Sentences with phrase «church of the servant»

Some are churches, like Church of the Servant King and Church of the Sojourners.

Something of a different animal from Reba is the Church of the Servant King in Eugene, Oregon.

Among them are liberal and conservative Roman Catholics, some Southern Baptists, some evangelicals, some Presbyterians, some Mennonites, some Calvinists, some Episcopalians, some Lutherans (not many), some from the Church of the Servant King (Gardenia, California), some liberal Protestants, some feminists and some liberationists.

The Church of the Servant King in Eugene, Oregon, has a rule that no one in its membership will be in need.

Not exact matches

This book laid the foundation of «servant leadership» that has had a major influence on the church but in many ways I found the book condescending and patronizing rather than empowering.

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 book laid the foundation of «servant leadership» that has had a major influence on the church but in many ways I found the book condescen

Justin Welby said: «In the death of Michael Scott - Joynt the Church of England has lost a faithful, hardworking and distinguished servant.»

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

«Michael was a true servant for the Church of England at home and for the wider Anglican Communion abroad, particularly in Africa.

Elizabeth Chyrum, Director of Human Rights Concern - Eritrea (HRC - E) said: «It is an insult that the legitimate patriarch of the Orthodox Church is confined to the servants» quarters in the same compound where two junior bishops live in a villa.

Approval ratings remain high for the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God, according to Pew:

Rt Rev Dr Derek Browning, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said: «We mark his passing with respect, and join with others in confidence in say, «Well done, good and faithful servant.»»

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

Husbands were told to love their wives the way Christ loved the church when He gave Himself up for her — gave up His power and position to come down to the level of a servant — so that He could raise the church up to His holiness.

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.

Premier Christianity magazine is a vital servant of the church in the UK.

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.»

I am of the mindset that if the institutional church is to exist it should follow a servant model.

All the servants of Christ in the new Testament were trained for their service in the context of the local church.

However, Dei Verbum seems to come closer to Cardinal Newman's understanding of the development of doctrine when it emphasizes that the teaching office of the Church is the servant of the word of God.

His fear is that the church, having now won a certain reputation and role in society, may fall to the temptation to become a master rather than a servant of society (Linn 1991).

Several of our commentators agree that it is in the church that this servant role is to be exercised.»

We think you can be a feminist or you can be like Jesus, you can be a feminist or you can be in a happy visions - of - Christ - and - the - Church marriage, you can be a feminist or you can be a mother, you can be a feminist or you can be mutually submissive, you can be a feminist or you can be servant - hearted, you can be a feminist or you can be a Jesus - follower committed to the whole last - shall - be-first, least - shall - be-greatest thing.

Thus, church and society are the chief areas of Christian concern; politics and political economics are, and must be, their servants, else they will follow Mammon entirely, trailing along, often generations behind; only appearing to be innovators., That is why the church can and must speak about «social salvation,» and do so wisely.

Having the heart of a servant is important when you're a church camp leader.

Of all the pastors I know (and I know many), almost all of them are genuine servants of the church and not even â $ œsubconsciouslyâ $ hungry for poweOf all the pastors I know (and I know many), almost all of them are genuine servants of the church and not even â $ œsubconsciouslyâ $ hungry for poweof them are genuine servants of the church and not even â $ œsubconsciouslyâ $ hungry for poweof the church and not even â $ œsubconsciouslyâ $ hungry for power.

If this parable takes place after the rapture of the church, during the tribulation, it is hard to see how Christ can condemn the sentiment of this evil servant.

We have a minister (servant), a youth pastor (shepherd), and an assistant pastor (that's me — I particularly like the «assistant» bit — I'm there to assist everyone, not just the minister) and a team of about a dozen elders (most of whom are far from elderly) who are responsible for different aspects of the life of the church and meet monthly.

Those whom we call professional exegetes are then servants of the church who are to help people read Scripture in the light of their own questions not in the light of problems scholars (or their German teachers!)

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

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.

Without this center there will not be much life in the rest of the church, however much integrity we ascribe to ourselves against the servants of success.

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.

He adds that the sign character and servant role of the church demand that in the face of the oppressive situation of the people, the church must «organize itself into peoples» movement for liberation» cutting across the boundaries of religion, caste and culture; and here transparency of the church requires that we have to conceive of an open church with flexible structures, boundaries, rules and rituals making Christian identity vulnerable.

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.

Stephen B. Clark, Man and Woman in Christ (Ann Arbor: Servant, 1980); James B. Hurley, Man and Woman in Biblical Perspective (Leicester) InterVarsity Press; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1981); George W Knight III, The New Testament Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977); Fritz Zerbst, The Office of Woman in the Church (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1955); Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark), III 1, pp. 288 - 329, section 41 (1958); III 2, pp. 285 - 316, section 45 (1960); III 4, pp. 116 - 240, section 54 (1961).

Will the Korean churches be willing to place their financial resources in a common pool to which all may have access, so that you may indeed be free to follow in the foot steps of the Suffering Servant, Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour?

In words that are even more true today than when they were written 88 years ago, the editor declared that «it is not primarily members of the visible Church that are to be sought, but true disciples of CHRIST and servants of the most high God.»

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.

These and other less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its sechurch, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its seChurch, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its seChurch is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.

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.

In the decisive confessional statement of the early church, Chrsit the Servant is dramatically presented:

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.

How can you compare the simple, humble, servant (Matthew 10:28) to the arrogant, worshiped, enriched mega church pastors of today?

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