Sentences with phrase «individual leaders of the church»

Addiction to self - abuse not only affects individual leaders of the church but is also integrated into the structure.

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The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.

For one that is so eager to point out the nuances between individuals who leave the church and those who leave to follow Christ, you are equally eager to groups all kinds of church bodies and leaders together.

The Sunday following Trump's order, leaders of eight evangelical organizations involved with the Evangelical Immigration Table released a letter to the president and vice president, saying, «While the US has... received only a fraction of 1 percent of the world's refugees annually, we believe the refugee resettlement program provides a lifeline to these uniquely vulnerable individuals and a vital opportunity for our churches.»

The diversity of individual pursuits also calls into question the issue that opened the conversation: What is the churches» financial responsibility to provide seminary training for its leaders?

The absence of consensus on important public issues means that the power of the churches to influence public policy tends to be proportional to the charisma and prestige of individual church leaders.

The Alliance, which has 20,000 individual members, 3,500 churches, 700 organisations and 79 denominations as members, has a council of reference made up of more than 80 church leaders and leaders of Christian organisations from around the country.

Individuals and church leaders have made strenuous efforts to overcome apartheid, but rank - and - file members of mainline churches have not really resisted apartheid.

The church becomes one more dehumanising «thing» (seeing people as things called sinners, or bums on pews, or soldiers in the work of the church, or worship leaders, or whatever) more concerned with making sure the church / congregation / denomination survives than with seeing the individuals live.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

Whatever form it takes, the abuse of power by a Christian leader, whether in a local church setting or by someone with an international platform enhanced by TV exposure, can have a deep and corrosive impact on the faith of individual believers.

Christians must organize demonstrations, the leaders of its churches must make public statements, and individuals must begin collecting signatures — all to prevent the leaders of our nation from engaging in an immoral and unwise war.

Knowledge about individual community leaders, the history and development of a town, the way decisions are made in its institutions and social groups, the deals being made in the world of politics and business, the norms and values in the arts and sciences, the presuppositions and operational concepts of the professions — this is grist for the mill of a core group which has the responsibility of planning strategy for the mission of a particular church in an American community.

I have seen some leaders bring correction and have it birth life because very clearly the heart of the leader was clean, filled with love for the individual and the church.

Those of us who are aware of individual and structural racism in the church must continue to point it out, facilitate discussions, speak the truth in love, challenge our pastors and leaders, pray for healing and work for justice.»

Historic churches and individual historic leaders must adapt to the new reality of the religious field in Latin America: a market situation in which institutional loyalties are precarious, middle - class denominationalism is in decline and the Protestant community is overwhelmingly Pentecostal.

I would hope that as leader of the Catholic church he would recognise that Christ died so that all men could be equal and accept our rights as individuals here in the Falklands Islands.

Instead, individual church and school leaders, local philanthropists, and a range of social entrepreneurs have developed and grown innovative and (by Catholic - school standards) radical approaches.

Church leaders are often on the front line of intervening with individuals and families when they are facing difficulties and we are here to help with questions and concerns that may arise when these circumstances become confusing or difficult.