Sentences with phrase «only by pastors»

But why does pastoral care so often mean care given only by pastors?

Not exact matches

The scriptures point out that only a few of us should seek to be pastors as we will be judged by a higher standard.

The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.

I have been privy to only a few occasions of the pastor of my community being contacted by homosexuals who interpret the Scriptures differently.

Worship is led almost completely by lay people; the pastor preaches only once a month.

The ultimate reality that I live with is that if my abuser had been Nathaniel Morales instead of Larry Nassar, if my enabler had been [an SGM pastor] instead of [MSU gymnastics coach] Kathie Klages, if the organization I was speaking out against was Sovereign Grace under the leadership of [Mahaney] instead of MSU under the leadership of Lou Anna Simon, I would not only not have evangelical support, I would be actively vilified and lied about by every single evangelical leader out there.

He's not only changed people's perception of who can be president, some scholars and pastors say, but he's also expanding the definition of who can be a Christian by challenging the religious right's domination of the national stage.

If you only want to hear your preferred narrative then by all means don't read anything that isn't blessed by your pastor who drives that $ 70k caddy parked in his reserved spot in front of the church.

Being aware, pastors will certainly continue to listen not only to the parishioner / counselee, but also to any signs that they themselves are short - circuiting the process of growth by glib or impatient responses in the interview.

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.

To the collective gasps of their congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by making claims like, «most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of evangelical Christians no longer believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «most Christians think all paths lead to God.»

If one is a pastor or celebrity Christian not only is spiritual abuse and other abuses overlooked but overlooking abuse by your celeb cronies is casually accepted and asking questions is seen as breaching their «boundaries».

The taking of case histories in the form of listening to stories of faith journeys not only increases the capacity of the pastor to understand and serve the parishioner but also tends to stimulate maturing in the faithful by raising to consciousness the crucial factors in maturing.

In my national sample of 246 AG pastors, 66 percent prayed in tongues daily (only 3 percent did so less than weekly); 93 percent said they had been used by God to prophesy to their congregations; 79 percent frequently received answers to specific prayer requests; and 54 reported regularly experiencing God's direction to perform specific acts.

One can imagine Campbell's appalled reaction to the kind of authority exercised by megachurch pastors or denominational executives today» or to the fact that Baptists not only continue to call their ministers «Reverend» and «Doctor» but also have de facto bishops and even a so «called «college of cardinals,» as some moderate critics have dubbed conservative SBC leaders.

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

Yet we think we can live a healthy spiritual life by feeding our soul only once a week on Sunday, and even then, we are being spoon fed by the pastor.

Taken by itself, the counseling image might suggest that the pastor can do all the helping needed, or that he is concerned only with some kinds of suffering and not with all, or that this is the elite form of helping to which all others are inferior.

I guarantee you that Matt never strung sentences together that went like these, only interpreted that way by the «Pastor» but insinuated that he did state them:

Our Father... and you do understand, God that I'm talking about only those believers in you that adhere to the very same doctrine that I do, preferably the ones that got saved in my church and were baptized by my pastor, but not the old pastor because he read the Amplified Bible, thats the our I'm talking about, God, certainly not those from the church down the street, and definitely not those other ones on the next block.

Pastors may be the only people in a position to open communications networks — by corresponding with other clergy all over the world to discuss how an international antiviolence movement can be created at the grass roots.

You wrote: >» No one knows whether he will see heaven or hell, I'm telling you even those pastor that you praise there is no guarantee that they will see heaven, only God who knows, so to increase your chance to go to heaven, try by all means to stay away from sins.»

But despite the linguistic problems associated with this designation, it seems that the epithet «preacher,» in the sense of «pastor,» is indeed an appropriate one, at least theologically.36 According to Duncan Macdonald, we have done Qoheleth an injustice by viewing his work as reflecting only a spirit of resignation and despair.

When they thought to manipulate me by withholding the approval I now see I was seeking from them and their man - made «church» organizations, certain «pastors» achieved only the removal of the vary bars that imprisoned me — bars formed, again, from my pursuit in all the wrong places of what I took to be love.

As I sat in service for Palm Sunday this week, overwhelmed by my circumstances and feeling completely unable to be the Christian I wanted to be, my pastor in brutal honesty admitted that at the end of Lent, instead of feeling in control and closer to God, he only felt more aware of his sin.

The laid - back, Californian vibe at Saddleback is only made possible by an army of pastors, staff and volunteers engaged in intentionally reaching, welcoming and engaging new attendees.

