Sentences with phrase «when leaders of a church»

When leaders of a church are in it for themselves, for their self - promotion, and for their enrichment, then members will see through that and leave.

It is ironic how an all - knowing god wouldn't tell (oops, «inspire») his book - writers to mention that 2000 years later, when the leaders of the church created as a follow - on to his «chosen people» shouldn't condone child molestation within their ranks.

That's when leaders of her church, New Day, teamed up with organizers and activists from the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition to fight her eviction.

Not exact matches

The leaders hide church history from its members, when we find it, we take it to them, and of course are called aposates, there are so many mental systems in place at every level to control the people and there thoughts and actions, at a very young age.

When it happens, this Council will be an event of considerable historical import, bringing together the leaders of all Orthodox Churches for the first time since 787.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

When we complain about the Church, her leaders and her members we are demonstrating not only a misunderstanding of what a church is, but also a disrespect for Who the ChurChurch, her leaders and her members we are demonstrating not only a misunderstanding of what a church is, but also a disrespect for Who the Churchurch is, but also a disrespect for Who the ChurchChurch is.

There was still silence when, at around the same time, the sons of pastor Alexander Pavenko of the charismatic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were murdered by separatists in the city of Slavyansk, when the priests of the Patriarchate of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and when Greek Catholic priests were tortured by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»

I think I understand some of our Lord's heart, when He must remove the strong leader to ensure His church blossoms.

HEY NICK WAKE UP, I WAS IN THE MORMON CHURCH FOR 36 YEARS, and when i went to the BISHOP AND STAKE PRESIDENT, He Was his words» I do nt process to know much about the curse of Cain, nor do i need to know», OR TRY THIS ONE ON FOR SIZE, THis Nick comes from my former Bishop,» i wont allow now or in the future QUESTIONS TO LEAD ME ASTRAY» IAM NOT MAKING THIS STUFF UP, YOU DO NT QUESTION MORMON LEADERS, FOLLOW AND KEEP YOUR EYEE SHUT

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

When I read Jones» post I feel that I'm being invited to enslave myself to the strong leaders of the Church so that they can accomplish their vision.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

Although they say they do not intend for the minister to dictate his aims for the church, the thrust of Leading Congregational Change is that the pastor or transformational leader brings a vision that must be promoted, first to a chosen group of disciples, then to a «vision community,» and then — only when fully developed and plotted out — to the congregation.

These sorts of statements are usually said when you are critical of a church, a church leader, or some other Christian for something they said or did.

But the reason church leaders have failed to stem the tide of a generation heading for the exit door is that they keep looking for an outside enemy to blame when the biggest problems are inside the church.

But I question whether after some period of time, we can assign some level of ill - will or malicious intent when church leaders continue to deny and attack in the face of persistent claims of mistreatment and / or abuse.

In the second part of the talk, I described a church that sometimes in the past has led in dealing with public issues and sometimes responsibly followed other leaders, but is now ineffective even when it makes occasional pronouncements that are good.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

And after all, what can I expect when, as a church leader, I quit and tell the pastor I can't stay and listen to him preach because it makes me want to throw up — and refuse to preserve the image of the church by lying to protect a sexual predator in the pulpit.

The Church leaders didn't finish editing the «holy» scriptures until the Council of Trent when the Catholic Church pronounced the Canon closed.

I have been involved in churches of many denominations, but was frequently in trouble with «leadership», even at those times when I was myself a leader.

«When we proclaim the notion of sola scriptura,» he writes, «we neglect the original authority of Church leaders that put together that Scripture.

The episode is reminiscent of a time in history when secular leaders did not accept a separation of Church and State.

When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the two church leaders discussed the probable future ordination of women priests in the Anglican Cchurch leaders discussed the probable future ordination of women priests in the Anglican ChurchChurch.

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.

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

Westerners encountered Orthodoxy in the flesh when a wave of theologians and church leaders left Russia following the 1917 revolution.

Having the heart of a servant is important when you're a church camp leader.

But when the explicit intent is to adapt church culture to a distinct culture of a specific age cohort, the leaders need to be born into that culture.

One can start answering these questions by observing that the church's role as a community of memory is being emphasized by thinkers like Maclntyre and Bellah and by many church leaders precisely at a time when an increasing percentage of Americans are not being born and raised in churches, or if they are, they are.

One of my church leaders told me that when God orders genocide in the Old Testament that showed HIs «righteousness».

Mainline Protestant leaders appeared to take an important step toward joining this movement in November when Robert Edgar, general secretary of the Nation Council of Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider society.

When this becomes clear, the whole way we «do» church falls apart, and the «leader» of the church must take a seat next to the laity because that is what he is, and it's where he belongs.

As it happens, I coined the original slogan in an attempt to keep together the western environmentalists and the Third World economists and church leaders; and of course I frowned when, subsequently, «the integrity of creation» was substituted, an expression which scientists I know find meaningless.

This is part of why we are so surprised and shattered when church leaders fall — we forget that they are sinful human beings, just as in need of grace and accountability as the rest of us.

There was another time when another leader in the church came up to me aggressively and had an out and out argument in front of everyone about me being «corrective» with comments with him on facebook.

Her conviction that much of the church has simply got it wrong when it comes to women is substantiated by her own effectiveness as a leader and communicator.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Ewhen they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of EWhen you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of EWhen you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Ewhen you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Ewhen he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

In 1975 when the Vatican issued its «Guidelines and Suggestions» for contacts between the church and the Jewish people, the document was greeted by Jewish leaders with a mixture of delight and distress: delight at the change of outlook it reflected, and distress that it still contained references to the church's «divine mission» and «witness.»

I get quite concerned when churches and church leaders preach and teach about our responsibility a to kill, bomb, and destroy other people in the name of freedom and justice — or worse yet, in the name of Jesus.

It was only when he emerged as a leader of the Church at Antioch that he began to exert an important influence upon the Church as a whole.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

The youth pastor, who moved to the Central American nation to serve local tribes, had been swimming with his family and the family of another church leader when he got into trouble.

When AMIA leaders talked to me about their departure from the Episcopal Church, they focused more on the doctrinal problems represented by Bishop Spong than on the sexual issues raised by the election of gay bishop V. Gene Robinson.

Indeed, China's church grew three times during the Cultural Revolution, when no churches were open and church leaders were imprisoned, wrote Fenggang Yang, director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University.

After my family, and what amounts to be a small church full of people, were maliciously harmed by Christian leaders of a certain theological and denominational bent (despite an uproarious public outcry calling these leaders to account and condemning their actions), I find myself recoiling when this particular denominational group is mentioned.

In my experience and observation, often when an organization, church, or leader gets accused of being abusive, rather than offering a genuine apology, a kind...