Sentences with phrase «deacon who»

This is an actual resume example of a Deacon who works in the Legal Assistants Industry.

In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.

I know the mom of Baby Deacon who tragically passed away and your information is completely WRONG!!

With my elders» permission, I spoke with two of our deacons who demonstrated the gift of compassion.

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.

(Permanent deacons are men ordained into the sacramental ministry of the Church and are to be distinguished from «transitional» deacons who are seminarians on their way to priesthood.)

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.

The Council of Elvira (306, canon 77) regulates deacons who are improperly governing the faithful in certain localities without direct episcopal supervision and without priests.

Not exact matches

Bill Deacon, Chad, Logic and just a couple of religious individuals who are responding on this and other religious blogs.

Then instead of attacking all Catholics in all of the ranting, attack the men who have committed these crimes, the boy scout leaders, teachers, coaches, next door neighbors as well as the priests, pastors and deacons of whatever church they are part of.

I learned it from Phoebe, a deacon, who may have been the first to read and explain the book of Romans.

To think that my patient, kind, and tender father who loves God and people more than anyone I know, served as a supportive deacon to these scumbags, and began to question his own observations when they put their spin on the situations... SICKENS ME.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

Certainly Coll tries to demonstrate the relevance of these passages, but in a book that is over 400 pages long, and for those who are interested in the subject matter of the book, namely women deacons, this proves is a considerable distraction.

I was the victim of an adulterous husband who was a deacon, adult Bible teacher, usher, and very visible man - about - church.

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.»

Joe and Jane (who are not Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they brag about drinking alcohol and having sex), go straight to hell, where they are told by Satan (played by one of the church deacons) that they are destined to spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

1 Timothy 3:5 means: «Of one wife»... The meaning is not that every bishop should have a wife (for St. Paul himself had none), but that no one should be admitted to the holy orders of bishop, priest, or deacon, who had been married more than once.

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.

But while Tanya is a church deacon and a board member at the new Kentucky Baptist Seminary in Lexington, Berry's relationship to the church may be more like that of his fictional character Jayber Crow, who attends church but sits in the back pew.

The deacons discuss who recieves the assistence, and provide it, without the recipient being any the wiser.

He refers to himself as a prisoner, as a minister, a deacon, someone who runs through the dust, and he refers to himself as the least of all the saints.

The burden of proof seems to lie with those who argue that deaconesses belonged to the same order as deacons.

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?»

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

I presented the idea to the deacons, who agreed.

My dad was an IFB church pastor who was screwed over royally by the deacons in the last IFB church he pastored.

With the group there is a distinction between those members who will engage in religious activity from personal choice or in deference to tradition such as converts and parishioners of a local congregation, and those who are actively religious — temporarily or consistently — such as lay - deacons or the participants in a procession.

@Bill Deacon My father left the seminary in the»60s because he found their intolerance to be hypocritical of those who purport to be Christian.

Listen to the apostle's words (in chapter 16 of Romans): «I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae... greet Prisca and Aquila, who work with me in Christ Jesus... greet Mary, who has worked very hard among you.

It is inconceivable to me that Paul can be quoted by modern male chauvinists as the biblical authority for excluding women from accepting God's call to serve others in the name of Christ, when Paul himself encouraged and congratulated inspired women who were prominent — to use his own descriptions — as deacons, apostles, ministers and saints.

As the Jerusalem community grew, special deacons (Greek Diakonos = servant) were appointed for the day to day work of charity, and elders (= Greek Presbyteroi) are mentioned (Acts 11:30, 15:2) who probably corresponded to the elders of the normal Jewish synagogue (cf. Lk.

While Mary may have never been called an apostle, there was an apostle Junia (Rom 16:7 — the «of note among the apostles» that the ESV and other masculinist translations try to pigeonhole this into is a modern invention, not at all supported by biblical Greek; it was only even created when the masculinists finally had to admit that there was no manuscript evidence for transforming the name into «Junias», a masculine form), and there certainly was a Priscilla who «instructed Apollos» (Acts 18) and who was lauded by Paul as a «fellow worker» (Rom 16:3), as were numerous other women, such as Phoebe the deacon (Rom 16:1).

We may arrange «a group of professing believers in Jesus who have been baptized and have organized themselves under the leadership of elders and deacons for the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission; for conducting the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper; for building up of the Body through the worship of God, the fellowship of believers, the teaching of the Word, and the exercise of spiritual gifts» and still not be receiving the presence of Christ.

This very dignified chairman of the deacons, a retired, successful businessman would sit down with this kid who no one else would invest in.

He gave orders that «in each bishopric and in each monastery let the psalms, the notes, the chant, calculation and grammar be taught and carefully corrected books be available».6 He also set up a school at his palace at Aachen and imported talent from different parts of Europe, including Alcuin (c.735 - 804), who had been master of the school at York, and the grammarian Paul the Deacon (c.120 - c. 800) from Italy.

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.

There Theophilus, who was a deacon in the church preached the Gospel.

I am a new Pastor, who has been a deacon, youth Pastor, Church administrator.

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

However my journey has been one that began in a home where I was abused by my father who preached «the gospel» and served as a Deacon in the church.

Secondly the Pastor and Deacon «Office» are distinguished by Scripture very clearly by those who follow God's Word.

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a DEACON in the church in Cenchrea.

~ Romans 16:7 (Junia was a woman and an apostle) I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a DEACON in the church in Cenchrea.

In the fourth century, St. Athanasius wrote a letter to a certain Marcellinus, who was likely a deacon in the church in Alexandria.

The island has also a church of Persian Christians who have settled there, and a Presbyter who is appointed from Persia and a Deacon and a complete ecclesiastical ritual.

Is there not one intelligent elder or deacon or grandmother or teacher or college student who will speak to him?

And the first deacons were chosen by the body of believers, not by the apostles who appointed them (Acts 6:1 - 6).

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.

Pastors Behnam Irani and Matthias Haghnejad, and Deacon Silas Rabbani, who had earlier had capital charges against them dropped, each received six - year sentences in October.