Sentences with phrase «church leaders see»

In my experience, most church leaders see that as a threat.

As business / charitable activities has led me into relationships with the Eastern Orthodox Church, Father P ***, Bish S **** introduced as Father («call no man father») as well as church leaders I see very ill informed laiety (some exceptions), with a biblical worldview supplanted by a cultural denominational world view.The concept of Grace is overwhelmed by works, sacraments, membership.

Over the past couple years I have been very encouraged by the fact that many church leaders see orphan care not as a missional add - on but as a vital aspect of what the church is to be and do missionally.

After the conversion of Constantine, the church leaders saw that using the power of the Roman Empire and the threat of the sword would help them gain glory, riches, honor, prestige, land, and wealth.

Not exact matches

Numerous tools quickly sprang up letting anyone see whether an email address was included in the dump; one person reached out to say they «got a call, from our church leaders yesterday, saying my husband's work email was on [Ashley Madison email checker], oh my!»

In March of 2014, the leaders of all the autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Churches met in Istanbul, the sacred see of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which historically (since at least the fifth century) coordinates such....

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When leaders of a church are in it for themselves, for their self - promotion, and for their enrichment, then members will see through that and leave.

Religion is one of the greatest con games ever and if you fail to see that, just look at the Catholic church - they're not rich without reason... since religion began the leaders have seen dollar signs.

«We see it in the compassion of church leaders and volunteers who visit our hospitals, care homes and hospices - and those who comfort the bereaved.

I can't believe in this day and age a person in public office is seen to be less of a leader because he does not regularly attend church.

I see no reason why church leaders should cease promoting Christian understandings of human rights in public settings as a way of promoting justice, morality, and the common good.

Lebanese church leaders Camille and Stefan are seeing hundreds of Syrian refugees arrive destitute on their church doorstep, turn to Christ, experience miraculous healings and even express gratitude for their trauma — because it has enabled them to discover a God of love

I once saw my church leader gaze off into the distance and say to herself «there isn't enough honoring of leadership».

«Our test to see if a similar story would be written about others» religion is to substitute «Jew» or «Jewish,»» Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul wrote in objection to a Washington Post article last fall about the candidate's role as a church leader in Boston.

I have seen churches persecute it's own, kick out it's leaders, threaten their youth, and curse people — now that's crappy.

Obviously, church people who are looking for a leader and see what they want to see, are of course not going to pick up on it.

What would be interesting to me, would be to look at abusive church leaders throughout history and across denominations (including Catholic), and see if there it's a constant there.

The time before, at another abusive church, also when I was an elder, when I confronted the two main leaders in the church at a meeting at my house with similar behavior, the pastor said «This is the craziest thing I've seen.»

It is not too harsh to say that Luther was one of the few major Lutheran church leaders until the twentieth century to see that condemning the immorality of the state was part of his vocation.

And we look at church history and the churches and leaders we respect, not only in the US but globally, and what we see is that the overwhelming majority of Christians past and present continue to teach that these passages are very much applicable today.

So it's been nice to see the conversation continue as church leaders, researches, and my fellow millennials weigh in.

Seeing as the Catholic Church has itself been the victim of a damaging disinformation campaign, one might expect that Church leaders would be careful not to allow themselves to be drawn into a similar slander operation.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

but cartoons mocking congregations as blindly following their leader to go inseminate, penetrate, etc... is condescending & horribly unfair to the many hardworking, loving christians sitting in churches everywhere and you can see why he reacted as he did.

Ukip's acting leader has revealed he wouldn't want to personally see any new mosques built in the UK as «Islam doesn't allow a Christian church or a Sikh temple to be built in its heartland, because it's in the Koran».

Lebanese church leaders Camille and Stefan are seeing hundreds of Syrian refugees arrive destitute on their church doorstep, turn to Christ, experience... More

«As a young minister in one such church, I was told that I could do anything I wanted as long as no one ever saw me as the leader.

Within the book of Acts, specifically chapter 12, we get to see how King Herod Agrippa began to persecute leaders in the Church.

Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early in the book that he can only speak for the mainline denominations with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only speak for his observations of the churches / leaders with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.

«In my own experience, I've seen men deposed from ministry, and then a month later I've inquired about them and other church leaders have no idea where they are,» Labby told CT..

But the leaders see the church in terms of the small groups.

This is too funny, seeing the conservatives attack the President's Christianity, when most Christian church leaders declare Mormonism a cult.

If church leadership had recognized that the medieval form of Christianity needed to be transformed because print was becoming the dominant medium, then church leaders might have seen people like Martin Luther as creative leaders bringing Christianity into a new era.

If you have a church leader, would you be proud if they saw this statement?

As I've shared before, I've been on both sides and can honestly say that often leadership abuse is not intentional, but rather the fruit of a very unhealthy way of seeing the role of a leader — whether in the home, business, or church.

One other word in partial defense of NP (not that he necessarily needs it)-- I don't see the cartoons as being applicable to all churches or leaders, but definitely some.

Not too many women have a story of how their church community called them out as a leader long before they saw that gift in themselves.

If a church would remove programs from life - support, they would see God raise up new leaders with new ideas for new ways to reach new people.

We have seen every Catholic adoption society in effect closed down because, apparently, the leaders of the Church thought they had a deal with politicians over «gay» adoption.

The leader of the Church of England also used his speech to tackle the issue of Brexit, arguing trade deals and single markets were «without use» unless they were seen as a means to serve people and communities.

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

It is a 40 - day devotional that individuals can do on their own, but my real hope is that church leaders and churches will see this as a spiritual growth season.

Some Ukrainian Catholic and Kyivan Patriarchate leaders see nothing in the Russian Orthodox Church but corruption and political machinations.

To be even more honest, I have seen my own failings and weaknesses as a supposed leader and wondered if this thing called church is truly real or worth it.

The church becomes one more dehumanising «thing» (seeing people as things called sinners, or bums on pews, or soldiers in the work of the church, or worship leaders, or whatever) more concerned with making sure the church / congregation / denomination survives than with seeing the individuals live.

If we follow the Biblical model — not just in assigning positions but truly living out the model set forth — we will see a vibrant Church where men are active and strong leaders and women feel secure and protected.

In my own congregation we've seen a number of people come to Christ because they've seen church leaders get arrested.

See Edwin H. Friedman, Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue (New York: Guilford, 1985) for an extended discussion of the effect of family experience and roles on the life of a congregation and its leaders.