Sentences with phrase «church leaders think»

Other church leaders think the press should be chiefly a service center for the denomination, producing materials closely matched to denominational program priorities and specifically designed for use in the denomination's congregations.

As church leaders I think that it is very important for us to be prepared to be transparent and to let people understand that we struggle with our theology.

But so often church leaders think they know what that should look like in every single person's life.

When many parents, pastors, and church leaders think of young people, «leadership» is probably not the first word.

If he was truly divine, having a wife doesn't change that — he isn't less holy just because he had intercourse, no matter what our puritanical church leaders think.

What saddens me is that church leaders think that people who «leave their church» are forsaking Jesus, abandoning the church, and living in rebellion against God.

Perhaps church leaders thought the legislation adequately shielded all the LDS church's functions and ministries from the purview of the new law.

Some years ago, when Episcopal Church leaders thought they were experiencing a communications problem, an elaborate plan for consultation with diocesan decision - making bodies was undertaken.

Not exact matches

I fear many Catholic leaders, including the pope, perhaps, think they can forge a concordat with the sexual revolution that won't damage the Church's witness to the Gospel.

The reason I left my last church started with a conversation this with a female leader (and it is important I think that I mention she was female in the light of this conversation).

The leaders hide church history from its members, when we find it, we take it to them, and of course are called aposates, there are so many mental systems in place at every level to control the people and there thoughts and actions, at a very young age.

In a nutshell, Mormons don't think independently and the church leaders have a tremendous amount of control over their members.

@alientech — I suppose you think that the churches, leaders of business and such will just automatically all head towards altruism on their own then?

I think I understand some of our Lord's heart, when He must remove the strong leader to ensure His church blossoms.

And it will be for me quite a poignant moment going there [to Whitehall] with the other church leaders and the Queen and all the others to think of him.

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

You would think that church leaders would be thanking people for jerking it, since it prevents the things they hate most: premarital relations, abortions and divorce.

The leader of the church could care less what the lay think.

Andy Peck asked ten Christian leaders what they think the UK church would look like in 2020.

If we don't speak — if our church leaders don't speak — we'll be absorbed into our culture's way of thinking, and our children will be catechized by progressive creeds of sexual liberation.

Thinking about cancelling the church service is terrifying to most church leaders because we depend on the people to fill the pews and pay the bills, one of which is our own salary.

Given these results, why is separationism still the dominant position of many civil libertarians, including most Jewish and mainline Protestant leaders in the field of church - state thought?

Some Christians think Jesus is leading them to leave the church they are in so they can go to seminary and become a pastor or church leader.

I have not read the book — my church is already living through enough spiritual abuse on the part of its leaders that I really don't think I can stomach any more!

The real sad thing is that over 4,000 former members and leaders of this church are now directly affected and suffering because one bully used his pulpit to twist theology to his way of thinking.

I can say that even though I was not a leader in a church, my pride and self righteousness led me to think that I was above sinning.

I think that is a valid and important question for the church and its leaders.

While I think Viola is mostly talking about churches that aren't necessarily abusive, my experience was that you're even more likely to be boiled in oil if you dare to speak out about church leaders who engage in bullying and / or abuse.

And I think, going forward, they're going to be looking to Fox News or John Oliver or church leaders.

I think what scares people most is «Church without a leader» What would happen if most pastor's just walked away unannounced and never came back?

«In any battle, you've got to be clued up about what you're doing,» explains Lindsay, when I catch up with him a week later to talk in more depth, «so I think we need to train churches — church leaders, youth pastors — anyone engaging with youth culture, about what is actually going on... We can't be naïve about this stuff.»

I do not think that the leaders of the Churches are really wholly devoted to the cause of ecumenism.

Planning the church budget in this way really makes church leaders and elders think twice about where they spend their money, and whether or not it is really necessary to pave the parking lot or upgrade the sound system.

The problem for Bell is that many of those same people think he's been moving in the «wrong direction», and church leaders are now wary of endorsing anything by him.

David, I'll buy your statement «I don't think the church NEEDS leaders» if you can promise me that the leaderless church will not have any manipulators «from below».

Do you honestly think — and someone please answer me — by changing the name from «leader» to «elder» will change the climate in your church?

Since the 1970s, the conservative churches have been in the ascendancy, and their leaders understandably think that it is their turn to try to frame the moral challenges for the society.

Church leaders are deluded if they think people are desperately seeking a «community» and will attend church in hopes of findiChurch leaders are deluded if they think people are desperately seeking a «community» and will attend church in hopes of findichurch in hopes of finding it.

I don't think the church NEEDS leaders, and maybe shouldn't have them, in our present understanding of the word.

I think that it's not always easy to agree with the Catholic church's teachings at times, but I believe that Dolan will be a strong leader and positive force in the Cchurch's teachings at times, but I believe that Dolan will be a strong leader and positive force in the ChurchChurch.

Among the disciples of Jesus and in the early church there were spiritual leaders who thought of themselves in such a manner.

We need to think about new models of organization which are not so bishop or rector centered and which support and enhance the clergy role as spiritual leaders within the Church and which call all the members to a new sense of discipleship.

We need our (supposedly) Bible - based church leaders to recover the discipline of taking us systematically through the Psalms, whether we like them or not, whether we think they're nice or not, and whether we understand them or not.

Its an interesting and concerning that people can and do live in information silos (including me) and are kept their by leaders of institutional church who want them to think in certain ways like you must come to sunday church and made to feel guilty if they do nt.

This passage describes the leaders on the construction site, which we can think of as the Foremen (Eph 4:11), the people who do the work, or the Crew (Eph 4:12), the construction Model that we are imitating and turning into a reality (Eph 4:13), and the Program goal that the church will fulfill once it is constructed (Eph 4:14 - 16).

What seems most evident in the case of the modern pastoral director is that he can think of himself neither as parish parson responsible for all the people in a geographic area nor as the abbot of a convent of the saved, but only as the responsible leader of a parish church; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fchurch; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fChurch, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility for it.

For the Youngstown area to have as many churches as we do I can only think of a handful of church leaders who have tried to do more outreach to the communities the churches are actually in and almost none that live in more well off neighborhoods here.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

The leaders of two of Britain's major church denominations have urged the government to think twice before agreeing to take part in military action against Islamic State (IS).