Sentences with phrase «just as the ministry»

Just as the ministry of all Christians was rediscovered as an important New Testament motif at the time of the Protestant Reformation, the Bible can always speak some new, liberating word to the need of the people of God.

Not exact matches

At one point, the province was left with just one geotechnical engineer and emails released through freedom of information requests showed that staff within the environment ministry had raised warnings that low staffing levels were leading to increased risks, citing tailings pond inspections as a particular area of concern.

Paul was not concerned with them being slave or not, that wasn't his ministry — just as Jesus didn't deal with it.

I just can't see a priesthood / ministry as we have currently modelled in the NT... only a priesthood of believers.

«Just as any parent enjoys watching their kids have fun, God delights in watching His children enjoy what money can buy,» Brown writes on the website for his ministry.

This time, he carried in his heart «the whole Church, or rather, the whole of humanity» — just as he continues to do today in his newfound ministry.

As Jesus faced trial, and as the disciples began to fear that Jesus was just another man and their ministry with him just a waste of time, the Gospel reports that Peter «followed Him at a distance.&raquAs Jesus faced trial, and as the disciples began to fear that Jesus was just another man and their ministry with him just a waste of time, the Gospel reports that Peter «followed Him at a distance.&raquas the disciples began to fear that Jesus was just another man and their ministry with him just a waste of time, the Gospel reports that Peter «followed Him at a distance.»

Just as the Church fills up in the bodies of her members the sufferings of Christ, so also the consolations of the Lord overflow to others through her as she fills out the full measure of the healing love of Christ by her sacramental ministry (cf. Col 1,24).

The sense that the kingdom was at hand and that a new age was dawning gives coherence to Jesus» ministry, but such a belief would have been controversial, just as a generation ago many white South Africans could not see how the apartheid regime could ever be changed.

You are not just stating what you believe but also providing care as men and women step away from vocational ministry.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's mystical experience.

This has caused a massive financial cricis as we have no one actually managing the money, everyone thinks their ministry is the most important and because there is no forward thinking, there are no warning signs to not just keep spending.

Educators, counselors, preachers and liturgists must always and everywhere, time and time again, re-establish the critical theological grounds of their ministries just as they must, time and time again, listen to and re-establish a theological interpretation of the situations which they address.

Well, just as you think I am not reading certain OT texts at face value, I think you are ignoring much of what these NT texts are saying, and not just these passages, but the whole tenor and focus of the ministry of Jesus.

To make matters worse, the average congregation is more worried about overpaying the staff than underpaying them which leads to the church being crippled spiritually by pastoral changes as the pastor moves to a better deal or leaves the ministry or works multiple jobs just to support his family.

What such ministry might just possibly accomplish in specific cases could be as significant as the technical help that is also needed.

But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned) than when we're all clumped together in one big congregation.

With a healing ministry, just like the lepers Jesus healed, a lot of them take their healing and go home... back to business as usual.

In the long run, however, science and medicine will properly be in charge of much of this work, and ministry will have to be conducted through staff cooperation just as in relation to physical and mental illness, alcoholism, and other health problems.

Just as any minister needs to realize in a new degree that the ministry he is to get done is to be done largely through other people and in consultation with them, so the ministers in multiple - staff situations need to go even a step further — and realize that the principle applies first among themselves and also to their lay co-workers.

Calvin, Institutes, I.vii.5: «Enlightened by him (the Spirit), no longer do we believe that Scripture is from God on the basis of either our judgment or that of others; but, in a way that surpasses human judgment, we are made absolutely certain, just as if we beheld there the majesty (numen) of God himself, that it has come to us by the ministry of men from God's very mouth....

No wonder the atheist movement is growing... all of the scandals over let's say just the last 30 years... from all the child molesting that is rampant to mega church ministries and their ministers personal wealth and property... (why don't they live modestly and give all their money to those in need as they preach).

Other truth is, I've worked for these organizations, and lets just say there is sometimes creativity as to what business practices constitutes the stated purpose of the ministry.

«Therefore, illumined by his [the Spirit's] power, we believe neither by our own nor by anyone else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.

So, a minister in that position can never make even one mistake whilst others who are «in» will have their mistakes brushed aside as being just normal in ministry.

However, as the church, we are the Body of Christ, and just as He suffered as He went about His ministry, so also we will suffer as we follow the ways of Jesus in this world (John 15:19 - 20).

