Quotes About Membership

The challenge facing the synagogue is not an increase in the cost of membership. The challenge facing the synagogue is a decreasing cost benefit felt by its members.

Some synagogues are simply calling themselves community institutions rather than membership institutions that require payment of dues to become a member. These synagogues suggest that all locals are members of the synagogue and therefore welcome to use its services or the services of its professional staff. Like online services that are free, these congregations would charge only for upgrades or premium services, such as personal or family counseling by the rabbi or the education of children.

to serve the majority of the Jewish community, even its entirety, rather than just those who are members of Jewish institutions.

If we turn the synagogue inside out, the synagogue would serve a far broader audience, one that is not restricted by the traditional notion of synagogue membership. Synagogues can reach out and serve a population larger than their current membership if they are willing to emphasize those things that the synagogue does well and that are within its purview, while refraining from those things that are irrelevant to the synagogue and its work. In too many situations

While the notion is undoubtedly controversial, I argue that when a synagogue turns itself inside out, it can provide for life-cycle events and education for everyone without making a distinction as to who is a member and who is a nonmember. This also allows the synagogue to reclaim the functions that it gave away to day schools, JCCs, and others. In reality, four life-cycle events have theoretically been under the

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

The results are always the same: severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

If done as God wants.' then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every leader in his extensive diocese. Little wonder that during his thirty years of eldering there, the diocese tripled its membership and greatly increase in spiritual effectiveness

I fell one time," Hamill says. "But I was able to tuck and roll like I was taught. I was later made a member of the British Stunt Union—not just a belt buckle, but a full membership.

There are plenty who believe that Britain pays too much into the EU and gets too little back and that the UK will be better off when it is unshackled from the weight of the troubled EU economies.

The treaties of the European Union say that, once a country has decided to leave, then they are excluded from the treaty after two years, unless there is unanimous agreement to extend that period.

As a friend often said, India is a gymkhana club, where the people have the votes, but the politicians and the bureaucrats have the membership.

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

Let's to the Kit-Cat Clubb.

Lest you think we are utterly depraved, I want you to know that we are both registered Republicans and members of the Episcopal Church, and attend regularly except during the Boating Season

There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

There were churches in that part of Ohio where treason was preached regularly, and where, to secure membership, hostility to the government, to the war and to the liberation of the slaves, was far more essential than a belief in the authenticity or credibility of the Bible. There were men in Georgetown who filled all the requirements for membership in these churches.

There were churches in that part of Ohio where treason was preached regularly, and where, to secure membership, hostility to the government, to the war and to the liberation of the slaves, was far more essential than a belief in the authenticity or credibility of the Bible.

There is no other limit to the size of the Socialist party than the number of workers and wage-earners.