Sentences with phrase «elder in the church»

However, this topic isn't about elders in a church.

Michaele is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene.

I am an ordained Elder in my church, and when I get the opportunity, I love to preach and sing, as a part of the Gospel tradition.

The «innocent until proven guilty» idea is a legal one, but a credibly - accused elder in your church should step down as the investigation is underway.

I have a case study that we often provide to churches in which a pastor is informed one night by a congregation member that his son has just disclosed being sexually abused by the interim youth volunteer, who happens to be a well - known, respected elder in the church.

Of course, I'm sure many of the more stern - faced elders in my church would have regarded a game in which you play as God's avatar to be blasphemy, but I knew enough even as a teenager to understand that there's just no pleasing some people.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

Well, according to the Bible, women do not have the authority to be elders in the church, and Paul takes the reasoning back to Genesis.

The persons parents who hurt our son are elders in the church and want to sweep away this crime and we are being blamed for wrong doing because we exposed their sons crime to them.

Sometimes we think the elders in the church, pious Christians, pastors or other brave souls who make sacrifices for their faith are the real Christians, the real children of God.

If women shouldn't be pastors or elders in churches, then they should also not have that role in other contexts.»

I once had an elder in a church I pastored tell me that since the Israelites had an expensive and ornate Temple, we should build an expensive and ornate church building.

Paul knows that Timothy feels inadequate to be an elder in the church at Ephesus because he is so young.

I spoke with a person the other day who is an elder in another church, and he said they are trying to figure out what to do with gays.

I knew that telling her I was an elder in my church would probably hurt my chances of acceptance, since she and her fellow believers do not ordain women.

The Pastor is an elder in the church, however most Pastors do full time ministering to the «demands» of the congregation.

But Paul used scripture to support the practice of paying those that preach the gospel and the elders in the church.

I was an elder in our church for 12 years.

Be prepared to talk to the elders in the church, parents, and even friends when you are dating another Christian.