Sentences with phrase «church deacons»

One day I happened to mention to the head deacon (in that church the deacons were responsible for the money and the hiring and firing of staff) that in the previous twelve months the church had lost ten percent of the congregation.

Joe and Jane (who are not Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they brag about drinking alcohol and having sex), go straight to hell, where they are told by Satan (played by one of the church deacons) that they are destined to spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

In an interview Monday, a local Baptist official said the church leadership was trying to address the controversy and to move past it with the statement from church deacons.

Then you get to be a church deacon and help make decisions that «true believers» are left out of.

According to that site only two, Jefferson the church Deacon and Franklin were Deist.

But while Tanya is a church deacon and a board member at the new Kentucky Baptist Seminary in Lexington, Berry's relationship to the church may be more like that of his fictional character Jayber Crow, who attends church but sits in the back pew.

Sounds like they'd make a great church Deacon and Sunday school teacher.

My husband refused the down week in the canvas, The One That was to be forced was our church deacon claiming religous need but he used his church office to get my husband forced to work again.

Clegg, 64 — a Woodstock - based trial lawyer, church deacon and former public defender — plans to formally announce his candidacy at a July 9 event at the Senate Garage in Uptown Kingston.

His narrow, silvery beard gives him the appearance of a Dutch church deacon.

Alan Morris, a former teacher and church deacon, is jailed for a string of historic assaults on young boys Alexandria Vera, former middle school teacher impregnated by 13 - year - old sentenced to 10 years The Houston - area teacher was facing the possibility of a

He has also spent time as a church deacon, guitar hobbyist, and New Orleans Saints season ticket holder.

David L. Franklin, a church deacon, pleaded guilty in federal court to sending child pornography to an undercover D.C. police detective.

Not exact matches

Have the JPL scientists get jobs at his church as deacons, then have them hand out DVD's on evolution and the Big Bang theory after Sunday service and then see how accepting and open minded they are (G).

Then instead of attacking all Catholics in all of the ranting, attack the men who have committed these crimes, the boy scout leaders, teachers, coaches, next door neighbors as well as the priests, pastors and deacons of whatever church they are part of.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

«The deacons made an affirmation that First Baptist Church would be available to minister to anybody in the church or the commChurch would be available to minister to anybody in the church or the commchurch or the community.

When Kingman got wind of these two actions planned for the church, he called in the faculty deacons.

In the Church of England, deacons are normally ordained again, to the additional office of priest, one year after their initial ordination.

I was the victim of an adulterous husband who was a deacon, adult Bible teacher, usher, and very visible man - about - church.

Coll's extensive research leads her to conclude that while women can not be ordained priests, as part of this authentic development, the Church could «ordain» women as deacons.

Starting backwards with Coll's fourth point, that it is what deacons and deaconesses are rather than what they do that is significant for the Church, Coll explains that on the issue of ordination generally, the «ontological» versus «functional» debate continues (p207).

While each individual passage in Scripture bears consideration, my general approach toward elders is similar (though not identical) to that of other organic church proponents on the issue of elders and deacons.

Back in the States we most recently had been part of General Baptist churches we were usually involved as worship leaders and Sunday school teachers, my husband a deacon.

Every clergyperson — bishop, pastor, minister, elder, and deacon — knows what kinds of concerns reign in church business meetings, and those concerns DO NOT focus on «righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.»

I recently had to attend a «Deacons Day» outing as I am one of the deacons of the church in Deacons Day» outing as I am one of the deacons of the church in deacons of the church in London.

Sister Florence Deacon, OSF, describes her view of the Church:

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

In Paul's epistles to the churches in Homes, who are the preachers, deacons, reverends, where is there a set time to be in church, who is in charge what did they do when they came together, remember there was no book called a bible at the time.

In the church it could be deacon, elder, pastor.

EPC requires all churches to hold to «essential» tenets of the Christian faith, but allows each congregation freedom in forming opinions on «nonessential» matters, such as whether women can be elected as deacons and elders.

The offices in the Church from Ephesians are are Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor / Teacher and in the ancient church the only offices in the church were Bishop, Pastor and DChurch from Ephesians are are Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor / Teacher and in the ancient church the only offices in the church were Bishop, Pastor and Dchurch the only offices in the church were Bishop, Pastor and Dchurch were Bishop, Pastor and Deacon.

When our church licensed a woman to the preaching ministry over a decade ago, almost all the male deacons and many women members opposed the action by appealing to tradition and selected Scripture passages.

Scripturally Deacon led churches are plain wrong.

They are wonderful people to have in a church — deacons and deaconesses.

At best they offer «crumbs to the beggars» (the wording I heard the head deacon of one church say in regards to this issue).

She had been attending the church for some time, but when one of the deacons asked if she was giving her tithe to the church, she said that she could not afford to.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Then, when the board of deacons decides that you really need to raise money to compete with the church across town, you go back to the mission statement and say, «well, gentlemen, just how does that fit with who we are?»

It tells many of you who want to offer sacrifices for the good of the church — countless hours of volunteer service as elders and deacons or a lifetime in demanding and low - paid pastoral ministries — that your life choices are so much more sinful than the rest of ours that we've had to erect special barriers to keep you from laying your gifts at the altar.

(1) the deaconesses in the early Church, from the evidence related to their rites of institution and their functions, «were not purely and simply equivalent to the deacons»; and

Bill Deacon: Moral responsibility lies with the person, not with the church.

@ Bill Deacon, Sorry Bill, but during the last last Bush election, the catholic church ordered their membership to vote against the democratic candidate in violation of their 501c3 status, not support a candidate but an order.

The main biblical evidence is (1) the stories of the creation (Gen.I: 26 - 27 with 5:1 - 2; 2:18 - 25) and the fall (3:16 - 20); (2) Jesus» respect for women, whom he consistently treated as men's equals (Luke 8:1 - 3; 10:38 - 42; 11:28 - 28; 13:10 - 17; 21:1 - 4; Mark 5:22 - 42; John 4:7 - 38; 8:3 - 11; 12:1 - 8; (3) references to women ministering in the apostolic church by prophesying, leading in prayer, teaching, practicing Samaritanship both informally and as widows and deacons, and laboring in the gospel with Apostles (Acts 2:17 - 21; 9:36 - 42; 18:24 - 26; 21:9 Rom.

My dad was an IFB church pastor who was screwed over royally by the deacons in the last IFB church he pastored.

@Bill Deacon, If churches were «sovereign» then they wouldn't need 501 status nor would they need to follow labor laws, civil rights, etc...

Where I served my curacy as a deacon was a very traditional evangelical church.

Pete, right on!I personally grew up in the church, my mother is the head deacon but I constantly questioned the Bible and the faith.

Listen to the apostle's words (in chapter 16 of Romans): «I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae... greet Prisca and Aquila, who work with me in Christ Jesus... greet Mary, who has worked very hard among you.

1) To me church is not a church unless it has elders / deacons or has an evangelist that is working in building those things up.