Paul considered Apollos to be an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) who became a leader in the important Corinthian congregation.

This reflects the ethnic and religious makeup of that congregation in Thessalonica, and is supported by Paul's brief remark in 1: 9 that they " turned to God from idols.

The congregation as a whole has only the responsibility to vote on: 1 ) the call of the pastor ( subject to presbytery approval ) and the terms of call ( the church's provision for compensating and caring for the pastor ); 2 ) the election of its own officers ( elders & deacons ); 3 ) buying, mortgaging, or selling real property.

In the previous year on 1 November 1555, the congregation in Geneva had elected Knox as their minister and he decided to take up the post.

Clement's only existing, genuine text is a letter to the Christian congregation in Corinth, often called the First Epistle of Clement or 1 Clement.

Some 1, 400 people mourned Dr. Crane at his funeral, more than double the size of his congregation.

On 1 January 2011 the congregation merged with the municipalities and Andijk Medemblik.

The Park Performing Arts Center was originally built in 1931 by the German congregation the Catholic parish of Holy Family Church ( and still owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark ) to house their cultural and educational programs Its outstanding feature is the Park Theater which seats 1, 400.

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Each local congregation is required to send a tithe of income to UFMCC, currently set to reduce from 15 % of income to 10 % by 1 % every two years stating in 2005.

With about 1, 000, 000 members ( 2007 ), it is the largest Pentecostal Christian congregation in South Korea, and the world.

When food was scarce after the long wars with France in 1817 he started a scheme of selling sixpenny loaves for three pence supported by donations from his congregation and distributed 1, 000 loaves.

Roberts, along with a number of other would-be reformers, could essentially identify three problems with the pew system: 1 ) it ended the segregation of the worshiping congregation into male and female ( which John Wesley himself approved of ), 2 ) it commercialized the church, and 3 ) it discriminated against the poor.

Some advantage of expository preaching are as follows: 1 ) The presentation of the entire content of an entire Bible passage is attempted regardless of the desires of the congregation.

On July 1, 2005, Pamela Taylor, a Muslim convert since 1986, became the first woman to lead Friday prayers in a Canadian mosque, and did so for a congregation of both men and women.

* 2005: On July 1, 2005, Pamela Taylor, a Muslim convert since 1986, became the first woman to lead Friday prayers in a Canadian mosque, and did so for a congregation of both men and women.

The Baptist chapel at Shortwood was rebuilt in 1837 and, in spite of the emigration of over 80 members to Adelaide between 1838 and 1840, the adult congregation was at least 1, 000 in 1851.

The " whole congregation of Israel assembled ... and set up the tabernacle of the congregation ..." ( Joshua 18: 1 ), built under Moses ' direction from God ( Exodus 26 ) to house the Ark of the Covenant, also built under Moses ' direction from God ( Exodus 25 ).

The congregation was established to renew the Church in France after the Revolution, primarily to "( 1 ) Revive the spirit of faith among rural and industrial populations by means of missions and retreats, in which devotion to the Sacred Heart and to Mary Immaculate is recommended as a supernatural means of regeneration.

With about 1, 000, 000 members ( 2007 ), Yoido is the largest Protestant Christian congregation in the world.

It was built around 1675, on the model of a Greek cross and has four central chapels each capable of holding a congregation of some 1, 000 people.

The history of the Big Sandy campus can be divided into six periods: 1 ) its use by the Radio Church of God as a festival center for the Feast of Tabernacles, local church congregation site, and Imperial Schools campus ( 1952 – 1974 ), 2 ) the initial period that the campus was open as a four year college, 1964 – 1977, 3 ) the period in which the college was closed but continued to be used as a church meeting site, 1977 – 1981, 4 ) reopened as a two year junior college, 1981 – 1989, 5 ) four year consolidated campus, 1989 – 1997, 6 ) following the closure in 1997, remained vacant until the sale to the International Alert Academy, 1997 – present.

The church had been designed to hold 1, 000 people but this proved to be insufficient for the congregation and in 1888 an additional chapel, the Sodality Chapel which had been designed by Edmund Kirby, was opened.

* Lincoln Square Synagogue – Modern Orthodox congregation, 200 Amsterdam Avenue at 69th Street.

The married congregation numbered approximately 200.

Harris, who had been left destitute and without a congregation in Kirtland, accepted the assistance of members of the LDS Church, who raised $ 200 to help him move west to Utah.

