Sentences with phrase «ordained leadership»

«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.

It may be that for historical and cultural reasons ordained leadership will in fact continue to be largely a full - time occupation in most congregations in North America.

In our time many women (and I number myself among them) believe that the gifts of ordained leadership must be honored in women as well as in men.

Many modern - day leaders use that story to support their notion that ordained leadership should not be challenged.

Conventional wisdom assumes that the defining goal of a theological school is to educate clergy for the churches, or, more broadly, to educate leadership for the churches (whether it is lay or ordained leadership is probably irrelevant).

Not exact matches

I'll continue attending a Protestant church that ordains women and disdains totalitarian male dominated «leadership.»

But pastoral care is the ministry of the whole congregation — not just those individuals who happen to be ordained or called into the formal leadership of the church.

I've heard from women who said they tried desperately for years to quiet their ambitions and leadership skills because they felt those gifts violated God - ordained «femininity.»

All of us who know, however underwhelmingly, the call to prophetic leadership, lay or ordained, are very well aware of what this seminarian is talking about; and in this sense there is, I am afraid, something almost inescapably deceiving in the stance of the preacher / Iecturer / writer — at least this one.

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.

If anyone claims a God - ordained candidate or party or platform, be wary of their leadership.

On the other hand, ordained women in ACNA and in other evangelical churches may well decide that their own vocations are better pursued back within Church of England - related Anglican churches, and one may see a strengthening of conservative female leadership there.

A lot of Christians appeal to Ephesians 5, 1 Timothy 2, and 1 Peter 3, (the «wives submit to your husbands» passages) to suggest that every husband is the God - ordained head of his household and that every wife is to be submissive to his leadership.

I would describe it as a kind of unspoken contract whereby ordained clergy take leadership responsibility, and lay people defer to that arrangement, too often in a childlike way.

I wonder though if they might be asking whether he has the appropriate judgement to be in a leadership position seeing as how he allowed a pedophile to be ordained.

To ensure leadership there, John Wesley ordained Dr Thomas Coke (1747 - 1814) as Superintendent or Bishop.

I claim to be a feminist and yet presume I possess traces of misogyny simply because I am a male, raised as a male, educated as a male, ordained as a male, and served as a part of a male - dominated leadership of an institution historically dominated by male power, mindset and ideology.

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?

5 What makes the leadership «church» leadership, lay or ordained, is that it is the work of a «practical theologian.»

On the other hand, «professional» church leadership is not limited to the ordained clergy.

If so, that is a contingent fact and not inherent either in the concept «leadership in a congregation» nor in the concept «ordained.»

Not all church leadership is ordained.

The decision to resign follows a resolution by the leadership of the Presby Church Ghana to severe their relationship with pro-homosexual Presbyterian Church, United States of America over their decision to ordain gay priests.

Assist church with administration and leadership needs while also aiding with developing and implementing special events while working as ordained minister