Bill was brought on staff at
a church as the Pastor of Assimilation.
I soon realized that I could not effectively serve God or
the church as a pastor, even if I have a pastoral heart in some respects.
Then I served
the church as a pastor for about 30 years, studying the bible and theology day in and day out.
This is why going to
church as a pastor's husband is never just «going to church.»
While I ended up fully committing to an evangelical
church as a pastor, I still carry rich lessons that the Jesuits challenged me with during those formative years.
Not exact matches
As a
pastor, Young's income «was all over the place,» he says, and so were the gigs — he was constantly moving his family to a different town or state with every new
church.
I doubt that in a local
church in your area this Sunday you'll hear a
pastor or a theologian share on the beauty of dancing
as a spiritual offering of love to God.
Sometimes I feel the need to do a cartoon such
as this one to show that I do not hate the
church or despise
pastors and congregations.
Each of us was installed
as a
pastor on Good Shepherd Sunday in April 1961, he at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran
Church in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, and I across the East River at Trinity Lutheran
Church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
In 2006, he stepped down from the pulpit
as senior
pastor but continued to preach and to sit on the
church board.
Everything for me
as a
pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the
church.
My one fear about coming out
as a
pastor with gay leaders is that folks will assume I have an agenda to make all
churches like mine.
Why when it's a
pastor, people always take that
as a reason to insult Faith and the
church.
As a female
pastor for 14 years I've been discouraged by the growing trend of 20 - 30's who are going in huge numbers to
churches that do not allow female
pastors.
And if you say you are not trying to destroy, then I ask you, did you start the
church you are a part of, or did you come to the
church as a new
pastor and are now trying to deconstruct?
For those of you who don't know, Mark Driscoll is
pastor of Mars Hill
Church in Seattle, Washington, who has become quite a controversial figure in today's church and Christianity, as well as curiou
Church in Seattle, Washington, who has become quite a controversial figure in today's
church and Christianity, as well as curiou
church and Christianity,
as well
as curiously...
This decision should not be interpreted
as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand
churches, only a few dozen have female
pastors), but rather
as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.
As many of you know he is the
pastor of Vintage Faith
Church in Santa Cruz, California and has been one of the leading voices for the emergent / missional movement.
It isn't always so easy to rebrand oneself when you have a 10 year work history
as a
pastor of a small
church, a worthless Th.M degree, mountains of student loan debt, and a family to feed.
Pastor is
as critical to the
church as the Sr..
I feel I can comment on the effect of the naked
pastor's blog on me, and whether
pastors can and should say these things in general, but
as for whether or not it beneficial for the
church members of his
church, surely it is only for them to say, and perhaps not online..?
Nestled in the picturesque Bavarian Alps, Ettal became a sanctuary for Bonhoeffer
as he found himself zwischen den Zeiten — still officially a
pastor of the Confessing
Church charged with training ordinands for ministry, yet drawn inexorably into a conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.
Eugene Peterson — translator of The Message and author of all my favorite books — described a period of boredom while serving
as the
pastor of Christ our King Presbyterian
Church near Baltimore, Maryland.
And so, to the
pastor of a very traditional
church, maintaining the look and feel of the traditions can seem almost
as important
as the reason these patterns exist.
Pastor Mike Wilkerson of Mars Hill
Church in Seattle says it best: «Shame is often both the consequence of giving in to an addiction the last time,
as well
as the precondition for giving in to it next time, resulting in more shame.»
What is the balance, if any, of a
pastor having a «vision» for the
church as though God only speaks through him and the team fulfills that vision with their gifts and abilities, and with the
church working together under the direction of elderS (plural) for all people to use their gifts and abilities for God's vision for all people?
Pastor Gary Williams of New Life Assembly Church is not just the pastor but a miner as
Pastor Gary Williams of New Life Assembly
Church is not just the
pastor but a miner as
pastor but a miner
as well.
As a
pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my
church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.
I grew up in a bully pulpit
church and no one ever referred to the
pastor as anything other than «Pastor» in person or «The Pastor» in the 3rd p
pastor as anything other than «
Pastor» in person or «The Pastor» in the 3rd p
Pastor» in person or «The
Pastor» in the 3rd p
Pastor» in the 3rd person.
And in O'Malley's defense, it must be remembered that he is the
pastor of a local
church which may aptly be described
as an ecclesiastical Chernobyl, the ground zero of the American abuse crisis.
For good or ill,
pastors will have a major role in determining the future of the
church and our country, but not primarily
as pastor - Congressmen.
But wondering if that would work out they decided to push on
churches to spread and depute
pastors to travel to those countries for preaching and converting masses to bring those countries in to division among them selves for easier penetration in the name of saving Christian believers or generate hate and fights among them
as with the operation that Egypt recently had and accused Muslims for it just to bring Egypt in to division for in the end to call for separation of the country in to more than one
as one Islamic and one Christian just
as being planed for Sudan North and South!?
I know some avid
church attenders who are willing to judge themselves
as honestly
as they judge those «outside» the chosen
church and who do not play the «My
Pastor's Doctrinally Bigger Than Your
Pastor» but they are few and far between.
That the pope is such a distinguished scholar is a great gift to the
Church, but in this,
as in the first encyclical, one has to wonder whether the right balance has been struck between the professor and the
pastor.
What's more the
church you
pastor is pulling in 10,000 of what is widely regarded
as the missing generation in many
churches in the UK and the US - the 20s and 30somethings.
As continuing licensed ministers, their roles were normally limited to being associate
pastors of
churches, hospital chaplains or religion teachers, and their functions were also restricted.
I am sorry but I
pastor a
church and don't use
church as a vocation.
In 1961, Richard John Neuhaus was installed
as pastor of St. John's Lutheran
Church in Brooklyn.
I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed
as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary
church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead
Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I pr
Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building -
pastor» gig, I pr
pastor» gig, I promise.
«We were not acting out of hate,
as many thought,» says Douglas Hacker,
pastor of the Sherwood Oaks Christian
Church, whose views represent another group of ministers who disagreed with Miller's statement.
During his period in Strasbourg, Calvin served
as a
pastor to a local French «language
church at the invitation of Strasbourg's great reformer, Martin Bucer, who also introduced him to the widow who would later become Calvin's wife.
As a retired AF Chaplain and current
pastor whose son also expressed his displeasure with the hypocrisy and hatred in the
church I couldn't agree with you more!
As soon as God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministr
As soon
as God would have it, I wouldn't even serve as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministr
as God would have it, I wouldn't even serve
as a pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead, church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministr
as a
pastor and with number dwindling I would prefer to be an effective «CELL GROUP» killing the overhead,
church drama and get down to the nuts and bolts of ministry.
In the United
Church of Zambia, a
pastor may serve
as many
as eight or ten congregations.
But this deaf
pastor was a bully to many others in
church as well.
the scriptures do not claim
as you state «infallible word of God» ------ Well, this is something I've been hearing for years, in
church from
pastors and in person from christians.
Some observers think that the feminization of the
church, evident in the declining percentage of men taking part in
church life, will be aggravated if inclusive language is employed or, worse, if a woman is called
as pastor.
Many seminarians will become
pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false»
church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things
as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.
As a
pastor and a long term «member» of the
Church, I pretty much agree with Jeremy, and you make exactly my point.
In Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), Kevin DeYoung, the senior
pastor at University Reformed
Church in East Lansing, and Ted Kluck, a sportswriter who has written for ESPN, are quick to admit that they «don't think of our emergent sparring partners
as «the bad guys.