Sentences with phrase «rather than each ministry»

If our focal concern in this book were the church rather than the ministry, we should be obliged to point out that in some basic sense every Christian is expected in Protestantism to be a theologian.

Rather than each ministry vying for the same donor monies, the campaign established a percentage giving plan.

The more evangelicals come out in favor of Trump's policies, he said, the more they exclusively view Islam as a threat rather than a ministry opportunity.

US departments are called departments rather than ministries, because a minister is an assistant (the word is etymologically connected to minor) to the king.

These constitute the pilot group of a $ 5 billion ($ 7.2 billion) renovation plan, achieved through the amalgamation of universities The universities, rather than the ministry, decide upon their involvement — an illustration of their new autonomy.

Not exact matches

The ministry was to ensure that the tax code is used to «support small businesses, rather than used to reduce personal income tax obligations for high - income earners.»

What if, rather than seeking answers in books, pastors and ministry leaders opened their minds and hearts to the less certain possibilities that emerge when we let go and let God be God?

If Rick's faith were first and formost, he would start his own ministry rather than running for office!

When credit comes to you for the ministry and talents and abilities you have, let it be God and others who bring it rather than from yourself.

One part of the ministry is Hand of Hope, which reaches out to people practically rather than just spiritually.

This recognition encouraged openness to fresh ideas rather than clinging on to the past, and the initiation of new types of ministry.

If football coaches ran youth and children's ministry, they'd spend the majority of their time practising skills, rather than explaining them.

In the 1970s, priests who were reported to be abusers of children were quietly sent for psychiatric treatment to be treated, rehabilitated, and reintegrated into parish ministry, rather than punished according to canon law.

Yet there are some ministries there are culturally relevant; ones that truly work within the community for its good, rather than as means to feed the machine.

In fact, a liberationist outlook obscures rather than clarifies the practical imperatives of Christian ministry within the U.S.

So to not be able to talk about such embarrassment had been a hindrance for me at the time rather than the time of prayer ministry being a help.

I'm not sure how I would deal in situation that would be similar but my hope would be that though (as you rightly say David) my arousal was my «issue», whomever was involved in prayer ministry would not want me to leave being worse off than I came but rather be served by the ministry.

But you're asking about Jesus himself rather than about the effects of his ministry on others.

Maybe ministry works better as a special interest, an unpaid calling, rather than a career.

I, too, am saddened to see what many large churches have become, and, I think when someone enters a church with 25,000 members, I wonder how much of the collection actually goes towards ministry rather than the physical structure and upkeep itself.

It is an investment for the long - term rather than for short - term ministry gain.

Further evidence for the existence of table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners» as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is the role played by communal meals in earliest Christianity (E. Lohmeyer, Lord of the Temple [ET by Stewart Todd of Kultus und Evangelism (1942); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961], pp. 79ff, discusses the central role of table - fellowship in the ministry of Jesus, but he is particularly concerned with the development towards the Last Supper, which he sees as historical, rather than with the relationship between this table - fellowship and the cross, on the one hand, and the communal meals of early Christianity on the other.)

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

It has been incredibly freeing and I'm doing more ministry than I ever did as a full - time vocational pastor — that is, I'm ministering «with» others to those who are not - yet believers rather than ministering «to» and «for» people in the church.

In varying degrees, most of them want practical theology to become more critical and philosophical, more public (in the sense of being more oriented toward the church's ministry to the world rather than simply preoccupied with the needs of its own internal life), and more related to an analysis of the various situations and contexts of theology.

The institutional mechanisms that demand credentials over calling and encourage large bureaucratic congregations rather than small charismatic ones are easing the prophetic daughters out of the ordained ministry.

Since there is no indigenous image of the ministry as reconciling, and since reconciliation suggests a process rather than a conclusion, contemporary models from group dynamics and marriage counseling are helpful in initiating and managing the process, particularly when reconciliation is not possible if both love and justice are to be served.

He should be sitting on a chair beside the bed, rather than standing, partly to show that he is not administering medicine but mainly to suggest that the nature of his ministry is through conversation, talking and listening, and other procedures like prayer and reading which also involve verbal means.

ANd in Luke 10.38 - 42 we see where Jesus specifically eschewed the traditional roles for women in Jewish society and said it was a better choice for a woman to choose to be alongside the men in actively participating as he carried out his ministry [rather than listening passively while serving the food to the men as Martha suggested that her sister Mary should be doing.]

We all work on the premise that ministry studies are best conducted when they are centered on ministry rather than on the classroom or on students.

As pastors, letting ourselves off the hook by appealing to our sympathy for people's fragility and limits robs us of some of our most rewarding opportunities to confirm our ministry in a church that really looks like a church rather than a social club.

The ministry as a «profession» rather than a calling has encouraged the rush toward ecclesiastical preferment, with clergy jostling one another like bumper cars in order to secure the most prestigious placements.

Dollars now follow students as scholarship and tuition support rather than support university ministries and church colleges.

I doubt many realize how unrewarding the ministry can be, how much pressure working with congregations who do not want to change and who would rather judge than understand can be.

In the spirit of Ephesians 4:12, parish ministers are to equip the laity rather than performing and controlling ministry themselves.

The difference you ask about is probably better understood as between lay people's ministry and ordained ministry, rather than between male and female.

My recommendation to many clergy (including myself) who become trapped in the role of ministry rather than in fulfilling the vocation of ministry, and hence on their way to any number of destructive mistakes), is to walk away for awhile.

Even when we have not participated directly in this radical shift, we have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

We have come to view the particularities of functioning in the midst of the city (restricted parking, unsympathetic neighbors and pushy transients) as inconveniences rather than as opportunities for ministry.

This is Vatican II ecclesiology at its best — the ministry of the baptized, rather than of the clergy.

If a new building program is for the pride of its membership rather than the effectiveness of its ministry, then the church is in danger of a bad building program.

They were recalling the church from its newfound privilege of the ministry to diakonia and service; and they generally included friars or brothers, since monk or priest had come to connote privilege rather than service.

It will not often help with specific sayings, but rather with general motifs, and consequently will tend to be more useful in arriving at general characteristics of the ministry and teaching of Jesus than at specific elements in the teaching itself.

In this book I hope I may be nudging an ecumenical discussion or two to take function seriously, instead of making exhortations about diakonia and then discussing ministry in terms of status rather than function.

It saw ministry as the exercise of supervisory responsibility but with the emphasis on service rather than privilege — and it saw the content of this mainly in terms of preaching.

Since that time I, along with the Covenant staff and congregation, have continued to engage in ministry with students from a parish rather than a campus base.

Rather than becoming heterosexual, men and women become part of a new identity group in which it is almost the norm to succumb to temptation and return to ex-gay ministry over and over again.

The second thing I have learned is that the student constituency most receptive to the church's ministry tends to be graduates rather than undergraduates.

Otherwise, I don't quite care for the idea that full - time ministry is anything more than an easy way out for folks that would rather avoid the «real world».

A Lady Bountiful attitude which assumes that the ministry of the church is to such «unfortunate individuals» — rather than with them — misses the whole point of the gospel.