Sentences with phrase «becoming leaders in the church»

Only few years ago, the LDS allow blacks, but not sure if they can become leaders in the Church.

The Lord Christ requires a man to rule his own household well before he can become a leader in the church.

Within our schools academic excellence is further enhanced by Catholic values which foster the growth of our students as truthful, generous, and joyful people capable of becoming leaders in the Church and our world.

Not exact matches

Announced in 2009, the Catholic Church program enables Anglicans to become Catholic and recognize the pope as their leader, yet have parishes that retain Anglican rites, Vatican officials have said.

I will add that these early church leaders of the Latter Day Saints, that I have mentioned, engaged in this brotherly goodwill long before it became in vogue and popularly accepted by the general population of the United States.

Some Christians think Jesus is leading them to leave the church they are in so they can go to seminary and become a pastor or church leader.

The Catholic church signed the Reichkonkordat (Reich Concordat) with Hitler on July 20, 1933, with Cardinal Pacelli (who later became Pope Pius XII in 1939) and Franz von Papen (became vice-chancellor of Germany after marshalling Catholic Action and leaders of industry to oppose communism) signing the concordat as their agents.

Fu took the chance behind the podium to share his personal story, telling how he was a student leader in 1989 at Tiananmen Square, then became a pastor of a house church in China.

Clergy and church officials should press this formulation on business and political leaders who, despite all the claims that the mainline has become sideline, are still found in disproportionate numbers in the oldline churches.

He grew up in a legalistic church, and became a prominent leader in a well known, legalistic, Christian denomination.

Furthermore, from the Christian sight, a man, which has become a leader of a heretical church is to treat harsh, in order to show him that something is wrong.

Not much later Peter became one of the foremost leaders in the church.

He and Other remarkably popular visionary leaders caused the period of the early republic to become, according to historian Nathan Hatch, «the most centrifugal epoch in American church history.»

My American youth pastor had a big impact on my life and when he left, I became a youth leader and carried responsibility for ministry in the wider church.

Have leaders and congregants become so programmed by ecclesiastical tradition as to be sincere yet misguided in a way that makes Christian community and worship unattractive or even repulsive and not just to people outside of the church.

Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.

In 1993, Kathleen Richardson was elected president of the Conference, becoming the first female head of the Methodist Church and one of just a handful of British denominational leaders who are female.

People from our church have gone on to become home group and worship leaders elsewhere because they had training in a small environment.

The results of this strategy included the effective destruction of the Church in Hungary, whose leadership became a subsidiary of the Hungarian communist party; the thorough penetration of the Vatican by Warsaw Pact intelligence agencies (to the benefit of communist negotiators); and the undercutting of Catholic leaders in Poland and in what was then Czechoslovakia.

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.

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.

Once Church teaching becomes just one opinion among many in the public square, as well as becoming an embarrassment to prominent Christian leaders, then God is being gagged.

It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.

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.

For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciting.

Especially in the case of churches that suffer the entry of different, eager pastors every few years and that become indifferent to their prodding, new leaders are advised to appreciate the church's existing story before attempting to twist it.

In short, for a little money and a little effort denominational leaders could transform their seminaries and their relation to the church, but if, and only if, they themselves become serious about the role of theology in the churcIn short, for a little money and a little effort denominational leaders could transform their seminaries and their relation to the church, but if, and only if, they themselves become serious about the role of theology in the churcin the church.

The audience circa AD 70 presumably would say something like: «If the closest male and female followers failed Jesus and still became admired figures and leaders in the churches, surely we too can be forgiven and serve God.»

Dr Rachel Jordan, national mission and evangelism adviser for the Church of England, said: «The aim was to gather key Christian leaders to focus on evangelism; to understand the current trends in our population with regard to Christian faith and to commit to prayer and action together to help many more people become followers of Jesus.»

The solution that is put forward by some religious leaders is that the church should become much more actively involved in the media of our time.

The church and its ordained leaders have become reactive, whether in letting the world set our agenda or in simply responding to the many requests that come our way daily.

