Sentences with phrase «called to the ministry of»

We weren't called to a ministry of correct doctrine even.

We weren't called to a ministry of exposing false teachers.

We weren't called to a ministry of I'm - right - and - you're - wrong.

We weren't called to a ministry of critical thinking or criticism.

So stop asking whether or not anyone wants it or needs it, and simply do it because you were made to do it, because it makes you fully alive to do it, because you are working out what God has already worked in, because it matters, because you are called to the ministry of reconciliation, because the seeds might just catch and someday, perhaps, you'll sit by the banks of river under the spreading branches of a tree of righteousness.

More and more I am feeling the Lord may be calling me to a ministry of teaching equality of the sexes.

We might say that we tolerate Ananias and Sapphira because we are called to a ministry of service and compassion, even when people are wealthy liars.

In the new order, all are priests, called to the ministry of bodybuilding.

Not exact matches

It has also created a Government Revitalization Unit that is now attempting to pare trillions of yen of what Hatoyama calls «wasteful spending» from next year's ministry budgets.

The report on Brazil's Globo television on Sunday night said the metadata of phone calls and emails from and to the Brazilian ministry were targeted by the Communications Security Establishment Canada.

She described his call to ministry as «one of the greatest stumbling blocks in our married life».

Confident in the strength of their unique perceived gifts and calling, many leaders angst over the ins and outs of daily ministry while barely making time to listen.

Justin Brierley tells the story of his grandfather, Geoffrey Mowat, whose prisoner of war experience under the Japanese led to his call to ministry within the Church of England.

Larry, a widely experience overseer of a denominational region, for example, has frequently observed the tendency of leaders to allow their practice of ministry to become their identity over time, meaning that their call to ministry becomes so intertwined with doing ministry in a certain mode that they lost the ability to see the difference.

God calls us to do ministry out of imagination.

We are call called to the ministry of reconciliation, but we must do so only under the power of the Holy Spirit — no more, no less.

All equal, male / female, slave / free, Jew / Greek... All are called to ministry through all walks of life.

The best of what I am calling Pentecostal mysticism envisions a «worldly» ministry in which «the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached to them.»

But, again, not all are called to Paul's ministry, and not all have Paul's gifts or his sense of an imminent end.

You mentioned that when you heard the call to ministry the dynamic of things changed in your life.

I suspect this to be true of many who are called to ministry and to leadership.

- What if we were reminded that we're not responsible for being «successful» in ministry, but we are responsible for being faithful to the calling that God has laid out for us — regardless of the outcome?

Any book will fall short of meeting every situation, but this one is a good general call to at least think about our personal ministry and how it applies to group ministry.

The charism of celibacy is not essential to the priestly vocation, though there is a full givenness to the calling and ministry when that is present.

Much of Paul's apostolic ministry in the New Testament is aimed at helping believers recognize those differences and then calling them back to individual and corporate lives that reflect the risen One.

In what might be called an early example of collaborative ministry Jan Tyranowski was asked to form a Living Rosary group among the youth of the parish.

No wonder that when he returns to begin his ministry, one of his first actions is to call disciples.

For 2,000 years, men and women have tried to discern a call and find their way in the ministry, only to find a world of expectations that can not be met.

Others have noticed this same thing, and we receive daily e-mails and phone calls from people saying they are prayerfully supporting Bob Wilkin, myself, and the ministry of Grace Evangelical Society as we continue to present the offer of eternal life to all who believe in Jesus for it.

In yet another crusade meeting in Nakonde Zambia, I meet a young man who was pastoring a church of about 300 who was saved and called to the ministry in one of my meetings.

But pastoral care is the ministry of the whole congregation — not just those individuals who happen to be ordained or called into the formal leadership of the church.

Few of these men, however, felt «called» to ministry.

Most of us run from sadness and pain, but she went back to school after her children were raised precisely because she felt called to sit in those thin places with the hope of Christ, bearing the ministry of simple presence and comfort.

I could go on for pages on this, but I agree that Pastors have a right to receive support from their ministry, but God calls us to give up our rights, all of them, to bring others to Him.

She answered her call to ministry at the age of 15, and has been preaching, teaching and pastoring in the local church ever since.

For Bell, moving on from the church after 13 years at the helm was simply a response to being called by God into other forms of ministry.

These charisms may well be called the democratic aspects of the Church, especially as it is evident from dogmatic ecclesiology as well as from church history that this freely working Spirit can be active not only in the official ministry of the Church but also in every individual of the demos, that is to say of the people of God.

It was during those same years that I felt and responded to the call to ministry, but because of my new awareness of the intellectual world and its marginalization of my beliefs, I decided to immerse myself in that world before going to seminary.

Paul Song says he was falsely accused of calling one inmate a «terrorist», claiming the true motivation behind his removal was to clampdown on Christian ministry.

I've known I've been called to ministry since I was a child and played pastor with my stuffed animals by giving them pieces of bread and grape juice enacting the Sacrament.

It may be, especially as the Greek word pais can mean both «son» and «servant», that the title was a way of interpreting Jesus» ministry in the light of passages in Isaiah which speak of a Suffering Servant, who was called to be a «covenant for the people and a light for the gentiles» (Isa.

«Since then, seminary education, various internships and four years of ordained ministry have confirmed that I was made for this, that God is calling me to this.

Liberation theology looks to the words of Jesus in Luke 4 where he describes his call to ministry (echoing the words of the ancient prophet Isaiah) and at the ways that he included many of the outcast (women, Samaritans, tax collectors, etc.) in his ministry and parable.

While guarding against a rush to judgment, we can easily think of ministries that are pushing all or many of the current success buttons: they are carried out by a professional elite; they utilize the best marketing and media techniques; they dispense a personal fulfillment strategy to essentially anonymous folk who are regarded as consumers and called to respond in carefully prescribed ways which do not implicate them or their leadership in the more complex and controversial human issues.

Thus, mainline churches continue to offer what Becker calls the «standard package» of family ministries that were institutionalized earlier in the century for married couples with children.

And when I write «the complete chain of events» I mean the complete chain, beginning with God eternal love for humanity, including the creation of mankind and their subsequent fall, and going through God's calling of Israel, His work through them during their checkered history, the birth, life, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus, and looking forward to the return of Jesus and the new heavens, the new earth, and our eternal existence with God.

The leaders of the churches in the past were more concerned with the character of their people and their calling to be God's people and to do God's ministry.

Many turn - of - the - century Holiness bodies, archetypically the Nazarenes and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, understood their special calling to be ministry to the poor, especially those in the inner cities — and this impulse was epitomized in the Salvation Army.

Let him do well what he normally does in the common life, and this will be the principal indication of his hearing God's particular call to him, and of carrying out his particular ministry as a result.

It affirmed that the ministry is a gift of God through Christ to his church, and is essential to the being and well - being of the church, that men gifted for the work of the ministry, called by the Spirit and accepted by the church, are commissioned through an act of ordination by prayer and the laying on of hands.