Sentences with word «ordain»

Whatever Christ and the Church need to get done can of course never be done by ordained ministers alone.

Rev. Catherine G. McCollough, LCSW is a minister ordained in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

RESOLVED, That we affirm distinctions in masculine and feminine roles as ordained by God as part of the created order, and that those distinctions should find an echo in every human heart (Gen 2:18, 21 - 24; 1 Cor 11:7 - 9; Eph.

A profound Christian revival of local congregations might be too much to hope for as a consequence of coming to grips with inclusive language, if there were not another factor common to most of the churches that have taken inclusive language seriously: they are also the churches most likely to be open to the ministry of ordained women.

It is a part of St John's College, founded a little over 100 years ago to provide a place for evangelical Anglicans to train for ordained ministry in the context of Durham University.

Currently, the Vatican allows married Anglican priests who join the Catholic Church to become ordained as priests.

Although what God ordained from of old is accomplished, the way which man chooses is not necessarily good on that account.

Until his retirement, you've been under the Bishop of London, who doesn't ordain women as priests.

Mary Anne, It appears that you don't understand why women can not become ordained priests in the Catholic Church.....

Also involved in the arguments about specialized ministries today is how specialized workers in the employ of churches and church organizations, when they are not ordained ministers, shall be related to the churches.

Especially when it is contrasted with the pride, presumption, and delusions of divinely ordained power that sometimes attended talk about «Christian America.»

Is an ethic of confidentiality an issue only for ordained clergy, or is it also an issue for all members who take a leadership role within the church?

They can become ordained ministers.

I was baptized Anglican as a baby, came to faith in a Baptist church when I was a teenager, changed to Pentecostal in my late teens, married another Pentecostal named Lisa, was ordained Presbyterian, pastored a Vineyard church, went Independent, and planted others.

We the people who ordain and establish this Constitution intend the rights protected by this Constitution to be the rights of natural persons.

Editor's Note: Tangela Ekhoff is an inspirational speaker, comedy performer and ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A..

It is still possible to find plenty of ordained men who have never worked, in the secular sense, in the contemporary world, and who find it difficult to understand the perplexity and insecurity of godless materialism.

Also since there are churches, including Gay and Lesbian churches which are lead by ordained Gay and Lesbian clergy then are they also forcing anything on you or society?

Thank God that my daddy and sister and brother - in - law are ordained Baptist ministers and my unversity required six hours of religion in order to obtain my bachelor's and master's degrees.

(Permanent deacons are men ordained into the sacramental ministry of the Church and are to be distinguished from «transitional» deacons who are seminarians on their way to priesthood.)

God gave the increase, but God used other means than its first ordained leader for its planting and watering.

PRIMEWONK — if the Catholic Church ordained women, you'd join?

We had the sense that these were once home to a wealthy family or monks ordained at neighbouring Wat Prok.

Carter Heyward, one of the first eleven women ordained Episcopal priests in 1974, teaches theology at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass..

She graduated in four years with two Master's Degrees, one in Divinity and another in Marriage and Family Therapy and was also ordained as a Presbyterian Minister.

Bishop Libby was ordained deacon in 1993 and as a priest in 1994.

In its context, the statement to be inserted in the introductory section of The Book of Discipline's chapter on ordained ministry reads:

The Salvation Army is the only modern denomination in which ordained leadership comprises over 50 percent women.

Simcha Goldman, an Orthodox Jew and ordained rabbi serving as a clinical psychologist in an Air Force hospital, wore a yarmulke at all times and contended that an Air Force dress code regulation which forbade the wearing of «headgear» (such as a yarmulke) while indoors infringed upon his First Amendment right to free exercise of his religious belief.

Ordained Christian ministers may of course have only a small role to play in the gigantic tasks of reconciling that confront us.

These things he is said to do by ordained power [de potentia ordinata].

To point out that a homecoming queen or a football player is an individual with religious convictions says no more or less about the religious climate on campus than would the claim that because four ordained United Methodist clergy live in my neighborhood, we are a Christian homeowners association.

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

I had a conversation about this with my newly ordained pastor friend.

A couple of weeks ago we discussed the absurd legalism of gender roles, as exemplified by John Piper's illustration that a woman with a black belt should not intervene if she and a male friend are attacked, for according to Piper, it is the man's divinely ordained role to protect her.

A newly ordained bishop of the persecuted Church in China has chosen fidelity over personal comfort and political accommodation.

«Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree.»

That would also be most of what ordained people do, in non-liturgical churches.

«Uncle Rulon,» as he is known to his followers, traces his divinely ordained leadership in an unbroken chain that leads directly back to Joseph Smith himself.

They pledge their love for one another and the next morning decide to call up their friend Gluten - Free Oats (who totally got ordained online... so technically his name would be Reverend Gluten - Free Oats — but, he's not pretentious so he just lets his friends call him Oats).

Cardinal Hummes reportedly asked Pope Francis to consider ordaining married men to tackle the issue of many remote communities in the Amazon where there is a shortage of priests.

Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (458 - 471 A.D.), would not ordain anyone who had not been diligently reciting the psalms; the second Council of Nicaea (587 A. D.) concluded that no one was to be consecrated bishop unless he knew the Psalter thoroughly; and the eighth Council of Toledo (653 A.D.) ordered that no one be promoted to any ecclesiastical position who did not know perfectly the entire collection (Ross, 27).

It will be about God and his Church; to be called to serve them in love and humility through ordained ministry is a privilege beyond imagination for a Christian, and I hope and pray that my future service to all God's people will reflect that trust.