Sentences with phrase «deacon did»

@Bill Deacon Did you hear that the Irish government is providing recompense for the victims of the Magdalene Asylums?

Secondly, she claims that the diaconate and presbyterate are «quite separate roles»: the diaconate does not involve the duty of governance, and the deacon does not act in the person of Christ, and so does not have to be male.

Deacon does not feel that winning the prize had a huge effect on him (though he accepts that being shortlisted in 1984 gave him a visibility in the US that he hadn't had before).

Not exact matches

I'm sure even some the «believers» don't believe the nonsense Bill deacon and his ilk put out there.

He needs it to be clear that the responses are intended as humor (Bill Deacon apparently gets it... I don't, but to each his own).

I think I asked you this before, do you make your daily bread by hustling the sheepies, you are a deacon after all?

Attach a Christian - sounding description to the bully's behavior (admonishing, instruction, correction and so on), and a Christian title to the bully (pastor, teacher, elder, deacon, «our beloved brother in Christ» or whatever) and suddenly they can almost do no wrong.

They did have times they met (otherwise how could you neglect the assemblies) and leadership defined (with particular roles like deacons and elders).

But then again, I did not go to the same school you went to deacon blues, I am sure they proved god every day in your home school.

@Bill «Still Deluded After All These Years» Deacon: «Let's see, you don't accept Holy Scripture, you don't accept personal accounts, you don't accept the weight of history and you don't accept scientific inquiry.

At Santa Clara Mission, I am often a lector and a eucharistic minister, and if a priest doesn't show up, then I can do a communion service as a deacon.

But of course, we do tax pastors, and music leaders, and the ushers, deacons, and elders.

In Romans 13 Paul calls the empire's officials «ministers [deacons] of God to do his will.»

The truth is, today we have a lot of paid «deacons» — pastors who mainly administrate and don't have time for «prayer and the ministry of the word.»

Starting backwards with Coll's fourth point, that it is what deacons and deaconesses are rather than what they do that is significant for the Church, Coll explains that on the issue of ordination generally, the «ontological» versus «functional» debate continues (p207).

Where there is already confusion in the minds of people — and many lay people do not appreciate that deacons are not co-workers since they do not share in the ministerial priesthood, nor can they confect the Eucharist or administer the Sacrament of Reconciliation or the Sacrament of the Sick — it seems that the introduction of deaconesses may simply add to the confusion.

Every clergyperson — bishop, pastor, minister, elder, and deacon — knows what kinds of concerns reign in church business meetings, and those concerns DO NOT focus on «righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.»

In Paul's epistles to the churches in Homes, who are the preachers, deacons, reverends, where is there a set time to be in church, who is in charge what did they do when they came together, remember there was no book called a bible at the time.

So, when do Deacons tell a pastor what to do, preach or say?

@Bill Deacon, Don't make hasty generalizations, not all atheists are decent people, Evil twin and William Demuth come to mind.

Bill Deacon Actually Mario Puzo, do you deny the mafia connections between the Vatican and the Mafia?

Then, when the board of deacons decides that you really need to raise money to compete with the church across town, you go back to the mission statement and say, «well, gentlemen, just how does that fit with who we are?»

I do not see the priests, deacons or brothers out ministering to the community in the same manner (other than in a sacrimental or ceremonial way).

Atheism don't spread like religions because we don't have books, preachers, Cardinals, Bishops, Deacons, Popes, Imams, Clerics, and the like exhorting us to push our beliefs on everyone else.

@Bill Deacon,»... evolutionary biology can not provide a positive causation for the digital encoding of these strands...» I'm not certain why you use the loaded language or «digital encoding», but evolution does provide a mechanism for changes in the genetic makeup of all organisms.

Women as deacons was an ancient practice and some recent councils have recommended that the practice begin again, but so far there has not been much interest in actually doing so.

Bill Deacon How do you know that God is the good one and not the devil unless you had some innate sense of what «good» was in the first place?

Bill Deacon Lots of atheists support charities that feed children and so do lots of Christians, but Christians also divert a lot of their «charitable» funds towards sending missionaries to convert those children, money that could be put towards actually saving more of them.

In the Pastoral Epistles (Timothy and Titus) it is also asked that a bishop, elder or deacon be «the husband of one wife» — but does not say that is a universal requirement.

By «the Christian church» I do not mean the aggregate of popes, patriarchs, priests, elders, deacons, church buildings, councils and synods, much less any restricted portion of them; I do not mean any so - called denomination or all of the denominations together.

In terms of structure, however, it seems likely that the people who bore various titles in the first century — such as bishop or elder or healer or teacher — were not «officials» holding formal offices, as the bishops, elders, and deacons came to do in the early second century.

Do not be a Christian that relies on Pastors, Deacons, or others to TELL you their interpretation of what the text says.

Some respondents do not care for Sunday greeters who seem too assertive or deacons who would rather count money and gab in the basement than stay with the worshipers at sermon time.

A deacon soon approached him saving «We don't do that here.»

I don't think I would put them to the average layperson in a small group setting, but to a pastor or deacon, a question or two at a time... for the record, I am a high school grad, have had three jobs in my entire life (church custodian, newspaper pasteup [pre-computer pagination], and grocery deli clerk), am on SSDI for complications of Marfan's Syndrome, and a Medicare beneficiary, no secondary insurance because I am about $ 20 over the income limit for Medicaid.

The order of deacons purifies and discerns those who do not carry God's likeness within themselves and it does so before they come to the sacred rites performed by the priests -LSB-...] That is why during the rite of divine birth [baptism] it is the deacons who take away the postulant's old clothes.

I am a member at a Baptist church that has a female senior pastor and many women deacons, and yet I know there is still much work that needs to be done.

«By now I was a deacon: they didn't know what to do with me.

If I didn't go to the meeting, the other deacons would spend too much money on some other type of carpet cleaning.

But I won't ever draw a salary — we'll continue to work day and night because that is what every non-paid deacon and elder has done for years!

A deacon gets multiple DUI's nothing is said nor done, and then some poor smoe gets one and is told not to come back till he learns to behave.

However, it is expected that the proposals will affirm that nominated ministers and deacons could be granted authority to preside over gay weddings provided there are protections for the «conscientious refusal» of clergy who do not wish to officiate them.

It doesn't say much about the status of the bishop or of deacons.

Bill Deacon for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end ------------ What if someone doesn't turn away from God, they have notions of spirituality, pray, etc, but don't follow the same human - crafted traditions you do?

Madtown I do understand that u were onto something with Mr Deacon so pardon my interjection.

Did you see your own fallacy in your arguement Deacon Blues?

However, as a teenager he became disillusioned by what he saw in his own church: a congregation composed of «a young pastor, old deacons, and all women,» a congregation that did not sufficiently support pastors and their families either emotionally or financially.

I'm seeing a lot of «alternatives» to the priest / pastor, elder / deacon, leader, laity pyramid starting up in the last 5 or so years (maybe I didn't see them before because I wasn't looking).

@Bill Deacon «Why do people accuse regular posters of running away when it is obvious that they are simply not continually glued to their computers 24 hours a day?

It has become known to this holy and great council that in localities and cities the deacons distribute the Eucharist to the presbyters, though it is contrary to the canon and the tradition that they who may not themselves offer the sacrifice should distribute the body of Christ to those who do offer the sacrifice.