Sentences with phrase «church leadership seems»

Presently, Episcopal Church leadership seems to be responding to this question by trying to incorporate elements of fundamentalism and evangelical expression, and to embrace charismatics and fundamentalists who have never had currency in Anglicanism [The Christian Century.

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It may be, however, that the opponents of his way of thinking, who seem to have the upper hand in the church leadership, are a step ahead of that complaint.

Finally, perhaps it's not you (maybe it some of your subscribers)-- you seem a bit hostile toward church leadership of any kind, and I have to tell you as your Christian brother that it is hurtful and discouraging.

For a while it seemed that, at least in the ecumenical movement and at leadership levels in a number of churches and denominations, they might carry the day.

Half - way houses, therefore, must be deemed faulty when they approve women ruling men in secular affairs (because Scripture nowhere forbids it and sometimes exemplifies it) but not in the church or home (because Scripture requires male leadership in both), or when they approve women ruling in today's church (because Paul's restriction on this seems to be culturally determined) but not in the family (because biblical teaching on this seems to be transcultural and timeless).

«Concerns for neighborhood safety and desire to express compassion to the under - resourced seem to be the biggest potential draws for the unchurched to get connected to a church,» noted Rick Richardson, professor of evangelism and leadership at Wheaton College and research fellow for the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism.

When it seemed clear that he was expected to give a speech, he stood up and mentioned what we had discussed on our afternoon walk: that this was something of a historical event, the last of the old - style missionaries, and that to him it meant that now the church was 100 per cent on its own for indigenous leadership.

The church leadership recognised that God seemed to have intervened.

The third scenario would seem to be where the two tendencies continue, each on its own path, in a dynamic but notnecessarily destructive tension, with secular rationalists seeking to discredit the motives and actions of the Church leadership in the post-Vatican II era, while those who affirm a hermeneutic of continuity urge that the Good News be understood as primarily concerned with eternal life rather than secular interests.

Another example of this is the way that some teach that women can not take any kind of leadership in the church on the basis of the Greek word authentein in 1 Timothy 2:12, a word which is found nowhere else in the New Testament and is very rare in Greek as a whole, and which never seems to mean simply «have authority» as some people insist it means.

The LDS leadership seem to teach that THEY are the law the church is to live by.

Stephen, if you think the discrimination only starts when people try to engage in «leadership» (which can be very broadly construed, by the the way), I have to wonder if you: a) have any experience with churches b) have any experience with discrimination Because you seem quite idealistic about the first, and naïve about the second.

And so in 2010 we find ourselves with a government statement, supported by a press release quoting the CES director that clearly implies, mistakenly it would seem, that the current position of the leadership of the Church in England and Wales is at odds with Catholic teaching.

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