Sentences with phrase «denominational leaders»

A second dangerous assumption, embedded in the complacent and sometimes disdainful attitudes of denominational leaders toward theological publishing, is that the present challenge confronting the mainline denominations is not fundamentally theological.

The authors conducted extensive interviews with clergy who have left parish ministry, voluntarily or involuntarily, and with denominational leaders from five church bodies — the Assemblies of God, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist Church.

One thought is for those of us who have been on the front lines of this issue to work with denominational leaders to help them better understand the various and complex issues related to sexual abuse.

My hope and prayer is that as denominational leaders begin to understand the prevalence of abuse within the Evangelical community, many will be propelled to begin taking significant steps to influence substantive changes at both a national and local level.

No subject has commanded as much attention among pastors and denominational leaders in recent years as that of declining membership in formerly main - line churches.

In 1993, Kathleen Richardson was elected president of the Conference, becoming the first female head of the Methodist Church and one of just a handful of British denominational leaders who are female.

Signatories include leaders from humanitarian aid groups including World Vision USA, World Relief, Compassion International, Living Water International, Food for the Hungry, as well as denominational leaders from the Southern Baptist Convention, Assemblies of God, Wesleyan Church, Church of Nazarene, the Anglican Church in North America, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the National Association of Evangelicals.

His editorials consistently supported accepting into membership such individuals without requiring them to be rebaptized by immersion, while many denominational leaders argued that this was a totally unacceptable practice.

This was not the case with most denominational leaders nor with the majority of Christian laity; however, a considerable number of Protestant laity and some clergy felt that the political advantages of missions ought not to be overlooked.

Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

This all begins by denominational leaders acknowledging that they have much to learn about this issue.

If denominational leaders began moving in this direction, I believe that even the most independent of churches would begin to follow suit.

Pastors found it difficult to confide their problems in denominational leaders because they did not want to jeopardize future calls and promotion,» according to surveys and follow - up interviews by sociologists Dean R. Hoge and Jacqueline E. Wenger.

I was recently with some mainline denominational leaders and was asked how they might accelerate their church planting focus.

What denominational leaders want most from their presses — greater revenues and materials specific to the denomination's «own» programs — strongly suggests that they view Protestant renewal chiefly as an organizational matter: build a stronger organization, one with increased financial resources and more evangelistic «team spirit,» and decline will be arrested.

Pastors and denominational leaders work together to protect the lay membership from controversy.

Several pastor friends and I were in the office of a colleague one day, getting ready for the big funeral of one of our state denominational leaders.

Meanwhile, congregations and denominational leaders increasingly understand a «practical» theology to be one that communicates the gospel in ways that build loyalty and commitment among a people whose attention is captured by the demands and attractions of a secular society.

In contrast, denominational leaders often advocate full understanding of and involvement in the struggles of people seeking equality and justice.

«While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is «a bridge too far,»» Land wrote in a letter to the ADL explaining the move.

Whereas the interpreters of Barth and Brunner were influential chiefly in Calvinist academic circles and among denominational leaders, Niebuhr entered the public discussion and reshaped the American scene.

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

If there are so many unemployed clergy, why are denominational leaders wringing their hands about a clergy shortage?

As denominational leaders consider the increase in part - time clergy, and the high unemployment figures for clergy combined with high rates of pastoral vacancies, they often worry about the «decline» of church leadership.

You can download the actual report I presented to those New England denominational leaders here.

At such meetings, for a season, the two races enjoyed together what white denominational leaders loved to call «melting times» of celebratory fellowship, sometimes shouting, sometimes falling blissfully in the Spirit, always telling the Good News and testifying to its reality in their hearts.

Although denominational leaders, seminary professors, and pastors may know that dreams of American manifest destiny influenced nineteenth - century theology, few seem to recognize the ways in which the American Dream still influences the church today.

The peace, the joy, and the sheer delight of pastors who are faithful to their calling is not the product of a successful ministry as it is usually defined by denominational leaders anxious to perpetuate their own power and position.

For this reason, teaching about television becomes a high priority for the church — teaching pastors how to function in an informational rather than an industrial society, teaching denominational leaders how to deal with the new kinds of ethical situations that have resulted from the dominance of this new institution, with its new kind of power, and, above all, teaching parishioners how to cope with the enormous wave of exciting.

To be sure, those involved usually have represented only themselves, since Pentecostal denominational leaders generally have not endorsed formal participation in ecumenical dialogue, given the movement's historic alliances with fundamentalism and conservative evangelicalism rather than mainline Protestantism.

Yet when a local denominational leader challenged the area churches to do something about the AIDS epidemic, she had a nagging suspicion God would not leave her at the cushy clinic job.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Suppose denominational leaders recognized that instead of waiting for internal crises to initiate a process of study and reflection, it would be good for the churches to be proactive.

In short, for a little money and a little effort denominational leaders could transform their seminaries and their relation to the church, but if, and only if, they themselves become serious about the role of theology in the church.

Denominational leaders make their decisions largely in terms of the wellbeing of the institutions they lead.

And I believe the impetus is on denominational leaders and on the media (religious and mainstream) to better educate the Christian public on these matters and to better hold church leaders accountable when they abuse.

As one denominational leader told me, «If you see a problem among the leaders you should pray to God about it and keep it to yourself, you have no business challenging them or making it public.»

Asked for recommendations, many onetime pastors told researchers that denominational leaders need to be more candid about the congregation a pastor is going to.

Denominational leaders changed the wording in the resolution from «trial rite» to «provisional» rite, where a simple majority vote was needed.

The GC2 Summit will feature a number of key speakers and collaborators from the Evangelical community who specialize in ministry to refugees, in addition to senior denominational leaders, non-profit, and church leaders.

Few denominational leaders are either celebrities or well - known spiritual guides in their own church bodies; the media have created spokespersons entirely outside the line of appointed and elected officialdom who tend to speak for the churches.

In all the scandals which have rocked Brazilian politics in recent years, Protestants have been involved: not only politicians but also denominational leaders, charities and organizations claiming to speak in the name of all evangelicals.

The Blake - Pike proposal caught the imagination of many denominational leaders.

From the Speed Read: Religion News Service: Survey: Most Southern Baptist pastors favor black denominational leader A majority of Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they think it would be good for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to have an African - American leader.

If denominational leaders can not agree on what it means to be Reformed or Presbyterian, Borrer observed, how can they be sure Avodat is not?

About one - third in the survey had no choice but to leave — they were forced out by lay or denominational leaders because of a divorce, allegations of sexual misconduct or unmanageable conflicts.

This explains in part the furor within the SBC over the participation of two denominational leaders in the original Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) process.

However, most denominational leaders (but not all) say that a pastor who has fallen in that one prominent way — committing adultery — can be restored to the pulpit, according to the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE).