Sentences with phrase «leaders of the church like»

What the Pope and leaders of the Church like Cardinal Ratzinger or Cardinal Lustiger of Paris have in mind when they speak of a new evangelization are realities of this kind: a common healing of memories, reconciliation, and mutual help among European peoples» and certainly not some dark conspiracy aimed at wielding political power or influence.

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The main culprit for this disintegration of real community was the disintegration of the Sunday School format, which church leaders decided was to «uncool» to reach people like me!

It will be too late for Millennial to take responsibility but then it would not be their fault it would be the leaders of the free, love church's like my Pastor said this morning God's grace is killing us!

Like the Koch brothers, mega church leaders, and most of the Bible thumpers i know.

Dalahäst If you dug through all of Church history you might find a few leaders like St. Patrick who openly opposed slavery, but the vast majority regarded it as consistent with Christian theology up until the general abolitionist movement.

org), Lizzie's church leaders made a brave and courageous statement: «In the light of this tragedy it is now incumbent upon the PCC and the wider Church to prayerfully reflect on, and examine, our theology, systems and our culture so that we can do all we can to prevent a tragedy like this from ever reoccurring.&church leaders made a brave and courageous statement: «In the light of this tragedy it is now incumbent upon the PCC and the wider Church to prayerfully reflect on, and examine, our theology, systems and our culture so that we can do all we can to prevent a tragedy like this from ever reoccurring.&Church to prayerfully reflect on, and examine, our theology, systems and our culture so that we can do all we can to prevent a tragedy like this from ever reoccurring.»

It is like Bill Gothard talking about «umbrellas of protection» to shield from harm those within your realm of authority (e.g., church / ministry leaders over flocks, fathers over wives and families and single adult daughters).

There are pastoral communication programs (like the one at the University of Dayton) that have trained church leaders well.

There have also been churches entrenched in a male - only model of leadership, whose leaders sound more like Plato than Jesus.

One can start answering these questions by observing that the church's role as a community of memory is being emphasized by thinkers like Maclntyre and Bellah and by many church leaders precisely at a time when an increasing percentage of Americans are not being born and raised in churches, or if they are, they are.

usually run by some inept volunteer leader... I like to call them «lack of Care Group» — out in the «world» people receive a lot of training to care for others — but in Church it's something of a free for all.

Under Church of England rules, for a measure like the one proposed by Williams and Sentamu to pass, it needed majority support from three different groups: bishops, priests and lay leaders.

Figures like these convince me that the standard proposal of church leaders — that seminary faculty regularly spend sabbaticals or other periods of leave as ministers in congregations — is misguided.

We need our (supposedly) Bible - based church leaders to recover the discipline of taking us systematically through the Psalms, whether we like them or not, whether we think they're nice or not, and whether we understand them or not.

If church leadership had recognized that the medieval form of Christianity needed to be transformed because print was becoming the dominant medium, then church leaders might have seen people like Martin Luther as creative leaders bringing Christianity into a new era.

The devil has blinded the leaders of the churches of today when they serve carved images of the flag of any nation... In Exodus and Deuteronomy God said, not to serve or bow down to any carved image in the likeness of heaven above or in the likeness of the earth below... When you pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are pledging your allegiance to the carved images of the flag... The founding fathers made carved images in the likeness of heaven above and in the likeness of the earth below and set the carved images on a flag and the flag is high and lifted up on a flag pole... Some nations are serving the stars, the moon, and the sun, and others are serving the eagle, the bear, and the tree... The U.S. is serving the stars of heaven and the eagle of the earth... Canada is serving the leaf of a tree... Mexico is serving the eagle and the serpent... When you put your right hand to your heart or to your forehead, and pledge your allegiance to the flag, you are committing fornication with the carved images of the flag, God calls this IDOLATRY... The mark of the beast in the right hand or forehead is spiritual and identical to when you put your right hand over your heart or over your forehead... There is no way to go around God and the carved images of the flag, unless the devil has blinded the minds of the believer, like when he deceived eve and Adam in the garden of Eden.

Its an interesting and concerning that people can and do live in information silos (including me) and are kept their by leaders of institutional church who want them to think in certain ways like you must come to sunday church and made to feel guilty if they do nt.

Like Decius, he also aimed at Bishops and leaders and he added two more things for persecution: (1) Method of confiscation of property, (2) abolishing Church meetings and worship.

Growing up with an overwhelming sense that God was calling you to be a leader in the Church, but where there are no images of what that looks like, you begin to have the little question mark in the back of your head.

Christians of all ages and churches have encountered in their reading of Scriptures socially appointed, institutionally recognized priests, prophets and apostles, but also extraordinary, «natural» or «charismatic» leaders — non-Levitical priests, prophets without human appointment and apostles chosen like Paul.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

so we can all stop judging eachother and start encouraging others starting with our own family, the word does say that you and your household will be saved, but thats to much like work its easier to play christian around your church you belong to and play follow the leader and go around telling people that God loves them tell them all about how they are sinners you know the bit, an thats it go home and freak out on your famliy members because their not save like you maybe they are and you cant even tell because they do nt measure up to your churches standards even though God says we have all fallen short and that our rightousness is filthy rags, we need to stop useing the word of God as though we think we know what were doing, do you really think that when God said I will give you all authority He ment you?

You know, there are a lot of other fairer shots you could take at the church than that their leader creeps you out... like the content of this article, for example

You're right Nancy, they didn't like the rules made by corrupt Church leaders, in particular the selling of Indulgences.

Does anyone find it wrong that the leaders of the Catholic Church like to touch little boys?

The leaders of the Catholic Church do not like to touch little boys.

