Sentences with phrase «ministry in a personal way»

Much less a man of God who is taking the ministry in a personal way, most likely after many years of faithful dedicated service.

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While guarding against a rush to judgment, we can easily think of ministries that are pushing all or many of the current success buttons: they are carried out by a professional elite; they utilize the best marketing and media techniques; they dispense a personal fulfillment strategy to essentially anonymous folk who are regarded as consumers and called to respond in carefully prescribed ways which do not implicate them or their leadership in the more complex and controversial human issues.

I was particularly encouraged and challenged by the reflections on pioneer ministry, on the difficulties raised by serving in an established and institutional church, and on the ways in which contributors sustained their ministries in the face of personal tragedy and struggle.

The groups have bridged differences between several people, opened individual counseling opportunities, let parishioners express «beefs» directly, and given the minister support in his ministry.21 I concur with Robert Leslie's suggestion that the most natural, unthreatening way to introduce personal sharing in churches is to combine this emphasis with study.

Those churches which are using this model of ministry have demonstrated that a congregation can increase dramatically the effectiveness of its personal caring, marriage enrichment, and social change ministries in this way.