Sentences with phrase «as pastors take»

As all pastors take money for evangelizing and Paul wrote that they are «fake Chriistians» for taking money, how about Darling gets himself on to hell and stops giving us his fake Christian opinion?

As pastors take personal histories they will need to gather the information about psychosocial development as a context for spiritual maturing.

You do, as a pastor take it personally and you fear the consequences.

Not exact matches

Why when it's a pastor, people always take that as a reason to insult Faith and the church.

I decided to take this job because I've seen through my own pain and experiences this last year that we as pastors and leaders are living «between the dreaming and the coming true» (credit goes to Robert Benson for that phrase).

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

I love how some take the words of one supposed «theologian» to another and then tells everyone not to listen to their pastor who has probably had as much experience (if not more) with biblical interpretation than this author.

Just pointing out that considering the mistranslations and following incorrect beliefs there is very little in the bible that you can take for granted, or as having been given «directly from god», many priests / pastors take this statement and run with it saying that that is where you have to have «faith».

Some observers think that the feminization of the church, evident in the declining percentage of men taking part in church life, will be aggravated if inclusive language is employed or, worse, if a woman is called as pastor.

They not only have no clue as to how our government works or what it takes to change laws, they wouldn't know a good president from a hole in the ground if they didn't first ask their pastor or fox news pundit their opinion.

I would venture to guess many of the evangelical pastors she speaks to (as described in this essay) don't «get» what she's arguing, because they take for granted that she's an evangelical in essence, just an edgy one; whereas, by her own admission, she is talking about «not a change in style but a change in substance.»

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

You sometimes take too long to assert yourself as pastor and leader of the congregation.

This meaning is taken from the context of his immediate reply, just as if you said to «what you do, you do because of you mother» my reply being, «you can insult me or my brother and be forgiven but insult my mother and you won't ever be (of course I'm a moral and would because my mother is not the Holy Spirit) if you said a pastor's claimed miracle is fake «He isn't the Holy Spirit» remember Jesus being the son of God (no pastor has His status) said you can be forgiven if you blaspheme me.

You take your role as pastor seriously and have a perpetual to - do list.

My experience as a priest — people do take these things very seriously which is precisely why the Pope is writing to pastors and Catholics to help them understand how better to discern.

I offered, at that time, my opinion that if you take Tony's post about Driscoll in the context of all Tony has said about Pastor Mark, it's very clear that Tony does not «reflect the refusal of the church to understand spiritual abuse» as David observed.

One of my hopes is that we would be able to build church communities where we would take care of our pastors» spiritual needs at least as much as we expect them to take care of ours.

While a baptismal service was in progress, he arose to dispute the practice of infant baptism as un-Biblical and proceeded to take each point from the pastor's sermon and to answer it with Baptist views.

«When taking vows as elders at Coral Ridge, each individual commits before God to strive for the purity, peace, and unity of the church,» Coral Ridge stated to CT. «We are saddened that these two elders failed in their vows by withholding this information regarding our former senior pastor, which has since caused many families and churches much harm.»

Each was held in a congregation, was taught by a Candler faculty member and the church's pastor, and took as its subject matter an actual issue or topic in that congregation's life.

Wendy Guarisco also criticized Long for portraying himself as «David,» when his accusers are taking on such a powerful pastor.

This process may take a few years, but the end result is worth the liberty and freedom that both the church and the pastor experience as a result.

As I listened to the pastor recite the beautiful words with which he asked me if I would «take this man to be my beloved husband,» I realized something.

Which takes me back to my conversation with the pastor who clearly did not see «my people» nor «our struggles» as something he was either empathetic toward, or felt responsibility to help resolve,.

Elder / Pastor / Overseer as laid out in 1 Timothy and 1 Peter lay it out what a responsibility it is, not to be taken lightly, not under compulsion either.

He took a strong line on bishops, emphasising their role as pastors rather than that of princes of the Church.

Even if, as a pastor, you will probably get kicked out of your church and have your livelihood taken away.

The pastor took scripture literally, as was his belief.

I did not provide the context because it wasn't important to me; what was important is that the church pastor and wife took no action and were accomplices in the cover - up, just as the Catholic church had done for so many years.

Many years a go the Lord spoke to me as a pastor not to take money for preaching His Gospel, I did not understand but I obeyed.

As a member of Rothesay Vineyard where David pastors, I take the above blog entry as an «even so» posAs a member of Rothesay Vineyard where David pastors, I take the above blog entry as an «even so» posas an «even so» post.

Taking a salary as a pastor is a choice, and deciding to not take a salary is also a choice.

He took a job as maintenance man at Pastor Joseph's church and a year later the Taylors secured a scholarship for Innocent to study on a university course of his choice.

A month later, the church pleaded with me to begin taking a salary (much less than what I was making at my job) to be able to pastor as I should.

Except... that now, American pastors show off their tattoos and talk openly about getting one more... and we accept them as totally cool... we say «live and let live»... and we move on to more important topics, like how best to take food to the homeless.

Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor in a New York slum, urged the church to take «social sins» as seriously as they took individual vices.

CNN: My Take: Obama's Newtown remarks show presidents as pastors in chief Stephen Prothero, an author and Boston University religion scholar, says President Barack Obama was «a pastor among pastors» as he recited scripture and inspirational quotes to comfort the people of Newtown at Sunday's interfaith memorial service.

If he doesn't teach or preach any of then, then maybe I am wrong; he has no mission / vision and I should take him at his word, but then he won't be a Christian pastor — at least as discribed in Eph.

So, for example, if your hear a pastor saying, «You have to take up your cross daily and follow Jesus in order to go to heaven when you die,» you can look in the text he is preaching from (maybe Matthew 16:24 - 26 or Luke 9:23 - 26), and see that Jesus is talking about saving your life (which is NOT the same thing as receiving eternal life) by living in a profitable way here on earth (cf. Luke 9:24 - 25).

Later, as a pastor himself, Joe balks at the taking of a tasteless publicity photo of his rectory, insisted on by his bishop.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

Set parallel in time, place and theme to Gilead, her prizewinning novel of 2004, Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Home, takes the reader inside the home of retired Presbyterian pastor Robert Boughton for another perspective on Jack Boughton, the black sheep of the family, who left Gilead as a young man after fathering a child.

Then one day, a pastor took the stage at my church and shared a story I'd heard zillions of times, but was about to hear again as if for the first time.

They took as their main inspiration and guide the prison writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the dissident pastor and theologian executed by the Nazi regime in April 1945.

Over the last few years, famed pastor and author John Piper has taken an interest in racial injustice as part of his overall Gospel message.

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Sitting next to a soot - covered survivor on a bench who was screaming hysterically as bodies rained from the sky, a pastor's wife (who had just escaped from Tower One) takes her hand and quotes Romans 8: «Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.»

Pastor Sharon Huey talks of Grace's catechumenate as preparation for taking something like a «vow of insignificance.»

I sometimes wish that rather than resign, I had simply taken a secular job in the community and remained on as pastor without taking a salary.