Sentences with phrase «ordained leaders of»

Neither will a redistribution of the responsibility of ordained leaders of the church among the laity.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

Clergy are forever confusing the role (ordained leader of the congregation / church) with their own personhood (child of God).

Not exact matches

Senior pastors who are resigning or retiring can encourage that possibility by advising church leaders to explore the names of ordained women as potential candidates for filling the positions.

On the one hand, they served as ordained ministers subject to the authority of the church; on the other hand, they played an increasingly active role as leaders of a popular movement.

«I have to, on all consciousness in Christ caution against tribalism and an anti C of S rhetoric [that does have female leaders and is considering ordaining gay clergy] in the light of the agreement I have with the assertion you have made about the centrality of Christ, not church politics».

I doubt that there is a Christian leader, ordained or lay, who has never provoked anger or irritation in a church situation, and I doubt that there is a single churchgoer who hasn't experienced hurt feelings and discouragement from a congregational incident of some sort.

Although women are now ordained to all three orders within the Church of England (deacon, priest and bishop), fewer than a quarter of those seeking ordination under the age of 30 are female and fewer than two per cent of leaders of larger Anglican churches are female.

Her Grandfather was a preacher & now Stella Parton is the new leader of the Parton family, after becoming an ordained minister.

While the Catholic Church does not ordain women to the priesthood, it has recognized the importance of female theologians and leaders within the life of the church.

It is a contemporary application of the historic formulation of the role of ordained church leaders as priestly, pastoral, and prophetic.

Confusion in the church today about ordained and non ordained leaders is related to a lack of clarity about the role of the family and the role of the church in faith formation.

Very few Protestant pastors ordained in the last thirty years have been educated to think of themselves as the spiritual leaders of a congregation.

Leaders who did not truly believe in God had ordered and ordained the killings of tens of millions in human history.

But to listen to Andrew Sparks, the spiritual leader of Avodat and an ordained PCUSA minister, the denomination has acted with unprecedented faithfulness in supporting his congregation.

Hierarchical order arises when ordained leaders operate as the only gifted persons in a crowd of disciples with little spiritual equipment.

His ability to not only lie, but to lie convincingly, has been essential in Pat's self - ordained mission to organize millions of primarily sincere Americans into a political action organization that sends Republican «leaders» scurrying to please the powerful organization and its leaders.

The line of thought could easily be shifted from ordained clergy to congregational leaders.

Daasebre Darko added that President Mahama has been ordained by God as a leader of the country and should not be afraid of a defeat in next year's election.

We are highly committed to making sure Biafra comes under the command of our ordained leader and prophet, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.»

«Excuse me, commits a serious crime,» Hynes corrected himself, «goes to prison, comes out, rehabilitates himself, becomes an ordained minister, and someone who is one of the most powerful Democratic leaders in this state, who is a serial thief and extortionist.

Ten years beyond Elisabeth, the time has now come to pass the torch to a younger third generation of IOI leaders who may not have known the mortal Elisabeth but who are ordained into her enduring vision, mission and passion.