Sentences with phrase «left ministry»

After Focus moved to Colorado, three - quarters of the people who moved with Focus from California eventually left the ministry.

The fact that theology is a representation of ourselves and our selfish desires is the basis of something I've said since I left ministry nearly two decades ago: «If given the choice between discussing theology and getting punched in the dick, I'll take the punch in the dick.

I wrote the original post of this shortly after I left the ministry in 2010.

Respondents included those who switched to a ministry other than shepherding a congregation as well as those who left the ministry altogether.

I left the ministry four years ago because I found McDurmon's position too prevalent and I could no longer function freely under it.

That was actually the very month I left the ministry and left the church.

I sometimes wonder what would become of my blog if I left the ministry as a full - time paid clergy.

This comes between the lines when you state, «I sometimes wonder what would become of my blog if I left the ministry as a full - time paid clergy.»

You're speaking the words I couldn't when we left the ministry.

But once I left the ministry, all of these fears disappeared.

When I left the ministry and the church in 2010, it took me a couple years to somewhat recover and finally start with all seriousness my own online endeavors.

Eight of the men left the ministry; three recently returned.

Hell, I quit smoking faster than I left ministry.

I left the ministry and the membership of the church in 2010, all at once.

I finally left the ministry.

I think of two ministers who left the ministry, with whom I have counseled at some length in recent years.

I seriously doubt that life has any ultimate meaning, but I'm convinced that we can make our own meaning, and I have spent the last 45 years since I left the ministry trying to help people do just that.

There is Eugen Rosenstock - Huessy, who concluded that the three major principalities and powers on the earth were the government, the university, and the church, and he refused employed from all three; Karl Barth, who finally left the ministry and only visited different churches occasionally because he found it had become too sentimentally pietistic; and Thomas Merton, who finally became a hermit and only rarely assembled with his brothers.

When I left the ministry in 2010, I didn't plan on leaving the church.

I left the ministry many times: Once when my contract was discontinued without my knowledge.

I remember the first Sunday after I left the ministry and the church.

When I left the ministry a year ago and posted it on my site, my good friend in Australia Eleasah Ridley was inspired to write a poem.

After I left the ministry in 2010 (read up on my story Questions Are The Answer), I experienced loneliness like I never had before.

It really hit us when we left the ministry and the church in 2010.

When I left the ministry in 2010, it was because the church and I were «no longer compatible».

Some people assume I left the ministry and the church because I was hurt.

After 15 years of receiving a paycheck from a church, I left the ministry 9 years ago (my choice) and found myself in a deep struggle for about three years.

My dad left the ministry (his «retirement» career) some time ago.

He too was in adultery with someone in the church and eventually left the ministry, his wife and children.

I find that those who are in similar situations as myself, having left the ministry of the institutional church and entered the ministry of everyday life, do not have, nor do they want a way back.

I was a little gun - shy, having freshly left the ministry and the church.

I'm not saying I was abused, but I certainly experienced one of the most severe traumas of my life when I left the ministry and the church a couple of years ago.

The latest one was when I left the ministry and my church all of a sudden a couple of years ago.

It was written before I left the ministry and the church.

I left ministry and moved with my husband across the country.

I have left the ministry.

I left the ministry in 1988.

I support pastors who are thinking of leaving, are leaving, or who have left the ministry.

After years of sexual harassment, abuse and even rape, I left the ministry in 2005.

Finally, in 2010, I left the ministry and stopped being a regular member of the church.

When I left ministry, I applied for over 100 jobs, and got only two interviews.

(Slavoj Žižek) Well, it's been a year since I left the ministry and left the church.

I recently left my ministry position.

My life is so much more peaceful since I left the ministry.

Funny, your life is now more peaceful since you left ministry.

When I left the ministry a couple of years ago, we were lonely overnight.

If you read my book, Questions are the Answer, you will realize that it wasn't because of outright abuse that I left the ministry and the church, but because I couldn't be me and stay.

Even those few who had left the ministry sometime since 1964 had taken jobs connected in some way to their Mississippi experiences.

Pastors who had left ministry under circumstances not of their own choosing or who felt that they had in some way been mistreated mourned the loss of pastoral ministry most intensely.

In his book on the experiences of Roman Catholic clergy, The First Five Years of the Priesthood, Hoge claimed that one of the most important findings of his research was that priests left the ministry because they «felt lonely and unappreciated.»