Sentences with phrase «church as ministry»

On these assumptions the following must now be said if the limits of the influence exerted by the Church as ministry are to be clearly recognized.

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Cho describes Quest as «an urban, multi-ethnic, multigenerational church that is compelled to the ministry of reconciliation».

«Through the ordained ministry, especially that of bishops and priests, the presence of Christ as head of the Church is made visible in the midst of the community of believers.

Efforts ranged from family ministries in individual churches to «parachurch» pastoral groups such as James Dobson's Focus on the Family to national political organizations such as Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority.

Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it, like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.

The group operates a ministry called Indelible Grace Music, which seeks to be a resource to the church by writing original hymns as well as new melodies for traditional hymns (usually simple folk or bluegrass tunes).

But what happens when one of two things occurs: when the LBGT person wants to be in ministry (and therefore their conduct becomes an issue) or they bring their partner along to church and want to be accepted as a couple?

«We have to make the church's ministry our priority and use institution as means to ministry.

I don't think that anyone (here, at least) would say that there's no room for women in * any * ministry in the church, but perhaps that there are certain ministries that women are more equipped for (both «more equipped for as women» and «more equipped for than men»).

Nestled in the picturesque Bavarian Alps, Ettal became a sanctuary for Bonhoeffer as he found himself zwischen den Zeiten — still officially a pastor of the Confessing Church charged with training ordinands for ministry, yet drawn inexorably into a conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

In any event, I was suprised when the church I was attending here in Ontario held a discussion on women in ministry as I sort grew up without the sort of restraints that I later learned were in place in some denominations within Canada and in far more within the US.

The church is now one of only three cathedrals in the world catering to the group known as Syro - Malabar Catholics, believed to come from the disciple Thomas» ministry in India.

Goshen is a small school in northern Indiana that's owned and operated as a ministry of Mennonite Church USA.

Mankowski finds it odd that bishops should accept as self evident that the ministries of the Church, in service to the People of God, should be described as «power structures.»

As for what this priest wrote, he forgets that most Catholic parishes, at least in the USA, depend very heavily on retired men and women to help out with many parish duties, from helping to serve communion at daily Mass to assisting with the front office or helping out with various ministries, so to say seniors have been forgotten by the Church is not true...

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

Affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Jones had a ministry in Indianapolis that was praised as a model of interracial service to the poor.

Thus the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church encompasses ministries in the North American as well as the overseas part of the globe.

As soon as God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministrAs soon as God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministras God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministras a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministry.

The ministry of the church will become more inclusive as adoptive families are understood and fully incorporated and as the worshiping community realizes its own adoption.

This time, he carried in his heart «the whole Church, or rather, the whole of humanity» — just as he continues to do today in his newfound ministry.

During this year's convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Blair, an NAE member, launched a group called Evangelicals Concerned, which is described as «an educational task force for ministry with homosexuals and their families and churches.»

While popular in the black church, it is not a solely black phenomenon, as seen in the ministry of Osteen, a best - selling author and megapastor at Lakewood Church in Hochurch, it is not a solely black phenomenon, as seen in the ministry of Osteen, a best - selling author and megapastor at Lakewood Church in HoChurch in Houston.

The pastor or another staff person always attends, as well as several additional friendly, positive people from the church who share some interests with the new people and who also are involved with ministries in the church that might interest the new people.

They engage, as they always have, in works of mercy and compassion, and they are increasingly willing to engage, along with partner churches, in ministries of social change as well.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

It is true that the miracles of healing that Jesus performed during his earthly ministry do not seem to happen as often in the Church today, although they are by no means unheard of.

Filled with beauty, hard truth, and brave vulnerability, Jesus Feminist urges the church to stop asking «man or woman» as a qualification for ministry and to start helping everyone find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ.

As a result, you may struggle to believe that you are good or worthy enough to lead your church or ministry.

So the presence and ministry of Christ as God on earth extends and continues as a fact of history in the life of Church.

John Paul II explained that this was to be seen as a gesture in recognition of the spiritual value of their previous ministry in the separated churches The conditions involved keeping the actual office of Parish Priest for celibate clergy.

As Lynne (wife) and I have watched this, it has been extremely painful for us to see this controversy continue to be a distraction that is hindering our Elders and church staff, as well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquAs Lynne (wife) and I have watched this, it has been extremely painful for us to see this controversy continue to be a distraction that is hindering our Elders and church staff, as well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquas well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquas the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.»

I believe that is what we are uncovering as we see the inner workings of this «authoritarian christian industrial complex» of key individuals, families, churches, ministries, agencies, publishers, conferences, seminaries, denominations, movements.

Just as the Church fills up in the bodies of her members the sufferings of Christ, so also the consolations of the Lord overflow to others through her as she fills out the full measure of the healing love of Christ by her sacramental ministry (cf. Col 1,24).

For 17 years, after a mid-life call to ministry, she answered to Pastor Diana in two churches where she served as Associate Pastor.

If, as was maintained in the «60s, the church is mission, then the overarching image for the total ministry must be more assertive.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

The theology behind such «incarnational ministry» is regarded as sound by the Church of England, and my CNN boss has her own take on it, too.

According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).

Jes Kast - Keat serves as Associate Minister at West End Collegiate Church in NYC (Reformed Church in America), and is an all - around delightful human being who brings humor, sass, and wisdom to her ministry and to her friendships.

As Bishop Eddie Long poked through a salad in his church office one summer day in 1999, he shot a weary look at a person ticking off his ministry's successes.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

The ministry of the church encompasses a variety of things such as worship, preaching, teaching, administering programs, and prophetic witness.

As relations between the American and Russian governments deteriorate amid disputes on Ukraine and other issues, eight Russian church leaders visited Christian ministries and government offices this week on a «peace and understanding» mission.

If this is true, it is a most convincing answer to those who feared, as well as those who hoped, that AA would render the church's ministry to alcoholics unnecessary.

Certainly, Jesus changed some of the Kingdom expectations through His life, teaching, and ministry, especially in the areas of what sort of Messiah King He was going to be, and how the Kingdom of God would exist and function upon the earth, but the overall hopes and dreams of Israel, especially as presented within the Prophets, remained intact through the teachings and ministry of John, Jesus, and the Early Church.

The life and ministry cluster includes many of the miracle accounts, those prophecies and messianic claims which were quite apparently inserted by the early Church, and any claims as to the perfection or total sinlessness of Jesus as an individual.

The layman who is co-leader also serves as «coordinator of group ministries» for this church.

A proper understanding of the context reveals that pastors can not use this verse to encourage greater generosity in tithing, but instead, the pastor should give sacrificially from his own income to help the poor and needy in the church, as well as those who partner with him in the ministry.

The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.