Wallace never dreamed that at age 24 he would lead the largest para-church ministry on the same college campus where he walked as a student just two years earlier.

However, just because a doctrinal statement can be used to restrict who is placed in a position of leadership in a church or ministry, I strongly discourage the use of doctrinal statements as a means of restricting who can attend or participate with the church or ministry in its services and functions.

Did Peter see Jesus just as he had known him during his earthly ministry or did he see a glorified Jesus?

If I may just quickly offer a little, hopefully constructive, criticism: In reading through the bridging the gap materials on your main website (before I dug a little deeper and became a little concerned by the Exodus connection and the other two websites still run by your ministry which I am unable to describe as anything other than ex-gay, hence my deeming it Exodus - lite) I could not shake the very strong us - them mentality that seemed to permeate everything.

If the point of your ministry is to «restore» me, then just say it loud and clear... don't put it as the last bullet on your missional statement (or was the last bullet where BTG will engage gays but still «walk in truth»?

Just as Jesus came to destroy the devil's work, to become sin for us, and to reveal God to us through His entire life and ministry and especially on the cross, then this also is what God was doing in the Old Testament.

Important as they are, discussions of the ministry of the laity, the total people of God, are not substitutes for asking, if the minister is a servant, just what his unique service (and not privilege or status) is to be, and what competence does he have to carry it out.

When the repentant sinner is a priest, however, it is a separate, prudential question whether he should be allowed to continue in ministry, just as it is a prudential question whether a good man seeking ordination ought to be ordained in the first place.

Also, a criminal breach of trust — which is the nature of the offense — warrants removal from ministry just as it does in the professions of law and medicine.

I have christian friends from other churchs and there women do these things and they do it because that is how they interpret the word.Its optional and not inforced by the church or by there husbands.They do it as an act of worship to the Lord.The point is how you interpret the word that was what i was getting at as we know the word is the inspired word of God to understand it we need the inspiration of the holy spirit otherwise the word is dead and brings no life.In the case of mother etta she was called to preach and God used her as an evengelist in her day her ministry grew she witnessed to thousands she healed the sick and saved the lost you can argue over a point but the proof is there that God uses women just as he uses men in ministry today.

Gays should be supported and welcomed in churches like everyone else but they are not to be in ministry just as anyone else who is in sin.

Just come and see, and we can comprehend the life and ministry of Jesus as the very center of our own faith.

Fisher quotes David Tracy: «To affirm the belief in Jesus Christ is... to affirm the faith that in the ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus the decisive token, manifestation, prolepsis of the future reign of God (and, thereby, Messianic time) is already here in a proleptic form and, just as really, not yet here.»

While receiving a master's at Harvard Divinity School, however, a professor advised him to just treat his business as ministry.

Niebuhr contends that, according to the newly emerging picture of the ministry, just as «institutional authority was central in the priest's office and Scriptural in the preacher's so communal authority becomes of greatest importance to the pastoral director».

Today, remembering the chaplains of the past, praying for the chaplains of the present, and anticipating the chaplains of the future, we gratefully acknowledge a ministry that has extended and today extends, just as Jesus said, «to the ends of the earth.»

However, it seems that a lot of people want to dismiss just this «word and sacrament» ministry, as useless, just the thing that specifically defines the church.

I just left a church where as a leader I was undermined by those who had an ownership mentality of the church and weren't open to other ways of leading the ministry if didn't measure up to how they felt it should be run.

Just as in the opening verses of Mark the beginning of Jesus» ministry is linked to the work of John the Baptist, so here, John's death foreshadows Jesus» death.

And what's more, it looks to me as though the Christian Religion lifted out of this mental atmosphere becomes a fish out of water, and rationalistic arguments used against the sacraments and ministry, just as destructive of the Incarnation, in the hands, that is, of a man who would consent to be consistent.

Just as the policy of various ministries ranged over time from vigorous repression of the socialists to tacit encouragement of them, especially in their efforts to unionize the workers, so the policy of the Socialist party modulated from one of intransigent opposition to the entire «bourgeois regime» to one of gradual acceptance of the framework of democratic institutions.

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

Retired clergy, men just out of seminary and women are more apt to accept these parishes than are experienced men at the height of their careers — unless they have chosen small - church ministry as their specialty.