Sentences with phrase «many ordained ministers»

While incarcerated she became an ordained minister, playwright, and mentor, and has never broken any rules in prison.

A whitepaper shows the coin is backed by a company led by «Elder Jeffre Saint James, D. PSc, MBA, ordained minister, and a Service Disabled Veteran.»

When I confronted her over this, she responded by saying that she thinks I (formerly a foreign missionary and ordained minister) was never actually «saved.»

Nathan, until I finally accepted that I was gay (and ok) at age 31, I was incredibly outspoken against those who tried to tell me that being gay was ok (I was an ordained minister in a charismatic church).

I hear from my minister (pastor) that the number of ordained ministers than are men and that are women in C of S is about 50/50.

******** And Judas was an apostle -------- Just pointing out to trey that being (formerly a foreign missionary and ordained minister, or for that matter and apostle)- does not equal saved.

Timothy George, an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention, is dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University and a member of the First Things editorial board.

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It requires ordained ministers to renounce their long - established role as agents of the state with the legal power to sign marriage certificates.

It should be used very sparingly and perhaps only by an ordained minister trained for this much more complex task.

An ordained minister must involved any official charge of heresy.

Adjunct Professor, School of Theology, Columbus, Georgia, Florida Christian College, Guest Lecturer, 10 Years a Teacher of Evolution, 1 1/2 Years a Theistic Evolutionist, 38 Years a Biblical Scientific Creationist Ordained Minister.

i was «in» the church for almost my entire life and an ordained minister for 25 of those.

In January 2014, a 25 - year - old Rev Michael Mair became the youngest ordained minister in the Church of Scotland.

In the Reformed branch of the Reformation, responsibility was often assigned to the ordained minister or «teaching elder» of a congregation (hence in that tradition clergy were expected to be above all «learned ministers,» which meant that they had the resources of information and conceptual capacities that empowered them to fill this role).

he's was ordained a minister in Rome and you think this man doesn't know what he is talking about??? Wow, the mental jumping jacks you fundies put yourselves through knows no limits.

After all, as my brother the ordained minister once told me, «Its a great vocation for a vacation».

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Dr. Gilpin, an assistant professor of church history at the Graduate Seminary of Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma, is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

It is certainly possible and, for the particular man, necessary that he take all the training to be a teacher of theology or religion without necessarily becoming an ordained minister.

But this degree of obligation does not absolve the ordained minister of special theological obligations.

Our concern here is with the ordained minister.

An image could have been constructed in which the ordained minister is shown in a private residence, seated beside the father, with the rest of the family grouped around.

And indeed, as the Sunday schools developed, their administrators as well as teachers were laymen; and only on some special retreat did the teachers have direct contact with the ordained minister about the content of their task.

In the interim period most of these ordained minister - administrator - chaplains have been replaced, on the one side, by trained hospital administrators, and on the other side by trained chaplains.

What troubles me about the situation is not what happens to this full - time teacher, but the inferiority complex which his training and his (collective) sense of a «higher» calling give to ordained ministers.

Certainly this is an excellent spot for competent women to serve the church; but of late years more men are holding such positions, and more directors, both men and women, are ordained ministers.

On the one hand, they served as ordained ministers subject to the authority of the church; on the other hand, they played an increasingly active role as leaders of a popular movement.

Fry Brown, who is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church, said those numbers seem to be «holding,» even as the role of the black church is changing.

Jesus here is a «faithful minister of God's word and sacraments,» in the words of an Anglican prayer for ordained ministers.

An ordained minister with four early Georgia pastorates behind him, Outler is a duly educated (Yale, Ph.D., 1938) professor of theology who taught at Duke and Yale before leaving his stamp and seal on Southern Methodist University.

I would have liked to read more on the importance of team ministry and of collaboration between ordained ministers and those serving God in other walks of life.

Here we are in the realm of speculation, of course, but we can say this at least: no preacher who knows his business and who is aware of «the wideness of God's mercy» can dare to talk as if only those who have visibly and expressly professed Christian faith are the concern of a deity whose «nature and name» is Love, Thus the preaching of the ordained minister must necessarily err, if it errs at all, on the side of generosity and charity.

And the short answer to that question is that the ordained minister's function is to proclaim Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen from among the dead.

Ordained ministering is in no way separate from the wider ministry of Christian people; it is «distinct» from that wider ministry, in that it functions for as it also represents the service which is proper to all who belong to the Church.

Our Maranatha congregation has just called a new pastor, whose wife also will be an ordained minister.

Graham and others advised him to go ahead, so Bright quit Fuller Seminary and abandoned his goal of becoming an ordained minister.

Before joining the ATS staff in 1990, Aleshire, an ordained minister with a Ph.D. in...

They can become ordained ministers.

Phillips is the faith relations manager at ONE and an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church.

The non-Catholic Churches can still tolerate this withering of spiritual life longer than we can, because with a married clergy, and only a few Religious Orders, the ordained minister can retreat within his own hearth at home, and draw around him a congregation to his own way of thinking.

As a graduate in religious studies and ordained minister, the bias toward the universal Christian church is not without cause.

Suh Jung - Woon, Ph.D., an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of Korea, for many years was Professor of Missiology at San Francisco Theological Seminary.

Denominational statistics show that there are twice as many ordained ministers as there are pastoral positions to fill.

Her Grandfather was a preacher & now Stella Parton is the new leader of the Parton family, after becoming an ordained minister.

The use of the word «minister» to describe the limited class of specially ordained ministers is unfortunate.

As «ministry» has become increasingly the task of all Christians, Trotter explores why the church ordains ministers, and how this relates to the unity of all Christians.

That is why today the ordained minister lays hands on persons when they are confirmed and join the church.

It should not be forgotten in this connection that the ordained minister is not the one who forgives the sin.

Also involved in the arguments about specialized ministries today is how specialized workers in the employ of churches and church organizations, when they are not ordained ministers, shall be related to the churches.