The Huffington Post: Whites - Only Christian Conference Held In Alabama By Pastor William J. Collier's Church of God's Chosen Pastor William J. Collier and his Church of God's Chosen are holding a Christian conference and all are invited - as long as they are white.

Previous surveys by LifeWay Research showed only 33 % of Protestant pastors and their churches were actively involved on the local level in assisting immigrants in 2011.

In many churches the pastor and his / her spouse are the only leaders and called by God to be exactly where they are.

«They needed proof that they could keep a pastor for four years,» Sam Singer said, and together they kept Sam for over a decade, not only by raising his salary each year beyond what he would make in another assignment but also by giving him a bonus each year from the surplus of an oversubscribed church budget.

For example, pastors may be «quickly moved by a compassionate heart to forgive,» yet must not be so diverted by forgiveness that they forgive in excess or in such a way as to invite irresponsibility.43 Only deep and accurate empathy can prepare the way for this discernment.

Begun in 1997 by Louie and Shelley Giglio, Passion has not only been a touch point in the faith lives of thousands of college students (including megachurch pastor Matt Chandler), it is credited with helping to start the modern worship music movement.

Our policy has been to accept as volunteers only those who have been endorsed by their pastor after they have applied through him.

This means, according to Allen and Swain, that «pastors may only bind the conscience of the Christian when Holy Scripture so binds, through its clear warrant or by good and necessary inference.»

The only account of his death has been given by the prison doctor who wrote that after the sentence had been read out to Bonhoeffer and those to be hanged with him, he saw pastor Bonhoeffer before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor, praying fervently to his God.

The difference between the two rests, I believe, in the contrast between intentional, cohesive, conscience - shaping communities of identity and social solidarity, not only in Utah but in the Mormon minority communities around the country, and Evangelical communities that are too often influenced by raging pundits, talk radio, and TV shout - shows — and these voices sometimes drown out the pastor's.

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.

I am convinced that anyone who teaches in a seminary gains a very important perspective by teaching not only full - time theology students but also laypeople and pastors.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

But at the head were religious demands: «Each community should choose and appoint a pastor... to teach us the Gospel pure and simple...» and this was preceded by a statement that the demands were not intended as «revolt and disorder» and that they only asked that «the Gospel be taught them as a guide in life».

They are like the great majority of ministers in this respect, for the pastors also carry on their traditional functions with only slight modifications despite the stir caused by those who want to change the profession in some revolutionary manner.

Some people have pastors who explain these things but I don't know why she sits alone amidst the bodies that the water left behind — bodies of houses, bodies of cars, bodies of boats, bodies of people — knees bent, arms clasped beneath bare thighs, held together by the stiff embrace of a sob, or why the earth shook, or why the water came, or why she has taken off her boots, or why she sits alone amidst the bodies that the water left behind; I only know that I don't want a pastor who explains these things.

The J of the title was discovered in 1711 by Henning Bernhard Witter, an obscure Lutheran pastor of Hildesheim, so obscure, in fact, that his role in the naming of this source of the Pentateuch was only rediscovered in the present century by the French biblical scholar Adolphe Lods.

Nevertheless, some themes emerge which form part of the overall thrust of the study and its suggested responses to modernity with which Faith Magazine would not only wish to take issue but would also criticise as harmful to the project of the new evangelisation called for by Pope John Paul and addressed by Cardinal Ratzinger as a theologian and Pope Benedict XVI as the supreme Pastor.

38 Herbert was convinced, as has been noted, that only by a systematic program of visitation could the pastor come to know his people as they «most naturally... are, wallowing in the midst of their affairs,» and it was only by such intimate knowledge of their lives as could be gained in this fashion that he would be equipped to reprove and admonish them, and thereby lead them to mend their ways.39

There are Nigerians, and by no means only Muslims, who say President Jonathan is too close to some of the hugely popular «super pastors» who have grown rich from their Pentecostal churches.

The young philanthropist bemoaned the arrant neglect on the office of the number 2 citizen of Benue State by the Governor and observed that the only offence the deputy Governor committed was that he was an Idoma man and that was why Pastor Ortom decided to relinquish power to his fellow Tiv brother, Barrister Targema Takema who is not even the number 3 in the state hierarchy.

The story is hosted by Greg Laurie, one of America's leading pastors, who is not only an avid McQueen fan, but also experienced a similar childhood.

After having all statements transcribed, Joseph Neuberger, was able to analyze the statements and provided the Crown with a detailed chart of material internal inconsistencies arising not only from the deficient interviewing but tainting by the pastor who made the first disclosure to CAS and then police.