Sentences with phrase «n't called to a ministry»

We weren't called to a ministry of correct doctrine even.

We weren't called to a ministry of exposing false teachers.

We weren't called to a ministry of I'm - right - and - you're - wrong.

We weren't called to a ministry of critical thinking or criticism.

Not exact matches

But, again, not all are called to Paul's ministry, and not all have Paul's gifts or his sense of an imminent end.

- What if we were reminded that we're not responsible for being «successful» in ministry, but we are responsible for being faithful to the calling that God has laid out for us — regardless of the outcome?

The charism of celibacy is not essential to the priestly vocation, though there is a full givenness to the calling and ministry when that is present.

I got called into the pastor's office once because a «brother» in a small group I was in reported to him that I was not qualified to work in a divorce recovery ministry because I accepted evolution!?

For 2,000 years, men and women have tried to discern a call and find their way in the ministry, only to find a world of expectations that can not be met.

On the one hand, we are called to prepare the way for Jesus» ministry, and it is his ministry, not ours, that ultimately counts.

But pastoral care is the ministry of the whole congregation — not just those individuals who happen to be ordained or called into the formal leadership of the church.

So stop asking whether or not anyone wants it or needs it, and simply do it because you were made to do it, because it makes you fully alive to do it, because you are working out what God has already worked in, because it matters, because you are called to the ministry of reconciliation, because the seeds might just catch and someday, perhaps, you'll sit by the banks of river under the spreading branches of a tree of righteousness.

These charisms may well be called the democratic aspects of the Church, especially as it is evident from dogmatic ecclesiology as well as from church history that this freely working Spirit can be active not only in the official ministry of the Church but also in every individual of the demos, that is to say of the people of God.

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.

This ministry taught us that our call is to the neighborhood, not just to the church.

As I said yesterday in my prayer from the cell post called «satellite phone», I have this strange feeling of alienation from God since I left the professional ministry and haven't been to church...

God might call some people to this ministry, but not as many as there seem to be.

It was conceded that the application of so strict a rule as celibacy to those not called to a life of asceticism but ordained to the diaconate in preparation for ministry in the church had led to widespread abuse and immorality.

The reality and the power of our call to ministry are more immediate than that: we should care for them not because they «are Christ» but because they are human, and because they need us.

In this world, in this time; in ministry responsive to the Word of God and the word of earth; in a nation and a church in which it is as if there were no Sermon on the Mount; in such a time of durable earth crisis, we will not only be called troublers of Israel, we will be in Ahab's sense troublers of Israel.

But without a specifically «ordained» or authorized ministry, composed of persons who have been «duly called, examined, and found qualified» to act for (but not instead of) that wider ministry of all Christian people, there would be lacking a sharp edge, a vivid and vital expression, of the more general mission and ministry.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Even if we rationalize that we are not» called» to that «ministry».

Are we not called to a spiritual life and ministry?

It is quite intelligible in the situation presupposed that some account of the ministry of Jesus should have been called for when the Gospel was taken to people who could not be acquainted, as the Jews of Judaea were, with the main facts.

Many young women stepped boldly onto the stage and I've often thought that these women were actually being stirred by the call to ministry, not matrimony.

This was my church experience, no matter what church I attended I was always counted on and called to do the work no one else wanted, because they new I wasn't afraid to «get my hands dirty» by ministry to those marginalized, disenfranchised, and stigmatized by the church and society.

The peace, the joy, and the sheer delight of pastors who are faithful to their calling is not the product of a successful ministry as it is usually defined by denominational leaders anxious to perpetuate their own power and position.

But ministry, despite the grim landscape in our generation, has within it the signals of transcendence, the possibility that frustration (which is the obverse of wonder) is not the last word, that even abrupt events invite us to that intellectual activity we call wonder.

Scholars agree that the general structural form of what we now call the «ordained ministry» — according to which a particular person is given general oversight of all the activities of a particular Christian community — did not emerge in the church until early in the second century.

