Sentences with phrase «church as a servant»

McCormick discusses areas in which his thoughts have shifted: The nature of the church; the church as the people of God; the church as servant; the church as collegial; the church as ecumenical; the ecclesiological nature of the church; importance of lay witness; the teaching competence of the episcopal and papal branch; the church and moral truth; the place of dissent; birth regulation; ecclesial honesty; the dynamic nature of faith.

Third, the church as servant.

However, when we begin to understand the Church as a servant of the Kingdom, and salvation as effective growth as God's children in freedom and love, into the likeness of the Christ, then there is a relativization of all rites, including baptism.

Hence, the challenge today to the followers of Jesus, to the Church as the Servant of the Kingdom, is not to form an exclusive sociological entity but to be a movement, which empowers the powerless and which is open to all with a similar vision.

Not exact matches

This book is a collection of essays and talks presented by Greenleaf as he attempts to apply servant - leadership to the fields of education, business, foundations, churches and government.

This was the assumed function of theology as a servant of the church.

Rather than treating church polity as secondary, Jesus insists on the reverse: first live as servants of one another and then you will know what to say and do as my disciples.

This is the terrifying Spirit of Vatican I that really sees the Church as the Pope's personal fiefdom and him as its master rather than its servant.»

The servant model doesn't set as a priority requiring others to come help the church / leadership / pastor fulfill their mission.

Mental health should be seen as a central concern for the servant church in the last third of the twentieth century.

Pathil says, that the vision of the church as «the herald and servant of the Kingdom of God» would be a much more appealing model, since it contains a two-fold relativisation of church, one in the suffering servant relation to the world and the other in its relation to the Kingdom to come.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

Will we tolerate servant leaders who are image - breakers as well as image - makers, ridding our denominational system of images that are coarsening and corrupting the church's soul?

In the late eighties the Indian Theological Association explored the pattern of the church in a secular mode as herald of the Kingdom and servant of the world in a pluralist society like India.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

I have learned that when I approach my church and the kingdom of God as servant, truly desiring nothing more than to see the Lord encounter His people and set them free, I am often privileged with the opportunities to be a chosen vessel.

That is why I indicated at the beginning that there is danger that our freedom to speak in radical ways as paid servants of the church may not last.

Servant King started as an evangelical effort to live out scripture's vision of the church.

Members have worked hard to avoid any sense of competition over righteousness, both as individuals and in comparing Servant King to the wider church.

Paul explained to the Philippian church that all believers should have the same attitude as that of Christ, who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant.

The first letter of Peter was written to a suffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the Suffering Servant.

The apostolic church, in reflecting on Jesus the Messiah, the Suffering Servant, the Victor, came to understand him preeminently as the Peacemaker between God and humanity and between the divisions within humanity.

He does not understand himself as a maverick but as a faithful servant of the Church attending to its task of thinking.

Of the pope, Frieling said, «My dream is of a servant of unity who, perhaps as president of a council, recognizes a reconciled diversity of the churches, who promotes dialogue and reconciliation rather than giving audiences and reaching final decisions.

.15 He says that the Church is an event; it is where the people of God are taking servant shape around the needs and hopes of the world - as servants of Christ and therefore servants of humanity.

«The House of God is not the Church but the world, wherein the Church dwells and labors as its servant».14

One is forced to recognize that the early church, out of its own experience and faith, created its own christological pattern, using elements from both of these conceptions and from other sources also; as, for example, from the Suffering Servant passages of Isaiah.

Jesus continues to strengthen and sanctify his Church through his servants, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, «effected so as to achieve a proportion appropriate to sacred objectives and so as to bring all theelements together in order into a cohesive and harmonious communion.»

As churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathAs churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those pathas men to guide congregations along those paths.

But most local churches, as total congregations, have hardly scratched the surface of their potential opportunity to be the «servant church» in the area of alcoholism.

That is simply why I have chose to do church at home and make my church for the homeless and walk as JESUS walked by being a servant to HIM and not to man

We accepted our board's requirement that we would work in Argentina as willing servants under national leadership and as supporters of the national church's own mission goals.

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

Well, yes, but that rather misses the whole point at issue, which is that the ban on contraception has created a crisis of conscience among Catholics who on every other point of faith and morality are obedient servants of the Church but who, as I put it, «find themselves unable to conform their beliefs or practices to Humanae Vitae.»

I am not a pastor or in any position of leadership within the church but as a full time civil servant I would get the sack if I did not do my job competently or I have the option to leave if I become disillusioned with the job.

Leaders in the church, servant in the church, teachers in the church, do you look with disdain on those who do not do what you do, or who do not know as much as you know?

What it does do is to allow latent identities and identifications with the church to emerge freely, and to provide an occasion to recapture and reconfirm one's identity as a servant of Jesus Christ.

Space, as in church architecture, is the servant of the message.

They may be called the dogmatic and the pragmatic; or the a priori and the empirical; or the theological and the sociological; or, as one speaker defined them, a dogmatism which makes an absolute separation between the world and God and refuses to let the church be held responsible for anything that happens in the world, and a «pseudo-religious activism» which would make the church the servant of every benevolent or reforming impulse.

Unfortunately you do not understand the whole story because those who claim to represent god in our churches are evil men acting as gods servants.

The church for others must participate in the human life of the community, not as a master, but as a servant.

I'll not judge another's servant, but as someone who loves the Church, I am concerned that the biblical norm and model not be abandoned.

Even broader than the vocation of the priests who serve the underprivileged is that of those who have been led to share in movements for social reform, F. D. Maurice's Christian Socialism grew directly out of his theology and his view of the Church as the Kingdom of Christ and the priest as its servant.

Thus the Vestries in America soon gained effective control of the spirituals as well as the temporals of the churches, largely through assuming power to hire and set the salary of the clergyman, plus a studied neglect of presenting him to the Governor for permanent induction into the «living» until forced to do so.14 «In 1697 the Arch - bishop of Canterbury expressed surprise that the clergymen might «be removed like domestic servants by a vote of the Vestry,»»15 but obviously neither he nor anyone could do anything about it.

Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament apostles.»

The President affirmed that the exemplary leadership provided by the servant of God has resulted in an exponential growth of the church, which directly translates into development of infrastructure, building of educational and health institutions, as well as vocational centres that have created a means of livelihood for many Nigerians.

A citation from the Superintendent of the New York Ministers Network of the Assemblies of God Church, Dr. Duane Durst, recognized President Mahama for his exemplary achievements in presidential office, acknowledging «the great achievements in the nation of Ghana and West Africa due to his commitment as a servant - leader to build a just, prosperous and technologically developed nation for the people of Ghana.»

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The third photo shows Ewan McGregor as Carlo Ventresca, the faithful servant to the church during the papal conclave in Vatican City.

Children, specifically boys, were taken into the monasteries and lectured by monks in a system of instruction that demanded children display obedience, faith, and as conduct themselves as competent servants of the church.