piety, in veneration of the Church's blesseds and saints, in acts of communal discipline and obedience that bind the faithful together as a living organism.

You are even picketing outside of churches and sending people in to invade them during their worship services, violating their sacred space, because they don't live up to your «standards».

«Minutes for mission» or a comparable form of regular reporting by laypeople of mission and maturing projects carried out by laypeople, including reports from soma groups, can set the Sunday morning worship in the context of the whole church's life so that worshipers see Sunday morning as an introduction to the life of faith rather than its main event.

(To those who don't know, the Catholic Church has made up all sorts of stuff that isn't in the Bible so they can worship Mary as a separate deity - nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary's mother had an immaculate conception, nor does it say that Mary remained a virgin her entire life.

Mother did convert toward the end of her life through a home bible study and joined a Methodist Church to receive Communion and participate in communal worship.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

The definition of worship as «the celebration of life» was coined by Chicago's UU minister Von Ogden Vogt (who also guided the construction of a Gothic UU church freighted with symbolism but devoid of any traditional Christian symbols beyond the cruciform floor plan!).

A maturing congregation will be one that relocates the center of gravity of its life from Sunday morning worship to the groups that express life in the Spirit and the church as the body of Christ in nurture and in mission.

In the time of Jesus and the early church the emphasis in Judaism's life had come to be concentrated in the elaborate worship rites of the Temple in Jerusalem.

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.

Whether we are in church singing, praying or serving; or we are living our life at work, at home or in play, worshipping God should be a natural extension of everything we do.

The black gospel style of music represents new vitality that is seeking a place in the life of worship of the church.

We might accomplish some church administration without a thriving life of worshiping together, but even that is questionable.

She added: «I was told categorically that he turns up quite regularly - when she [the Queen] is here and not here, this is a regular part of his life, attending worship in a church at Sandringham.»

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

When we strip the Christian life of wonder, spiritual ideas become boring, worship is sterilized, and church becomes a dispassionate, casual ritual.

My children, both daughters, one in her twenties and the other in her late teens, will not enter a church for worship because they can not see the relevance of the liturgical language to their everyday lives.

The lights went on for me when I started worshipping at an Anglican Church and when I began to integrate the Book of Common Prayer into my devotional life.

But we can make life very miserable for said speakers by sit - ins / walk - arounds by their misguided church, hosing them down as firemen conduct fire drills in areas where these «speakers» spout their «stupidities», insti - tute a tax on all «houses of worthless worship» and sue them for false advertising of beliefs that are simply con games.

This book aims at applying some insights from pastoral psychology to the major dimensions of a church's program — worship, preaching, the prophetic ministry, the church school, the group life, the family - life program, administration and evangelism — as a way of mining this ore.

Whether it's in the liturgical life of the Anglican Communion, the Roman Catholic Church or more contemporary worship songs such as Matt Redman's «Bless the Lord, Oh My Soul.»

You mean the building of enormous churches and mosques (etc) that cost tens of millions of dollars - of those who attend them who are living in huge houses with expensive cars that go on exotic vacations several weeks a year - all who worship someone who said to give everything (that is all) to the poor?

It's not that worship has lost its centrality in the larger life of the church, any more than the mighty Mississippi slowed to a trickle in Twain's time.

It is the book which the Church recommends people to read in order to know about God in His relation to man and the world, to worship Him intelligently, and to understand the aim and the obligations of human life under His rule.

As long as pastors and church musicians believe they must satisfy the desire of every living thing, worship is in trouble.

What there is is finding other ways of exercising that call: interim pastor, parish associate, stated supply, teaching church school, worshiping always, serving on presbytery committees, being volunteers in mission, and by being a participant as an «honorary layperson» in the ongoing life of a congregation — all these and more are ways by which we respond to the enduring calling by God through the church.

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.

Here also we find the true meaning of the Church as the predestined continuation of the Incarnation — the eco-system of God's life and love for man lived out in her sacramental worship.

By their profession of faith, their worship and life, the human beings in the Church form as it were the one expression in which the hidden grace promised and offered to the whole world emerges from the abysses of the human soul into the domain of history and society.

Bonhoeffer's popular book Life Together deals with the practical relations of the church's life in Christ, including his concept of Christian community; how the community should worship by always including scripture, hymns and prayer both individual and common; personal worship that includes meditation, prayer and intercession; the problems of the church that require learning control of the tongue, meekness, listening, forbearing and proclamLife Together deals with the practical relations of the church's life in Christ, including his concept of Christian community; how the community should worship by always including scripture, hymns and prayer both individual and common; personal worship that includes meditation, prayer and intercession; the problems of the church that require learning control of the tongue, meekness, listening, forbearing and proclamlife in Christ, including his concept of Christian community; how the community should worship by always including scripture, hymns and prayer both individual and common; personal worship that includes meditation, prayer and intercession; the problems of the church that require learning control of the tongue, meekness, listening, forbearing and proclaming.