Sentences with phrase «congregational pastors»

One group of Congregational pastors produced a Testimony opposing the revivals and deploring their results.

The need to stop being a congregational pastor may reflect that you made a bad decision in the first place — or it may simply mean that your decision was right for that time, and now a new decision is needed for this time.

One of the Social Gospel's most influential leaders was Washington Gladden (1836 - 1918), who for thirty - six years was a Congregational pastor in Columbus, Ohio.

Experience: Counseling and Psychotherapy with Individuals, Couples and Families Pastoral Counseling Congregational Pastor Social Work and Counseling in Community Mental Health settings

Not exact matches

I'm sure most people know this, but in case it helps someone: Denominations that always accept female pastors include PC (USA), that is Presbyterian Church, USA, most African American denominations (note that all pastors mentioned in the original article were African Americans), United Methodist, Foursquare, at least some Vineyards if not all, Congregational, Disciples of Christ, Lutheran and Episcopalian churches.

I worked in a small church in Kansas once, and after about 3 months I figured out that all the real major decisions, including if the pastor got paid that week, were not made by the elders, the board or congregational vote.

Although they say they do not intend for the minister to dictate his aims for the church, the thrust of Leading Congregational Change is that the pastor or transformational leader brings a vision that must be promoted, first to a chosen group of disciples, then to a «vision community,» and then — only when fully developed and plotted out — to the congregation.

Martin B. Copenhaver is a pastor at Wellesley Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

A score of writers have noted the potentially perverted uses of «paternalistic» styles of ministry and pastoral care — the fostering of a congregation's childlike dependence on the pastor, the turning of ministry into pastoral self - gratification at the expense of congregational freedom and maturity.

The bi-vocational pastorate may serve as a better model for congregational mission than the «two - point parish model» by which one pastor serves two congregations.

In preparation for a lecture on «Electronic Communications in the Parish: Year 2000» at an Ohio University conference on technological communication and the churches, Parker Rossman sought out Gabe Campbell, pastor of First Congregational Church in Stamford, Connecticut, as one involved in the use of new technology.

A strong congregation and an imaginative pastor shaped a vital, effective congregational ministry.

But there seems to be an increasingly widespread sense that we do not have enough good pastors to sustain congregational ministries at high levels.

Pastors who best fulfill congregational desires for a family chaplain will be least able to grow spiritually through participation in their own families.

One such outstanding preacher was Washington Gladden, pastor of a number of important Congregational churches, the most famous of which was his pastorate in the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio.

Bushnell, pastor of Hartford's Congregational North....

My favorite is The Equipping Pastor: A Systems Approach to Congregational Leadership, by R. Paul Stevens and Phil Collins (Alban Institute), because it dearly recognizes the complexity and uniqueness of individual parishes.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

Or the pastor, following a course similar to the one I propose, might ponder whether the Communion, the music dispute, and the plumbing repair were themselves interlocked in some more complex congregational configuration whose whole reflects the plight and promise of other communities throughout the world.

After earning her Master of Arts in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2000, Crystal went on to become the Senior Pastor at Shema Congregation, a Messianic Church of the Nazarene congregational plant that strives to understand and embrace the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith.

Congregations with no clear congregational identity have been led by pastors who do not have an explicit, clear focus in their ministry.

Steinfels notes that the Protestants studied are in «a church that ordains married men and women; does not condemn contraception, abortion, or remarriage after divorce; is inclusive in its criteria for membership; prides itself on affirming American values; and emphasizes democratic decision making and the laity's right to participate in congregational spending, selecting pastors, and determining official church positions.

A pastor who feels compelled to attend every congregational event is acting like a parent who does not trust the children.

Pastors could address some of these matters in sermons or congregational studies.

Congregational polity, basically, but there are a couple of layers of support and accountability above the local church, which I think is a good idea (having come from a long succession of independent churches where the buck stops with the senior pastor).

My question at a congregational meeting where we were to vote on acquiring property and debt (after the pastor had told us that God had told him we should do so) «If God told you we should be doing this, wouldn't He also tell some of us?»

The clearest pattern is one that pastors and congregational leaders have recognized for years: achieving change depends on trying to change.

Theologically conservative *, Crystal is Senior Pastor at Shema Congregation, a Messianic Church of the Nazarene congregational plant that strives to understand and embrace the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith.

Conscientious, responsible pastors must do everything possible — careful planning, sensitive counseling, congregational guidelines — to make the wedding the worship service that it ought to be.

Pastors can strengthen the links between theological conviction and congregational health and vitality

Today, Smith pastors the First Congregational Church in Reno, Nevada, part of the United Church of Christ.

The Rev. Dwight Lee Wolter, pastor at The Congregational Church of Patchogue, came to hear Trump at LaValle's invitation.