Writing to fellow churches across Pennsylvania, the association's leaders explained that through Bucknell, they sought «to see... the cause of God, the honor and glory of the Redeemer's kingdom promoted in all our bounds, and spreading far and wide until the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ.»

As a result of the initiative, more than 7,500 lives have been saved from abortion; 33 abortion facilities have closed; crisis pregnancy centres that offer real choices for life and for unborn babies have flourished; previously uninvolved church communities have become active in supporting the pro-life cause; new leaders have emerged in the pro-life movement; and a whole variety of newcomers have got involved in pro-life activities.

One of the leaders of this national outreach program spoke in our church one Sunday and his child had the wonderful testimony of becoming violent with other toddlers in the nursery, both morning and night services.

Pagels and Ehrman tell a similar story: Under the threat of persecution, certain church leaders, especially Irenaeus, became convinced that Christianity could survive only if it became more unified in doctrine and structure.

Even though Fascism remained ideologically eclectic and chaotic — Gentile's systematizations never had any organic connection with the movement — and in large measure it was simply the acting out on the national stage of some of the less pleasant aspects of the Italian underculture — the band of thugs tied to their leader in bonds of personal loyalty — it did develop an ideological style and became once in power, a church, as Jemolo describes it:

Earlier she had asked the diaconate of that all - white church in a town 98 percent white to invite a black seminarian to become a student assistant and worship leader every Sunday for a year.

It began to flourish, when in 1559 Theodore Beza, who was to become Calvin's successor as the leader of the church of Geneva, assumed its rectorship.

It has become the problem of the suburban pastor in his dealing with his most sensitive church leaders and youth.

She was reported to have become angry that she was not called first to be anointed and stormed out despite entreaties from the women leaders in the church.

In the interview, which will be shown exclusively on Channel 4 News at 7 pm tonight, the Tory leader becomes confused when questioned on MEP votes for homophobic legislation, and UK votes on civil partnerships in Quaker churches — specifically on whether those votes would be free or whipped for his MPIn the interview, which will be shown exclusively on Channel 4 News at 7 pm tonight, the Tory leader becomes confused when questioned on MEP votes for homophobic legislation, and UK votes on civil partnerships in Quaker churches — specifically on whether those votes would be free or whipped for his MPin Quaker churches — specifically on whether those votes would be free or whipped for his MPs.

GP - write debuted prematurely in May 2016, when an invitation - only meeting at Harvard became public and sparked a media firestorm about the lack of transparency for an initiative that to some people sounded like a plan to create genetically enhanced humans — the leaders say it isn't, although Church wasn't shy when musing about designer humans in a 2012 book he authored.

Eventually enrolling in Bible school, he finds a girlfriend (Roberts) and goes on to become the religious leader of his own church.

, Morris also volunteered as a youth leader at her church assembly, where she became aware of how prominently technology figures in the lives of young people today.

Formerly employed in the outreach department of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Morris also volunteered as a youth leader at her church assembly, where she became aware of how prominently technology figures in the lives of young people today.

As the role of lay leaders in the Church becomes more and more important, our goal is to provide Catholic schools in New York with the best leaders for the future.

Catalyst was created to focus on leaders under the age of 40, and it creates a dynamic attendee experience through high - profile speakers, praise and worship and a call to become the «change agent» in their local organizations, churches and communities.

The two most recent ministers of the former St George's West Church were the Rev Peter J. Macdonald (1998 — 2008), who went on to become the leader of the Iona Community, and the Rev Robert L. Glover (1985 — 1997), who became minister at Chalmers Memorial Church in Cockenzie and Port Seton, East Lothian.

Ildi's parents made sure that the mother language would not be forgotten by attending Hungarian School Classes at the Hungarian Community Church in Toronto and in her high school days, became a Girl Scout Leader with the Hungarian Community.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS * Coached a Novice Wrestling Team to become top twenty in the state of California for two consecutive years * Promoted to shift leader after six months of working at Sodexo * Awarded Bloss Academic Scholarship PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS * Treasurer for St. Patrick's church youth group for the summer of 2011 * After School Volunteer at Mitchell Senior elementary from Jan 2010 to March 2011 August2014 - May2015 April 2012 - January 2013 2015.