I would love to see churches start using their Web sites to present video profiles of people within their congregations so that the average person could get a sense of what the life of the church (not the organization, but the people - the true church) is really like.
Quotes about congregations (16 Quotes)
It would be easier to go out and build anything in the world than it is (to build) churches. But to visit with pastors years later and find out (their congregations) have tripled in size because of the building you gave them, that's just extremely rewarding.
I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations ... and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.
Even with extensive coverage of clergy misconduct over the past decade, congregations still make no plans for handling moral failure until it happens. Then it's too late.
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.
The difference is, Republicans in recent years have made more use of it (the practice of targeting Christian voters), as we have seen the emergence of the religious right. For a long time, it was Democrats who made far more use of religious congregations.
Social distancing' is a general term to refer to the various measures that we would put into place, frankly, to decrease the likelihood for human interaction and transmission of virus. Anytime there are gatherings of human beings, whether it's in an entertainment venue, at work, in a school, that represents the opportunity for social distancing by at least temporarily eliminating those congregations.
You're taking a group of congregations together. One group may not be able to do much on their own. But let's spread the burden let's work together.
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
These are exceptional cases, but people are people, rabbis and clergymen are human beings, and they do occur, ... We try to help a congregation go through healing, because a rabbi is in a special position and it is as if a member of the family were involved. We encourage congregations to look at the totality of the situation, the whole of the clergyman, and to understand that many mistakes, depending on the situation, are forgivable.
The government is not love. Government is law and justice. Love comes from religious congregations of all faiths. So when we talk about getting people off drugs, this government must not fear welcoming faith-based programs,
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
The church just mirrors the community, and if we have healthy congregations, we are going to have a healthy community.
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
Most Red Cross volunteers are members of congregations. I've rarely met any who weren't. And people are donating all kinds of foodstuffs, clothing and other supplies to the shelters that are near them instead of taking them to their churches,
We thought that instead of taking this to Hollywood, how about taking Hollywood to the churches When we looked at the technology, you can have a great screening with digital projectors and surround sound. You don't need a movie theater. So we started asking people and screening the movie for pastors, and after they saw it and wiped away a tear, they said they would love to show it to their congregations.