Sentences with phrase «evening by the pastors»

All the anecdotes told that evening by the pastors and consultants deal more or less openly with political power: its absence, acquisition, contention, transfer, or consequence.

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Those who split off were even advised by other pastors to withhold their offerings to put pressure on the leadership team to comply with their demands.

I don't think that she finds the fact that people in their 20's and 30's are going to churches led by male pastors disturbing: It's that they're attending churches where a female pastor would not even be an * option *.

i really would love to be led by somebody who feels what i feel and is courageous enough to say that even though he is the pastor and this is his church and there is nothing to be afraid of because Christ found us and not the other way around, yet he still gets scared.

I was even threatened with «consequences» by one of his buddy Pastors at a sister WELS church if I even talk about any of it.

- What if we had a conference that was not led not by famous pastors who are household names, but by scandalously ordinary ministers and leaders who are faithfully attempting to join with God — even in the midst of glaring obscurity and anonymity?

A Netherlands pastor makes the point even more strongly by urging Christian moralists to «develop a morality for homosexuality in consultation with homosexual people» (The Sexual Revolution, by J. Rinzema [Eerdmans, 1974]-RRB-.

Further, we have the root activity of worship, to which, as pastors, we point by means of our own identity even without much talk of it.

I guess I'm guided by other questions now Jeremy, even though my position in the church (interim pastor with an eye on the exit sign) compels me to entertain them on occasion.

We even, by manner or words, tell a story of our own faith, as parishioner and pastor together face the dilemmas that oppress the one seeking help — and all of us.

The Wesleys, raised by a pastor, held ministry in higher regard than did most of their peers, though even they originally hoped to use Oxford connections to attain comfortable posts.

I briefly searched the Internet, and could not find any good studies... or even some bad ones, that tried to follow up on the definition of «perfect family» as used by Christian pastors.

Even more troubling, I've found that many white male pastors and seminary students have an even harder time admitting that these privilege and power issues exist in the church and are even perpetuated by the church.&raEven more troubling, I've found that many white male pastors and seminary students have an even harder time admitting that these privilege and power issues exist in the church and are even perpetuated by the church.&raeven harder time admitting that these privilege and power issues exist in the church and are even perpetuated by the church.&raeven perpetuated by the church.»

I would even say that the pastors I know are frustrated by their church - people's ignorance of the Bible.

One can imagine Campbell's appalled reaction to the kind of authority exercised by megachurch pastors or denominational executives today» or to the fact that Baptists not only continue to call their ministers «Reverend» and «Doctor» but also have de facto bishops and even a so «called «college of cardinals,» as some moderate critics have dubbed conservative SBC leaders.

And I'm not even sure I've listed all the tasks that pastors do... If you can do all that with excellence and keep a full time job and lead by example in your home / marriage / parenting... Then you need a cape with a big S on it!

It's hopeless, at least at this time, as I gave it one more try even using «Biship Tutu's methods for reconciliation,» to be met with it's «my fault for damaging our relationship by bringing up the past» (what she and her pastor husband did, and have been doing to anger and ruin my reputation with my entire family for the past 30 years).

Yet we think we can live a healthy spiritual life by feeding our soul only once a week on Sunday, and even then, we are being spoon fed by the pastor.

But even broader contributions await release in the priests, pastors, rabbis, lay leaders, and grass - roots members of religious communities (i.e., congregations) Approximately 124 million members of 320,000 churches and temples are served by 246,000 clergymen and rabbis.

People, even believers, must have the freedom to assemble without being required to serve a vision created by the pastor or the leaders or even the collective.

You wrote: >» No one knows whether he will see heaven or hell, I'm telling you even those pastor that you praise there is no guarantee that they will see heaven, only God who knows, so to increase your chance to go to heaven, try by all means to stay away from sins.»

Sure, David goes on to say that he was uneasy with such a claim and wasn't even sure that it was true, but still... how do you write a book which is supposed to be about taking back your faith from the American Dream and start the book by stating that you are the youngest megachurch pastor in American history?

We do not find ourselves permitted by the Word of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except by force of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].

But it is beyond my understanding why people will allow other people [pastors / churches] to dominate their lives so long after the battle has been fought, even battles from many years gone by.

Even if members have been deeply influenced by the values of civil religion, this does not mean that members don't want the pastor to function as their spiritual leader.

I want to show that the churches have been victims of parasites, most often quite charming parasites, and that the exhaustion and despair we see in the faces of our pastors can, to some extent, be attributed to the energy sucked out of their veins by cheerful co-religionists who mock their host even as they grow fat on his livelihood, his patrimony.

Again my appeal have been for an equal welcoming of good by you and for equal consideration of anyone who has been mistreated and where that is treatment has come from including when pastors have been mistreated or even killed and for consideration of what to do as a result of that.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

Thus, if a minister today is not in process of being ousted, is regarded by at least many of his people as a wonderful Christian, a helpful preacher, a diligent pastor, and so on, he may rest content in this kind of status even though privately he is disturbed at all the kids who drop out of church school, at the inattentiveness of the church to its neighborhood, at the virtual neglect of older people, and at the bourgeois aroma that infects everything.

But when the pastor is willing to face adversity for truth's sake, then even evils of long standing can be wiped away.33 Gregory illustrated the hunger for preeminence by reference to both Saul and David: Saul was a good man until he achieved power (1 Kgs.

Even in groups such as those, who try to build a tight corral with high fences, it never works — the «sinners» still make it in, as has been aptly illustrated to me in every «church» of which I have been a part, including by the pastors and elders.

About a year ago, I started to BELIEVE that I could think for myself and be led by the Spirit without my pastor, OR EVEN THE BIBLE.

Even though Shane Claiborne has me convinced that Christianity's preoccupation with politics is misguided, if not idolatrous, I can't bring myself to quit cold turkey... so I'm taping tonight's big religious forum, hosted by evangelical pastor Rick Warren.

Pastors deserve to receive what's due for them, I think that's unarguably Biblical, from the Old to the New Testament that has been the Biblical practice and command of God, even as pointed out by the Apostle Paul.

Yet the laity often feel uninvolved in and even alienated by hierarchical forms of political Catholicism, even when, «ironically,» says Fowler, that laity is «much more liberal than pastors are.

Oh yeah, today I am labeled a Heretic, Deceived, and Shunned, even by one of my own Precious Daughters and my Terrific Son - in - Love who is a Pastor.

Already there are more questions to be answered and though it has been made public that your accounts have been frozen by the state, every Ghanaian knows this is just another lie being told Ghanaians as you are known to be so connected and even found a way to plant one of your senior pastor's wife on the board of BoG, Comfor Ocran.

The young philanthropist bemoaned the arrant neglect on the office of the number 2 citizen of Benue State by the Governor and observed that the only offence the deputy Governor committed was that he was an Idoma man and that was why Pastor Ortom decided to relinquish power to his fellow Tiv brother, Barrister Targema Takema who is not even the number 3 in the state hierarchy.

Though the focus of the evening was on the recent assaults on Jews, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams invited two others to speak: the pastor of an East Flatbush church that may have been burned down by an arsonist and members of a mosque in south Brooklyn that has been vandalized in recent weeks.

There is a scene, for example, in which Annie is chastised and harshly punished by a pastor for believing in dinosaurs; that is a frequent but false charge made by evolutionist critics of biblical creationists even today: that many Christians believe that dinosaurs never existed and that God may have placed their bones in the ground to «test their faith.»

-- Children should be taught this: I was — by a pastor no less, leaving a church, about the age of ten and told how important it was; I never forgot it and practice it to this day, even so I would rather not shake hands at all.