Sentences with phrase «of women in the ministry»

While I have championed the cause of women in ministry through the years, I've run across an inordinate number of women pastors whose demeanor was less than appealing (see Sister Marie's comment above).

The issue of women in ministry had first been raised mainly but not solely in North America in the early «70s, with questions concerning whether women could be ordained as ministers or elders.

Even though Dr. Spencer laid a strong biblical foundation for the role of women in ministry based on the New Testament, I still lived with the fear of once again being silenced by the church.

As an example, he relates a time he was in a denominational meeting and tempers began to flare over the issue of women in ministry.

(7) A text that has lent itself to much controversy in recent years regarding the role of women in ministry is I Corinthians 14:33 - 34: «As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches.

Discussion of the place of women in the ministry, for example, has not yet fully developed in the churches.

So, on this view, if someone disagrees with them about the millennium, about infant baptism, about the role of women in ministry, they are quickly labeled a heretic.

i agree with Jeremy Myers on this issue of women in ministry.

A «fundamentalist» today must hold to certain views of women in ministry, the end times, abortion, creation vs. evolution, the method of baptism, dress code, drinking alcohol, gettting tattoos, style of music, playing cards, smoking, evangelistic methods, political involvement, etc..

In the New Testament we draw the most important theological sources for empowerment of women in ministry in the life example and teaching of Jesus Christ himself.

There are people who contact me to inform me that there are a lot of women in ministry, and that there are denominations who accept women into their ministry positions.

Protestantism has never been fully clear in its own mind about the role of women in the ministry.

Moderates are strong supporters of women in ministry and reject the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message Statement, adopted by conservatives, which says the Bible prohibits women from being senior pastors and that wives should submit to the servant leadership of their husbands.

Not exact matches

The two first female attorneys - general in BC history were appointed, Our 125,000 + civil service, finance ministry and largest Crown corporation were run by women, and more than a third of our government board appointees were women.

I left the RC church (under the counsel of a charasmatic priest), studied in the ministry's program, and four years later was ordained in a pentacostal church... pastored by a woman.

It's a sad goodbye to Katie as she's off to vicar factory, but she joins the team one last time to discuss our Sep cover feature, marking the 100th anniversary of the first woman to be ordained to ministry in a UK denomination.

A Church Army employee has completed an «exhausting» challenge of visiting each London Underground railway station in one day, after being inspired by a ministry which helps homeless women.

(By the way, are any of your women involved in a shawl ministry or in making hats and mittens for the poor?

The exalted place of man and woman in the order of creation, precisely because it is not of their own making but a ministry to which they are appointed, is what makes the commandment to them to be responsible for the rest of earthly creation intelligible.

By the way, are any of your women involved in a shawl ministry or in making hats and mittens for the poor?

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This may perhaps best be seen in the Wesleyan attitude toward the ministry of women.

Trying to birth the ministry was so hard and I had so much opposition, and for me as a woman in ministry, when I started 40 years ago, it was very unheard of and unpopular... you got a lot of judgement and criticism for it.

If inclusive language and the ordained ministry of women can help change our image and experience of God to include the God who loves us like a mother holding her baby to her breast, that may be the Great Awakening in our time.

While the fundamentalist experience on this question has been quite slow in allowing the ministry of women, lagging far behind the churches of the mainstream, the Wesleyan churches have often been the pioneers of this practice, especially in the nineteenth century when the conservative Wesleyan churches were far in advance of the more established denominations.

The display in question is located inside the concourse of a group of residential and business towers in Caracas, placed there by employees of the country's ministry for women.

There are some of us who work hard to take care of our families while also accepting the responsibility of serving God's people through the ministry of the Word and in the Sacraments — don't discount the number of faithful men and women who make this sacrifice — willingly and without thanks.

St. Paul speaks in his letters of the invaluable contribution of women collaborators his ministry in building the early Church.

Filled with beauty, hard truth, and brave vulnerability, Jesus Feminist urges the church to stop asking «man or woman» as a qualification for ministry and to start helping everyone find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ.

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I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

It is an amalgamation of my many years — more than 20 — of being a part of womens» ministries in various churches of various denominations in many different contexts.

No one in seminary education can have been unaffected in the «70s by the surge of women into ministry and by the theological issues that women are raising.

He abandoned his family business in favor of ministry, becoming financially dependent on others — even women.

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.

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

This woman begins to feel her own sense of worth in the greater world, and she gains personal satisfactions of accomplishment totally unrelated to what is happening in her husband's ministry.

Just yesterday I was warned by someone that my support for women in ministry and my inclusion of LGBT voices on the blog represented an effort «to be liked by other people and win the approval of the world.»

Even Paul, during his ministry made mention of several leading women in his salutation to the Roman Church (Romans 16).

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept science, avoid aligning with a single political party, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc. but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

For example, one woman reported that she had been aided in integrating academic study with ministry through the support of a sponsor in her church who regularly monitors her progress.

While other scholars» have noted that women had been» active in ministry since the founding of the church, Blumhofer's analysis reveals that the official position was at best ambiguous.

In response to our coordinate efforts for Mutuality 2012, I have heard from women who say they feel their dignity and worth have been restored, from multiple readers who have changed their minds about women in ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has been renewed, from women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using theIn response to our coordinate efforts for Mutuality 2012, I have heard from women who say they feel their dignity and worth have been restored, from multiple readers who have changed their minds about women in ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has been renewed, from women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using thein ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has been renewed, from women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using them.

«I have always taken the view that the sacramental ministry of women is not something possible for the Church of England [but] we have come to the conclusion in the Church that this is something we can hold together on.»

After many years of street ministry I found that if people are in need help it's best to direct them to a secular organization, like women's safe houses, food banks, AA, community colleges, community counselors, etc..

Liberation theology looks to the words of Jesus in Luke 4 where he describes his call to ministry (echoing the words of the ancient prophet Isaiah) and at the ways that he included many of the outcast (women, Samaritans, tax collectors, etc.) in his ministry and parable.

In light of this, may I speak for a moment to those leading women's ministries and organizing women's teaching events?

Let me briefly delineate these ingredients from the perspective of a theological school preparing women and men for pastoral ministry in predominantly black communities of America.