Sentences with phrase «only as a ministry»

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The only Muslims even talking to gang members are ones trying to get them out of gang violence, the same as any Christian ministry in North America.

I just can't see a priesthood / ministry as we have currently modelled in the NT... only a priesthood of believers.

«Jesus is Lord» is a proposition, but a proposition that compels assent only when Jesus» earthly ministry, death, and resurrection are understood as (collectively) the pivotal and definitive moment in the long history of God's covenantal love for His erring people.

The church is now one of only three cathedrals in the world catering to the group known as Syro - Malabar Catholics, believed to come from the disciple Thomas» ministry in India.

When Blankenship set up his practice in Atlanta to treat sex addicts, he used the same name as Laaser's ministry, «Faithful and True,» adding only the word «Atlanta.»

Cardinal Stickler in his The Case for Clerical Celibacy (first published 1993, English edition Ignatius, 1995) summed up the crisis as not only priests renouncing their ministry and fewer vocations but also a «profound secularization» by many who stay in active ministry (p. 85).

The practice of psychotherapy as the only real ministry to their congregation has led the Suffragan Bishop of Washington, Paul Moore, Jr., to write: «Too many priests forget their priestliness when they learn some of the basic skills of counseling — or perhaps they have not been trained properly in the use of priestly techniques and therefore are not confident in their exercise.

As it is, he really only spends one paragraph talking about this, but Jesus emphasized such outward - focused love during His ministry, and the church at large could benefit from more of a reminder that the Kingdom of God is not just about loving one another, but is also about loving and serving those who live in darkness and fear.

Gregory's ministry showed great concern not only for the practical, temporal, bodily care of the poor, as we have previously indicated, but also for the moral development of the poor.

At FPU religious freedom would only apply to the seminary and to undergraduate programs such as Bible and Christian ministry.

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.

That original Islam is only hinted at in the Qur» an and the Hadith, which were written years after the prophet Mohammed had his mystical experience — just as the original precepts of Christianity are minimized and only obliquely presented in the New Testament and its «authorized» translations, interpretations and commentaries, which were written over many years, well after Jesus» ministry and Paul's mystical experience.

It is a manifestation of the Catholic truth that to the Church as such there belongs not only the institutional ministry, but all the baptized, and the Spirit of God himself, that Spirit who blows where he wills.

If you, as the pastor, used to do 90 % of the «ministry» functions of the church (however that is defined) during your 60 - 70 hours of work, but you can now only devote 10 - 15 hours per week to «pastoral work» (but see the point above), this means that someone else in the church is going to have to step up to the plate and fill in the gaps.

Not only that, some have even their «church ministry» or their «spiritual leaders» as idols.

For these are not regarded as merely passive objects of the saving activities of the ministry, but, on the basis of true Christian equality and freedom as collaborators of the hierarchy, so that actually the hierarchy must only serve the Christian life which is to be realized by the laity.

So far as the historical circumstances of the ministry of Jesus are concerned, the exorcisms could only have become significant to his purpose if they were accepted as manifestations of the Kingdom of God.

Church members and older pastors think of youth ministry as «entry - level» work, which only encourages younger clergy to climb the ladder toward something worth their time.

According to this view, the unforgivable sin was a particular sin which only Jewish people could commit who were alive during the ministry of Jesus and who saw the signs He was performing and should have recognized Him as their Messiah, but rejected Him instead.

The only thing that can rightly be expected as Jeremy Meyers stated, is that the individual be engaged in actively doing the work of the ministry which includes feeding the poor.

If Jesus is the exact representation of God and is the image of the invisible God (John 1:14, 18; 14:9 - 11; 2 Cor 4:4; Php 2:6; Col 1:15; Heb 1:2 - 3), but during His life and ministry never revealed the aspect of God as a warrior, then there are only two options: either God is not a warrior and Jesus did truly reveal the Father to us, or Jesus was being deceptive.

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.

Not only does Wood distance himself from the «Berlin» model's picture of what is involved in education in Wissenschaft he also rejects its definition of theological education as professional schooling: «Theological education is not necessarily professional education for ministry, but the heart of proper professional education for ministry is theological education» (93).

She chose instead a 17 - year ministry in East Harlem, where the only gardens were «dug out of several feet of garbage and debris in a vacant lot as an annual church project.»

Come on get real samson old testement its in there wilful sin my definition is walking away from the Lord and doing opur own thing knowing what you should do but still do what you want to do.In the life of Samson WE SEE Gods forgiveness and the sacrifice is the same as today repentence we are saved by the grace of God if we turn from our own way.He was disobedient to his parents and to the Lord his heart was no different from ours wilfully disobedient he chose sin over the Lord all the time sleeping with prostites and lying with foreign woman going his own way and yet God saves him not only that he was Gods chosen instrument to deliver his people.The sad part is his term was only 20 years if he had walking in the ways of the Lord he should have had that ministry for 40 years that is the term of completion.We cut ourselves short when we choose sin over the Lord which is an idol by the way.We all have those areas in our lives that we keep to ourselves thats wilful they are our demons and our comforters.Until we surrender all to the Lord we can not be overcomers and will be influenced by satan like samson it is clear warning to us wilful sin or making sin an idol in our lives has consequences better to serve the Lord with all our hearts even though samson did nt for much of his life God still showed him his grace and faithfullness.You can also see wilful sin in the Life of David yet God saves him but not all were saved in the life of saul as he wouldnt listen to the Lord and kept walking according to his flesh.

