Sentences with phrase «charismatic pastor»

The more charismatic the pastor, the more likely his or her church will practice a wide range of the gifts.

Congregational polity has allowed charismatic pastors the freedom to foster expressively charismatic churches in sometimes innovative ways.

As sociologist of religion Hilario Wynarzcyk explains, the sociological profile of these churches includes leadership by charismatic pastors and a system of practices that stresses divine healing, personal prosperity, spiritual warfare, ecstatic trances accompanied by speaking in tongues, laughing and fainting and liberation from evil spirits.

Leading charismatic pastors tended to de-emphasize tongues - speaking as the required sign of the «baptism of the Holy Spirit.»

Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by charles marsh knopf, 528 pages, $ 35 Dietrich Bonhoeffer's appeal is no mystery: charismatic pastor, brilliant theologian, dedicated ecumenist, and anti-Nazi conspirator whose death at the age of thirty - nine terminated a life still ripe with promise....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's appeal is no mystery: charismatic pastor, brilliant theologian, dedicated ecumenist, and anti-Nazi conspirator whose death at the age of thirty - nine terminated a life still ripe with promise.

#BattleForLewisham is a start, but for the charismatic pastor with a passion for social justice (full disclosure: I'm a member of his church), it's not enough.

Only a stone's throw from LA's surf city Huntington Beach, the church grew rapidly under the ministry of its charismatic pastor Chuck Smith in the late 60s.

This generation seeks entertainment in church and charismatic pastors.

The charismatic pastor is widely known for making a video in which he laments the corruption and poverty of his homeland, referring often to the flag draped over his shoulders.

Thumma and Davis break down megachurches into four types: the «old - line, program - based» church; the «seeker» church; the «charismatic pastor - focused» church; and the «new wave / reenvisioned» church.

From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her «second father,» when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for a better life in America.