Sentences with phrase «ministry of»

As might be expected, a lot of the stories revolve around the unique calling, gifts and ministry of clergy.

Robinson explains the relationship of the Q document (Sayings Gospel Q) to Matthew and Luke and shows what it can tell us about the ministry of Jesus before that ministry was interpreted by Matthew and Luke.

All ministry of Christians to one another in the congregation can be training for service at home, at work, and at play.

To confront the Jewish people with the meaning and significance of the life and ministry of Jesus as we understand and confess them is one thing.

The ministry of episkopé continued this eucharistic focus, as bishops began to serve among the congregations, unifying the Eucharist of the local communities and that of the universal church.

The ministry of Canon White at St. George's recalls those apostolic foundations.

The general challenge perhaps finds its most explicit expression in the proposal that the homosexually active should be fully accepted into the ministry of the churches.

Jenson further concludes that communio requires an ordained ministry that is «fundamentally a «ministry of unity.

The ministry of exorcism in the secular city requires a community of persons who... are not burdened by the constriction of an archaic heritage.

Since the second century, the bishops have best exercised this ministry of unity, for they focus in one ministry both Eucharist and mission.

How would this be a part of the ministry of the church?»

We might say that we tolerate Ananias and Sapphira because we are called to a ministry of service and compassion, even when people are wealthy liars.

Admittedly, all of this might seem impossibly esoteric, but it has everything to do with what is preached from thousands of pulpits and taught to those who will bear the ministry of the churches in the years ahead.

The theological ministry of the catechete deals then with the criteria of appropriateness in selection and accent.

Calvin, Institutes, I.vii.5: «Enlightened by him (the Spirit), no longer do we believe that Scripture is from God on the basis of either our judgment or that of others; but, in a way that surpasses human judgment, we are made absolutely certain, just as if we beheld there the majesty (numen) of God himself, that it has come to us by the ministry of men from God's very mouth....

But even if they have not called their minister of oversight a bishop, most denominations have consistently maintained some ministry of that sort.

There is no reason to exclude the ministry of theological articulation from the scope of this promise.

But more than this, when we consider the «deliverance» ministry of Jesus in liberating people from demon possession, it is important to recognize what Jesus was, and was not, doing.

If want to see God, we can look at the entire life and ministry of Jesus, but God is especially revealed through Jesus on the cross.

If the minister has not read and studied the Bible, gone to theological seminary and learned about other branches of theology, acquired an insight and a skill or two along the way, and seen what he was trying to do in a context appropriate to the ministry of the Christian church, none of what I am asserting would follow.

There were numerous cultural, political, and theological winds swirling around Israel in the years before and after the ministry of Jesus Christ.

Through such a group, a mutual ministry of caring and growth can be implemented.

To be sure, this is a rather odd motto for the ministry of a church that professes to serve the world, and to do so through a Living Word carried and conveyed by a fellowship and in which priesthood is somehow conceived to be a universal function and not an aristocratic prerogative.

By saying this, I am trying to differentiate mission with the general understanding of the ministry of the church, which is «to provide for the inner needs of the congregation» [3] Thus, while ministry is understood broadly as that which the church provides for its members within its borderlines, mission concerns those beyond the church's boundaries.

Eventually, therefore, the ministry of the church will be cooperative in these areas with the patterns set up by society to deal with them.

It is time, though, to take stock with regard to resources supporting the ministry of worship.

As a pastor who claims the life and ministry of Jesus as her model, I need to say that this is simply unacceptable.

Jesus» ministry of inaugurating the holy city of God within the conditions of the human city continues in the life of the Church, and stands at the very heart of what the Church must do in history.

(ENTIRE BOOK) As a pioneer in the development in the specialized ministry of pastoral counseling, and a teacher of Protestant ministers in various theological school settings, the author offers his assessment of the state of the ministry in the late 1960's, a critique of the various forms that ministry has taken, and an description of creative new forms of ministry.

He is also selling out the ministry of Word and sacraments.

The mission and ministry of Jesus were undergirded by prayer; and Jesus not only taught his followers what they should pray for, but he set before them the supreme example.

From my reading over several years of the excellent East Harlem Protestant Parish reports, the initial experimental ministry of its kind, I have drawn two general conclusions.

Either administering is an essential mode of ministry of the Word, or else the Reformers were entirely wrong about universal priesthood and Christian vocation.

Even though our account has not yet set forth the image of pastoral care, we can still make a preliminary appraisal of the preaching image to see whether, as is often charged, it is in opposition to the ministry of pastoral care.

To reject his proclamation of the kingdom of God and the proof of its nearness in his ministry of healing was to deny the manifest work of the Spirit of God.

If you look at the ministry of Jesus he treated women as EQUAL to men and never required them to «be silent.»

The failing of your own parish in the ministry of God's work is your own fault.

My buddy is still ministering here in Moncton and is seeing the fruit of the ministry of Christ here in healing and salvation.

Homosexuality is never mentioned in the Four Gospels» accounts of the ministry of Jesus — a silence that would be inexplicable if this were the «most heinous crime,» as tradition claims.

And the life and ministry of Jesus always stands against that which hates, hurts or destroys.

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.

Moreover in this strange order of things I am confronted with a personal God who not only called Abram out of Ur, but is clearly seeking me in the ministry of Jesus Christ.

Otherwise, it's just the mouthing of the declarations from some ministry of truth.

One prominent Presbyterian church in Chicago offers a theologically grounded discourse that critiques the Religious Right's «family values» by talking about Jesus Christ's ministry of inclusion.

The Christian mission as I conceive it is poised between the unique ministry of Jesus and the final new heaven and new earth.

Nobody who really understands the message and ministry of Jesus, and especially His love for children, can imagine that Jesus wanted or commanded these mothers to do such horrific things to their babies.

Among the Orthodox, according to Catholic doctrine, there are not just ecclesial communities but «particular churches,» although they are, in the language of CDF, «wounded» by the lack of full communion with the ministry of Peter exercised by the bishop of Rome.)

I had the privilege of preaching at the ordination of a friend to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the small Protestant denomination to which I belong.

The second temptation is so to emphasize the social action route that the ministry of service to persons and families is either neglected or regarded only as a palliative.

If the ministry of disciplining is to avoid the image of punishing, it must find its roots in the word «disciple» with its emphasis on voluntary commitment and self - disciplining, and an image of the minister in prayer as he both disciplines himself personally and professionally, and encourages the laity to do the same.