Sentences with phrase «for prophetic ministry»

Now that the time is ripe for a global spiritual outpouring, Aslan's Place is uniquely positioned to equip believers for prophetic ministry in these crucial days.

Another had a legal background and became a resource in the community for prophetic ministry and civic action.

Not exact matches

The Latin tradition claimed with increasing emphasis, not to say stridency, that, presiding over the pastoral and prophetic ministry of the Church's bishops, is an «office of Peter» which is vested for all time in the bishops of Rome.

When prophetic ministry is practiced for the wrong reasons, when its primary purpose is to nourish the ego of the speaker, faith is cheapened.

The New Testament does not display an office of minister comparable to the pastoral leader of our institutionalized church.20 It does offer a variety of figures whose prophetic function provides a model for the office of ministry today.

H. Richard Niebuhr's famous metaphor for the minister as «pastoral director, «5 and more recent variations of it, 6 continue to be useful in taking account of the two elements that distinguish the ministry from other professions, namely, the sense of a personal calling to be a prophetic resource to persons and to structures in society plus accountability to an organization that the minister both leads and serves.

It will be the thesis of this book that prophetic guide to maturing in the Christian life is a metaphor for the professional ministry that fulfills all these specifications.

Those of us who have been involved in designing and promoting various models for the process of sustained prophetic inquiry can testify to the general lack of interest of ecclesial bodies in such ministry: «social action» is by and large out, and, where it is a priority among church leaders, most of its practitioners are concerned with direct action, not action research.

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.

Prophetic ministry, he says, should articulate general values for society as a whole, but specific moral, social, and political implications are for individual church members only.

The role of the church as the prophetic critic of society is neglected today; instead, the chief emphasis is on the healing ministry of the church, on Christianity as the antidote for anxiety, on the gospel's promise of peace of mind.

A church's prophetic ministry is a contemporary expression of the passion for social justice of the Old Testament prophets.

The discovery of one's personal prophetic ministry as a Christian is a very good thing for one's mental health, as well as for one's church and community.

This kind of prophetic ministry is not for the weak or the timid, the hopeless or the despairing.

My suggestion that it is an act of prophetic courage for a pastor to serve as the spiritual guide of a congregation is not a metaphor or a «model» for ministry.

And at the end of his ministry he quoted the prophetic word that the temple should be a house of prayer for all nations (Mark 11:17; cf. Isa.

The pastor's need for a metaphor for ministry which provides a sense of meaning through all the personal crises of passing decades as well as the continual need to balance the demands of the congregation with maintaining the integrity of the «call» can be met by the New Testament based metaphor for ministry as being a «prophetic guide to maturing in the Christian life.

If religion is concerned with ultimate Truth or God, it can not but have its implications for the whole of life, private and public, and therefore the fundamental human right of religious freedom should include the right to express religious faith in prophetic ministry in society and politics in the name of justice.

Seminarians are equipped mainly to provide a kind of chaplaincy care for those who have difficulty functioning in a capitalist economy; many discover that they lack the prophetic skills necessary for ministry.

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Youthfront is committed to helping youth workers and students develop their entire being.We strive to be creative youth workers who engage in theology, ministry, formation, practice, relationships, service and life with a prophetic imagination.By following Youthfront blog get more information, tips for youth ministry.