Sentences with phrase «as servant first»

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As Greenleaf himself has said, «The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant first to make sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served.

«I have spent forty years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first,» Price said in the letter.

Rather than treating church polity as secondary, Jesus insists on the reverse: first live as servants of one another and then you will know what to say and do as my disciples.

But frankly, all the pastors ought to be doing in the first place is being a servant and a slave to others — that's what a pastor is anyway, at least what sketchy little bits of «pastor» roles can be made out in the NT, as it's scarcely mentioned — not necessarily standing up there and teaching everyone two or three times a week, running the show, and acting like some kind of CEO.

It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

The first time as suffering servant: Isaiah 52, 53, Psalm 22... etc..

You Jews rejected your own because you thought he was going to come as a mighty warrior the first time when he really came as a suffering servant.

Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled [a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

The first letter of Peter was written to a suffering church, which is why, as we shall see, it has so much to say about Jesus as the Suffering Servant.

See John 20:30; Mark 16:17 - 20; John 2:11; Acts 2:22: («Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know»); Acts 2:43: -LRB-»... and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles»); Acts 4:29 - 30: «And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy hold child Jesus»); Hebrews 2:3 - 4: («How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him: God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will»); Romans 15:17 - 19: («I have therefor whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

In a number of other contexts, all but one in the first division, Israel is collectively identified as a servant:

First off, this ignores the distinction between Israelite indentured servants and foreign slaves which were explicitly described as personal property of the slave owner which could be passed on to the slave owner's descendants.

Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.»

In the Qur» an you will see that often the first person singular such as I or My is used, when Allah speaks about His love, care and closeness and forgiveness for His servants.

In the preaching of the first disciples, as recorded in Acts and made clear in the wording of the Revised Version, the title «Servant» was applied to Jesus in a way which inevitably suggests the Isaian source.

Luke 1:1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilleda among us, 2just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Today as in the first century minister implies servant.

Luke 1 Introduction 1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled [a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were **** eyewitnesses ***** and servants of the word.

All too briefly stated, Mosse gets at this problem in several ways; first by establishing that Christians are party to the same service relations, and employ the same ritual servants for «impurity removal «- barbers, funeral servants, etc. - as Hindus.

First, by acting as a humble servant he would wash the soiled feet of his disciples, not only to prepare them for the coming celebration but also looking forward to the time when they would sit at table with Abraham in God's banquet in heaven (Luke 13:29).

This second servant did not have as much native ability as the first servant.

This first servant, as a faithful servant, is allowed to share the joy of Jesus Christ.

He receives exactly the same reward as the first servant.

To me, it appears rather that they prompt two fundamental questions: First, does the Christian in effect jettison his model of Jesus as the Suffering Servant if he pursues social change by violent means?

Purity (first noted in Psalm 2 — kiss with purity) is our goal as those who have been called as servants.

In abolishing the practice of deacons» communicating the presbyters, the Nicene Council characterized as against tradition what had, in fact, been primitively the natural function of the servants of the bishops, namely, to pass the bread and wine and first of all to the liturgically nonparticipant but revered and seated elders (presbyters) of the congregation.

Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament apostles.»

with his attitude as if we have to be his servant, get back to Chilie and get those life values back, he is a football player, but a man first, and as a player and man, his all attitude sucks, i don't know why wenger kept him and take that shit, means we have to take it... I told yo before, get his ass on training camp, ruining all day, shut him up, keep him out of the squad, not even in bench to bring his laim superior attitude... All money he is making, he should think of Chilie street and reality for kids he was once... He is in a great city, a club that won in this league and would be in CL as every year without this type of laim ways... So, of course no one wants him around during that ceremony, not even in the room... Get real sanchez, you came from misery, benched for years by gardiola too, sell out, poor minded..

Serving first as a counselor and two subsequent years as Co-Director, Brian worked to establish a tradition of sustainability and servant leadership for the Chapter at Brigham Young University.

Pat (and I'll call you Pat, though I don't believe we've met, just as you chose to refer consistently to the junior senator from Illinois in your column by his first name, as one might a servant or subordinate), I find it fascinating and perhaps even just a little racist to see you identifying a monolithic «White America,» in the same way that it's just a little racist for Rev. Wright to assume a monolithic black American experience.

It was gathered that the EFCC had pencilled down seven chief executive officers and four former top civil servants as the first set of people to be interrogated before the end of the month as part of its investigation into the firms.

«I was privileged to work with Ken, first in his capacity as a gifted courtroom advocate, and subsequently during his too - brief tenure as a public servant committed to advancing public safety and justice reform for the People of Kings County,» said Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

The usual trajectory of a political career is first to be a public servant and eat bread from the sweat of one's brow, and then after a time to leave office and cash in as a lobbyist.

Since Maurice Hankey's time as cabinet secretary in the First World War, the role of policymaking civil servant has been crucial to the smooth running of coalitions and, more signifi cantly, their conception.

The coalition government faces the first industrial uprising against its austerity measures today as up to 750,000 public servants strike over planned changes to their pensions.

July 17th The first signs that this isn't your average fussy costume drama is the way the servant Laborde (watchful intriguing Lea Seydoux) slips and falls as she races around Versailles to serve the whims of her fickle queen Marie Antoinette (a brilliantly distracted Diane Kruger).

Here is the story of a man whose first pivotal memory is as a young servant picking cotton at a farm in the South, helplessly watching his father being murdered in cold blood for daring to call out the owner for raping and beating his mother, and whose final scenes in the movie see him visiting the White House after voting for the first African American President of the United States.

Maleficent (now Jolie) is maimed by her first love, Stefan (now Sharlto Copley), a servant who doesn't have the heart to kill the fairy as instructed but still drugs her and takes her wings to inherit the throne.

We first meet the couple as they are engaged in a servant and master ritual which provides an unnerving glimpse into their lifestyle.

It is also a tribute to the talent of Kirk Douglas, who here takes on the role of a French colonel in the trenches of the First World War with such explosive energy that one realizes how many films (and directors) were unworthy of Kirk's genius as an actor — his first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in -First World War with such explosive energy that one realizes how many films (and directors) were unworthy of Kirk's genius as an actor — his first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in -first acting role, by the way, was onstage as the servant in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, with Catherine Cornell, Judith Anderson, and my mother as the sisters and Ruth Gordon as the dreadful sister - in - law.

«Mister Johnson,» now directed by Bruce Beresford in his first film since «Driving Miss Daisy,» tells the story of an African civil servant, known to all as Mister Johnson, who works as a clerk in the office of the British district administrator.

Get Out's early tension comes from Chris's discomfort around Rose's family and the odd behavior of their black «servants,» as Dean calls them; Missy's hypnotic attack is the first open acknowledgement of the Armitages» hostility.

She goes on to tell how the ensuing hardships forced her to become a servant and also led her to her first experiences of physical intimacy — and the personal struggles she endured as a consequence.

Some of the slaves worked in cities as craftsmen or domestic servants; but the plantation based on the monoculture, first of tobacco in Virginia and later of cotton throughout the Black Belt, was the involuntary home of the mass of Negro Americans.

In the first game, women existed largely as victims, servants, and sex workers, who communicated to the player that the misogyny and patriarchy they lived under was bad, but by failing to resist or challenge it, they also reinforced the idea that it was inevitable.

Burney worked as an architect at David Brody Bond until 1990, when he embarked on a 24 - year career as one of New York's key civil servants: first as director of design at NYCHA until 2003, and then as Commissioner of the City's Department of Design and Construction from 2004 until 2014.

To the extent that they think about it, most people imagine that when the Federal Government makes decisions on something as vital as the future of Australia's and the world's climate system, it will first seek advice from a range of sources including experts and public servants.

Heck, the very first line of the entire SourceWatch entry lists being said Technical Editor as your job, with the first paragraph making clear how you are a bought and paid for lapdog servant of Big Coal.

To help in turn the GC cope with a similar issue, the first EU specialised «judicial panel» was set up in 2005: Known as the EU Civil Service Tribunal (CST), the jurisdiction is exclusively limited to disputes between the EU and its civil servants and consists of 7 judges.