Sentences with phrase «less as a preacher»

Not exact matches

I think I said doing so was stealing and lying, but in any case I said it was wrong, and also pointless, since the congregation is not going to think less of the preacher because he says, «As John Smith says.»

Is that... wait... that old drunk turned preacher... wait it is... and now because of how extreme his conversion was he is... he is... hating on all the others that can not convert to the same degree as he did... he's actually mad they seem to give less than him... he thinks they are ungrateful... let's go get drunk!

What is probably true is that mainline preachers are less likely to call individuals out on personal sin, because it is not on our radar, as such.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

He will continue to be ordained by the institution and will, if he is faithful to it, have as much authority as the institution he represents has; spiritual authority is as necessary to him as to ministers of every other type; he is not less under the authority of Scriptures or less representative of it than the preacher; but his relation to all these authorities is different.

This does not mean that it is the preacher's responsibility to hand down a more or less authoritative interpretation for them, but as pastor - preacher he will lead them into the experience of hearing the message of Scripture for their situations.

The issue is no less than that of the preacher's vocation and viability as a spokesman for his God.

He went on to talk of arrogant, moralistic sermons he had heard before he was ordained, preachers speaking as if their role granted them some moral perspicacity not granted to lesser mortals.

The company recently has had mixed success as a distributor in their few short years of existence; «Limitless,» «Immortals» and «Act Of Valor» all performed well, «Machine Gun Preacher,» «The Raven» and «House At The End Of The Street» less so.