Sentences with phrase «church leadership structures»

In Thinking Naughty Thoughts about Church, Johan Van Der Merwe raises questions about belonging to a local church, observing the Lord's Supper, church leadership structures, tithing, preaching, worship, and the church building.

In seven chapters, the author raises questions about belonging to a local church, observing the Lord's Supper, church leadership structures, tithing, preaching, worship, and the church building as the «House of God.»

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Unfortuantely, you are not knowledgeable on principles of leadership nor the pastoral organizational structure of the Catholic church, so most of your comments are littered with inaccuracies.

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.

The Church has billions of pounds of resources, a leadership structure and an amazing message.

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 believe in order for a multi-site church to operate effectively, it will require a leadership structure where God - called leaders have the authority to do what God has called them to do: lead!

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!

You get pretty much the same theology as the Emergents, but you have a church structure filtering out riff raff like these before it gets to a leadership position in the church.

I am 60 years old, grew up in a very legalistic cultic church, been part of several church leaderships, served as pastor of a start up church, read and went to many, many, many church growth conferences, wanted to reach the lost, always trying to find the best structures, the best form of church, and what type of bells and whistles will attract people to church.

We need to teach on submission and church authority structures in a way that equips women abused by the very leadership to which they were called to submit to boldly live out their gifting as co-heirs with Jesus Christ.

The implication is that the causes of the malaise are internal; they are to be found in the structure of the church, the curriculum, the strategy for evangelism, the quality of pastoral leadership, or the general level of Christian commitment.

It does so by becoming financially self - sufficient, by having its own building (often ethnic parishes remain in lease or rental arrangements for years — a sign that they have no physical or psychological territory in the larger church) and by providing both lay and clerical leadership in the multicultural society and church structures.

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Millions of people are now seeing how empty that structure is, and are leaving the Sunday - morning, leadership - led, entertainment - focused style of church to enter into a daily, Spirit - led, relationship - focused style of church.

As churches reject such structures and turn to patterns of servant leadership that serve the world, women have just as many opportunities as men to guide congregations along those paths.

The development of synodal and collegial structures of church leadership is a first step.

We might want to conclude that this demonstrates clearly what the standard leadership structure of the early Church was.

this is a rebellion that didn't come from the leader who began this ministry but a rebellion that grew from a group of young people who didn't engage with the older church leadership about how to contribute to the existing structure.