The Christian education of children, too, was once hardly more than a sideshow, but the day came when a congregation that did not assume full oversight of a church school was thought of as failing in its duty.

The basic unit in the church, of whatever denominational polity, is always the congregation.

As long as the congregation regards the church as `` our '' church, or the minister thinks of it as `` my '' church, just so long the ecumenical movement will make no significant advance.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

Ambrose and his congregation barricaded themselves inside the church, and the imperial order was rescinded.

* The offertory money collected from a church congregation during a service, often by such means as a collection plate

In standard Greek usage, the older word " ecclesia " ( ἐκκλησία, ekklesía, literally " assembly ", " congregation ", or the place where such a gathering occurs ) was retained to signify both a specific edifice of Christian worship ( a " church "), and the overall community of the faithful ( the " Church ").

* Closed communion is the practice of restricting the communion to members of a particular church or congregation

Congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of church governance in which every local church congregation is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or " autonomous ".

The term " congregationalist polity " describes a form of church governance that is based on the local congregation.

There is no other reference than the local congregation for the " visible church " in Congregationalism.

Rather, the independent congregations are a network with each congregation participating at its own discretion in various means of service and fellowship with other congregations ( see Sponsoring church ( Churches of Christ )).

Elders are generally seen as responsible for the spiritual welfare of the congregation, while deacons are seen as responsible for the non-spiritual needs of the church.

An individual congregation is led by a church council made of the minister along with elders and deacons elected by the congregation.

More than the name separates each church example :" Independent Christian Church " will not accept a woman as a minister when some of the " Disciples of Christ " congregation will.

As a congregational church, each congregation determines the nature of its worship, study, Christian service, and witness to the world.

The General Minister and President ( GMP ) is the designated leader for the General Church, but does not have the administrative authority to direct any of the general church agencies other than “ The Office of General Minister and President .” The GMP has influence that derives from the respect of the church much as the pastor of a local church leads a local congregation.

Even in congregations where Eucharist is offered weekly, there is not a requirement that every church service be a Eucharistic service, nor that all members of a congregation must receive it weekly.

The Liturgy begins after sundown on Holy Saturday as the crowd gathers inside the unlit church.

The area around the church Sainte-Marie is the part where the Turkish community gathers in Brussels and has the nickname of " Petite Anatolie " because of all the Turkish restaurants and shops in chaussée de Haecht.

This is intended to indicate that the physical building at that address is not in fact the church itself but rather only a place where the church in that city gathers for corporate meetings ( Acts 14: 27 ; 1 Corinthians 14: 23 ), the church itself being spiritual and organic in nature ( Ephesians 2: 21 – 22 ).

In the United Church of Christ, creeds, confessions, and affirmations of faith function as " testimonies of faith " around which the church gathers rather than as " tests of faith " rigidly prescribing required doctrinal consent.

The denomination, therefore, looks to a number of historic confessions as expressing the common faith around which the church gathers, including:

* Christmas Carols-on the last day of classes before the Christmas Recess, the entire school gathers at a church on Madison Avenue ( the location sometimes varies from year to year ) to sing a number of traditional Christmas carols.

Today's church still gathers on Sunday mornings in both German and English and the idea remains the same.

There is a church called Our Lady of Fatima where the community gathers on Sundays.

The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.

Besides Church and Sunday School I went to out-of-door meetings on the sidewalk at the church door.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

The Jewish section was in Trastevere, near the Tiber at the church of San Francesco a Ripa.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

This may mean having fellowship in the church with people with whom, on the level of merely human agreeableness, we might prefer not to have any association at all.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

To be Katharine Ross, and work in a nicer shop somewhere, at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes, and learn ladies' manners and all like that, and get to know different people than up to now, not just the ones like her here, with foreign-sounding names, the ones went to the same church and -- Different place, different job, different people, she'd be all different too.

`` Being at the polls was just like being at church.

Because of the recent death of the bride's father, Frederick B. Hamm, the marriage of Miss Terry Hamm to John Bruce Parichy will be a small one at noon tomorrow in St. Bernadine's church, Forest Park.

A reception was held at the church.

To start the week of special programs at the church, the Rev. John D. Henderson will preach on `` A Successful Marriage '' at 9:40 and 11 a.m. Sunday.

New officers of the church will be ordained and installed at the 7:30 p.m. service.

A father and son dinner sponsored by the Men's Club will be held at 6:15 p.m. Monday and the annual church picnic at 4 p.m. next Saturday.

However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.

It has been my experience to find as many men as women in church, and to hear almost everyone in church congregations reciting the Latin prayers and responses at Mass.

a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave.

The budget of the church may be presented and pledges solicited at this session.