Sentences with phrase «church leadership at»

I have a problem with church leadership at the moment because I have sensed the control subtly woven through the whole fabric of the supposedly well meaning activity.

Amar Nath fixed the blame for the government's policy decision on the church leadership at the time the government was drawing up the list of scheduled castes, before Independence.

Not exact matches

I was amazed at first, then after several hours, my amazement turned to disappointment, disappointment that — I had never known that what I was experiencing was experienced by every man in the church, including the leadership.

The Church of England has set out plans to improve leadership, after a spate of errors it admits left several cathedrals at risk of ruin.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

In fact Gen. Bruce Carlson was a four - star general at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base, and now is in the upper leadership in the LDS (Mormon) church.

These changes in the numerical balance, together with the increasing replacement of American missionaries by nationals in leadership positions at the lower levels of church structure, have inevitably raised the issue of when and to what extent the distribution of leadership and other staff at headquarters will reflect these developments.

We are in the process of finding a non-Calvinist church (at least among the leadership) and I am finding out what a strong segment of the church population is now Calvinist.

We didn't last long at the church, mostly because of some moral failings that occurred within leadership staff.

At a leadership conference in Oslo, Norway, where I was speaking, a pastor there shared how a well - respected businessman in his church was healed while listening to one of my sermon CDs.

In his resignation letter, Kensrue said that the authority of church elders to correct leadership at Mars Hill «is trampled under the man - made hierarchies and «chain of command.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

Adrian Reynolds is part of the leadership team of The Proclamation Trust and serves as associate minister at ELT Baptist Church in Mile End, London.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

I have been deeply concerned about the disease of the church at a time when it has such remarkable opportunities for global leadership.

But — nobody in that church leadership group said anything at all after the comment about men being more reasonable than women and women being emotional and not rational.»

Now at almost 600 comments, the one thing I hope for outside of the apologies that Julie (and others) so richly deserve is an end to the evangelical / pomo / dispensational / Calvinist / church - growth / emergent / author / leadership / Christian conference scene (pick one or more categories as YMMV).

I have heard preachers say that when non-believers look at the leadership of husbands and the submission of wives, they will see the beauty of Christ's relationship with the church and be drawn to Christianity.

A healthy church fosters an atmosphere in which people feel free to express their ideas openly — especially at the leadership level.

The couple that will be pastoring our Poland church have been at Life Church for seven years and have been through our leadership acchurch have been at Life Church for seven years and have been through our leadership acChurch for seven years and have been through our leadership academy.

We are grateful for the grace we've been shown by those who watched us leave, especially those in leadership at our old church.

Linda (October 3, 2014 at 7:22 pm) said: «The leadership idol is alive and well in the church.

I think people (especially those in church leadership) could save themselves a lot of stress and heart ache if they would just look around at the evidence.

There is perhaps another movement among Evangelicals to force all people that are married - to - a-divorced partner out of church membership, or at least out of church leadership. . .

«Grace Community Church, an evangelical church of 6,000 worshipers just north of Indianapolis, reversed their position and came out in favor of women's leadership at all levels this weekend in their public worship services.&Church, an evangelical church of 6,000 worshipers just north of Indianapolis, reversed their position and came out in favor of women's leadership at all levels this weekend in their public worship services.&church of 6,000 worshipers just north of Indianapolis, reversed their position and came out in favor of women's leadership at all levels this weekend in their public worship services.»

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

I have been involved in churches of many denominations, but was frequently in trouble with «leadership», even at those times when I was myself a leader.

For a while it seemed that, at least in the ecumenical movement and at leadership levels in a number of churches and denominations, they might carry the day.

The gathering was «a unique opportunity to witness the authentic demonstration of a vibrantly growing Chinese church under dynamic indigenous leadership,» said Nana Yaw Offei Awuku, a field ministry director with Scripture Union Ghana who spoke at the event.

Nobody at all has denied that theological schooling can educate people for church leadership; nor has anybody denied that church leaders should undergo theological schooling.

Our pastors were furious, and at the next leadership meeting handed out a list of rules for leadership, one being that we weren't allowed to go to another church unless it was once in a while, (a treat.)

Here the church may lend its official public support; supply monies; provide clerical and lay leadership, volunteers, and facilities to programs aimed at redressing social problems in the community which are contributory factors in producing mental illness.

The means adopted to arrive at this end was to place great authority in the hands of powerful bishops and then, in the fourth and fifth centuries, in the hands of a central, authoritative church in Rome under whose leadership the others were expected to be subject.

A series of meetings organized by the Full Gospel Church in Kenya (FGCK) at Afraha Stadium, Nakuru, ended with leaders of the church reaffirming their total support and confidence in President Daniel arap Moi's leadership, the government and the ruling party,Church in Kenya (FGCK) at Afraha Stadium, Nakuru, ended with leaders of the church reaffirming their total support and confidence in President Daniel arap Moi's leadership, the government and the ruling party,church reaffirming their total support and confidence in President Daniel arap Moi's leadership, the government and the ruling party, KANU.

At the highest level of the Church's leadership, a deep shadow has been cast over their founder.

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

Mumford is the son of Vineyard church leaders John and Eleanor Mumford and recently declared his love for Jesus at the HTB leadership conference.

The main problems at Corinth were not those of Jew - Gentile relations, but those likely to arise in any big worldly city — sexual looseness, emotional excesses, church factions and quarrels extending even to a serious attack on Paul's own leadership.

At a meeting of the church leadership a few weeks later, I reported the same information.

In the third part of our series on abuses of money, sex and power within the church, we look at a model of healthy leadership... More

When Henana of Adiabene, the director of the school at Nisibis (570 - 71) preferred John Chrysostom to Theodore, the Persian church repudiated his leadership and the majority of teachers and students left the school.

I've tried to encourage others to take on leadership roles in the Church and so when you are at that level it encourages others.

Pentecostals have participated actively at all levels, including providing leadership for some associations of evangelical churches.

I hold a lay leadership position at my church so I'm fully aware of the struggle churches face about what to do with those outside the «family» demographic.

He wrote resource materials and provided sectional leadership at the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam in 1948.

Over the last twenty - five years, the Russian Orthodox leadership persistently rejected Rome's proposals for a meeting of pope and patriarch, and based those rejections on its distress at the revival and vitality of the Eastern Catholic Churches (and especially the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church), which are Byzantine in liturgy and polity but in full communion with Rome.

Perhaps one of the reasons we struggle with the issue of women in leadership at all is because of this church induced phobia of all sexual thought.

«National women leaders should be a reference point,» she said, «but not a replacement for female leadership at the local church level.»

In 2006, Ted Haggard confessed to sexual immorality and to buying illegal drugs, which led to his resignation from leadership roles at the National Association of Evangelicals and the Colorado Springs megachurch New Life Church.

This is at odds with the church leadership who see that uprootedness is not a survival option; to the contrary, perseverance is the only way to preserve the Christian heritage on those lands.»