Sentences with phrase «as a ministry leader»

I understand that as a ministry leader, there are certain expectations that are required of me.

For most of us, as ministry leaders, the lottery is taboo.

Not exact matches

North Korean leader Kim Jong - un told a visiting Chinese diplomat yesterday that he is committed to denuclearisation, China's foreign ministry said, as diplomatic efforts to bring lasting peace to the Korean peninsula gather pace.

How can we as leaders of larger ministries reach a community on a grander scale?

Surprise, surprise, there is no such ministry as «Leader» nor is there «leadership» in the Kingdom.

As relations between the American and Russian governments deteriorate amid disputes on Ukraine and other issues, eight Russian church leaders visited Christian ministries and government offices this week on a «peace and understanding» mission.

«We have been assured that we can have a rigorous selection process which reflects InterVarsity's mission and message as a Christian ministry,» he told CT. «We're confident in our ability to choose leaders who reflect our mission and message.»

While the longtime leader of campus ministry InterVarsity Christian Fellowship steps down to start cancer treatment, a fellow executive will serve as interim president.

The psychic energy of contemporary pastors, theologians and church leaders has more often centered on the kerygmatic Word as it encounters «the problem of history,» on struggles against the idolatries of fascism and Stalinism abroad and racism, classism and sexism at home, or on the development of the professional skills of ministry.

Failure to act as direct teacher and dean or principal of a school of discipleship by its pastoral leader probably accounts more than any other single factor for a congregation's inability to mature in its ministry.

His concern was shared by many other progressive denominational leaders, who saw the usual education in confessional theology as too narrow for the demands of modern ministry.

The answer to the extra time and energy demanded of the guide is that as parishioners mature they grow to the point of sharing the ministry which the pastoral leader has heretofore carried mostly alone.

Not only that, some have even their «church ministry» or their «spiritual leaders» as idols.

When I first started living and working as an intern in the beleaguered but promising city of Camden, New Jersey, some leaders from our ministry held perhaps one of the most candid orientation sessions I've ever experienced.

As a counselor and ministry leader, I'm often the one who hears about how people are «really» doing.

According to the findings of a new research study, interest in church planting is on the rise, some of America's best and brightest ministry leaders choose planting as their career path and church planting efforts are much more successful and promising than anticipated.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

In the not too distant past, clergy were seen as pivotal spiritual and intellectual leaders, and theological schools were seen as providing vital leadership for congregational ministry and for grappling with broader intellectual and social issues.

Ironically I teach my ministry students that as leaders they should follow Eph.

Some Protestant leaders are striving to broaden the church's ministry to include the growing plurality of family forms — to include as coequals with the intact nuclear family all single - parent families, the divorced and remarried, blended families, childless couples, unmarried couples living together, and gay and lesbian couples with or without children.

Anyway, it's a ministry for pastors and lay leaders who have experienced hurt and church abuse, as well as burnout.

I found this site quite helpful myself, when I went through a ministry burnout as a lay leader.

This is true of many entrepreneurial endeavors, not simply women's ministry; but if the majority of female leaders are operating in the marketplace (as opposed to the institutional church), women's ministry as a whole can reach a point of critical mass where an audience - centric philosophy creates wider expectations about style, topics, and content.

(UPDATED) Tchividjian prays his story will «serve as a warning» on sin, while Florida ministry leaders who tried to help reflect on what they'd do differently.

Tullian Tchividjian Confesses Second Affair Concealed by Two Coral Ridge Elders Tchividjian prays his story will «serve as a warning» on sin, while Florida ministry leaders who tried to help reflect on what they'd do differently.

As you may have seen, last week, Reformed leaders Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan, Al Mohler, Don Carson, Kevin DeYoung, and Justin Taylor reaffirmed their support of C.J. Mahaney, president of Sovereign Grace Ministries, after a judge ruled that that nine of the eleven plaintiffs in the massive sexual abuse lawsuit against him and his ministry did not sue in time before the statue of limitations had expired.

some of America's best and brightest ministry leaders choose planting as their career path and church planting efforts are much more successful and promising than anticipated.

As the leader of leaders in the congregation, a pastor can ask the same questions of his or her ministry.

It's good to have the leader of such a ministry involved, as it's helpful to have the full spectrum of positions represented.

The peace, the joy, and the sheer delight of pastors who are faithful to their calling is not the product of a successful ministry as it is usually defined by denominational leaders anxious to perpetuate their own power and position.

As a deeply spiritual act, it's important for people to understand what the Bible teaches (and doesn't teach) about sex, to be able to speak openly and honestly with their ministry leaders regarding sex, and to find solid, biblical teaching on sex.

We kicked off with a role play — imagine a student in your college ministry approached you because she had become friends with a Muslim student on campus, and she was looking to you, as a Christian leader to help her make sense of that friendship.

But it is crucial that local leaders — lay as well as clergy — begin to lead churches in an enlarged ministry, one that takes full measure of the age structure of the congregation.

Nor do the authors pick up on the same pope's astonishing invitation of the leaders of other churches and their theologians to a «patient and fraternal dialogue» to help find ways in which the pastoral and doctrinal ministry of Peter might be differently exercised in the service of universal Christian unity» a move that opened the prospect of a «reformed papacy» such as Luther, at least, was willing to contemplate.

«Her legacy is in hundreds of thousands of women like me... She called us all to see the empty promises of the world's definition of womanhood and to accept the contentment of womanhood as God designed it to be experienced,» said women's ministry leader and author Dannah Gresh, who began reading Passion and Purity as a single college student.

After the fact, pastoral leaders may find themselves for the first time in a position to receive ministry as well as give it.

Leaders of these ministries sometimes state if other people write off supernatural healings, demonic exorcisms, and the gift of tongues as possibly coming from the devil, such people deny the power of the Holy Spirit and commit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which supposedly is the unforgivable sin.

Leaders from nearly 90 evangelical seminaries, publications, ministries, and churches — as well as Catholic and Orthodox clergy — signed a statement last month rejecting any legal efforts to protect sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).

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.

For Franklin to have exploited him to this degree is awful and I will not support Franklin as the new leader of Billy Graham ministries.

You can be content even if your latest efforts as an innovative leader go nowhere, because your source of contentment is not dependent upon the outcomes of your ministry.

I've been reading and discussing this, as well as many other gender issues, over the last several months, and I wanted to continue the discussion here — with ministry leaders.

Too many see youth ministry as beneath them, relegated to the seminarian or a rotating system of lay leaders.

As leaders, it is vital that we initiate ministry to this culture of often - forgotten people.

We are witnessing one very good example of this right now, as a group led by Christian ministry leader Harold Camping prepares for the end of the world this Saturday, May 21.

In addition, church leaders with past ties to Ezzo describe him as «disqualified» for Christian ministry and his parenting materials as «fraught with danger» (CT, Nov. 13, 2000, p. 70).

As a leader for an outreach ministry program for his home church, El - Shaddai Pentecostal Church of Christ, he rallies members of his local chapter of Tennessee School Nutrition Association (TSNA) and other industry associates to prepare care packages for 200 homeless people in Memphis.

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying hailed the «courage» of Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae - In, as the two leaders continued talks this afternoon, Jamie Fullerton reports from Beijing.

According to the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, an Executive Instrument (EI28) containing a list of ministries signed by President Nana Akufo - Addo and gazetted on 28th February, 2017 did not include the office of the Senior Minister as a ministry.

Beckett would also serve both in the Shadow Cabinet and then the Cabinet throughout Blair's term as leader, eventually becoming the final of the three Foreign Secretaries of the Blair ministries.