Sentences with phrase «church leaders who»

Most church leaders who struggle with sexual issues do not seek help.

I encourage Church leaders who have enough financial sense to be able to know when something financial «feels funny» to gather their elderly congregants, and tell them to call you if they are tempted by slick - talking salesmen to make them part with money.

This is why Church leaders who concede the problem of overpopulation find themselves in the losing position of acknowledging a problem for which they must then rule out the obvious solution.

We met so many church leaders who began to really tune in to the young people in their congregations, and found that innovation and change began to follow quite naturally.

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We meet three evangelical church leaders who have decided to go public about their sexuality.

And church leaders who wanted to help us, for the most part, didn't know how to help.

All the candidates for authority were represented by distinguished scholars and church leaders who believed their respective approaches to be basic.

when is saw this picture and the crowd of religious leaders in the back I remembered a good friend of mine, who failed and had to walk in front of the church leaders who looked at her just as these in the picture.

Reading all of these people's comments gives one an image of a great tide of humanity washing in and out of an institution that does not have the rigid membership boundaries often perceived by church leaders who look at the church from the inside out (and who are responsible for keeping the statistics).

Pastor Tokes had hard words for Reformed and Orthodox leaders who collaborated with the regime, and for Western church leaders who supported Communist oppression by their silence, or worse.

Following World War II, there was a great surge of church life and church building that momentarily mesmerized church leaders who saw a new golden age emerging on the horizon.

While the church leaders who organised the event said it was held for religious reasons, some people felt the national event had anti-Muslim overtones.

And of course, only those church leaders who agreed with the theology of the Emperor were invited to the Council to make this decision.

Baum also pays more attention that Burgess does to economic developments, to official statements by socialist parties, and to those church Leaders who quote from Marxist sources or speak of learning from Marxist insights.

That is why church leaders who want to bring back the past imagine that church membership decline can be reversed by rebuilding the strength of the Sunday School.

A tradition of local governance that resists both a supine dependence on Washington, D.C. or dominance by remote corporate interests; a patriotism that believes in the noble possibilities of the American experiment; vibrant churches and church leaders who remind us that life is more than our economic or political self - interest» it's not surprising that Lauck finds these features of Dakota life attractive.

It seems to me that church leaders who tell parishioners that God wants them to vote a certain way underestimate the diversity of their congregation.

As a Catholic, I grow more angry every day about these church leaders who are so stuck in a distorted world view that they alienate followers, and in extreme cases, irreparably harm them.

Since that time, I have talked with dozens of pastors and former church leaders who have experienced similar treatment from churches and church leaders in which they used to serve.

is both first - rate sociology and essential reading for church leaders who want to ready themselves for an ethnically and racially complex future.

Pastors of an older generation might be scandalised at the admission, but 34 - year - old Smith is at the forefront of a new wave of young church leaders who have grown up alongside a digital revolution where it's ok to be human.

I have known many emerging - church leaders who have been interested in taking aspects of Orthodox spirituality into their churches, and I have encouraged that, of course.

Bishop Paulose was one of the few church leaders who spoke in a language that was understood by all.

The film's director, Jon Van Dyke, filed a federal lawsuit alleging fraud by church leaders who he claims cheated him out of his pay.

There are other church leaders who, perhaps lacking in maturity, are just offensive.

Since groups can be robust or sickly, energetic or anemic, it behooves church leaders who work constantly with groups to be able to diagnose and treat the factors which limit group creativity.

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.

Another favorable index is the broadening effort to provide basic - training for church leaders who are not formally qualified to pursue graduate theological education.

Unfortunately, Christian history is full of people who have either twisted or cut and pasted Scripture to fit their own agendas and prejudices, as well as church leaders who have taken advantage of people's general ignorance of scripture to plant their own ideas in people's heads and call it the Word of God.

Early in 2002 the Mennonite Central Committee will release «Connecting Peoples,» a guide for pastors and local church leaders who want to lead groups or establish sistering relationships.

I am also convinced that churches that give up the claim of certainty will decline, and that church leaders who dare to face these issues openly and publicly will be attacked and abused by people who need what an honest church can not give.

Within the church, we question those church leaders who immediately condemned the Grenada invasion without troubling to ascertain the relevant facts, while also rebuking the people in the pews who rejoiced in the operation as a reassertion of American greatness.

«A conference for all church leaders who are ready to stop playing church and start being the Church.»

It was British church leaders who translated Greek patristic figures like Athanasius and John Chrysostom alongside Augustine and Gregory the Great in the Nicene and PostNicene Fathers collection, a series still much in use in semmanes and beyond.

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

Then there are church leaders who say that the church service is primarily for unbelievers.

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.

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

It came from early church leaders who wanted to exert their power, authority, and control over other people.

What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalities.

How do you respond to church leaders who are afraid of making education a priority within their congregations because they fear the public policy issues related to education are too political?

I was also bitter, especially towards those church leaders who wounded me.

I have some advice for all the pastors and church leaders who I hope are perusing these comments.

It would serve no purpose that any such god could conceivably have, but such nonsensical fear mongering DOES serve the purpose of church leaders who want to herd everyone under them.

This book by Rainer is another example of a church leader who seems to be saying something similar.

Imagine you are a church leader who wants your members to come on a church weekend away.

It seems the comment may have been added by some early church leader who simply could no accept the demonstration of no strings attached grace.

Any church leader who questions the validity of a religious presence on college campuses should read this book and reassess that notion.

The lock is a good thing if you're a church leader who doesn't want to marry same - sex couples, but if you're among the minority of CofE vicars who would like the right to marry gay couples, you're stuck, because it's illegal.