Sentences with phrase «church leadership simply»

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But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

I have often found it interesting and sad that the church bestows leadership and authority on women simply because they are married to the guy in charge.

Another example of this is the way that some teach that women can not take any kind of leadership in the church on the basis of the Greek word authentein in 1 Timothy 2:12, a word which is found nowhere else in the New Testament and is very rare in Greek as a whole, and which never seems to mean simply «have authority» as some people insist it means.

He also suggests that there was simply a conflict of personality or style between him and the church when he says, «Other issues, such as aspects of my personality and leadership style, have proven to be divisive within the Mars Hill context.»

It will not be enough for the Church simply to surrender its role as an agent of the state in marriage; the bishops of the Church must also provide visible and courageous leadership, including setting their own house in order, regardless of the cost to their popularity and standing with the cultural elites.

Rather than encouraging education, leadership, and faith based on a loving and understanding God, the Latino Pentecostal church simply spreads ignorance and «fear», further oppressing those in need to feel empowered.