Sentences with phrase «employed by churches»

Ministers are employed by churches and are responsible for organizing and implementing various programs.

Worship Leaders are employed by churches of various denominations to lead worship services.

It does a great job of exposing the mind control techniques employed by churches such as the one you describe.

«Mindful attention,» which Schwartz draws from the Buddhist tradition, is a spiritual discipline right in line with the practice of detachment employed by the Church's desert fathers.

However this has not even got close to the number of youth workers employed by the church, which is estimated to exceed 7,000.

Nonetheless, perhaps it is time, following McInerny's lead, to turn to Thomas again, just as his thought was employed by the Church time and time again for a refutation of error and a clear exposition of the whole of revealed truth.

It's bad theology, however, to suggest that one has to be employed by the church to serve the Lord instead.

Randy has been employed by the Church since 1988.

A psychologist could be employed by a church to provide counseling, either free or low - cost to church members, and may still perform many of the activities listed above.

Ministers of Religion employed by the Church of Ireland Representative Body; up until 1991, part - time share fishermen / fisherwomen and outworkers not employed under a contract of service

Not exact matches

Churches are not required by any law to employ people who disagree with their theology (In the US).

• Covert activities, the Church panel says, should be employed only by the CIA and only when «required by extraordinary circumstances to deal with grave threats to national security» — a definition that would drastically curtail CIA's past habits.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

Recently denounced by both the American Jewish Committee and the National Council of Churches, the movement has seldom been out of the public eye, whether at its own instance as in the blitz of pro-Nixon demonstrations which effectively introduced the group to the U.S., or as the target of lawsuits, legislative investigations, and parent - employed «deprogrammers.»

In his effort to state tentatively and in his own way such apparently dawning agreements the author of this essay must employ the method of polar analysis; that is, he must try to do justice to the dynamic character of that social reality, the Church, by defining certain poles between which it moves or which it represents.

In the imagery employed by those in favor of the change, the paradigm is not the old «God - church - world» but rather «God - world - church.»

They can not falter before the hard decision to employ responsibly the power and prestige of the church to help it become the catalyst by which the culture can fulfill its obligation for the humanization of the life of man,

The Christian call to peacemaking has been co-opted, the group said, when «a «theology of war» is emanating from the highest circles of American government; the language of «righteous empire» is employed... [and] the roles of God, church and nation are confused by talk of an American «mission» and «divine appointment» to «rid the world of evil.»»

And unfortunately, they are consistently subjected to stigmatization and marginalization by religious people who refuse to share bathrooms with them, who disassociate with churches that welcome them, who mock and ridicule them and compare them to pedophiles and idolaters, and who withhold money from charities that employ them.

I'm a minister in the Church of Scotland but am now employed by the prison service as a chaplain.

Sunday Schools for the nurture of children and youth were extensively employed, especially by the churches which appealed to the older American stock those whose ancestors had come to the Thirteen Colonies before independence.

Further, Pope Francis's concluding speech to the synod not only quotes an outstanding address by Pope Benedict on the teaching authority of the Church, but rebukes those who forsake the Cross and «bow down to a worldly spirit, instead of purifying it and bending it to the Spirit of God»; and of employing byzantine language which misleads the faithful.

If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.

Although the name of Christ is regularly used by church members in the intensive, self - identifying acts of worship and evangelism, it seems now to be infrequently employed to fathom situations that challenge personal or corporate identity.

Community leaders, unions and churches are backing a call for the club to increase the pay of workers employed by contractors, such as waitresses and cleaners.

It was employed by all the large frontier Churches — the Methodists, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians.

The whole history of the Church confirms the sentiment taught expressly in many passages of Scripture, and by implication, on every page of the New Testament, that the great agency appointed and employed of God in the work of instructing and saving men, is the living rninistry of Christianity.1

In Lutheranism, this power was used by the minister on behalf of the church, in private rather than in public, but, in Calvinism, it was employed publicly by the minister and the elders in the church.

A reader, who I would describe as fairly conservative, forwarded this flyer that was being handed out over the weekend outside a church in Queens and said he was a bit taken aback by the fairly explosive language it employs.

Becket Keys Church of England School in Brentwood, Essex, the largest Free School to have been pre-approved to open by the Department for Education, has been accused today of attempting to circumvent the 50 % faith - based admissions requirement imposed by the Department for Education (DfE), and also of breaking the rules on religious requirements in employing teachers.

My Scientology Movie (Unrated) Faux documentary employing actors to recreate revealing incidents reported by disenchanted members of the Church of Scientology.

A minister would be employed full time by a church, a registered non-profit organization.

«Inspired by religious relics historically hung from church ceilings, Messager employs these symbols as a commentary on blurred gender binaries and the widespread objectification of the physical form,» according to the show's announcement.

In Strange Muses I, the figure as a veil - like apparition is reinforced with a prismatic luminism employed by Hudson River School painters like Frederic Church; the aura surrounding the figure, although a product of the lenticular lens, takes us into the transcendental world of the Hudson River School painters.

After completing his studies of Social Work and Social Sciences at the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, he was employed as a social worker by the Protestant church community in his hometown.He trained as a psychotherapist in Switzerland focusing on body therapy.