Sentences with phrase «first leaders of my church»

This is where Christ gave the Apostles (the first leaders of the Church) the authority to forgive sins in Jesus» name and on his behalf.

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First, the leaders of the Orthodox Churches have a relatively poor record of relating to mass media.

Nadarkhani is the leader of a network of Iranian house churches and was first charged with apostasy in 2010 for converting from Islam to Christianity.

Today he's considered «first among equals» in the leadership of the Greek Orthodox church, and is the spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians around the world.

If this is going to change in the church it will take a lot of leaders brave enough to look at people first and willing to leave the 99 to save the 1.

When it happens, this Council will be an event of considerable historical import, bringing together the leaders of all Orthodox Churches for the first time since 787.

The pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina, Page won a first - ballot victory this summer against two prominent candidates with close ties to what is sometimes called the college of cardinals» a close - knit circle of Southern Baptist Convention leaders who have handpicked the denomination's recent presidFirst Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina, Page won a first - ballot victory this summer against two prominent candidates with close ties to what is sometimes called the college of cardinals» a close - knit circle of Southern Baptist Convention leaders who have handpicked the denomination's recent presidfirst - ballot victory this summer against two prominent candidates with close ties to what is sometimes called the college of cardinals» a close - knit circle of Southern Baptist Convention leaders who have handpicked the denomination's recent presidents.

Bishop Michael said his appointment as the first African - American leader of Episcopalians was «a sign of our church growing more deeply in the spirit of God and in the movement of God's spirit in our world.

For the first time since Pope Francis has been the leader of the Catholic Church, he is meeting with President Obama.

Although they say they do not intend for the minister to dictate his aims for the church, the thrust of Leading Congregational Change is that the pastor or transformational leader brings a vision that must be promoted, first to a chosen group of disciples, then to a «vision community,» and then — only when fully developed and plotted out — to the congregation.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

One can recognize that there was a schism, and decide that though there was to be no one ruler of the church, that due to a number of circumstances, the Bishop of Rome, that was supposed to be «first amongst equals» as an honour, and was recognized as a mediator between churches, then became self - delclared as the leader of the church.

He took a long look at the room of would - be pastors and ministerial leaders, each of us zealous to earn our future roles in churches, ministries and on the mission field and delivered his first teaching point: «The wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time always results in the wrong thing happening.»

Wrapping up his first pastoral UK visit, the Coptic Church leader Pope Tawadros II has been welcomed to Clarence House by the Prince of Wales.

What seems most evident in the case of the modern pastoral director is that he can think of himself neither as parish parson responsible for all the people in a geographic area nor as the abbot of a convent of the saved, but only as the responsible leader of a parish church; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fchurch; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fChurch, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility for it.

The Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church leaders have held a formal meeting in Russia for the first time in over a quarter of a century.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

With the great leaders of the first generation for the most part dead or in extreme old age, and Jerusalem in ruins, the Judaean church ceased to occupy the centre of the stage, and the new and by now overwhelmingly Gentile churches entered upon a period of consolidation and further expansion in which guidance and authority had to be sought elsewhere.

In Mark Driscoll's first public statement since Acts 29 rebuked and removed him from the church planting network he founded, the embattled Seattle pastor announced he will temporarily step down as leader of Mars Hill Church while charges submitted by 21 former pastors against him are investichurch planting network he founded, the embattled Seattle pastor announced he will temporarily step down as leader of Mars Hill Church while charges submitted by 21 former pastors against him are investiChurch while charges submitted by 21 former pastors against him are investigated.

He is the 266th leader of the Catholic Church but is the first - ever Jesuit pope.

Nicholas was one of the bishops who attended the first ecumenical council at Nicea in A.D. 325, where various church leaders discussed the divine nature of Christ.

In 1993, Kathleen Richardson was elected president of the Conference, becoming the first female head of the Methodist Church and one of just a handful of British denominational leaders who are female.

The political manipulation of Christianity was the design behind the declaration of the National Party's first prime minister, D. F. Malan, that the church's «special calling» was to «guard the [Afrikaner] national interest,» and it is the design behind the recent call of South African Communist Party leader Joe Slovo for «every good believer to become a witness for liberation.»

