Sentences with phrase «function as a minister»

This ability is an integral part of his function as a minister of religion.

The student is steadily pushed into a decision to function or not to function as a minister.

To do this, at our seminary we have an intensive twenty - four - hour - a-week course in psychiatric information for ministers and religious workers taught in another hospital where the students function as ministers alongside the chaplains.

In this light, the aim of pastoral care needs reformulation in terms which speak of restoring persons» capacities to function as ministers within a community of faith and mission.

Elite theological schools would be able to «train» their students to fulfill their functions as ministers in just that spirit.

Over 1,000 people went to the Cotroceni Palace, President Basescu's residence in Bucharest, to demand not only that Raed Arafat's recommendations regarding the health law be respected and that he be reinstalled in his function as Minister of Health, but, even more brazenly, that the President resign.

A couple of days after the protests commenced, Mr. Arafat resumed his function as Minister of Health and his demands over the new health law were respected.

Not exact matches

Modi's political success and promises of economic reform in spite of these bumps suggest that the new prime minister could function as a reformer in the American mold.

I don't see a problem with an atheist as president, we have an atheist prime minister and the government still functions superficially a mormon in the top job should be no real problem except would you really like to have a president who wears secret underwear?

As continuing licensed ministers, their roles were normally limited to being associate pastors of churches, hospital chaplains or religion teachers, and their functions were also restricted.

They too insisted on a thorough education for the minister, whose task it was to function in a community as a teacher as well as a pastor.

As the minister functions in this way he may become gradually aware of the ways in which the problems of the ill person and those of the family intertwine.

The setting of a religious fellowship within which the minister functions as counselor offers a rich variety of group resources which can undergird, broaden, and complete many of his counseling efforts.

A minister with only a client - centered string on his counseling fiddle often feels guilty or blocked in counseling situations requiring the constructive exercise of authority, functioning as a teacher - counselor, or serving a parishioner emotionally in a feeding role.

Knowing the distinctive function of the guide as pastor delivers the minister from being a cheap therapist - in - residence to the congregation.

But the minister bears ultimate responsibility for the teaching; and unless he has been stampeded away from regarding this supervision as his principal «teaching,» he will feel a deep commitment to the entire teaching work of the church through this redefinition of his teaching function.

But if these learning processes have been undergone, through experience as well as thinking, then it is unthinkable that preaching and pastoral care, rightly understood and humbly practiced, can be in fundamental contradiction within the functions of the Christian minister.

As a result of running an experimental course at the University of Chicago for two years, for those preparing for campus ministries, in which we focused on personal service and pastoral care to students, I am convinced that more insight and skill in this area could be of great benefit to campus ministers, most of whom currently perform these functions without special training.

The answer is that theology is a very human, and very important, enterprise; that grasping and assimilating what God has done and continues to do is not something that can be engaged in passively but is a challenge to everything any of us possesses; that the separation of theologizing from what the minister and the church try, fallibly but authentically, to hear of the Word of God in specific situations from some alleged and remote theology is bound to be blasphemous as well as mistaken; and that the one way to hear the Word of God, if it contains the Protestant principle, is to submit our functions to concrete self - criticism.

In terms of functions performed, the other Christian may be said to be as truly ministering to the minister as he may be said to be ministering to them.

«When rulers have inverted their functions and enacted wickedness into a law which treads down the inalienable rights of man to such a degree as this,» abolitionist minister Theodore Parker of Boston declared after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850, «then I know no ruler but God, no law but natural Justice.»

In the schools the lack of a clear - cut conception is evident there where a frankly pluralistic approach to the work of the ministry has been accepted and where men are prepared for the varieties of the ministry as well as the varieties of ministerial work without reference to a common function to be carried out by all ministers and by every minister in all the things he does.

But what critics who point to these reasons for the loss of certainty seem too often to forget is that the Church is never only a function of a culture nor ever only a supercultural community; that the problem of its ministers is always how to remain faithful servants of the Church in the midst of cultural change and yet to change culturally so as to be true to the Church's purpose in new situations.

