Sentences with phrase «know about ministry»

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Keep in mind the congregation probably knows more about pastoral ministry than you.

The prof. may have taught in a seminary, but he certainly didn't know much about ministry.

(I don't know about others here, but, personally speaking, I have neither envy of ministry nor penis.

I don't know about you, but I would have difficulty supporting such a ministry, especially if they had been doing this for 2000 years and their effectiveness became worse and worse over time.

Does our knowledge of Jesus public ministry give us all we need to know about his interaction / relationships with unbelievers.

The ministry and its leaders have repeatedly countered accusations that they discouraged victims from coming forward or knew about the abuse.

But that kind of interpretation requires that we read the Gospel backwards, that we already know about the sending of the disciples out into the world to extend Jesus» ministry.

This will require that the greater body of Christ no longer be complicit bystanders, but instead tell the truth about the standards of pastoral and church behavior that have been violated and discontinue endorsement and promotion of ministries when there is so much public evidence of violation.

If we know anything at all about the ministry of Jesus, we know that no action of his ministry brought greater offense to his hearer than his forgiveness of sin; and no theme of his sayings or parables overshadows the proclamation of forgiveness, although we must recognize that originally this forgiveness was inseparable from the eschatological situation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God.

It is about the big things: Inviting people to church but loving them just the same if they say «no,» actually making it a priority to participate and serve in the ministries of the church, financially investing in the mission of the local church and yielding to God's direction of my life over my own ideas of how this life should go.

Nevertheless, as soon as man has been understood as man - before - God confusion about the nature of the ministry has begun to disappear, no matter how great the remaining problems of «demythologizing» and translating the gospel and the law.

What now of ministry to royalty, To those who eat and drink and ride about In mighty chariots; who know no hurt Though drought and famine stalk the earth And decimate the human family;

When you start out at seminary with an eye toward entering the ministry, the first thing they want to know about you is not whether you believe in God, or pray, or go to church.

Before commenting on whether or not he should step down, I'd like to know more about his ministry.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

When one takes all this into consideration, it must seem surprising that we still know as much as we do about the chronology of the life of Jesus, and especially that we can fix inside relatively narrow limits the time within which all that the Evangelists tell of Jesus» ministry took place.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes&raknew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes&raKnew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes&raknew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

I shall never forget the impact on my ministry when I sat down a few years ago and jotted on paper «the great rocky facts of being» (Augustus Hopkins Strong): some elementary but elemental truths I felt certain of, with certainty defined as «no doubt about it» but as «convictions by and for which one lives and dies.»

We really do not know when we talk of it being in the power of God to create a spiritual order in which truly and freely no creature would ever sin, whether we are talking about an order which is possible at all, or again, an order in which all the other characteristics which bind together our ministry of love, service, action, and communion would be really and freely manifested to the glory of God.

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds [c] and teachers, [d] 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, [e] to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

But from what we can know about the person of Christ, his ministry, his death and the curious conviction of his followers he rose from the dead shortly after his death, you are confronted with the question: how should we make sense of this all?

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

What can properly be permanently inferred about the ministry from what we know of the first century seems as follows.

But then I get second thoughts about Paul, who, with both his genius and his humility, was nevertheless going to fight all corners who said he was not a true apostle — even though he did not meet the formal apostolic criterion of having known Jesus in his earthly ministry.

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.

Bultmann goes further than most at this point and questions also the authenticity of the accounts of the ministry of Jesus, with the result that we know little about him.

I think knowing more about his life before he started his ministry would make him more interesting to people and allow us to embrace our humanness.

I knew that if I hoped to understand what drew him into ministry in Japan, I needed to learn more about Christianity.

11And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherdsc and teachers, d 12to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, e to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

A variation on the conventional wisdom appeals to the anxieties of students about their career prospects: «You need to get to know the people who will be your colleagues in the ministry for the rest of your life.»

Throughout his 18 years in ministry, Mark Driscoll was well - known for making crude, demeaning comments about women and for mocking men he deemed effeminate or «pussies.»

Recent major media articles on congregation - based inner - city ministries give a false impression that much is really known about these saving enterprises.

Pastors who know how to lead laity into ministry have at least two leadership characteristics in common: They talk about the presence of God in the ordinary situations of daily life, and they are able to structure the life of a congregation so that members are encouraged and able to give ministry to one another.

Throughout His entire ministry He was calling and inviting people to follow Him who knew next to nothing about Him, and were sometimes even antagonistic to who He was and what He stood for.

But, I do want to stop and think about the one detail that NewSpring has been clear about: alcohol issues and pastoral ministry, and, though we don't know all the details here, I'll include a bit about the struggle of alcoholism in Christian ministry.

Paul again in Ephesians: 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherdsc and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Btw, I am one of the young 20 somethings spoken for in this article, and I very much enjoy the access to information about the Bible I can find online, and the connections to local and global ministries and connecting on facebook with my * real * church friends, but I am 100 % committed to my real life church and know that I can not be an authentic Christian without authentic relationships!

«As far as I know the ministry was not aware of any digital address system linked with post codes that was about to be rolled out and we just rushed this through to claim some credit for it.

He's been caged; things are going on in his ministry that he did not know about.»

A brief stop in a Dutch ministry on housing led in 1994 to a job working on climate - change negotiations, something he knew little about.

I have found a wonderful daily devotional and ministry which you probably already know about and that is Proverbs 31 Ministries.

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including the New Testament Letters: The Letters are not in their normal New Testament Order, but in the date order generally agreed Known as Saul prior to his ministry, Paul was born of Hebrew parents about.

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Government departments / ministries may want to know about reactions to policies, legislative changes or current events.

What will it take to break open governments and ministries so that they innovate in accordance with what is now known about making innovation work?

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About Blog At Kindred Youth Ministry, we hope to build a community of people dedicated to helping one another in the sacred work of ministering to young people.By following Kindred Youth Ministry blog get information on excellent resources together to help youth pastors in their ministry and calling and also know about youth ministry hacks and much About Blog At Kindred Youth Ministry, we hope to build a community of people dedicated to helping one another in the sacred work of ministering to young people.By following Kindred Youth Ministry blog get information on excellent resources together to help youth pastors in their ministry and calling and also know about youth ministry hacks and much about youth ministry hacks and much more.