The lock is a good thing if you're a church leader who doesn't want to marry same - sex couples, but if you're among the minority of CofE vicars who would like the right to marry gay couples, you're stuck, because it's illegal.

Are we in danger of creating a corporate culture where all our church leaders look like smart, well - spoken businessmen?

At the conference, D.G. Moses, an ecumenical leader from India, pointed out that the mission and unity, the apostolicity and catholicity of the church were two aspects of one single entity, like the two sides of a coin.

The «church - system» looks more like the «filling - station system,» and the clergy in their varieties of responsibility and excellence seem most to resemble democratic political leaders — from town selectmen to governors, from demagogues to statesmen, from ward heelers to national party leaders.

While many Elder Boards are filled with godly leaders, there are some that are filled with power brokers who like to control the church by constantly holding the threat of termination over the head of any pastor who tries to — against the will of the board.

When so many Church leaders are caving into the demands of contemporary culture it is hardly surprising that Christians like Farron follow.

After an excess of outrage against the hazards of commercialism, this statement by church leaders offers no other Gospel to those it has condemned than phrases like these: «the spirit of Christmas,» «making Christmas real,» «invest in renewing our own spirits, our relationships, and our natural environment,» and «the spiritual and life - affirming potential of the season.»

She may well in end up leading a church one day where she preaches Jesus like a woman on fire and lays hands on the sick and watches God heal them, though this will surprise those Reformed colleagues who are sure all female church leaders have been trained by godless - Unitarian - lesbian - leftist - radical feminist - seminarians (she didn't have access to seminary at all — unfortunately she has read the Acts of the Apostles).

``... When Christians are told that God is love, but that «love» looks and feels like the opposite of what we know love to be (it's angry, it's emotionally unstable, it's violent), it's not a far journey to make for some leaders in churches to ALSO claim that their angry, unstable, and violent actions are «loving».

43 Like most others who help the church professionally, 44 Schaller advocates the presence of a consultant to mobilize leaders to examine their potential and plan for a more productive future.45 He eschews both the contextual approach46 and situations where severe interpersonal problems require an organic solution.47 Instead, he enters a congregation as a planner, to diagnose its internal dynamics.

While Peter almost certainly visited Rome for what looks like a brief period of time, if there was any city that represented or epitomized his authority in a special way, it would not be Rome, the place of his murder, but Jerusalem, in which the Church was born, or perhaps better yet Antioch, in which he long served as a local leader.

In a perceptive piece for the Christian Science Monitor, Anya Landau French tried to capture all the factors involved, commenting, «it's hard to imagine what prominent figure really could sway Cuba's leaders off of their course,» and went on to describe the almost «impossible situation» the Church is in — trying to maintain the modest freedoms its been granted, without looking like they are collaborating with a brutal regime.

Just read the fathers of the church like Athanasius and you will see that the Early Church preached the true gospel and here leaders were not greedy for honor, power and riches, but wanted to save church like Athanasius and you will see that the Early Church preached the true gospel and here leaders were not greedy for honor, power and riches, but wanted to save Church preached the true gospel and here leaders were not greedy for honor, power and riches, but wanted to save souls.

Wahlberg's claim that the Apostle Peter's «first successors might have been something like the leaders or chairmen of the presbyterial college at Rome» is belied by the careful scholarship of Peter Lampe, who, as we point out in our book, «developed the «fractionation thesis» to illustrate the house - church - decentralized flavor of the city along with its various Christian districts.»

By developing caring teams and a network of nurture groups, church leaders can help enliven their congregations, making them more family - like places of healing and growth throughout the life cycle.

And, in case three careers sound like too few, he is also a church leader, having served as Bishop of Durham, England, before his current teaching post at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

It may not be what «the new» mantra for «church» is, but going back to ministry after being away for a time has shown me that to the many that are disenfranchised the «new» way or the pie in the sky of what the church should be... is ending up with a lack of loyalty to the cause, a lack of accountability to leaders — move on if you don't like this or that, complain about whatever and never really commit to the hard things.

Like most European church leaders at the time, Pius XII worried about the threat of communism and viewed himself as a mediator for peace.

And, like their leaders, they tend to lump all non-Catholic Christians together, expressing little understanding of the distinctions between, say, members of the Church of Christ and the Jehovah's Witnesses who knock on their doors.

To think that church leaders have the arrogance to act like they are brokers of grace, is really sad and misleading and even shameful, in my view.

The Evangelical Immigration Table, including leaders like National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) president Leith Anderson and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) president Russell Moore, wrote the President and congressional leaders this week to tell them that Dreamers are «leading in our churches and our communities» and to «find solutions that allow these young people to stay in our country long - term and continue to be a blessing to our communities.»

The easy thing would be to keep bouncing around hoping to find some amalgamation of a church where there is a pastor who preaches like Tim Keller, a worship leader who leads like CeCe Winans and people who all have a heart of justice like Shane Claiborne.

Sadly, in many cases, when it comes to restoring a fallen leader, the offender's depiction of evangelical denominational or church discipline, feels more like John 19 where the Jewish leaders request for all the men next to Jesus on the cross to «have the legs broken [as well].»

There we go again, shut up this hypocritical rightwingers.Only at election time do rear their ugly heads up to be seen and heard.It's time to unleash the CRACKKIN, the monster that the IRS people use on unruly religious groups, exemption is like a death sentence to these groups.Most of these religious leaders are wolves in sheeps clothing, selling their political poison to anyone in their flocks.They push the envelope on the seperation of church and state issue, seeing how far they can go.Pastors and ministers would never speak politics like this years ago, that was taaboo.Now people like Robertson, Graham, and the rest, flaunt their ideaology both religious and political at every event.They don't care about the legal consequences, they have LAWYERS, perishioners pay for that.