Sentences with phrase «of social ministries»

Throughout the church's history, the physical boundary between church and ghetto has been reinforced by other boundaries of ethnicity, race and class, boundaries the church has sought to bridge through a variety of social ministries.

Those churches often served more than the spiritual needs of their congregations, linking to an array of social ministries.

After communism, the Orthodox Church quickly revived its long tradition of social ministries.

Other monasteries have been centers of social ministry.

It means the right to engage the public square with moral debate and works of social ministry.

Not exact matches

«The Chinese communists have been using cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling on every aspect of the Republic of China [Taiwan] in the hope of affecting our morale or creating social unease,» said defense ministry spokesman Chen Chung - chi said, according to Reuters.

«Within the context of risks caused by the incidents and of social tension, our citizens who live in the U.S., or who are considering travelling there, should be cautious,» the ministry said in a statement.

During its first - ever live broadcast of jury deliberations, the Andy Awards revealed the four big winners of its newly revamped awards program: Nike's «Breaking 2» integrated campaign that documented runners attempting to break the two - hour marathon mark, which earned the «Bravery» award; a «Sound of Music» - inspired musical for Orkin, nabbing the Student honor; «Immunity Charm» for the Afghanistan MInistry of Public Health from McCann Worldgroup India, which earned the award for Social Good; and State Street Global Advisors» «Fearless Girl» from McCann New York, which claimed another top honor and earned the best of show Grandy award.

The Church's department for social ministry has a network of approximately a thousand volunteers in Moscow — a city of more than 12 million.

They devote a full day to visiting social ministry sites within the city; upon their return, students form new groups to construct symbolic maps of Atlanta that reflect their perceptions of the city.

Then groups are formed that will last for the academic year, each made up of ten students, a faculty member, and a teaching supervisor closely associated with the social ministry that the students will later serve.

They engage, as they always have, in works of mercy and compassion, and they are increasingly willing to engage, along with partner churches, in ministries of social change as well.

As it turned out, my point of departure from the «emerging ministry movement» took me more into the missional wing of things, where I've been continuing to work with several virtual, international teams on social transformation projects.

With some variations we have first a story that fits the situation confronted by Jesus in his ministry, reflects the social customs of Palestine in his day, and illustrates a point characteristic of his teaching.

Some of these challenges are significant: campus ministries experience hurdles to campus access, Christian adoption and social service agencies confront regulations in tension with their missional convictions, and Christian educational institutions face threats to their accreditation and tax - exempt status.

After I left professional ministry my heart was drawn to issues of social justice so I went into the field of social work.

We can not measure the «success» of our ministry or calling based on the number of likes or followers we have on social media.

The ministry, or in concrete terms the clergy, has often too easily the impression, not merely that the Church has to proclaim what are certainly correct principles of social, cultural and political life, but that by that very fact it possesses, for everything of the slightest importance?

Counseling, chaplaincy and other forms of ministry to groups and organizations are also attractive, and more than a quarter of entering students are headed for teaching, social service or administration.

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.

Others think that the new diversity of theological students brings resources, including maturity and diverse social perspectives, that will strengthen ministry overall.

For the most part, such experimental ministries have begun ideologically, with a concern for certain kinds of social change.

Does a decline in the social status of the ministry as a profession weaken recruitment?

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As pastors, letting ourselves off the hook by appealing to our sympathy for people's fragility and limits robs us of some of our most rewarding opportunities to confirm our ministry in a church that really looks like a church rather than a social club.

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These churches also offer a myriad of programs that deal with everything from divorce recovery to child rearing, money management, social outreach ministries to prisoners and unwed mothers, and food distribution.

An effort to analyze the authority of the ministry as this was exercised and recognized in the early and medieval Church and in the centuries immediately after the Reformation would lead us deep into social history and psychology, into theology and political science.

The value of this formulation is that it makes room for the two major foci for ministry within Protestantism: evangelism and social action or to use the language of the recent report of the Association of Theological Schools, «spiritual emphasis» and «social action emphasis.

The loss of social power by the ministry as a result of the spread of education and the transference to scientists of the representative authority of learning is comparable to the loss ministers suffered when Church and state were separated.

Those who suggest that the ministry should provide for its continuation by turning itself into a kind of social or counseling service ignore the nature of the ministry and really provide for its discontinuation.

The journal, thus, can be seen as carrying on the individualistic, pietistic shape of its founder's social ministry.

The pastoral psychology movement is a consequence of the relatively self - conscious and systematic attempt to strengthen the ministry of the church by making use of the insights and expertise of the social and psychological sciences.

This book represents the expression of two aspects of his ministry — to proclaim the basic forms of the Christian faith and to relate them to social concerns.

Even David Moberg, for example (someone I have aligned with the perspective of The Reformed Journal), believes that the church's social task is best described using terms such as «social ministries, social obligations, social responsibility, social concern, social service, social welfare, or social action.

A job search led me to a position as a ministry - based social worker for an organization that provided job skills, mentoring, childcare and Bible study for low income women in the inner city of Nashville.

Unless social ministry is done within the context of a clear proclamation of the evangel (gospel), it lacks the dimension that makes it ministry.

On the eve of his death, ministry partners, fans, and friends urgently asked for prayer on social media this weekend, offering a wave of early tributes that spread through end - times prophecy circles and chapters of Concerned Women for America (CWA), the 600,000 - member public policy organization founded by LaHaye's wife, Beverly.

Too often the university had operated under the norm of value - free research, while the church's endeavors in behalf of social and corporate ministry had lacked competency.

Those of us who have been involved in designing and promoting various models for the process of sustained prophetic inquiry can testify to the general lack of interest of ecclesial bodies in such ministry: «social action» is by and large out, and, where it is a priority among church leaders, most of its practitioners are concerned with direct action, not action research.

William A. Simpson has said it well: «Denominational apparatus exists for the sake of legitimate, particularistic religious differentiation; social ministry aims at common justice.

In consequence, the next decade will enable the churches to bring together that which, at their best, they tend to do well (providing persons with a faith perspective from which to cope with the enduring problems of life) and that which they do less effectively (corporate and social ministry).

To encourage and empower the work of social and environmental justice by the Association and Unity ministries.

In their ministries, New Thought teachings regarding individual healing and transformation are not discarded, but rather extended to include social healing and transformation of the collective consciousness.

Much as the Study of Theological Education in the United States and Canada, directed by H. Richard Niebuhr in the 1950s, became an influential inquiry into the nature of the church and its ministry, so the Danforth study, ostensibly of campus ministries, became an important resource for exploring the necessary relation of religious faith, social ethics and public - policy formulation.

The Amity Foundation was started both to carry out the social - ministry responsibilities of the Protestant church and to demonstrate the church's support for China's modernization.

Nonetheless, it continues to receive support from the church (as well as from other sources) and is seen as a secular and autonomous form of the church's social ministry.

As anywhere else in the world, Church initiatives in public education, social ministries, historical commemoration, and establishment of new parishes require Church and state to negotiate such matters as licensing, training standards, and financing.

The pastoral role is concerned with ministry to individuals; the priestly role has to do with the proclamation of the faith and with leadership in the liturgical life of the church; the prophetic role focuses on judging the level of humaneness in the social order and pointing to the changes required if common justice is to be approximated; the kingly role takes up governance and the expression of neighbor love through responsible corporate action.

We will read the imperfect translations of those imperfect critical editions of the text when we preach, invite people to the Lord's table, discuss social ministry, baptize new Christians or bury our dead.