Sentences with phrase «church by a pastor»

But being hung up on voting every action, a meeting was called after church by the pastor with all the ladies, (what?

I've been interested in heretics since I was 17 (23 years ago) and was encouraged to leave my church by the pastors.

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Summary: «When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.»

@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?

This is all the more likely in light of the recent narrow acquittal by a church tribunal of a pastor on the charges that he violated church law by performing a wedding ceremony for two lesbian members of his Omaha, Nebraska, congregation.

We have a large mega style church here in Lexington where the lead Pastor succumbed to his own Ego fanned by rapid growth in numbers and peer recognition of his amazing «success».

Also the church followers grew and they spent 50 million $ $ to buy land and build a monumental cathedral dedicated to the Carnival Pastor, (which was much later burned down by fellow countryman.)

By the way, using your logic, churches and pastors that turn gays away at the door would not be showing or bearing fruit of the spirit, but many are.

I heard a pastor the other day say that his church's giving was down by 50 percent.

The letter was also signed by Paul Barker from Quakers in Britain and Ali Johnson, an associate pastor at Swan Bank Methodist Church near Southampton.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

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.

If that is what you are intending to say, are you suggesting that similar woudn't be happening in churches led by female pastors?

i really would love to be led by somebody who feels what i feel and is courageous enough to say that even though he is the pastor and this is his church and there is nothing to be afraid of because Christ found us and not the other way around, yet he still gets scared.

There was still silence when, at around the same time, the sons of pastor Alexander Pavenko of the charismatic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were murdered by separatists in the city of Slavyansk, when the priests of the Patriarchate of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and when Greek Catholic priests were tortured by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»

Trying to be someone else and trying to live up to expectations put on you by a Pastor or church moral police is what leads people to sneak to do things and feel guilty about doing the things that make them happy.

I worked in a small church in Kansas once, and after about 3 months I figured out that all the real major decisions, including if the pastor got paid that week, were not made by the elders, the board or congregational vote.

Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the church leadership say more than a sentence to when he did go with her to church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.

By the nature of the blog, and the fact that he pastor's a church, that gives in some authority in some peoples minds.

Here is the headline, pastors at a vast majority of church's do nt handle the finances... and oh, by the way, if all Christians are so corrupt, who pays for the billions of dollars in humaintarian aid through the Red Cross each year?

However, many of those were older, more traditional churches led by entrenched, autocratic pastors well into their 60s and composed of a congregation and worship style that was far from contemporary.

Henry G. Brinton, a pastor at Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia, writes that the Bible was used a weapon by both the North and the South.

When we decided to leave that church, I was told by the pastor's wife that we could not be friends anymore because I wasn't committed to them, that I had been like a «live - in girlfriend» because I had been fellowshipping with them and had decided to leave them.

I had been verbally and mentally abused by church leaders before (and came close to suicide several times), so my experiences with this pastor were the last straw.

I fear that by trying to guilt people into keeping their butts in the pew, pastors will be fighting against what God is doing in the church.

I was told this by the church — but anger was generally expressed from the pastor in a more passive agressive way...

By visiting the sick, organizing the church and developing an urban ministry, the pastor imbued the members of the congregation with a new sense of confidence in their value to one another and, in particular, to the neighborhood.

It's true that persecution still endures — and it's been meticulously documented each year by the Texas - based ChinaAid, an organization founded by a former Chinese house - church pastor who was himself targeted once.

The Independent Church — run by a whole family and controlled by the mother of the pastor.

Many pastors and churches use Malachi 3:8 («Will a man rob God») to guilt people into giving to the church while the church is robbing the poor of that which is rightfully theirs by misappropriating these funds into salaries, buildings, etc..

But the pastor's vision prevailed, and «by 1998, the church was averaging 50 baptisms per year and 635 in attendance.»

The pregnancy was overshadowed by all the upset at church with the pastor leaving and the church splitting, and although we did go back for a short while when they had a new pastor, we moved to a more established church afterwards.

Beware the man that tells you that all your disposable time, and your assets, should be sacrificed to advance the mission of the church............ a mission defined not by God but by the man who claims to be his representative...... the pastor at your local mega church.

I beg Thom Rainer (and all the Seminary Presidents and Mega Church Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communChurch Pastors who endorsed I Am a Church Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communChurch Member) to recognize that many people may be leaving the institutional church, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch, not because they have given up on church, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch, are abandoning Jesus, or are bad church members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch members, but because they are good church members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch members and they want to be the church by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communchurch by following Jesus into their neighborhoods and communities.

If a gay person wants to get married in a church by a priest or pastor, the gay rights trumps the Christian doctrine.

Like todays mega church pastors he was always on a quest to grow his church by any means necessary because doing so further enriched him.

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.

The move comes after a letter — signed by Kensrue and several fellow church leaders — asking that Pastor Mark Driscoll step down for a time and seek «restoration» following numerous controversies, was leaked to the media.

I was even threatened with «consequences» by one of his buddy Pastors at a sister WELS church if I even talk about any of it.

I have been bullied by two deaf pastors in the baptist churches.

The words of his Appeal to Europe are now engraved in the crypt, by the relics of St James: «I, Bishop of Rome and Pastor of the Universal Church, from Santiago, send to you, old Europe, a cry full of love: Come back and find yourself.

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

I will never again stand by a theology simply because it is what I am taught, or because the pastor of the church I go to believes it.

Lerone A. Marti, an assistant professor of American religious history at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, wrote that church folks who stick by unrepentant pastors have a lot to learn about forgiveness and accountability.

By contrast, when I attended a gathering of pastors from much smaller churches, nickel - and - dime operations with meager attendance on Sundays, barely able to support their pastors, I did not hear the pastors talk about improving their facilities or putting together a smoother operation for Jesus.

All those claiming the schools and the church was wrong, listen he taught theological courses at a theological school, which by definition means that you have to be a person of faith (not to mention that these are not theological schools at state or public universities but denominational theological schools) and to pastor or counsel a church you again by definition have to be a person of faith.

Would you like to read the discernment letter written by Doug Pagitt, Brad Cecil, Mile King, Mark Scandrette and Brian McLaren and Danielle Shroyer from Dallas, Texas where Danielle was the Pastor of Courtney's home and emergent church?

In a lecture on «The Renewal of the Inner City Church,» Jim Wallis told a group of pastors true stories of declining inner - city churches that had, by the grace of God, rediscovered their mission and begun to thrive.

For instance, I tracked the Beaverton Grace Bible Church defamation lawsuit, where five former church members were sued for $ 500,000 by their former pastor and his cChurch defamation lawsuit, where five former church members were sued for $ 500,000 by their former pastor and his cchurch members were sued for $ 500,000 by their former pastor and his churchchurch.

Sanctuary Under the Sky, which meets in a high school parking lot in Lucas, Texas, is the third outdoor church launched by Pastor David Ray, according to CNN Dallas / Fort Worth affiliate WFAA.