As in the cases of the ministry's functions and of the call so also when the minister's authority is in question the Church moves nearer the center of the picture in the emerging new conception.

Ordained ministering is in no way separate from the wider ministry of Christian people; it is «distinct» from that wider ministry, in that it functions for as it also represents the service which is proper to all who belong to the Church.

With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of reality.

As the minister functions pastorally, several obvious factors may be borne in mind.

But of course the minister is always a pastor, and the pastor a minister, These are functions as well as offices, and in the broader sense every Christian may be minister - pastor to his neighbor.

We learned many things about these students» life situations that will enable us to help the succeeding student generations to be more effective ministers and to function as creative agents of mental health.

Although he is surrounded by people, a minister may be hungry for relationships in which he can function as a peer rather than a professional leader.

When a minister thus educated enters a parish, he feels equipped to function as pastor, counsellor, and teacher, but he may feel awkward and ill at ease in the pulpit.

And, if I am not mistaken, most American ministers got worked up through their functions, just as I have.

In the New Testament who functioned as church leaders and ministers: Philip's daughters, Priscilla (with Aquila), Nympha, Phoebe, Junia (with Andronicus), Euodia and Syntyche.

The minister is expected to function as a religious educator.

The minister may function as a leader, a source of inspiration, an organizer, an administrator, but he can not single - handedly, or even with a staff, carry on the service which is the church's vocation.

The theologian, therefore, actually functions in two capacities: as a scholarly aid to the minister and as a ruthless seeker for truth.

The question is whether the minister becomes an executive who occasionally functions as a pastor, or remains a pastor who also functions as an executive....

By encouraging dependency on himself, a minister decreases his people's ability to function as adult decision - makers and initiators of action.

In spite of all colonial vicissitudes the formal definition of the work of the ministry remained as stated in the Virginia laws of 1619: «duely [to] read divine service, and exercise their ministerial function according to the Ecclesiastical laws and orders of the Churche of Englande... «42 Thus the goal and the determination of the generations of dedicated ministers who served the English Church throughout this period might be expressed in the words of that early governor of Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale.

(See my article in Catholic Biblical Quarterly [1963]-RRB- Though the testimony of the Apostolic Fathers can not be neglected, we must admit that Christian priesthood is essentially, for the New Testament, the function both of Christ and of the Church as a whole, not of particular ministers.

Functioning as a compensatory patriarchal figure for the whole community, the minister often became superpatriarchal, a symbol of pride for his people to whom they could transfer the privileges denied to them.

Taking that into consideration, rather than essentially being a populist shield for Labour ministers, we need a grassroots, ground - up effort that will function independently of our leadership until such times as our leadership ceases to function independently of us».

It is going to function very much the same way as a Prime Minister.

A gazette notification is issued announcing the designation of a Minister as a «Senior Minister» and his or her functions clearly spelt out in the gazette notification.

There is nowhere in the constitution that any ministerial portfolio has been created... So far as they have ministerial roles and functions, the only Minister who has been given constitutional recognition is the office of the Attorney General so with due respect to him, I do not see how he will have any serious argument to press home either in the court or within Parliament because it is pathetic... I am afraid his argument is jejune.

The fact that these laws are signed by former governors in the exercise of their functions as public officials and now benefiting from the entitlements under such laws while serving as senators and ministers raise serious conflict of interest issue under paragraph 5 of article 8 of the convention.»

Worse still, he is constantly being directed to represent the President at official functions all over the country, as if he were more his Personal Assistant, Special Advisor or minister rather than the vice president of the country.

In June 2001 Trimble temporarily resigned as First Minister of Northern Ireland and appointed Empey to fulfil the functions of the office for the interim period until disagreements between the parties had been restored.

Labour have elected a leader that even his supporters do not see as prime minister, which runs contrary to the basic function of opposition.

The move to «ax the tax» — as Prime Minister Tony Abbott is fond of saying — makes Australia the first country in the world to abolish a functioning carbon pricing scheme.