On April 9, 1942, during an afternoon air-raid, a 200 kg Luftwaffe bomb pierced the dome ( two others bounced off ) and fell among a congregation of more than 300 people awaiting early evening mass.

It is a small Australian Presbyterian denomination numbering less than 200 persons with its largest congregation in the area of Geelong, Victoria.

Forbes gave up his handsome stipend (£ 200 from the government plus £ 150 from the congregation ), the church, school and manse he had erected, and commenced afresh.

The original woodframe church was sold to the congregation of Historic Trinity Lutheran Church for $ 200 when the current structure was completed.

A congregation of 150 to 200 birds has been recorded in southeastern Bhutan.

The convicts were put in chains, paraded before the congregation at the Reverend Cotton's lecture as an example, and sent to prisons in various towns, where they languished all winter, chains included.

Within a week, however, he was giving his first sermon to a congregation that included his old teacher, John Major.

Changes to the Good Friday liturgy included moving it from morning to afternoon, and allowing the congregation to receive Holy Communion, which had formerly been reserved to the priest ; an end was also put to the custom whereby, at the communion, the priest drank some unconsecrated wine into which he had placed part of the consecrated host.

The changes included: use of the vernacular was permitted ; the priest was allowed to face towards the congregation, if he wished, throughout Mass ; there were some textual changes, such as omission of the Psalm Judica at the beginning, and of the Last Gospel and Leonine Prayers at the end.

Venner led a congregation, which included New Model Army veterans, that met in a rented room above a tavern in Swan's Alley off Coleman Street.

The repetition's original purpose was to give illiterate members of the congregation a chance to be included in the chazzan's Amidah by answering " Amen.

Other Danes joined them from around the state and by 1896 the congregation included thirty families.

Founders of the havurot included the liberal political activist Arthur Waskow, Michael Strassfeld ( who later became rabbi for a Conservative congregation and then moved on to serve a major Reconstructionist congregation ), and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.

Anglican Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen's tribute included leading the congregation of family, statesmen, fans, and musicians in the singing of " A Pub With No Beer ".

Some time around the year 1959, the Reverend Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul's Church in Baltimore, Maryland, included Desiderata in a compilation of devotional materials for his congregation.

In keeping with the tradition of the original builders, a time capsule that included a newspaper and a photograph of the congregation was buried under the floor of the kitchen.

His congregation, which included Louisa May Alcott, William Lloyd Garrison, Julia Ward Howe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, grew to 7000.

His Niagara congregation included Col. and Mrs. John Butler, Hon.

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This included setting up a new altar that allowed the priest to face the congregation, and the communion rail and the pulpit were removed.

Bishop Baines dedicated the Cathedral of St Paul before a congregation of 600, which included the Governor-General Sir Bernard Fergusson and the Prime Minister Keith Holyoake.

The idea of a quorum was established by Joseph Smith, Jr. early in the history of the movement, and during his lifetime it has included several church-wide quorums, including the First Presidency, the Presiding High Council, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the Anointed Quorum, the Council of Fifty, and the Quorum of the Seventy, as well as numerous local quorums for each congregation.

The funeral congregation included politicians such as Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte, his predecessor Ruairi Quinn, party front-bencher Joan Burton ; Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe and councillor Larry O ' Toole ; ex-Workers ' Party leader Tomás Mac Giolla and former Fianna Fáil MEP Niall Andrews.

His funeral was held before a packed house at Beth-El on November 6, 1879, where his plain coffin was carried into the congregation by 12 pallbearers and placed before the pulpit, which included such gathered rabbinic notables as Richard James Horatio Gottheil of Congregation Emanu-El, Einhorn's son-in-law and successor Kaufmann Kohler of Beth-El, another son-in-law Emil G. Hirsch of Louisville, Kentucky, along with representatives of the congregations he served in Baltimore and Philadelphia.

The dissenting English Protestants in Amsterdam in the early days of the English Church included a number, who, within a few years of their arrival in the city, left to form a separate congregation in Leiden and to sail via Delfshaven and Plymouth ( in England ) on the Mayflower to the New World in 1620.

The initial purchase included and the original mansion ; the congregation purchased the remaining from Mrs. Cutler two years later.

Members of the congregation have included Samuel Adams, William Dawes, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Sewall, and Phillis Wheatley.