Sentences with phrase «of church leadership»

Please note that I am not in any position of church leadership.

But he still serves at the discretion of the church leadership in most groups and can usually still be removed from the position.

At a meeting of the church leadership a few weeks later, I reported the same information.

We are often critical of church leadership, but the truth is that if we had leadership responsibility in the institution we would not be able to do anything very different.

It is important to count the costs of church leadership.

She grew tall like an oak; she spread herself like so many branches over the rest of the church leadership, over all of us.

In addition, sometimes the expectations of members of the church are higher than the expectations of church leadership.

Specifically, we are now affirming of women in all aspects of church leadership and we believe in mutual submission for Christian marriage.

Having been part of church leadership for many years (in the past), we have seen these things get buried when reported to an individual or members of church staff.

They too reject the conventional view that what makes theological schooling theological is that it prepares church leaders, implying that «theology» is to be defined as the theory required by the practice of the profession of church leadership.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: church growth, Church planting, Discipleship, evangelism, leadership, Theology of the Church

Here Hough and Cobb join Farley in their own way to reject the picture of church leadership as a movement from theory to application.

In this regard, patriarch Bartholomew and metropolitan John Zizioulas are notable exceptions, who staunchly oppose Orthodox fundamentalism and manifest a greater openness of the church leadership to the world.

After a couple months, a member of the church leadership, and a very good friend of mine, approached me on ``... behalf of the pastor, who was concerned for my spiritual well - being.»

An interview show about the nature of church leadership, the inherent struggles that come with that calling, and the many different ways God has shaped individuals to work within his church.

This conception of church leadership is unique to Christianity; and the emphasis on it is unique to Protestantism.

Nobody should want the politicizing of church leadership that comes with popular elections, as is the case in many Protestant denominations, and the Board assumes the right of the pope to appoint bishops, but they are convinced that the present pattern of the promotion of the like - minded by the like - minded within a clericalist club designed to perpetuate the habits that created the present crisis is not a promising way toward reform.

Theological beliefs and church structures have historically impeded women from serving at the highest levels of church leadership.

Succession of the church leadership is not always a smooth process.

It is however, wrong to assume that Christian - Marxist encounter is totally influenced by the negative anti-Communist attitude of the Church leadership.

I am convinced, blame Ahren Summach for this one, that there are two distinct styles of church leadership.

The development of synodal and collegial structures of church leadership is a first step.

The way priests are constantly shuffled around, the tacit approval of the churches leadership coupled with the fact that thousands of cases have been reported across at least 2 continent's over a period of decades paints a pretty filthy picture.

While we must maintain our commitment to the basic disciplines of the seminary curriculum, we can provide additional opportunities that an earlier generation of church leadership missed.

The passion, risk, discipleship, determination, hope, forgiveness, friendship, etc. that seemed to be the defining characteristics of church leadership.

Such a theological understanding of the church will dictate in turn, as it did for Niebuhr, a theological understanding of church leadership.

The «obsessive - compulsive» type person often gravitates to positions of church leadership simply because he is «willing» (actually driven) to work incessantly.

Meanwhile, most of our church leadership has failed to respond clearly to the challenges of new scientific theories, technological change, world leadership and increasing racial, ethnic and religious heterogeneity.

It is not narrowly concerned with the practice of church leadership «but rather with the enactment of Christian witness in its entirety — that is, with the entire life and activity of the church as the community of witness» (48).

The majority of the book is written in the first person, inviting the reader to share in the honest and sometimes deeply moving accounts of the journeys taken by each woman to her current position of church leadership.

God is z Bible & Theology Topics: Discipleship, leaders, leadership, servant leaders, Theology of the Church

Paying hush money to victims and for probably futile commercials to convince those disgusted by the actions of the church leadership to pay for that hush money.

'' For the church to remove him speaks well of the mindset of fear...» No, it actually «speaks well» of the church leadership to remove a man who has absolutely no business holding the position.