But now, as an Anglican woman, not only could I enrol on any course for missionary, lay or ordained ministry, I could also set my sights on becoming a bishop.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

To discredit completely the Marcan framework would not only leave us in the dark as to the main features of Jesus» ministry — that is an alternative which the honest historian must face — but would also leave inexplicable the fact that one who taught of himself and the Kingdom in such terms as Q, for example, relates, was also crucified as a false Messiah.

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.

The «Marcan hypothesis,» as Bishop Rawlinson insists in his Commentary, is no longer tenable — the hypothesis, namely, that Mark's order and point of view are infallible and must be adhered to in every case — and yet the general outline of the ministry, as given by Mark, is not only the earliest outline we have, but commends itself upon grounds of probability.

Rejecting the recommendation of a task - force study that such ordination be allowed, the assembly voted instead that only repentant homosexuals who choose celibacy or seek a reorientation of their sexual desires should be considered as qualified candidates for ministry.

The «must» in verse 31 is a divine necessity, and it comes not only from Jesus» acute estimate of the forces already set against him but also from his meditation on the great suffering servant passage of Isaiah 53 which he was beginning to see as a clue to his own ministry and life.

«Heterosexuality» only dethrones Jesus as the norm if we think that Jesus» life and ministry somehow subvert the normative (creation) order of opposite - sex sexual desires, even if we do not use the language of «orientation» to describe those desires.

And twice Luke describes women as having come with Jesus from Galilee (Luke 23:49, 55; 24:22) and it is only Luke that records the special role women played in the ministry of Jesus (Luke 8:1 - 3).

As the only full - time staff member at Vertical Ministries, a non-denominational, student - led ministry that seeks to challenge college students to actively pursue an authentic and «vertical» relationship with God, Wallace relies on the support of volunteers to make everything come together week after week.

Prophetic ministry, he says, should articulate general values for society as a whole, but specific moral, social, and political implications are for individual church members only.

Not only through the ministry of his words and works, but through his death in apparent defeat and the triumph of his resurrection to be with us always as a Living Presence, God has acted for our healing.

As was suggested earlier, those born near the turn of the century have seen within it amazing advances — not only in science, technology, and increased knowledge, but in the conquest of disease with the prolongation of life, an increase in the recognition of race and sex equality with accompanying legal steps; manifold ministries of welfare to the poor, the young, and the elderly; a growing concern for civil rights in many of its facets.

Yes, I think the only thing that allows ND to not be the Exodus - style ex-gay ministry is that instead of thinking that sexual sin is the worst of all sins, and that homosexuality is the worst of all sexual sins, and it is therefore of primary, urgent, and soul - saving importance to prevent Christians from having gay sex, ND sees sexual sin, all sexual sins, as «secondary matters».

In the light of modem scholarship, these are bound to fail not only because of the paucity of data but also because the Christians of the first century were not preoccupied with ministry as office.

(0ne school characterizes its attitude toward other denominations as magnanimous; another recognizes only two church bodies — one of these in Europe — as soundly Christian; some denominational programs for the development of theological education move easily from praise of the ecumenical spirit to exclusive concern for the advancement of the denominational ministry.

The former changes the concern of the whole to a continual witnessing, and the latter makes the reference to the Kingdom a quite general one which we, following Conzelmann, would interpret as a reference to the Kingdom which becomes visible in the ministry of Jesus, but which will he truly known only at the End.

Now, this is not only fully in accordance with the relationship between sin and suffering as understood by the Jews at the time of Jesus (John 9.2), but it is also the reason for the very existence of an exorcism - healing element in the ministry of Jesus.

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.

It is as though the church's ministry is meant only for the elite and thus for those educated for future leadership, not at all for those who study for immediate employability.

As most same - gender - loving people in fundamentalist houses of worship, Marcus lived a double life, or on the «down low,» for he felt it was the only way to continue in ministry and stay connected to the community he loved.

Finally, the pastoral counseling center is not only significantly related to the Christian community as an extension of its ministry; it is a community itself.

Its reliance on legislative and judicial procedures to decide a complex theological, moral, and ecclesial matter has only heightened even more the disagreement while minimizing the possibility of serious, sustained engagement on basic issues such as theological anthropology, justification and sanctification, the nature of sin, repentance and forgiveness, Scriptural authority, and the nature and purpose of ordained ministry.

The entire ministry of Jesus is portrayed as a trial, culminating in the trial before Pilate which is, especially in the Fourth Gospel, only an episode in the great cosmic trial of truth, an immense contest between God and the «prince of this world.»

Its religious meaning is not an independent proposition; it is comprehensible only as a sequence enacted in the gospel - narrated story of the ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus.