Sentences with phrase «for preaching ministry»

Very well, our critics say: the apostles were chosen and commissioned for a preaching ministry, to take the Good News to the nations.

He's a firm charismatic a prophetic experience in his teens set him on a course for preaching ministry, and his meaty sermons always put Jesus at the centre.

Not exact matches

Jesus first word of his ministry was «Repent» if I'm not mistaken: Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

During that time, I established an online preaching ministry, Virtual Deaf Church, for deaf people like myself.

And once this recognition is at the heart of our ministry, our preaching will become effectual — not that we are ever more than unworthy and «unprofitable» servants, but that God in Christ can and does use our unworthiness for his own great ends and makes even our imperfections to serve him.

There is room for each of these in our ministry, but none of these things is what is meant by preaching the gospel.

Confusion of the preaching office of the ministry with the work of the pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in teaching.

For one whose whole ministry has been spent theological teaching it may seem presumptuous to speak on the subject of preaching.

Before I was ordained and became a «professional» in ministry, I absolutely loved preaching and studying texts and commentaries etc. and gladly did it for free.

If I had to preach for the rest of my life within the box that is the seminary sermon, I would quit the ministry.

I will gladly stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ and answer for why I refused to pay the preacher, but I will first explain, as Jesus already knows, that before I refused to pay the preacher, I myself resigned from full - time ministry so that no one would have to pay me to preach.

Like every other image of ministry that will come before us for serious inspection, the preaching image emphasizes some things and neglects others.

And Paul does address the issues of driving out demons through the examples of his ministry (he was once imprisoned for casting a devil out of a young girl) and by preaching truth where these spirits have planted deception.

The longer I stay in ministry, the more grateful I am for the example of powerfully wise women who lead, counsel, advise, preach — and sometimes just sit in silence.

In his work the pastoral director carries on all the traditional functions of the ministry — preaching, leading the worshipping community, administering the sacraments, caring for souls, presiding over the church.

In those periods when clear - cut ideas of the ministry prevailed pastors and people were relatively agreed on the acceptable answer to the question: By what authority do you do these things, i.e., preach, care for souls, preside over the church and administer the sacraments?

On Biblical grounds, we note, for example, that Jesus» ministry is summarized in the Gospels in ways like the following: «And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.»

Most theological authors are specialists: one interprets the scriptural foundations for preaching and teaching, another explains how to «manage» ministry, and others confine themselves to some particular subsection of parish life — liturgy, youth work, pastoral...

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

I was studying for the ministry, and I heard that D. L. Moody was to preach in Chicago.

We all talk so much about Jesus» ministry, but Luke 8:1 - 3 reveals that His preaching and teaching ministry may have been greatly hindered if women had not provided for His daily needs and those of His apostles.

In other situations, however, there may be a real place for women in the preaching and teaching ministry of the church.

What unites all elements of this process is the assumed centrality of the scriptures for church self - understanding and the necessity for the special ministry of study and interpretation as well as proclaiming the word in preaching.

That is an absolutely foolish statement: «to preach the errors of Christianity!!!!»... The errors aren't in Christ, or in Christianity, the errors are in those people who assume a «role» of speaking for God, or about God, when God is neither in them, or in their assumed ministry.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

If he is a Christian educator, does he simply forget that, even for him, preaching and pastoral care are aspects of ministry from which he can not disidentify himself even if his time spent on hem is less than if he were not a functional specialist?

Grady recounts stories of American evangelists who refuse to visit a church to preach unless a limo picks them up from the airport, takes them to a five - star hotel, and the church allows them to give time and attention during the service to an extended appeal for money or guarantees a hugely inflated ministry gift.

When all is said and done the increase of this love of God and neighbor remains the purpose and the hope of our preaching of the gospel, of all our church organization and activity, of all our ministry, of all our efforts to train men for the ministry, of Christianity itself.

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

For the Reformers, the «face» of the Church was publicly unveiled not primarily in political action or even in «little platoons» of Christians involved in ministry, but in the gathering for the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the EuchariFor the Reformers, the «face» of the Church was publicly unveiled not primarily in political action or even in «little platoons» of Christians involved in ministry, but in the gathering for the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the Eucharifor the preaching of the Word and the celebration of the Eucharist.

New Delhi said: «[This unity] is being made visible as all in each place who are baptized into Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Savior are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic faith, preaching the one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, and having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all and who at the same time are united with the whole Christian fellowship in all places and all ages, in such wise that ministry and members are accepted by all, and that all can act and speak together as occasion requires for the tasks to which God calls His people.»

WLGM is an evangelistic ministry comprising a group of covenant people that have given their lives for the preaching of the cross.it works in conjunction with community housing, human development agency and social help.

Indeed, it may be well to reiterate that the whole enterprise of Christian education is of quite special importance today if we wish to have an informed laity and if we wish to secure for the preaching office of the ministry that particular place which belongs to it and it alone.

And many monks and nuns, in response to the gospel stories of Jesus» ministry, became active in the world, serving as missionaries to areas of Europe not yet Christian, caring for the poor, preaching and teaching.

(1) clarity, strength and persuasiveness of Christian conviction and commitment; (2) good preaching and the ability to design and lead meaningful worship; (3) conviction of and commitment to pastoral calling as integral to Christian ministry and pastoral care; (4) deep sensitivity to the needs of people individually and in groups; (5) concern for, dedication to, and skill in working for congregational development and growth as a part of faithfulness, for the nurture and retention of members who show signs of slackening commitment, for the motivation and training of lay persons to work for church growth; (6) capacity to generate enthusiasm in other people, personal warmth, competence, spiritual authenticity; (7) ability to encourage and generate a spirit of unity in a congregation; and (8) organizational development and conflict management skills.

For still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowshFor still others such Germanic circumlocution is impossible to understand, let alone embrace; they will regard the resurrection in a rationalistic, relatively «old - fashioned» deist - liberal manner as a prescientific way of expressing the timeless content of Jesus» life and ministry — his preaching about the love of God and the need for human fellowshfor human fellowship.

Since the church is made up of clergy and laity, it follows that both have responsibilities in all ministries, and this is no less true for preaching.

The reason we are talking about after Christ's resurrection is because «the gospel» that we are talking about was never termed as such before, and for example, during Christ's earthly ministry, «the gospel of the kingdom» was preached to the Jews — even then «the gospel» had a technical usage then for a different specific message that applied to that particular time (Mt. 4:23, 9:35, cf. 10:7; Mk.

Most theological authors are specialists: one interprets the scriptural foundations for preaching and teaching, another explains how to «manage» ministry, and others confine themselves to some particular subsection of parish life — liturgy, youth work, pastoral care.

While the parish minister, with his broad responsibilities for preaching and pastoral care, was the typical clerical figure, there were other more specialized ministries.

In view of the fact that they were all preoccupied with the preaching office and its importance for the church, it is surprising that they did not produce more books and tracts dealing specifically with the ministry.

16 It is true that at the Hampton Court Conference, when Dr. Rainolds urged that every parish should be furnished with a preaching minister, Archbishop Bancroft in a moment of petulance replied that the real need was for a praying ministry, since «preaching had grown to such a fashion that the services of the church were neglected.

For the first 12 years of my parish ministry life, I preached about 46 Sunday sermons a year.

Addressing everything from issues such as integrity, priorities, and rest, to pastoral care and preaching, to daily life in the «fishbowl,» Chuck draws from his more than forty - five years in ministry to offer wisdom and support for pastors.