Sentences with word «judicatory»

A bright, thoughtful, articulate, theologically alert person who is an ideal candidate for a, teaching position will often prefer to work in the upper judicatory levels of the church or for a council of churches.

This finding is most clearly illustrated by the high degree of dissatisfaction expressed by United Methodist clergy in relation to their denomination's deployment systems and the level of support they received from judicatory officials.

This led some to identification with radical campus movements (which ultimately risked profound alienation from judicatories) or to identification with the central administration (which obviously translated the campus minister into a member of the university administration).

Underwood's recommendation that churches and private foundations should increase their funding of campus ministries was not well received in a decade in which general financial retrenchment by judicatories has led to a truncating of all special ministries.

A minister of a mainline Protestant denomination, newly hired as a chaplain of a denominational college, met with a committee of the regional judicatory within whose bounds he would be working.

It is the middle judicatory officials (whether bishops or regional or conference ministers) who are crucial in enabling or in frustrating the long - term ecumenical possibilities.

Black church people receive limited guidance from their national judicatories on such issues as abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, women's rights.

Implied in such an act would be a relativizing, for the future, of the ecclesiastical character of the different denominational judicatories.

There is no reason in principle why local associations should be bereft of staff executives, but such persons should not be appointed by higher judicatories at the state or national level.

In most judicatories, you can present a separation agreement to a judge who will then approve it (hopefully) and submit it as an official record of the court.

This is what clergy talk about when they meet for judicatory meetings.

Furthermore, Hoge and Wenger discovered a consensus among judicatory officers regarding pastors who have left local church ministry: «These pastors tended to be loners in the district or presbytery, for whatever reason not part of ministerial friendship groups or action groups.

«Two days focused on how missional judicatories, churches and individuals can facilitate church planting movements in their sphere of influence.

Now, I had to look up what judicatories were (since they were «missional,» I figured I would like them), but the rest sounded good from the start.

Without concrete data to substantiate the value of a «presence», judicatory support eroded.

It's a long way from the denominational headquarters to St. George's by the Grange; even when a denomination has middle judicatory staff in evangelism, it is hard for a limited national staff to respond to all the calls on its time in the synods and conferences.

Does every regional judicatory need its own camping program, for instance?

As judicatory funding came under close scrutiny in the late»70s and early»80s, campus ministry staff and programs were good targets for cuts: clearly, it takes less staff time to refer and network than it does to design and implement creative ministry.

Marriage licenses are a tool by which the issuing judicatory can create and maintain «vital statistics» filings for a county, state, and federal government.

The primary concern of most church judicatories is not the spiritual integrity of ministry.

As a consequence, the mission activity of the churches is, with limited exceptions, carried out by regional or local judicatories.

However, much of the funding that used to be channeled to national churches through mission boards is now being spent by local churches and judicatories on their own hands - on mission projects.

The clergyman needs allies in his constituency — congregation, higher judicatory, whatever group he represents as leader.

Aided by judicatory and seminary personnel to whom the congregation seems more beneficiary than source of Christian praxis, local churches usually assume that a more definitive form of church life exists somewhere else.

In recent years the national bodies of predominantly white denominations have been experiencing diminishing support from congregations and regional judicatories.

Or is it possible for denominations and judicatories to create conditions under which competitiveness becomes less likely and strong collegiality more common?

This time the issue is the relationship between religion and economics, and now the «fundamentalists» are in control of the oldline denominations both in the local church and at the judicatory level.

There is another type of school which is legally wholly owned and operated by a church judicatory.

However, many of the UCC OMs raced quickly over to calling themselves «panentheists» which apparently makes them feel virtuous and orthodox and protected from the judicatory powers that be..

«Individual congregations within one judicatory have very different ideological systems....

A few weeks ago, I spoke to the judicatory (district) leaders of evangelical denominations in New England.

The failure of church judicatories to confront the unfaithfulness of a pastor — when the pastor's unfaithfulness is common knowledge in the congregation — robs members of an opportunity for healing.

For centuries, sessions, presbyteries, synods, and the general assembly had been called «judicatories.»

It is unrealistic to imagine that churches, at the judicatory or national level, can accomplish any significant social action without staff.

The new approach called for membership by «judicatories» — the districts, presbyteries, associations, dioceses and other such denominational units.

Campus ministers began to broker services in order to match these students up with specific programs of local congregations or judicatories.