Sentences with phrase «leaving church leadership»

He too is seeking the next step after recently leaving church leadership.

I left church leadership, trained as a psychosexual therapist and set up Lifecentre to provide counselling and support for people who have been raped or sexually abused.

This confusion has left church leadership open to ideological distortion by its host culture as it «conforms to expectations established for it by a bourgeois society» (93).

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The Church of England has set out plans to improve leadership, after a spate of errors it admits left several cathedrals at risk of ruin.

Those who leave blame the church or its leadership for a number of reasons.

There are bigger questions here about discipleship, leadership, and the purpose of the church, of course, but I'll leave it there.

We are grateful for the grace we've been shown by those who watched us leave, especially those in leadership at our old church.

The church leadership was so utterly toxic that I left and took up work in the corporate world.

I remember the day I resigned from leadership and the church, the pastor told me if I left, I would be deceived.

When Henana of Adiabene, the director of the school at Nisibis (570 - 71) preferred John Chrysostom to Theodore, the Persian church repudiated his leadership and the majority of teachers and students left the school.

Retaliation from church people for leaving / and or voicing opposition to dogma, rules leadership or abuse.

Destruction of the marriage for those who want to leave and one spouse has been co-erced by church leadership that you are now a bad influence.

Another of the reason's I left the church is the victim blaming that goes on in order to protect the leadership.

Millions of people are now seeing how empty that structure is, and are leaving the Sunday - morning, leadership - led, entertainment - focused style of church to enter into a daily, Spirit - led, relationship - focused style of church.

Based on what people told us, very few left one church and moved to another because they were angry or because of a major disagreement with the leadership of the old church.

A little over three years ago, when we decided to leave the institutional church once for all, having seen much of the very un-Jesus-like things that go on, especially behind the scenes among the staff and leadership, we looked for a missional church.

He was required by his church leadership to go visit her and convince her it was best to leave her money to the church, and god would provide blessings for her young children.

When I realized that I was comprising my own integrity by badmouthing the leadership and making others feel bad about being connected with a church they were formerly thrilled with, I knew it was time to leave.

I am not a pastor or in any position of leadership within the church but as a full time civil servant I would get the sack if I did not do my job competently or I have the option to leave if I become disillusioned with the job.

When I personally lost confidence in the methods and subsequently the doctrinal position of the leadership at my last church I was keen to leave, and as soon as a positive reason for so doing presented itself, I did move to another church.

At a meeting of all of the church leadership I reported the statistics on how many people had left the church in the previous twelve months (almost 15 % of the congregation).

To put it plainly, the reason Barth had to leave Germany was because the compromised leadership of the Confessing Church movement itself no longer supported him.

The major life changes brought about by his leadership in the reforming of the church and his leaving the Augustinian order issued in Luther's rather sudden decision to marry, which was difficult for some to accept.

In this system Labour was «a broad church» within which the left was marginalised by an unshakeable alliance of the right wing trade bureaucracy and the parliamentary leadership.

[46] In addition to his leave from Bain Capital, Romney also stepped down from his church leadership role in 1994.

A parishioner says her husband abused her after church leadership discouraged her from leaving him.