Sentences with phrase «church leadership without»

How can we advocate effectively for the equality of women in Church leadership without coming across as angry or bitter?

I can have differences of opinion with my friends about health care or global warming or eschatology or women in church leadership without taking it personally or holding a grudge.

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And yet, if you attend a church without abusive leadership, you won't be abused, despite the fact that your childhood experiences led you to believe that abuse was normal.

It goes without saying that the Catholic Church does not have any female leaders in the organization, and it is very apparent that the Penn State University organization and the Athletics Department lacked this type of leadership as well.

They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.

Future leadership will be different leadership without the influence of the church, and the loss would spell out a serious failure in the church's mission.

Certainly without adequate leadership any church is doomed, and this lies close to the heart of the matter.

Without such theologizing the church will always be attuned to the culture of the preceding age — always trying to catch up, but seldom providing leadership.

People targeted our children to gain favor with the church leadership — like the man who was helping with Sunday School who insisted my 11 year old daughter speak in tongues, laying hands on her and yelling at her in front of the other kids — all without our knowledge.

Too often, someone in a church will read a book, or hear of another church somewhere that is doing something, and they will think it is a good idea, and will try and charge ahead without ever consulting others in the church, or consulting the leadership of the church, or, most importantly, consulting God through prayer and fasting.

I dated a guy who answered the other questions easily and without raising any red flags, but as I got to know him, I realized that when it came to his church leadership, he had absolutely NO respect for them and took every opportunity to complain about them.