In a response to the policy update announced last week by the Department of Health and Human Services, the church leaders said the policy offers «second - class status to our first - class institutions in Catholic health care, Catholic education and Catholic charities.»

A second group of leaders and churches (which do not practice these things) often accuse the first group of doing these miracles in the power of the devil rather than in the power of God.

Monsignor William Lynn was found guilty Friday of one count of child endangerment, the first time a U.S. church leader has been convicted of such a charge.

Although most evangelical leaders have not supported Trump's run (including Max Lucado), he has gained endorsements from Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. and First Baptist Church of Dallas senior pastor Robert Jeffress.

John Ortberg, author of Soul Keeping and senior pastor of Menlo Church in Northern California, encourages burnt - out believers first by validating what some church leaders often leave unsChurch in Northern California, encourages burnt - out believers first by validating what some church leaders often leave unschurch leaders often leave unspoken.

In the first place, the leaders of the church have been induced to listen very closely to the social scientists and sociologists, and thus they have adopted programs and ideas of social planning which, worthy as they may be, can often be recognized only with difficulty as the real concern of the church.

This is the first post of our weeklong series, Into the Light: A Series on Abuse and the Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to Church, which features the stories of abuse survivors, along with insights from professional counselors, legal experts, and church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to church leaders about how to better prepare Christians to prevent and respond to abuse.

When many parents, pastors, and church leaders think of young people, «leadership» is probably not the first word.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.

As the young mothers gathered for the first session of their sharing group, meeting in the library of the church, the leader set the mood for their work together.

Wahlberg's claim that the Apostle Peter's «first successors might have been something like the leaders or chairmen of the presbyterial college at Rome» is belied by the careful scholarship of Peter Lampe, who, as we point out in our book, «developed the «fractionation thesis» to illustrate the house - church - decentralized flavor of the city along with its various Christian districts.»

Huge crowds have gathered wherever Francis goes, providing an early indicator of the new pope's immense popularity during his first overseas trip as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Mr. Conners is lay leader of First United Methodist Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania, and author of Stranger in the Pew and Who's in Charge Here?

There was not much time, for the first meeting of German church people with world Christian leaders was scheduled soon in Stuttgart.

We left for Berlin - Spandau and the first postwar meeting of the resistance Brotherhood Council (Brüderrat), which had inspired the anti-Nazi church leaders.

These apostles were not missionaries, in Judea, but leaders of the Jerusalem church; (Cf. Acts 8:1) the actual mission was conducted by their emissaries; and probably James came to the city at the time Peter and John first left it and went to Samaria, during the persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen.

First minister Alex Salmond, from the Yes campaign, and leader of the Better Together side, Alistair Darling, have been invited to attend any church to pray during the day.

Nadarkhani, the leader of a network of house churches in Iran, was first convicted of apostasy in November 2010, a charge he subsequently appealed all the way to the Iranian Supreme Court.

What Jesus is teaching and what I think is the authentic understanding of the priesthood in the Catholic Church is that the priest - your teacher, your leader - is first and foremost a servant,» she said.

This theory is not as popular today as it once was, but it was a common view held by many during the first centuries of the church (e.g., the Gnostics held this view), and was rightly condemned as heresy by many of the early church leaders.

But in the words of Leo the Great, «Peter is the true leader of all, who have in the first place Christ as their leader... The strength which Christ gives to Peter passes through Peter to the Apostles — because he gave such authority to him whom he chose as head of the whole Church.»

Similar optimism about human nature seems to have motivated some Quaker writers and much of the pacifism of American church leaders following the First World War.

Leaders of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches were heavily engaged in the organizational activities leading up to the first meeting of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in

Pence spoke at day two of the first ever World Summit in Defence of Persecuted Christians where more than 600 persecuted Christians, advocates and church leaders were in attendance.

«the first Christian Ministers were not required to be celibate... Over the centuries the Church saw that there were advantages if those who were leaders did not have the responsibilities of family life.

Monsignor William Lynn, 61, was found guilty in June of one count of child endangerment, the first time a U.S. church leader has been convicted of such a charge.

When investigations of sexual abuse by church leaders are handled internally, we risk missing the truth in the first place.