Sentences with phrase «as leaders of the congregation»

I think this is why we see most scripture designating men as the leader of the congregation.

I introduced myself as the leader of another congregation and personally spoke as gently but sincerely as possible to two of the gentlemen who were still in the parking lot.

In a large congregation only a small percentage of adults will ever be asked to participate actively as leaders of the congregation.

Not exact matches

Especially those who advocate the prosperity of the church leaders as a substitute for the prosperity of the members of the congregation.

Most are quickly reported to civil authorities as required by law,» he said, but he warned the leaders that they must respond quickly to reports and share information with their congregations for the sake of transparency.

Please, if you're a Christian leader and plan on killing yourself and your congregation before on on May 21... take as many of your followers with you.

You sometimes take too long to assert yourself as pastor and leader of the congregation.

Andy Stanley, a prominent evangelical leader, said some in his congregation cheered when he launched a preaching series called «Recovery Road» to talk about politically touchy issues such as personal greed, the federal deficit and the sins of subprime loans.

The community of Central Florida is not accustomed to hearing white Christian leaders say, «Our concern is for the community as a whole, not just our personal congregations.»

How is it that today's generation of Christian women are more likely to list a celebrity like Angelina Jolie as their hero rather than a mentor, leader, or female friend in their own congregation?

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.

Beside preaching, explicit instruction in prayer by the pastoral leader best acquaints parishioners with the master vision of the life of the congregation as a corporate journey toward maturing in the Christian life.

@Brett The early leaders of the church, Popes, Cardinals and Bishops used the generic term «wife» as church, collection of people or congregation because they knew they were about to screw the sheepies over not matter their gender.

Figures like these convince me that the standard proposal of church leaders — that seminary faculty regularly spend sabbaticals or other periods of leave as ministers in congregations — is misguided.

The church becomes one more dehumanising «thing» (seeing people as things called sinners, or bums on pews, or soldiers in the work of the church, or worship leaders, or whatever) more concerned with making sure the church / congregation / denomination survives than with seeing the individuals live.

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

Since we become Christian as we participate in the life of a congregation, the way church leaders order the life and worship of a congregation is crucial to the spiritual well - being of all members of a congregation.

As the designated leader of a congregation, the pastor is expected to interpret the meaning of the Christian life.

Until pastors become aware of the ways in which the dualisms of the Victorian family ethos have been institutionalized in the church, confusion about their own role as spiritual leaders in a congregation will continue.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

We as leaders in the Church are to teach and lead our congregations in the healing and reconciliation of race relations.

Very few Protestant pastors ordained in the last thirty years have been educated to think of themselves as the spiritual leaders of a congregation.

43 Like most others who help the church professionally, 44 Schaller advocates the presence of a consultant to mobilize leaders to examine their potential and plan for a more productive future.45 He eschews both the contextual approach46 and situations where severe interpersonal problems require an organic solution.47 Instead, he enters a congregation as a planner, to diagnose its internal dynamics.

-- but as leaders of men, their congregations, other groups.

Small groups have been championed by many religious leaders as a way of revitalizing their congregations.

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.

These boards are also aware of the dependency that still confronts national church leaders as well as congregations.

However, the majority of those involved were ministers, priests, or rabbis who were well known as community leaders, usually in charge of a large influential congregation.

Its guidance to church leaders says: «Clergy credentialed by the ECC may attend the wedding or blessing of a same - sex couple... but may not participate in the service other than as a participant with the congregation.»

Then apparently the old stuff was outdated so he sent his son to «fulfill» the old scriptures but then the son doesn't write anything to replace it, then nearly half a century later other people start writing about the son and claim that as the updated word of God in the form of hundreds of letters to the different congregations, mainly from the new «leader» of the Church Paul, who again changed the tenor of the message.

This internal process» fueled by the leftward tilt of mainline ecumenism and the vigor of Baptist Landmarkism (the idea that Baptist congregations constitute the only true churches in the world and can trace their lineage through unbroken succession back to Christ himself)» reinforced the desire of Southern Baptists «to do our own work in our way,» as E.Y. Mullins, one of the more moderate Baptist leaders of this period, put it.

Though the congregation was probably unaware that the woman involved described the «incident» as an assault, at least one pastor at Woodlands and the leaders of Highpoint were aware.

My proposal has been that precisely because a theological school is not defined by the goal of educating church leaders it may, as a matter of contingent fact, prepare its students very well for leadership in congregations.

It seems to me, though, that a better course of action would have been for him to call together the deacons and other church leaders and any law enforcement in the congregation and ask them to act as «security» for the wedding — directing parking, riding a golf cart around the parking lot, keeping an eye on the cars while the wedding is going on, for example.

He further urged members of the congregation and Ghanaians at large to continuously support him through prayers to enable him successfully complete the task assigned him as leader of the nation.

Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The jokey performance of Will Forte as a Satanist turned Christian Pastor, and Danny McBride as another befuddled congregation leader don't seem to be doing either side any favor except for the unattractive sideshow all of these faith based gesticulations are eventually reduced to.

In addition to his professional pursuits, Mr. Turner also serves as the voluntary leader of a religious congregation with over 400 members.