Sentences with phrase «experience as a pastor»

My experience as a pastor fades in comparison to such hardships endured by heroic men and women who have nothing but stones and fallen cinderblocks to hammer into gravel for concrete.

I began this chapter by stating that through my experience as a pastor I have been moved out of a rigid, moralistic legalism into what I believe is a more loving and more compassionate attempt to discover the best alternative within the particular circumstances of each person's life.

It doesn't surprise me that you should be referring to Jesus with your experience as a pastor and Christians being your people or feeling that they are your people.

I think he must be writing here from his own experience as a pastor's kid witnessing his own father's faith and the life of his church.

In my experience as a pastor, and in your experience too I'm sure, I've come to learn that we can seem to make things true from our experience.

I base this on my experience as a pastor for the past decade.

I can testify from my experience as a pastor that flunking in the School of Communion has grave consequences, not only for an individual or for one's family, but for all the other communities of which the family is the basic cell.

My experience as a pastor in several churches was just the opposite.

I've also experienced this as a pastor... trying to make our church the most attractive... getting new people because...

The candidate needed to have a Ph.D., an appreciation for Bethsaida's theological tradition and at least some experience as a pastor and as a teacher of preaching.

Ayo has over 15 years» experience as a pastor.

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It was a great experience to have a pastor accept my position as I accepted his and we shared thoughts and philosophies for hours.

Bonhoeffer was clearly charmed by the place, but as a Protestant pastor he was not completely at ease with everything he saw and experienced.

I decided to take this job because I've seen through my own pain and experiences this last year that we as pastors and leaders are living «between the dreaming and the coming true» (credit goes to Robert Benson for that phrase).

I love how some take the words of one supposed «theologian» to another and then tells everyone not to listen to their pastor who has probably had as much experience (if not more) with biblical interpretation than this author.

As they reflected on this finding, Hoge and Wenger «came to believe that the conflicts most often experienced by our participants are ones that could probably be resolved and in the process offer growth experiences for both pastor and congregation.»

My experience as a priest — people do take these things very seriously which is precisely why the Pope is writing to pastors and Catholics to help them understand how better to discern.

The Christian pastor will find nothing alien to his concern in any human experience, in so far as his limitations of skill and human insight will permit.

If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient experiences; is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative experience for the patient.

In my experience, single adult females fell under the «leadership» of the male pastor, who heavily influenced our view of sexuality and ourselves, with what their view was (which, as the pastor, was of course biblically sound).

Your experience is as a pastor and professor of preaching.

This process may take a few years, but the end result is worth the liberty and freedom that both the church and the pastor experience as a result.

So, I pray that as I grow in my faith and as my children experience their own challenges... be it that one chooses to be a pastor or my daughter chooses a life of servitude as a nun that they will also always know that the Lord gives them the freedom to make changes and seek him in whatever way they need to without compromising the fact that he died for us to save us.

A seasoned pastor has a wealth of knowledge from his training and experience which counselees lack and some of which they need as grist for the decision - making process.

You have much to teach us from your years of experience being a pastor, and likewise we as your readers have our own wisdom and experiences to add from our spiritual journeys.

As you have related in your experience, it is not possible to fulfill all the duties of a Pastor when you are bi-vocational.

As an experienced pastor and a man of keen intelligence, he knows that reality - contact is as important for societies as it is for personal mental healtAs an experienced pastor and a man of keen intelligence, he knows that reality - contact is as important for societies as it is for personal mental healtas important for societies as it is for personal mental healtas it is for personal mental health.

This approach did not begin as an academic perspective but rather emerged out of the concrete experience of the poor and of the pastors who lived and worked with them.

As they ran, the son shared what he was learning in seminary about urban ministry, and the father, an inner city pastor, related experiences of his own.

Anyway, it's a ministry for pastors and lay leaders who have experienced hurt and church abuse, as well as burnout.

But it goes against my experience as your «church» and «bad pastor - ing» goes against yours.

They both felt as though the pastor had shared their experience as fully as a third person could, and they knew his presence had kept their faith strong.

I bear witness only to my own experience, but this I must declare: I have attended scores of pastor's conferences, most of them in connection with our most prestigious theological schools; yet I can not think of a single one that was as directly helpful to me as a parish minister as this one.

Your experience at present is so much closer to Jesus» command to take up your cross and follow him than if you were living a comfortable life as a rich and famous pastor of a large church.

The illusion of the conviction of the Holy Spirit... which is really an emotional response to something being very wrong and the turmoil experienced when these feelings contradict all you've been taught by the church and its Pastor, who has set him / herself up as the supreme anointed authority under God and is due utmost and unquestionable respect.

Eugene Peterson said in an interview with Jonathan Merritt at Religion News Service that he «hasn't had a lot of experience» with homosexuality but had attended churches as an associate pastor where several women were lesbians.

Gary i really like your opinion re A Shark's Welcome, resonates with my own 20 year committed to the church experiences which the position of «Shark» as (insecure) pastor... left its devastating mark..

When the pastor writes a sermon, an empathetic imagination sees again those concrete experiences with his people which called upon all his resources, drove him to the Bible and back again, and even now hang as vivid pictures in his mind.

As early as 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincAs early as 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincas 1960, sociologists of religion reported that pastors and laity experienced congregations as fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever sincas fragmented.2 That was only the beginning of the larger cultural transition that has continued ever since.

This does not mean that it is the preacher's responsibility to hand down a more or less authoritative interpretation for them, but as pastor - preacher he will lead them into the experience of hearing the message of Scripture for their situations.

The pastor who feels it is his bounden duty to act as a spiritual mentor to an alcoholic who comes to him could perhaps succeed if he could recall out of his own experience some time of deep crisis or personal suffering in which he found comfort from his faith, and could tell that story simply and directly.

As a full - time staff pastor I know from experience that religion thrives on and would die without manipulation.

Baby Christians think that as long as the pastor or the teacher has some Bible school training, some letters after or before their name, or some pastoral experience, what they are saying must be okay.

As a pastor, I'd love to hear your thoughts much more through scripture rather than common sense or experience?

Second, as counselors, pastors, and friends, we work with and are friends with many wonderful people who have been through difficult faith - based experiences.

As CT reported in 2017, immigrant pastors and churches channel funds back to ministries in their home countries, such as one Los Angeles pastor from El Salvador, whose father experienced kidnapping and death threats while leading a church back homAs CT reported in 2017, immigrant pastors and churches channel funds back to ministries in their home countries, such as one Los Angeles pastor from El Salvador, whose father experienced kidnapping and death threats while leading a church back homas one Los Angeles pastor from El Salvador, whose father experienced kidnapping and death threats while leading a church back home.

He quoted another pastor (whom he didn't name) saying, «A person can have just as profound a spiritual experience over a cup of coffee with a friend as he can in a church».

His experience is one that questions and pushes against what is affirmed by the environment he was raised in and studied in and confirmed in.I'm not denying that David's cartoons represent his experience in his «church» I'm turning up (best I can) the limitation of that experience and how his version (Zombie pastor preaching re-chewing of the mind as transformational) is 1) a sad and pathetic reduction of the cultural tradition and 2) is evidence of his own ongoing entrapment.

Dan Barker's Godless is a great roadmap of the transition most atheists and agnostics experience as he himself was a youth pastor, later minister and influential Christian musician.