How To Use Congregant In A Sentence
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They sing a cappella, circling the pews as congregants trickle in and join the singing.
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In the early days, during the service, the congregants had the odd practice of auctioning the aliyoth or ‘privileges’ given to certain congregants, the money being used to maintain the synagogue.
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An updated report on the use of a common communion cup says people may have more to fear from people dipping the bread in the wine than from sipping from the same chalice used by other congregants.
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Rabbis can connect with their postmodern congregants by demonstrating that the grand narrative of God, Torah, and Israel is not a hermetically sealed book.
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Not only do the congregants not understand that the solution to the riddle is the basic tenet of their faith, but more important, they fail to recognize that Alroy is quite literally the answer to their prayers.
Spector - Criticism - Critical Contexts
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In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants.
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At midnight, I decided to call a congregant of mine in California, where it was three o’clock in the afternoon.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith
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Here was the passion of politics on the right, steaming and devout, and malodorously scented with polyester socks and cheap, overused shoes removed and carried inside by every congregant, to avoid them getting lost or stolen if left at the door.
Let the Swords Encircle Me
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Similarly, the acceptance of gay rabbis - although small in number - indicates that the majority of congregants judge a person by their integrity rather than their sexuality.
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“Where is the outreach center again… is it downtown still?” one congregant asks another as they walk upstairs after Sunday services.
American Grace
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The leader will invite all congregants who feel the Torah passage is speaking to this issue in their lives to join in that aliyah.
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Imperator, et cum multa gente nemus circumdat, canes emittuntur et aues, cum multo clamore, et feras congregant in medio nemoris, ad planiciem sibi sitam.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Perhaps the single largest indicator that American culture is on the wrong track, explains Pastor White, is the national abortion rate—“Fifty million dead in the last thirty-three years,” as he describes it—and it is this disturbing trend that he and his congregants feel most passionate about curbing.
American Grace
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Who wants to see their religious traditions disrespected by foreigners strolling about and taking pictures as if the congregants were morons to be fodder for their two-bit family slide show back in Dubuque?
Any Chiapas backroad driving experts?
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CPE is a 400-hour class designed to train future clergy in how to engage emotionally and spiritually with congregants, with greater awareness of their needs and role as religious leaders.
Joshua Stanton: Pastoral Care: Crucial Learning We Often Overlook
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Hanks is developing an education program that would operate through churches to teach pastors and congregants that amputees and other people with disabilities can work and be productive.
New amputees worry about life ahead
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In patentibus Asiae campis certo die congregant se, eam quae novissime advenit lacerant, inde avolant.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The celebrant faced the tabernacle, his back to the uncomprehending congregants who busied themselves with their prayer books or rosaries.
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In the face of voluntary church membership, ministers engineered revivals to recruit congregants.
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The ministers, most of them African-Americans together representing thousands of congregants, are pressuring the city council to grant approval for a Wal-Mart "supercenter" - a store with a full grocery that also sells general merchandise-on the city's South Side.
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In place of a crucifix, the wall behind the altar bears a painted multicolor tribute to what one congregant calls “the upward progress of black people throughout the world.”
American Grace
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Yet the artists he persuaded to join his groundbreaking venture — each of them firmly embedded in the nonfigurative abstraction that so rapidly became the fashionable art of that time — must have felt some strong pull toward giving the congregants something recognizable.
Abstraction in the Synagogue
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Paul’s international church built on existing cosmopolitan values of interethnic tolerance and amity, but in offering its international networking services to congregants, the church went beyond those values; a kind of interethnic love was the core value that held the system together.
One World, Under God
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Benjamin, another Mexican congregant, notes that “the Americans sometimes feel more in the minority than the majority” at the parish.
American Grace
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Small television monitors hang from the underside of the balcony, allowing congregants to get a better view of the speakers and occasionally themselves as a cameraman makes his way through the crowd, capturing up-close the jubilant scene of worship and praise that is intensifying throughout the sanctuary.
American Grace
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As I have attempted to show, the congregants convert to the Christian God because of the divine tutelage they believe they have received.
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Read out an insightful author's take on the Parsha of the week and ask the congregants to react.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Making Synagogue Stimulating Again
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Then, a senior congregant said God blesses him although he has not humbled himself enough before God.
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We needed some tender loving care, and usually the congregants don't think of themselves as being obligated to fulfill that role.
