Sentences with phrase «experience of every woman in the church»

This isn't the experience of every woman in the church.

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A young woman strides through floodwaters on her way to church on a Sunday morning in Igbogeni in Bayelsa State, one of the 14 states affected between July and November 2012 when Nigeria experienced its worst flooding in half a century.

Regarding numbers of men vs. women in churches — I've heard that more women than men attend churches but it is not my current experience.

If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.

While the fundamentalist experience on this question has been quite slow in allowing the ministry of women, lagging far behind the churches of the mainstream, the Wesleyan churches have often been the pioneers of this practice, especially in the nineteenth century when the conservative Wesleyan churches were far in advance of the more established denominations.

Not just for women in the church but for a lot of people's experiences in the church.

We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression.

The goal is to show how scripture, tradition, reason, and experience all support a posture of equality toward women, one that favorsmutuality rather than hierarchy, in the home, Church, and society.

One young woman asked me this question with tears streaming down her face, for she had been made to feel small and worthless by churches like these, and she lived in fear that thousands upon thousands of women were experiencing the same thing and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriagIn today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriagin the yoking of a man and a woman in marriagin marriage.

In denominational systems which rely on placement appointments, an increase in the number of women in senior pastorates is slowly beginning to occur; but in systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency of large churches to call male ministerIn denominational systems which rely on placement appointments, an increase in the number of women in senior pastorates is slowly beginning to occur; but in systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency of large churches to call male ministerin the number of women in senior pastorates is slowly beginning to occur; but in systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency of large churches to call male ministerin senior pastorates is slowly beginning to occur; but in systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency of large churches to call male ministerin systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency of large churches to call male ministerin the tendency of large churches to call male ministers.

At the same time, in Brazil, there is one offshoot of the Universal Church started by women and largely directed by them, and the testimony of many women is that their experience of the Spirit has given them a new identity.

The goal is to show how scripture, tradition, reason, and experience all support a posture of equality toward women, one that favors mutuality rather than hierarchy, in the home, Church, and society.

I wish that all your readers were cognizant of this, yet in my own experiences as a writer who advocates for the full and equal inclusion of women in the church, I am all too familiar with the push back.

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.

Several women's groups turned from primary concern with the institutional church to community projects, as a result of the «new flavor» developed in the groups through interpersonal deepening.20 It has been my experience that many larger church meetings, including worship services, can be enlivened by incorporating small group communication and awareness experiences into the proceedings.

She had very high levels of education, a seminary degree, a long history of teaching with many beloved students, but every teacher at her church's education program was a young, charismatic man with half her education, let alone experience, despite their position of welcoming women in ministry.

From personal experience i was in a church who has the whole congregation pray for 1/2 hour in tongues.The people in this church were leaders from Africa.A place who sees more supernatural then us because we feel the need to analyze the thing to death.When we did the atmosphere shifted lives were changed.When i was on a mission trip to Mexico i felt lead to go pray with the women who in that culture are outcasts one of ladies who came with me started singing in the spirit as i was we stopped each other in shock when we realized we were sing the same song the needs of the women were met with out an interrupter.

We can not know the meaning of Jesus in the early church except as we know what he actually was within the experience of the men and women who formed the community.

The Church is the sphere in which Christian faith is known and Christian life experienced; it is the area in which men and women, captivated by the dynamic appeal of the Lord Christ, respond to that Lord and find their little human existence redeemed and enriched and made significant.

All of the above symptoms are classic traits that women — in our families, in our churches, in our workplaces and schools — experience in the deepest recesses of their stricken souls while we pass by unknowing.

[5] In this presentation, I will focus on two aspects of women's experience or the interpretation of women's experience, which I hope will give us an entry into our discussion of feminist / womanist [6] perspectives and praxis in the early churcIn this presentation, I will focus on two aspects of women's experience or the interpretation of women's experience, which I hope will give us an entry into our discussion of feminist / womanist [6] perspectives and praxis in the early churcin the early church.

Women tweeted stories of the misogyny, sexism and patriarchal abuse they'd experienced in the Church.

Although these represent small percentages, given that about 70 million Americans qualify as churched adult women, this amounts to millions of women in the U.S. today who feel discouraged by their experiences in churches.»

This expression of one woman's feelings about the worship experience describes the feelings of a growing number of women in the church, including many who have spent a life - time there.

The appropriateness of womanist theological language will ultimately reside in its ability to bring black women's history, culture, and religious experience into the interpretive circle of Christian theology and into the liturgical life of the church.

Before that, I was in Ft. Smith Arkansas, where I had the pleasure of experiencing 1) the incredibly gracious congregation of First Presbyterian Church, Ft. Smith, which included several 80 + year - old - ladies who expressed interest in marrying Dan should I be open to a sister wife, 2) the famous, award - winning restrooms at the Ft. Smith airport (for real; they are ranked among the Top 10 Airport Bathrooms in the U.S.), 3) amazing conversation with a group women at Miss Anne's Pie Place.