If the disciples and Peter follow the risen Jesus to Galilee where he is initiating a second career, they will not only «see the Lord» as he continues his ministry among the marginalized masses, they will also participate in his resurrection, even as they participated in his death; and consequently, like him at the beginning of his career in the narrative world of Mark's Gospel, they will be called into being as God's beloved daughters and sons and simultaneously be empowered to actualize the possibilities of the reign of Christ.

Men in ministry are not to go beyond what God has instructed in His word, so likewise should women not go beyond the scriptural calling.

But as a general pattern this seems to me a product of romanticism, taking with insufficient seriousness the «materialism of Christianity,» as William Temple called it, and quite likely to produce the wrong kind of guilt feelings in competent young people who are in or who are considering the ministry — as if this activity were not worthy of economic support.

I have christian friends from other churchs and there women do these things and they do it because that is how they interpret the word.Its optional and not inforced by the church or by there husbands.They do it as an act of worship to the Lord.The point is how you interpret the word that was what i was getting at as we know the word is the inspired word of God to understand it we need the inspiration of the holy spirit otherwise the word is dead and brings no life.In the case of mother etta she was called to preach and God used her as an evengelist in her day her ministry grew she witnessed to thousands she healed the sick and saved the lost you can argue over a point but the proof is there that God uses women just as he uses men in ministry today.

I feel this debate is at a standstill and you guys can argue all nite on this one but there are women who were preachers healers miracle workers and had mighty ministrys because God was with them there is no doubt about that.They moved in the gifts of the supernatural.I am just saying this for those women who feel they have a calling on there lives to preach.Dont let others put you in a box God does nt put us in boxs he helps us to become all we can be in Christ.

If one takes the path of ministry in answer to a call, this search for a «slant» doesn't enter into the equation.

And before Perry goes on a kick that God has called him to the presidency, oh, it's shades of a very famous preacher who once said that God would call him home if he did not receive millions of dollars for his ministry, stop to think about that too.

busy with so called ministry, busy doing outreaches to bring in the unbelievers, yet still so lonely because most of us do not understand the true meaning of community, nor do we walk in it because it takes our time, a commodity that many of us don't want to give up.

So when the pastor of a city church called to say he was going back to the mission field and asked if we would consider leaving our current ministry to help this dying church, it wasn't real inviting.

If ministry is really a calling, and not just a job that we have to go to so that we get paid, it seems like the best way to AVOID burnout would be to do ministry.

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

Written by Ralph Winter not long before his death, the essay captures a historical perspective on missions while offering a strong call to return to a holistic approach to social ministries.

Interesting fishion, it just occurred to me, with your constant fascination with how people feel towards various criminals, have you ever considered whether or not God might be calling you towards some sort of prison ministry?

This is a haunting reality that should motivate us all to realize and remember that missions is not one of the many ministries of the local church, nor is it a passion and calling of «some.»

Imagine Eli saying, «No, it can't be a call to pastoral ministry.

Clement of Rome uses the analogy of the priesthood to interpret the Christian ministry (40 - 2), but he does not call ministers priests or speak of their offering a sacrifice.

In a sense somewhat different from the Christ whom he defined, the true priest is himself, according to Leo, fully human and fully divine.65 Leo held that the ministries of all bishops and their subordinate priests have validity in the measure that they participate in the communion of the universal bishop (the Pope), for they are called «to share a part of the pastoral care of the Bishop of Rome but not in the plenitude of his power.»

Hence, for example, if circumstances «absolutely forbid» the candidate's «entering the ministry,» the presumption is that he is not called to do so.73

We are ordained to the ministry of the Church — the «sacred ministry,» as it is called; but that ordination of ours does not give us any personal rights or privileges which come to us through some peculiar claim of our own.

The situation calls for intelligent rectification that should not unduly deny growth in the education of the victims, which only exposes insufficient attention that long ago should have come from the past Mahama regime that chose to mess up the education ministry.