Sentences with phrase «held church leadership»

Not exact matches

YOU: As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

There are individuals, yes, who do hold beliefs not in line with Church teachings — I was stunned, for example, when I was 18 to hear the leadership chastising members for not allowing their children to play with «nonmember» children, because «they don't have our standards.»

We're talking about love relationships not the titillation of nerve endings As to who can or can not hold a leadership position or who can or can not teach in a church, I think it comes down to morals not legality.

Doctrinal pluralism, despite its intellectual incoherence, will work so long as something akin to Liberal Protestantism is held by the leadership of the church and so long as those who are not Liberal Protestants acquiesce.

Yesterday, a little Twitter feud (the best and most official sort of feud) started when A Year of Biblical Womanhood author Rachel Held Evans tweeted about The Nines — a very popular annual online church leadership conference.

But then again, it wasn't until the 1970s (I think) that AfricanAmericans and / or people of color were permitted to hold offical leadership roles in the LDS church.

'' For the church to remove him speaks well of the mindset of fear...» No, it actually «speaks well» of the church leadership to remove a man who has absolutely no business holding the position.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.

While liberation may not be adequate as a summary motif for the church's mission and derivative leadership roles, it does hold out for us a more active overarching image than shepherding and counseling.

The author calls this Earthism, and he holds that that seminaries and church - related colleges and universities must give leadership in the greening of higher education.

I can have differences of opinion with my friends about health care or global warming or eschatology or women in church leadership without taking it personally or holding a grudge.

Despite the strong public sentiment against such convictions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.

Its up to those in church leadership to weed out the bad ones that cause harm to people and if they do nt they will be held just as accountable as the guilty.

I hold a lay leadership position at my church so I'm fully aware of the struggle churches face about what to do with those outside the «family» demographic.

He was faced with military service — a difficult thing for one who held pacifist views — but was needed by the Confessing Church for his leadership.

If you do not like your church being judged, then perhaps you should hold your leadership accountable, anything less is supporting it.

I am a Roman Catholic and I believe the Church leadership should be held to a higher standard.

Women in leadership do not hold the record for ruining the church because plenty of men in leadership have done that too.

(I Timothy 2:12) This little verse has made big waves in the evangelical culture, and all my life I've heard it used to enforce restrictions on the positions women can hold in church leadership.

Also, black men can not hold positions of leadership in the Mormon church, so I guess they don't count either.

Mormon's have strong values they hold to and their church leadership dictates they hold to them.

Because of this, our movements have held many common characteristics such as — believer's baptism, the priesthood of all believers / the church, nonviolence, interpret Paul through Jesus rather than Jesus through Paul, non-hierarchal leadership, and the kingdom of God as a counterculture — but we've never had any authoritative creeds to unite us.

He and the leadership of the NPP are expected to be at the late Ben Kwaw's 1 - week funeral ceremony on Monday, February 15, 2016, which will be held at the Mount Olivet Church in Takoradi.

Equality campaigners are arguing that Church has chosen to be a sexist organisation by refusing women the right to hold highest leadership positions and therefore should not be allowed automatic seats in the House of Lords, as this clearly does not comply with the spirit of UK equality law.

All of the subjects in Halpern's research are Navajo, who account for roughly 10 percent of the church's membership and hold key leadership positions.

In this blog, I write about the challenges and opportunities of leadership in the church, and about sitting with paradox holding it together in tension.

She is an active member of the community and works as a Children's Ministry Leader and Teaching Leader in her church and faith - based organizations and has held leadership positions for the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and the Armenian American Mental Health Association.

Being involved in my church community is a love of mine and I have held various leadership and mentor positions over the years.

Kimberly has served in various ministries and held leadership positions through her church and integrates biblical principles into her practice with faith - based clients.

He currently holds leadership positions in scouting and volunteers in his church and community.