So if you have someone who is not used to congregational life, they don't feel left out.
In the last decade, and particularly the last five years, the adult bar and bas mitzvah has become a regular feature of Jewish congregational life.
Eighty three percent of respondents said that the Internet had helped congregational life.
Women play a full part in congregational life.
Megachurches even pose a challenge to seminaries in that many train lay people to be ministers at all levels of congregational life.
The bishops were interned with deposed priests and theological candidates from 1943, but congregational life continued more or less as usual.
In congregational life it was conferred as a rule on married men, but often also on yeshibah graduates who were single.
Rabenau and the internees built up congregational life in their Egyptian exile, lasting three years.
Among the pastorally inclined, even those most opposed to his dream of a testosterone-driven church might glean some sensible ideas about involving men in congregational life.
He told the congregation that Dr. Church's "actions and words are degrading to the ministry and have clearly been destructive of congregational life."