Sentences with phrase «calling than the ministry»

The line is, I think, between those who see such teaching as a form of ministry and those who disassociate teaching from ministry and regard religious teaching as a «higher» calling than the ministry.

Not exact matches

Maybe ministry works better as a special interest, an unpaid calling, rather than a career.

So rather than wearing out my voice in calling for an end to evangelicalism's culture wars, I think it's time to focus on finding and creating church among its many refugees — women called to ministry, our LGBTQ brother and sisters, science - lovers, doubters, dreamers, misfits, abuse survivors, those who refuse to choose between their intellectual integrity and their faith or their compassion and their religion, those who have, for whatever reason, been «farewelled.»

The institutional mechanisms that demand credentials over calling and encourage large bureaucratic congregations rather than small charismatic ones are easing the prophetic daughters out of the ordained ministry.

The secret call as always remains important, but in the conception of the ministry that is emerging out of the Biblical and systematic theology of the day and out of the personal reflections of young people and their pastors, the divine action whereby men are chosen for their station and calling is less spiritualistically understood than was the case for the past hundred years.

The ministry as a «profession» rather than a calling has encouraged the rush toward ecclesiastical preferment, with clergy jostling one another like bumper cars in order to secure the most prestigious placements.

Once more, differences in historic definitions of the ministry are less due to exclusive insistence on some one interpretation of what constitutes a call than to variations in the emphasis placed on the various elements present in every call.

The reality and the power of our call to ministry are more immediate than that: we should care for them not because they «are Christ» but because they are human, and because they need us.

It appears to them and it appears to me that many churches, ministries are more influenced by culture, more influenced by political ideology, more influenced by American nationalism than by the radical demands by Jesus to live as exiles and sojourners and refugees in this alien world called America.

The emphasis upon order has less to do with ecclesiastical lock step than with what has been called «representative» ministry.

It is now more than sixteen years since I was called away from a parish and a pulpit to assume the ministry of teaching.

On the other hand, many of us who are called into ministry or humanitarian work are tempted to believe the lie that our work is more important than that of others.

It is easy to think that there is a sort of calling hierarchy, where people in ministry have a godlier calling than those of us who have normal jobs.

«In the midst of all my joys, in less than half an hour after my soul was set at liberty, the Lord discovered to me my labor in the ministry and call to preach the gospel.

The missionary «call» led to more than one type of ministry.

I want to teach and train them to do what God has called them to do rather than simply do their ministry for them.

He calls for the admission not of unturbulent people but of men and women, in his words, «who see the ministry more as a mission than (as) a haven.

Paul's Damascus road experience was a call to a particular ministry rather than a conversion.

US departments are called departments rather than ministries, because a minister is an assistant (the word is etymologically connected to minor) to the king.

If you are considering becoming a veterinarian in 2016, consider it a calling, - like the ministry or priesthood - rather than a typical professional vocation.

Quebec's justice ministry has been the main driver in the development of so - called therapeutic or restorative justice projects, which look at crime through the accused's mental illness and global state rather than the legal details.

Quebec's justice ministry has been the main driver in the development of these so - called therapeutic or restorative justice projects, which look at crime through the accused's mental illness and global state rather than the legal details.

But I have been called into a ministry of counseling for even longer than that, and I call myself a «pastoral counselor», first and foremost.