Sentences with word «laity»

An important by - product of the involvement of laity in mission is that better - trained lay and clergy leadership will be required.

It also leads to attitudes on the part of laity in the church that «his wife will support him, so we don't have to worry.»

I can not help but think of the work of John Henry Newman or Yves Congar when reflecting upon a participatory theology, as the Church struggles to move toward more inclusive roles for laity, for women, for national cultures.

They will be disillusioned by laity who are unaccepting of their ministry.

Over the past twenty years or so, large numbers of laity as well as clergy have been moving in this direction.

Ordination is associated with preaching and a primarily masculine authority in the pulpit, while the domestic or feminine task of teaching is associated with laity who teach — Sunday School teachers and non - ordained Christian educators.

For example, theological education of the clergy can block communication with laity.

Church professionals have much to learn from laity in the corporate world who profess allegiance to both the church and the corporation.

In 1993 Maha Ghosananda led hundreds of Buddhist monks, nuns and laity on a dramatic month - long march from Siam Reap in the country's northwestern part, through its central regions, to the capital, Phnom Penh.

The other major context in which laity carry out their call to mission is the family.

I could not help but wonder what would happen if the majority of Christian laity outside the monasteries were to take up this practice.

In addition to equipping laity for counseling and calling on members, the pastor can teach members to recognize the capacity of every member for pastoral care.

One of the reasons why it is so difficult to lead laity into ministry is that the dream of «a Christian America» influences the way people understand Christian identity.7 «The family pew» in the sanctuary continues to symbolize a well - established Protestant ideal about the role of Christianity in American culture.

But he cites and agrees with hosts of surveys which have found gaps between laity and clergy in respect to activism.

The term has become a turn - off for most laity and many pastors.

Ahead of its reopening, Paul Laity takes a tour

The whole clegy - laity divide makes lazy wimpy Christians.

Here the mission is primarily that of the theologically informed laity supported by the fellowship of the whole church.

In all cases, clergy say the experience heightens their own understanding of the realities laity face as they attempt to be Christians in the corporate world.

We have only made a beginning in solving these problems, and it needs courage and mutual confidence between hierarchy and laity if we are to make progress.

It is often said that we have the most highly educated laity in the Church's history.

When the same social scientists, with the help of some colleagues, turned their attention to the clergy, of whom they interviewed 1,580, largely younger and so - called «new breed,» they found that the patterns of their responses were «so tediously similar that they suggest it is precisely in church and Sunday School that the [laity's] learning takes place» (WS 50).

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

But among the ordinary laity there has been little growth in a true understanding of Catholicism in relation to the various forms of non-Catholic Christianity.

Laity say that they would not be likely to consult with their pastors about an ethical or a work - related issue.

It is not surprising that Protestant laity listen to their churches» pronouncements on economic issues with the disdain evinced by American Roman Catholics for their church's teaching about human sexuality.

When «Muslim» continued to be a pejorative in the mouths of Orthodox laity and clergy, the American archbishop (born of Greek parents on the Turkish - held island of Invron) convened a conference for Orthodox - Islamic dialogue, the first of its kind.

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.

A church which does not have an active laity with a sense of fellowship in the church and obligation to it is seldom, if ever, a virile church.

Still, the warnings of Paul VI have been prophetic, even as the resistance of faithful laity continues to press the question of the correctness of one crucial conclusion of Humanae Vitae.

One high - level view of the quandary we face now comes from Paul Laity at the Guardian, in Are Amazon reader reviews killing off the critic?

Generosity with others is good... but tithe also seems to tie into a clergy / laity distinction to me and one small group of people deciding where God's money goes.

Clergy and laity frequently provide key leadership on CBDO boards.

As maturing laity emerge to share the work of administration, the guide will eventually have less to do rather than more.