Sentences with phrase «long as the pastor»

Yet as long as the pastor communicates his acceptance through simple paraphrasing, she reveals her distress.

As long as the pastor is an accurate teacher of scripture and you find God speaking to you through that person, it is worth being a part of.

As long as pastors and church musicians believe they must satisfy the desire of every living thing, worship is in trouble.

I believe, as long as your pastor adheres to the foundations of what it means to be a pastor and if you sense God has directed you to a particular church, you can feel peace about going there.

Baby Christians think that as long as the pastor or the teacher has some Bible school training, some letters after or before their name, or some pastoral experience, what they are saying must be okay.

We never have to face our doubts as long as the pastor holds up his end of the bargain.

Not exact matches

Just a few years ago, I listened to a sermon where the pastor put the word «consent» in air quotes: «The world says that as long as there's «consent,» it's alright, but we know better than that, don't we?»

He will forever be branded as the Christian Pastor who advocated the killing of gays, something that will haunt him long after the gay rights debate is over and rights have been extended.

For as long as I can remember, I have loved this little parish and the clergy who have served it as pastors, and it has always seemed to me that many difficulties between them could have been avoided if both sides could have recognized the basic values of the other.

As a pastor and a long term «member» of the Church, I pretty much agree with Jeremy, and you make exactly my point.

Anyway, trying to communicate this, and the other issues, to my then pastor was also fraught with problems as he seemed too preoccupied with how my leaving was making him feel than with the years of rejection I described which led to me leaving, I say leaving but I only moved to a church up the road (I had been in the first church for over 20 years but couldn't bear it any longer, which was a sad outcome).

Many pastors would permit reception of the Eucharist for those living as brother and sister, or shrug at sexual relations so long as a couple did not receive.

You sometimes take too long to assert yourself as pastor and leader of the congregation.

«Every week is unique, and pastors are faced with the need to get insight from the Spirit of God to understand the mood and emotional state of the congregants,» said Ríos, citing a rise in depression and marital issues among hurricane victims, as well as concerns over suicide rates and violent criminal activity in the long recovery period.

As happy as I am about shorter sermons on Sunday mornings that pull the attention away from the pastor and onto the Table, I still long for the intense Bible study and training so common in the evangelical churches I've loveAs happy as I am about shorter sermons on Sunday mornings that pull the attention away from the pastor and onto the Table, I still long for the intense Bible study and training so common in the evangelical churches I've loveas I am about shorter sermons on Sunday mornings that pull the attention away from the pastor and onto the Table, I still long for the intense Bible study and training so common in the evangelical churches I've loved.

But that's not going to happen as long as pundits, politicians and pastors preach hatred for minorities, non-christians, gays and members of other political parties.

Confusion of the preaching office of the ministry with the work of the pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in teaching.

Wendy Guarisco also criticized Long for portraying himself as «David,» when his accusers are taking on such a powerful pastor.

This is his first in - person job interview as a youth pastor, it will last all weekend long, and she is determined to be an asset all the while feeling like a liability.

The conversation starts with Pastor Mark referring to Rob Bell as his «former brother in Christ,» then tries to offer «correction» and invites him to his church — as long as he's not the featured speaker.

They can no longer find identity as a child of God, spouse, or parent, so their identity is found as pastor.

If a group of believers wants to own a building and pay a pastor, this isn't necessarily sinful, as long as they make these of secondary importance.

Some students had offered to have their Wesley Foundation serve as a kind of collective pastor to a church that could no longer afford to pay a preacher and was slated to close.

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

Megachurch pastor Eddie Long as passed away according to a statement released to the Atlanta Journal Constitution and news outlets in Atlanta.

Bishop Long served as the Senior Pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta.

The Cambridge and New Haven that offered him no alternative to life at Stockbridge would probably not have suffered him as long as Northampton did, had he been pastor there.

Driscoll, who planted Mars Hill at the age of 25, said he should have spent a longer time «under godly, spiritual authority» before serving as a lead pastor.

The Huffington Post: Whites - Only Christian Conference Held In Alabama By Pastor William J. Collier's Church of God's Chosen Pastor William J. Collier and his Church of God's Chosen are holding a Christian conference and all are invited - as long as they are white.

Our church attendance has been WAY down; the pastor is officially «retired,» so no longer being paid — but IS listed as a member of one of the «teams» which still bear the name of the church they left.

