Sentences with phrase «only by his ministry»

Not exact matches

Jesus appears to have been followed by a core group of around seventy for at least some of His ministry, but His relationship to this larger «congregation» contrasts with that of the twelve which He lived with for some three years (and others — some of whom only met Him perhaps once, but clearly understood and accepted His care and counsel).

By establishing a ministry that fosters excellence in the arts and gives community members a chance to engage in the arts, you can not only connect with people who might never darken the door of a church, but you can also create art that glorifies God and is truly inspirational.

To this day the deaf ministry is shattered and is only lead by a non-pastor leader.

You elevate the importance of the alleged aggressors, suggesting that they are important and good people, and that we shouldn't speak negatively of them because not only do they have an important ministry, but they are also sent by God.

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).

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.

FWIW, I think it is perfectly reasonable to surmise that there was a person who went by the (Aramaic version of the) name «Jesus» who had some sort of ministry going for a few years around 30CE and who is in that sense and only that sense the «true» Jesus and therefore the founder of Christianity.

In the 2016 Barna research study commissioned by Josh McDowell Ministry, church leadership indicated that this problem is much bigger than it was 20 years ago, yet only 7 percent of pastors said they have a ministry program for those struggling with porn.

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.

By contrast, no conservative Protestant pastors thought God approved of all families, and only 13 percent thought that family ministry was an exclusive term.

The author sees the nature of the ordained ministry in terms of functions, or what the minister actually does, by examining the biblical bases and the historical development of ministry, and concludes that the church can only function with competent professional leadership.

The mission and ministry of Jesus were undergirded by prayer; and Jesus not only taught his followers what they should pray for, but he set before them the supreme example.

Not only that, but by learning biblical lessons about leadership, servanthood and ministry, I have found that my hands have not only been motivated to serve, but equipped to do so.

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.

The latters» ministries were supported by the people via offerings only.

These Separatists would allow preaching only by a converted ministry, and demanded that a congregation be composed only of known saints.

Many governments now have ministries of the environment (or similar agencies), but they often pay only lip - service to the grave issues raised by the endangered eco-system.

Faithful family membership is the only ministry held in common by all Christians.

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.

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.

Jesus is also only one of hundreds of mythological figures that pre-date him by thousands of years that were born on Christmas, had twelve apostles, started a ministry at thirty, were killed or crucified at thirty - three, rose from the grave three days later, and ascended into heaven, were called the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the Good Shepherd, etc. with the closest match being Mithras, son of the Sun God Mithra.

When I assumed responsibilities for the United Methodist Church's higher education systems, including campus ministry, I was stunned to realize that the five members of my staff assigned to campus ministry were related to me only by virtue of their payrolls.

Only in this way can we allow for Judas to be chosen, or «elected» by Jesus, for Judas did in fact serve a very special role and purpose within the ministry and mission of Jesus.

The passion of God not only motivates us to eliminate whatever suffering can be eliminated; it also empowers us to accompany our brothers and sisters into regions of darkness where suffering can no longer be eliminated; it enables and invites us to share suffering where efforts to overcome it prove futile; it frees us to continue a ministry of compassion and shared grief at the point where those who are guided by criteria of utitlity and success cease their efforts.

We tried for three years to liberate our ministry from these kinds of burdening expectations, only to end up feeling like we were just ruining it for the rest of um — who in fact felt quite consoled by these expectations.

The spiritual intimacy you built your life around (your Christian identity, your calling to ministry) has vanished and now you're a house hollowed by fire; the exterior façade stands, but inside only charred beams and ashes remain.

He only has three years of ministry, and by Luke 6, almost half of that is gone.

The post we read was basically her back - pedalling on what she had said to save face with the Exodus crowd, which was enough to convince me that she only wanted to separate from the bad image of Exodus but was still looking to run an ex-gay ministry with a pretty veneer to gloss over the harm caused by ex-gay ministries.

Jesus Christ in both his ministry and technings quoted I'm no part of this world, otherwords while on earth he avoided any form of politics and only support the future government that God will establish for all those who abide by his commands.

«Marrying in» to ministry is one way to serve, but by no means the only way.

The ministry requires disciplined study and hard work, but creativity in these can be maintained only by alternating with periods for recharging the batteries.

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.

We think and feel and work our way into even the most recondite of theoretical matters only by first exploring them in relation to our functions of ministry.

This point is not made in the parable by direct reference to the forgiveness of sins, but rather becomes apparent only when the parable is set in its context in the ministry of Jesus.

Focusing initially on key events in Jesus» ministry — his baptism by another eschatologist, John the Baptist, and his call of 12 disciples, probably symbolizing the restoration of the 12 tribes — he only later turns to the sayings material.

By the time you reach church on Sunday and hear that the person you've been discipling is walking into your promise of ministry this season, you are aware of only two things: There is not nearly enough air in the church and there is a gaping hole in your heart where faith and expectation should be.

«Because you can not bear the weight of this ministry in your own strength but only by the grace and power of God, pray earnestly for his Holy Spirit.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

This way of doing college and university ministry will require rethinking not only by campus ministers and their boards,, but by local congregations and judicatories, all of which need to understand that the church on campus is an extension of — not an annoyance to or a competitor with — the local church.

In an article on ministry and aging in a recent issue of the Connection, published by the American Society on Aging, James Seeber listed only three outstanding seminary aging programs.

Not only was I bullied into resigning from leadership by my abusers, but when I spoke out and suggested that something was wrong with this I was «relieved» of my ministry position too.

«It is not his ministry that is of first importance but the Church's ministry in which he leads, «68 Looking at this statement a generation after it was uttered one is impressed not only with its truth but also with the remarkable extent to which this truth has been taken seriously by recent Protestantism.

Now these characteristic theological emphases were of great importance for the preservation and formulation of the gospel tradition, even prior to its incorporation in the earliest written Gospel, that of Mark, The whole conception of Jesus» earthly ministry is influenced by them: «Jesus is the Savior, but only as combining in himself the office of a Jewish teacher and that of the hidden Son of Man, by virtue of which twofold office he is able by word and deed to bring men to the «gate» of the Kingdom of God.

There are only so many ministry connections a church can have and many must be consumed by staying connected to the other sites.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The conference — cohosted by the ERLC and Focus on the Family — features more than 50 speakers addressing not only abortion but such issues as adoption, end - of - life care, ministry to those with special needs, human trafficking, service to immigrants and refugees, and the development of a pro-life worldview.

The documentary, which was produced by Daniel Junge and Bryan Storkel, follows a number of pastors (yes pastors) who not only promote MMA ministries at their church but are also fighters themselves.

Their adherence to a universal impact and outreach model can only distract from a more comprehensive and realistic strategy of ministry by the whole church in which television may play its appropriate part.

Now this kind of narrative is possible only because of the equation earthly Jesus = risen Lord and the consequent and subsequent equation: Situation in earthly ministry of Jesus = situation in early Church's experience, which equation is necessarily implied by the methodology of the synoptic evangelists.

An approach to ministry bounded only by «whatever it takes» invites moral as well as spiritual disaster.