Sentences with phrase «of church leader»

Secondly, and most importantly, the doctrine is always mentioned in the context of a church leader trying to defend the church against a teaching which they considered heretical.

In this context Burgess discusses the ideas of church leader Heino Falcke, a former assistant to Karl Barth.

The youth pastor, who moved to the Central American nation to serve local tribes, had been swimming with his family and the family of another church leader when he got into trouble.

His life - style of «Christian realism» began to produce a new breed of church leader.

Furthermore, the position of church leader is more prestigious than that of seminary professor.

This book by Rainer is another example of a church leader who seems to be saying something similar.

Why did he not get out of the position of church leader if he knew he was going down that path, on his own?

That sort of church leader can miss the whole point of the Gospel.

Within a century, the foundation of St. Sofia was laid, and the cathedral became the burial place of church leaders and saints.

It would serve no purpose that any such god could conceivably have, but such nonsensical fear mongering DOES serve the purpose of church leaders who want to herd everyone under them.

Especially those who advocate the prosperity of the church leaders as a substitute for the prosperity of the members of the congregation.

«We see it in the compassion of church leaders and volunteers who visit our hospitals, care homes and hospices - and those who comfort the bereaved.

I tire of church leaders (both pastors and lay leadership) who feel the need to control every ministry anyone feels led to take up.

A symposium of church leaders, law and justice professionals and academics of different races has taken place in Westminster looking at ways to tackle the problem.

Because I am tired of church leaders with expensive church buildings and bloated church budgets trying to shore up their ineffective church programs by demanding further sacrifice and greater commitments from tired and weary church members.

But these films do well to portray the inner battle of church leaders as they find themselves wrestling with their own beliefs.

One of the things I heard from some of the church leaders here in Haiti is that the church is one of the only organizations that is successfully delivering supplies and provisions to groups of people and communities.

What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalities.

Though a lot of church leaders would love for it to be otherwise, this is real communion and community with each other.

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

They emphasize the positive contributions of church leaders rather than their weakness and disagreements.

«When we proclaim the notion of sola scriptura,» he writes, «we neglect the original authority of Church leaders that put together that Scripture.

It's the responsibility of the church leaders to disciple and grow the fish so that they live strong in the new pond.

We learned in a previous post about the Canonization of Scripture, that in 397 AD, some of the church leaders decided which books to include in the New Testament.

Too many of our church leaders are using it.

One day in 1960 a group of church leaders from the U.S. headed by Shoki visited Bangkok.

At the outset of the Cape Town Congress, C. F. Beyers Naudé, doyen of church leaders in the struggle against apartheid, reminded us that Bonhoeffer would not have wanted us to ask about his relevance, but about the significance of Jesus Christ.

Schuller's Institute for Successful Church Leadership did (and does) fill the role for an older generation of church leaders that the Willow Creek Association now fills for the younger.

(14) There are echoes here of the apostle Paul's recognition, reflected in several of his letters, of the importance of general social trust and respect of church leaders and members as a necessary framework for communication of the gospel.

One of my church leaders told me that when God orders genocide in the Old Testament that showed HIs «righteousness».

The abuse I've suffered at the hands of church leaders, other Christians, the insane chaos of a church split, being fired from another international ministry for «insubordination», etc., are all not just little episodic blemishes in church life, but revelatory symptoms of deeply serious defects, profound flaws, and continental faults that need immediate and radical treatment.

A week - long «Colloquy on the Loss and Recovery of the Sacred,» it had been designed as a small working conference of church leaders gathered from a broad spectrum of the various Christian traditions.

Figures like these convince me that the standard proposal of church leaders — that seminary faculty regularly spend sabbaticals or other periods of leave as ministers in congregations — is misguided.

Along the way, Protestants demonstrated what Catholics already knew» namely, that the Bible never stands alone but, even in its translation, is situated in a web of relationships that involve the authority of church leaders and questions about who has responsibility for determining orthodoxy.

Ah, I want to let go of all my unfair and unrealistic expectations of my church leaders.

Much of the outcry against the book is undoubtedly due to the considerable gap that now exists between the world of professional theologians and the world of church leaders and their flocks.

For the Youngstown area to have as many churches as we do I can only think of a handful of church leaders who have tried to do more outreach to the communities the churches are actually in and almost none that live in more well off neighborhoods here.

It started with Twitter users Emily Joy and Hannah Paasch, who took to social media to share their stories of abuse at the hands of church leaders under the hashtag #ChurchToo.

(3) At Antioch the Gentile Christians were numerous but the Church contained also a fair number of Jewish Christians, among them many of the Church leaders (Acts 42:1, Gal 2:13).

Last month, the National Association of Evangelicals conducted a survey of Church leaders «about their experience with persecution and their projections for the future.»

I'm going with a team of church leaders, church bloggers, and radio voices.

In just a couple of days I'm heading to Haiti and joining up with a team of church leaders and bloggers from the USA and New Zealand.

However, as the Church grew, the number of church leaders was far fewer than one in 12 of the population, as it was in Israel; and consequently the top church leaders grew very rich.

It's just another example of church leaders, priests, who are entitled, and if caught are often granted special favors, leniencies, and even exonerations.

For example, one of my church leaders insisted that early Christian preachers had their heads cut off and still carried on preaching.

In Part 3, describes the role of church leaders in planning educational programs that are supportive of members of traditional and nontraditional families, but not dependent on «the Christian home» as the primary agency of Christian spiritual formation.

A further element in this new conception of reception, and an inheritance from the classical model of reception, is that it understands the agents of this comprehensive process to include all of the members of the Church, while specifying g the particular roles of Church leaders, of the whole body of the faithful, and of theologians.

At present dissident voices use the scandalous weakness of some Church leaders to foster that denial of the Church» sdivinity which Cardinal Ratzinger highlighted back in his 1985 Report.

So theft was high on the list of the church leaders «spreading the word» doctrine.

I think many of these church leaders have good hearts and intentions, but since their salary is on the line, they do what it takes to keep their jobs.