When Justin told one of his pastors that he didn't think the ex-gay ministries could make him straight, the pastor told him that as long as Justin remained celibate, he was welcome to continue worshipping with the congregation, but that if Justin entered a same - sex relationship, he would be asked to leave.

CNN: Creflo Dollar latest in long line of top pastors facing allegations of wrongdoing Atlanta area megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar said on Sunday that he neither choked nor punched his 15 - year - old daughter, as she claimed in a report to police on Friday.

She was joined by Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Georgia, where she served as an elder at the time.

Members want the pastor to take a stand on moral issues as long as the position taken claims to be biblical and conforms to their moral values and commitments.3

As long as this is the pervasive ethos among pastors, there will be no spiritual friendships among theAs long as this is the pervasive ethos among pastors, there will be no spiritual friendships among theas this is the pervasive ethos among pastors, there will be no spiritual friendships among them.

As long as there are unspoken conventions that keep members from being friends who can tell one another about life at home and at work, it will be almost impossible for a pastor to convey to them that Christian faith affects all areas of life, all moral and social valueAs long as there are unspoken conventions that keep members from being friends who can tell one another about life at home and at work, it will be almost impossible for a pastor to convey to them that Christian faith affects all areas of life, all moral and social valueas there are unspoken conventions that keep members from being friends who can tell one another about life at home and at work, it will be almost impossible for a pastor to convey to them that Christian faith affects all areas of life, all moral and social values.

According to a letter written by senior pastor Fred Harrell on behalf of the Board of Elders, «We will no longer discriminate based on sexual orientation and demand lifelong celibacy as a precondition for joining.

It wasn't until I moved into the manse as an assistant pastor of an independent middle - of - the - road charismatic church that I joined the senior ministers in discovering the healing effects of red wine after a long hard day.

Only in a tradition where adults continue to refer to the family life of individual church members as «the Christian home» would pastors, educators, and theologians have continued to believe for so long that parents are more important than the church is to the faith of children.

Within a decade — I may be too optimistic to suggest as long as a decade — denominations like the ELCA will declare a normative standard that their pastors must perform same - sex marriages.

In the UK, the pastor of an independent church was recently exposed as having had more than one affair over a long period of time.

None of this means, of course, that if you resign as pastor, you no longer need to seek the advice and counsel of others.

Broadcast by tweets from influential theologians / pastors such as John Piper bidding «Farewell, Rob Bell,» the article's writer is convinced that Bell can no longer claim the title of «Christian» because he suspects Bell of universalism (this decision being made, it seems, simply by viewing the video above and reading the publisher's summary rather than, you know, reading the book first).

I think coercion is such a serious thing that if I didn't attend a church that valued love, authenticity, and community, I would leave the church forever and not look back — and I've been going to church for a long time (though I'm not as old nor as wrinkled as the naked pastor)!

We as Christians can endure, and we are willing to endure gays as long as they don't call them Christians, or don't want to attend church services, or even want to become pastors and bishops which is perverse.

I also figure that as long as my husband is content with me as Pastor, then I am in submission to him as well as the Lord.

It would be beneficial to provide at least some communities, either within our denominations or independently, where what the pastor believes is not primary, as long as they are committed to the unique and individual spiritual health of their members.

Jeremy I agree its not about what we can do but all about what Jesus has done for us it is all about his grace not following mans laws or trying to please the pastor or the church.Be respectful for those in authority and show them Gods love work hard as for the Lord as you serve them and pray for them but do nt try and please them.We no longer follow the ways of the world we live to please the Lord and worship him not man because that is idolatory.Thats why religion does nt work we can do nothing to add to Gods grace.Grace is also not a licence to sin as some christians believe and God is not fooled if we do not repent and turn from our sin he does nt hear our prayers if the intents of our heart are wrong.God listens to the humble and the repentent sinner or saint.The journey in following Christ is about how much do we want to follow Jesus to discover the abundant life and richs in Christ we must fully give him all our hearts and serve him wholehearted out of thankfulness for his grace and mercy towards us.brentnz

For me it doesn't matter whether my pastor is a man or a woman as long as there is holiness in his / her life, that through him / her you can see Jesus and living what they preach.

(CNN)-- Famed pastor Joel Osteen reiterated his position that Mitt Romney is a Christian on Tuesday, saying as long as the likely GOP presidential nominee believes that Jesus is the Son of God then he subscribes to the Christian faith.