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The Bishop is delivering his congregation from credit card debt one family at a time - using only donations from other congregants.
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A former congregant had flown in from his new home in Australia the day before, to leave this afternoon to London.
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Indeed, many of those participating in 'partnership minyanim' are among our most engaged and valued congregants.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, the secularized congregants in our pews tend to be ‘religious agnostics’ rather than true believers.
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His relationship with his congregants necessarily has become more remote, formal, and abstract.
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As there are hardly any congregants in the bleak church, and these include only some of the central characters, this seems a strange device.
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This concern for social justice, in turn, creates a norm within congregations that is supported and nourished by the congregants.
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“Being a member of Beth Emet has allowed me to live out my sense of Jewish identity by working on social justice issues with talented and committed people,” says one congregant.
American Grace
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The new four-track EP by Mr. John Darnielle is now up for sale as a digital download at satanicmessiah. com and is available at three different price points / levels of worship: "congregant," "devotee" and, the highest of the three, "acolyte.
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One congregant goes so far as to call OSL “the most conservative church in the world.”
American Grace
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Yet the artists he persuaded to join his groundbreaking venture each of them firmly embedded in the nonfigurative abstraction that so rapidly became the fashionable art of that time must have felt some strong pull toward giving the congregants something recognizable.
Abstraction in the Synagogue
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Indeed, when I asked why the congregants came to the church, many of them attributed it to the good feelings they gained in converting to the new religion.
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Beth Emet also opened the first soup kitchen in Evanston, which is run entirely by congregant volunteers.
American Grace
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The organist then begins a short postlude as the congregants greet each other in the pews, laughing and offering hugs and hellos.
American Grace
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Oh, and I almost went to a snake handling church one time -- I was invited as a reporter by a congregant who wanted to get the word out to anyone interested in praising Jesus with a canebrake rattler or two -- but moved out of the area before I could take him up on it.
At home in a house church
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Dieste wrote of his desire to unite the congregants with the officiants in a single space, which the nave of this church provides.
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Nearly 300 congregants -- a virtual rainbow coalition -- are gathered in impermanent rented quarters a mile east of Beverly Hills.
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The ministers, most of them African-Americans together representing thousands of congregants, are pressuring the city council to grant approval for a Wal-Mart "supercenter" — a store with a full grocery that also sells general merchandise — on the city's South Side.
Tough Times Boost Wal-Mart's Allure
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In patentibus Asiae campis certo die congregant se, eam quae novissime advenit lacerant, inde avolant.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In ancient Greece, in the outdoor Temples, the priestesses copulated with the congregants as an act of religious piety to the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite.
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Yet Democratic congregants tend to cite Christian values such as equality, compassion, and helping the poor as the source of their politics, while Republicans generally point to principles of self-reliance and personal responsibility, as well as the “moral” issues of abortion and homosexuality.
American Grace
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We expect that all congregants, whether minority or majority, will talk of costs and benefits.
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He failed, however, to project the charisma and religiosity which many congregants sought.
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In 1968, congregants contributed about 3 percent of their income to the church.
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He ran aground, though, when he insisted that a congregant must show some believable evidence of being truly godly.
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This concern for social justice, in turn, creates a norm within congregations that is supported and nourished by the congregants.
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One lifelong congregant remembers that OSL began “literally with twenty families,” and the original white wood-frame chapel was built “out in the country on a gravel road leading out of Houston.”
American Grace
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In addition, we collected data on the friendship networks of the congregants.
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Full-time clergy may be paid either out of public taxation or the donations of the congregants.
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Furthermore, these broader social changes do not only distort the preached message of the churches; they also have transformed the congregants listening in the pews.
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And no rabbi feels compelled to tell his congregants about the importance of coming to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashana.
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The imagery of a tutelary god and the concern with concrete blessings that are so central in religious practices in China have been and still are fashioning Xuwei's and many other Chinese congregants' understanding of Christianity.
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Plaintiffs also say that Hakim appointed his son-in-law as "ameer" last August, without an election by the congregants.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Mather, in his 1726 book Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practiced in the Churches of New England, cited Jewish practice as a guide, though not law, on everything from how many congregants were required for a new church (“The Jews of old held, that less than Ten Men of Leisure, could not make a Congregationâ€), to the reading of scripture aloud on the Lord†™ s day (“The Pentateuch was divided into fifty four Parashoth, or Sections, which they read over in the Synagogue every yearâ€).
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