Sentences with phrase «most church leaders»

Most church leaders who struggle with sexual issues do not seek help.

In my experience, most church leaders see that as a threat.

By about 200 AD, there was a list of about 20 New Testament books which were recognized by most church leaders as having the authority and accuracy of Scripture.

This means that most church leaders are culturally divorced from the average NASCAR fan.

Most church leaders, however, do not agree that scripture and creed are collectively scripted texts that offer a «manufactured reality» (to use Daniel Boorstin's phrase), nor are most regular churchgoers prepared to engage such a notion.

Most church leaders are sincere and have no malicious intent to hurt people.

Thinking about cancelling the church service is terrifying to most church leaders because we depend on the people to fill the pews and pay the bills, one of which is our own salary.

Not exact matches

I really believe most of the leaders of the so called Christian churches and mega churches could learn a lot from him.

The head of the Catholic Church in Iraq is warning EU leaders the violence in the country is forcing most Christians to flee.

Among these leaders, perhaps the most extraordinary statement came from the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), metropolitan Onufriy Berezovsky.

After a back - and - forth with a variety of Christian leaders, most notably the Catholic Church, the rule was amended and some religious organizations were given an exemption.

But isn't that how most churches get their following; a charismatic leader that builds a following around him or her self.

You would think that church leaders would be thanking people for jerking it, since it prevents the things they hate most: premarital relations, abortions and divorce.

Like the Koch brothers, mega church leaders, and most of the Bible thumpers i know.

Phil Whittall meets America's most reluctant church leader and discovers five clues on how to reach the i - Pod generation and build an authentic community... More

CNN: American nuns come out swinging against Vatican in face of «radical feminist» accusations The leadership representing most of America's nuns came out swinging Friday against the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, in the face of charges from the Vatican that the nuns are espousing «radical feminism» and straying from church teaChurch, in the face of charges from the Vatican that the nuns are espousing «radical feminism» and straying from church teachurch teaching.

Given these results, why is separationism still the dominant position of many civil libertarians, including most Jewish and mainline Protestant leaders in the field of church - state thought?

Maybe I overlooked it in your comment, but have you spoken directly to the church leaders, since it seems most of the problems come from the choir loft and worship team, along with leaders wives and intercessors.

What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalities.

Most churches and charities have no contingency plans for when the present leader moves on, trusting instead that «God will provide».

Perhaps the most annoying assumption mainline church leaders seem to make about millennials is that we require a dumbed - down, inoffensive, and unobtrusive faith.

I think what scares people most is «Church without a leader» What would happen if most pastor's just walked away unannounced and never came back?

A lot of people, when they hear this, look at me sort of skeptically, because they have heard the exact opposite from most churches and church leaders.

The leader gave a high - quality message based on Scripture which was better than most sermons I have heard in churches.

There are numerous avenues by which this idea is presented in church settings, but most often it revolves around the idea that we serve a powerful God, and God has dispensed some of that power upon all believers, but especially the leaders of the church by giving them wisdom, vision, and special spiritual gifts.

Despite having one foot in Generation X, I tend to identify most strongly with the attitudes and the ethos of the millennial generation, and because of this, I'm often asked to speak to my fellow evangelical leaders about why millennials are leaving the church.

Back in the States we most recently had been part of General Baptist churches we were usually involved as worship leaders and Sunday school teachers, my husband a deacon.

Among churches in the U.S., the curriculum is selected by the group leader almost 2/3 of the time, and most of that time it occurs with no input from the pastor or staff.

We took a crew to the Holy Land in October (my second journey there in nine months), where we again met with political and church leaders on both sides of the wall, taped countless hours of interviews, shot a ton of video and prepped for one of the most robust and, dare I say, important cover stories we've ever published.

He and Other remarkably popular visionary leaders caused the period of the early republic to become, according to historian Nathan Hatch, «the most centrifugal epoch in American church history.»

But most peace church academics and leaders speaking out on the current crisis would demur.

This is too funny, seeing the conservatives attack the President's Christianity, when most Christian church leaders declare Mormonism a cult.

One of the most creative forces, however, in building bridges between classical Pentecostals and charismatics has been historian and church leader H. Vinson Synan of the Pentecostal Holiness Cchurch leader H. Vinson Synan of the Pentecostal Holiness ChurchChurch.

Pastors and church leaders tend to devote most of their time on working with and ministering among people who are already in church.

Many, probably most, are hardworking, conscientious leaders trying to do their best in shepherding their local churches.

What seems most evident in the case of the modern pastoral director is that he can think of himself neither as parish parson responsible for all the people in a geographic area nor as the abbot of a convent of the saved, but only as the responsible leader of a parish church; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fchurch; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fChurch, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility for it.

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With the great leaders of the first generation for the most part dead or in extreme old age, and Jerusalem in ruins, the Judaean church ceased to occupy the centre of the stage, and the new and by now overwhelmingly Gentile churches entered upon a period of consolidation and further expansion in which guidance and authority had to be sought elsewhere.

Most christian «leaders» cite followers losing faith as the churches largest battle.

Reasonably enough, given the men involved, the authors place considerable emphasis on some of the most important episcopal leaders of the Chicago Church: Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, and Cardinals George William Mundelein, Samuel Stritch, Albert Meyer, and John Patrick Cody.

Detroit's Chaldean Catholic bishop, Francis Y. Kalabat, told church leaders the diocese is reaching out to the government, the Iraqi embassy, the local Chaldean foundation, and the US Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on behalf of the detainees, most of whom are «not hardened criminals but for the last decades have been great citizens.»

Pope Benedict's purpose and tone as he spoke to both religious and secular leaders - overwhelmingly positive and collaborative - was the direct fruit of the landmark event that remains the most significant moment of the history of the Church in our time, the Second Vatican Council.

And more than one megachurch has imploded after a leader fell from grace — Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church in Seattle is the most recent famous example.

«She's challenged the faith of even the most senior church leaders.

Those of us who have been involved in designing and promoting various models for the process of sustained prophetic inquiry can testify to the general lack of interest of ecclesial bodies in such ministry: «social action» is by and large out, and, where it is a priority among church leaders, most of its practitioners are concerned with direct action, not action research.

The most retrogressive aspects of contemporary society are religions leaders who have zero (ZERO) influence over extremists whose unending violence proceeds unchecked under their own banners, whose churches routinely abandon their principle mandates — the poor, infirmed, jailed, the hungry — to writers who view the thirst of people without spiritual homes as «cop outs».

Most interestingly, hymnals can be viewed as history books of the Church and its great leaders.

Most Rev Justin Welby is due to attend a formal meeting on Tuesday with Russian Orthodox Church leader His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

«Most evangelicals — leaders from all seven denominations — have expressed concerns,» Sergey Rakhuba, president of Mission Eurasia and a former Moscow church - planter, told CT. «They're calling on the global Christian community to pray that Putin can intervene and God can miraculously work in this process.»

Although most evangelical leaders have not supported Trump's run (including Max Lucado), he has gained endorsements from Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. and First Baptist Church of Dallas senior pastor Robert Jeffress.