Quotes About Congregation

One evening I sat in on the congregation's annual meeting with its district superintendent, Alexander B. Joyner. It opened with testimony from Hoot Pruitt. "We're blessed to have our pastor, because he knows how to get people in line—not in a rough way, but in a gentle spirit," he said.

Her service to others had done more for her spiritual welfare all the outward display of congregational religion, which so is but outward display.

As a kid spending weekends in the Ozarks, I remember my granny's preacher shaking his fist, his jowls waving in the wind not unlike a bloodhound's, excoriating the congregation and condemning it to hell.

Los cristianos sabemos que hay una luz que las tinieblas no pueden vencer ni entender, y es la luz de Aquel a quien debemos regresar para superar este tiempo de prueba. Es la luz de Cristo, la que iluminó los monasterios de la Edad Media y a todos los que allí se congregaban.

people in congregations often look to a pastor as a sort of shaman. He said, "They want us to play the intermediary. They are highly dependent, if not codependent. They want us to give them 'the four steps to this, the eight keys to that, and the five insights for the other thing.

It is one thing for a minister to be an advocate and supporter of missions: it is another and very different thing for him to understand that they are the chief end of the Church, and therefore the chief end for which his congregation exists. It is only when this truth masters him in its spiritual power, that he will be able to give the subject of missions its true place in his ministry.

Nothing so reveals a defective spiritual life in a minister or a congregation as the lack of believing and unceasing prayer. Prayer is the pulse of the spiritual life. It is the great means by which ministers and laypeople alike receive the blessing and power of heaven. Persevering and believing prayer precludes a strong and abundant life.

Lester was the obvious choice for pastor, I guess, since he'd sired half the congregation.

I soon figured out that I should keep my qualms to myself. Christianity is no different from any other cult---it isn't about faith. It's about agreement, about like-minded people sitting together in the same room at the same time believing the same thing. That unity is its appeal. Once someone, even a little six-year-old someone wearing patent leather Mary Janes, starts asking questions that can't be answered, the whole congregation's fun is spoiled.

No one doubts that relocating a growing congregation is inconvenient. So is relocating a growing shoe store, supermarket, or household. But it doesn't follow that a pastor's desire for a bigger building should outweigh the community's desire for modestly sized structures and limited traffic.

Thy breath in the congregation, thy word in the church, breathes communion and consolation here, and consummation hereafter;

Everyone behaves to be knowing everything about good and bad things of life as seen in one-to-one conversation , then wondering how, why and from where such a big number of people comes to a congregation to listen to a person preaching to them or offering sermon.

Meditation requires seclusion not congregation, so that a person can find the peace of mind, the pleasure of heart and the piousness of soul by understanding oneself via introspection in isolation.

Netizens, in general, do not even RTs/Like/Comment/Share a person's points/picture on social media without seeing some sort of profit/benefit coming from the host or the post, so from where and how a crowd of citizens swell up in march/protest/agitation/congregation either in support or against someone and that too wearing same type of caps and holding flags

Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy.

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

There had been three priests, proponents of so-called liberation theology. They had opposed the reactionary tide from Rome. And in all three cases the IEA had done the dirty work for Iwaszkiewicz and his Congregation. Corona, Ortega, and Souza were prominent progressive priests working in marginal dioceses, poor districts of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. They believed in saving man here on earth, not waiting for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Restoring a sense of mission and vision for the future is a crucial challenge that must be accomplished if the church has any chance of survival. Calling the congregation back to the mission of the church and developing a new vision for the future is essential.

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

So the congregation took up collections to put him in college and then to send him to Germany. And he came back an atheist.

There are few things more destructive to the Christian church as a whole or to any congregation, large or small, than an individual who "loveth to have the preeminence" (3 John 9, KJV). And yet, as we have seen before, God never leaves Himself without a testimony to the saving and transforming power of the gospel.

The Bible-oriented preacher wants the congregation to know that his words, if they have any abiding worth, are in accord with God's words. He wants this to be obvious to them. That is part of his humility and his authority. Therefore, he constantly tries to show the people that his ideas are coming from the Bible. He is hesitant to go too far toward points that are not demonstrable from the Bible.

The scene had interested me. It was so different from the ordinary demeanour of tramps--from the abject worm-like gratitude with which they normally accept charity. The explanation, of course, was that we outnumbered the congregation and so were not afraid of them. A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor--it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.