Sentences with phrase «as a pastor»

I served for nine years as pastor of a mission church.

I decided not to share the memories of my first congregation served as a pastor until one specific person died.

My experience as a pastor in several churches was just the opposite.

In my first year as a pastor, our church was struggling to raise attendance, and decided part of our problem was that the community was not aware of our presence.

None of this means, of course, that if you resign as pastor, you no longer need to seek the advice and counsel of others.

You take your role as pastor seriously and have a perpetual to - do list.

I base this on my experience as a pastor for the past decade.

The court found that it was the borrower's choice to work as a pastor for a start - up church rather than try to find a higher paying job.

After a couple of years I knew almost everyone as well as the pastor did.

I refuse to work as a pastor in a church anymore because I'm so sick of how leaders get away with it all.

Probably the best way to find a reliable marriage counselor is through a referral from somebody you trust such as your pastor or your doctor.

That's true for artists and musicians (musical artists) as well as pastors.

Many times as a pastor I have taken pastoral initiative with people, knocking on their front door and saying.

Then I served the church as a pastor for about 30 years, studying the bible and theology day in and day out.

My one fear about coming out as a pastor with gay leaders is that folks will assume I have an agenda to make all churches like mine.

We never have to face our doubts as long as the pastor holds up his end of the bargain.

More simply, we tend to measure our effectiveness as pastors on the three B's: buildings, bodies and budget.

It used to be that my career as a pastor guided our next steps.

Four years ago this month I left the professional ministry as a pastor of a local church.

Believe me, I would've continued until my dying day as pastor of this church, but it was becoming more evident to me that I wasn't fitting.

What I was passionate about as a pastor and now as an online community facilitator, is helping people to become spiritual independent.

We have been blessed to have such a humble man as a pastor.

He does not function or have the same responsibilities as the pastor of a church or temple.

I hope that someday I can once again function as a pastor, but without getting paid for it.

I feel that (most) catholic priests are called into ministry just as my pastor was.

I left encouraged and fortified to fulfill my call as a pastor, as I am sure everyone else there did.

As pastors take personal histories they will need to gather the information about psychosocial development as a context for spiritual maturing.

At the time, I didn't think I could pastor unless I was getting paid as pastor.

If I don't respect this person as my pastor, he or she will not be my pastor, no matter what the labels are.

He served as president and continued as pastor of his church until his death.

Though as a pastor, I've faced crises like this, it is always difficult and painful.

I remember as a pastor standing out side of my house with a man from the church who struggled with alcohol.

I left not only as a pastor but as a believer.

I was lucky to be single and not yet employed as a pastor.

But we have seen in the last half century an increasing awareness of the importance of the role of the minister as pastor.

Knowing the distinctive function of the guide as pastor delivers the minister from being a cheap therapist - in - residence to the congregation.

How complimentary is it to refer to the members of a church as a flock of sheep, and how appropriate is it to speak of clergy as pastors?

I sometimes wish that rather than resign, I had simply taken a secular job in the community and remained on as pastor without taking a salary.

One of the things I found most frustrating as a pastor was realizing that I had the trump card.

I know that I felt this way as a pastor.