Sentences with phrase «into ministry i experienced»

Five years into ministry I experienced a baffling and terrifying depression.

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I have experienced this when I initiated new ministries, led capital - fund drives, started new churches and entered into community conflicts.

What is worse, should they decide to enter seminary, they are skeptical of the value of the education offered there, since they have been lulled by experience into supposing they know how to do ministry already.

But telling people not to give money is not consistent with my experience (I moved into the hood and brought them into my house — that started a ministry to the poor).

degree, be ordained or have professional ministry experience is largely due to the entry of many women into the field.

Beyond the obvious question of how well the school actually can assess relevant background knowledge and experience is the fact that the system does not take into account other worthy commitments in a student's life, like work or ministry responsibilities outside the school.

My husband was a Lutheran pastor David, a hopscotching ministry that started 30 years ago, evolved from industrial pastoring into a consulting career, returned to the ministry when my 24 - year - old daughter was killed, taking on two churches and undergoing some excruciating experiences.

He was overwhelmed with woe over his own unworthiness, his life of bourgeois privilege even during this ordeal into which he had led the city's black community, and finally about the superficiality of his «inherited» call into the ministry, although he «had never felt an experience with God in the way that you must... if you're going to walk the lonely paths of this life.»

The last time I witnessed and experienced severe abuse at the hands of the Christian religion and its ministers in 2002, I vowed that if ever I would go back into ministry again, I would work to resist this power, teach others to do the same, and work to free people from the dehumanizing oppression of religion and the Church.

After more than 20 years of professional ministry experience and a decade focused on philanthropy and developing leaders for the nonprofit world, I often get into conversations about how to know if all the work we're doing is actually worthwhile.

But what they don't understand is, they had influenced others who were not as informed or devout, people who have experienced chaos and grief, and they sought a way out of all of this, by paying into Camping's ministry.

Of course, we know from Jewish history that this repentance did not last long, for very soon after Jesus began his ministry, many of the Jews reverted back to their old ways of living, and ended up rejecting Christ as the Messiah, and this led them deeper and deeper into sin, until in A.D. 70 they did experience the negative consequences of sin, and the nation of Israel was destroyed.