Sentences with phrase «ordained men»

John, however, persisted and in 1785 ordained some men for work in Scotland and a little later ordained three people to work in England.

The Hartford Study of Ordained Men and Women, conducted in 1993, found that many pastors drop in and out of ministry.

«The pattern of ordaining men to the priesthood was established by Christ in His Church, and is followed in His restored Church today,» LDS Church spokesman Eric Hawkins wrote in a statement to CNN late Monday night.

Therefore, I thought that ordaining both men and women might well be the best way to serve our Lord in this time and place, despite 2000 years of tradition to the contrary.

They can't ordain men, can they?»

John Wesley had asserted his rights as a presbyter to ordain men for a, ministry in America, thereby denying the necessity of ordination by bishops alone.

Not exact matches

There is even evidence that J. Smith ordained a black man with the priesthood.

Did you know that one of his very good friends was a black man, who he ordained to a high church position?

I hear from my minister (pastor) that the number of ordained ministers than are men and that are women in C of S is about 50/50.

It contends that two men who use each other's anus» for sexual gratification are in love and may therefore live in the covenant relationship God ordained between a man and a woman.

Unless of course, you agree with the RCC's response (from your link): «Indeed, the Vatican's early response to the 2002 revelations of widespread Church cover - ups of se -LSB--RSB- xual abuse by priests was to declare that gay men should not be ordained.»

I believe in government; that men can not live together without rules but that they should be kept at the bare minimum of safety; that there is no form of government ordained from God as being better than any other; that the anarchic elements in society are so strong that it is a whole - time task to keep the peace.

It states that sinfulness does not proceed from God, hence my belief that God did not cause people to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, and that He (God) from all Eternity, out of His Will, ordains what comes to pass, hence out of His Sovereign Grace, Will, Wisdom, and Command fore - ascertained the «Ultimate Provision» for our Salvation out of the betrayal of man, before the foundation of the world.

Check out http://www.blacklds.org/priesthood: 1836: In March, Elijah Abel, a black man, is ordained to the office of Elder.

From 1849 to 1978, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints (LDS Church) had a policy against ordaining black men of African descent to the priesthood.

1846: William McCary, a black man, is ordained to the office of Elder.

By that notion, God is merely reacting to the whims of men who themselves ordain whatsoever comes to pass.

What man does at «Free Will,» which is not caused by God, does not mean it is out of God's Sovereignty, since God foreknew it before the foundation of the world and ordained it to come to pass.

You do understand that the Pope is infallible and ordained by God so you can't even ask whether or not he was the right man for the job?

1844: Walker Lewis, a black man, is ordained to the office of Elder.

Compatibilism is an attempt to reconcile the theological proposition that every event is causally determined, ordained, and / or decreed by God (i.e., determinism, not to be confused with fatalism)-- with the free will of man.

That is the fundamental message of Christianity - John 3:16 ------------------------ Yeah, the blame rests on us because we are all sinful, but you must also understand that although there is a general responsibility that rests on the shoulders of all men, there is also a specific responsibility held by those who were directly responsible for specific sins, even though they were ordained of God.

Now, for the first time, nine men will be ordained together by an English Bishop who can give them regular oversight as they begin their ministries.

If people wish to regard homosexuality as a freak of nature, and even if it is not the condition ordained by God when He said that it was not good for man that he should be alone, then we can only rejoice that God is, as ever, bringing good out of evil.

It's important for us not to say, «Look here, the West has Jeffersonian values about the rights of women, values we'd like to see you adopt,» but to argue instead from the Qur «an itself, citing verses like the one stating that God has ordained love and tenderness between the male and female in marriage, or that no man has two hearts in one bosom.

Or, as the French Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain put it nearly a decade later, «There is nothing more illusory than to pose the problem of the person and the common good in terms of opposition,» for in reality, it is «in the nature of things that man, as part of society, should be ordained to the common good.»

The pontiff has requested a debate over allowing married men in the Amazon region of Brazil to be ordained if they are men of great faith.

The total depravity of man — another utterly anti-human doctrine, along with God ordained genocides.

Me: «This person says the men in my life need to do a better job of exercising their God - ordained authority to «silence» me.»

That's why men with women is optimal and ordained by God».

We accept this pattern of human sexuality as a foundation for human society, and we celebrate the healthy relationships of mutual service that embody it» above all, the divinely ordained covenant of marriage between one man and one woman prepared to bear and rear each succeeding generation of children.

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

Davidek and some of the other putative bishops had already died, but those men whom they had ordained and who were deemed qualified for the priesthood were «conditionally» ordained and their positions regularized under the hierarchy.

However, It was ordained by God when he created man and woman in the beginning.

When a man is ordained to the sacred ministry in any of the Reformed churches — and this includes the Anglican Communion, which even the staunchest defenders of its «catholicity» must acknowledge is a «reformed» catholic communion — a form of words is used in which the centrality of the preaching office in that ministry is affirmed.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

I'm sticking to my position on gender equality in the home and Church --(which doesn't mean I don't think there are differences between men and women, by the way; it just means I am reluctant to declare those differences universal and prescriptive or indicative of some sort of God - ordained hierarchy between men and women)-- but I want to «fight fair» if you will, especially with folks I consider to be my brothers and sisters in Christ.

Thus, man is ordained for time.

What r u complaining about, JESUS never got paid 4 his ministry, he got killed 4 it, I do not beleive that man should be ordaining pastors, only GOD can.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

he's was ordained a minister in Rome and you think this man doesn't know what he is talking about??? Wow, the mental jumping jacks you fundies put yourselves through knows no limits.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

The educated modern man needs no reminder how It has been of the best to «just go along» with the evangelical and his beliefs rather than suffer the wrath that might be so ordained against him by those who have carved out their virtuous beliefs from an age old written scripture.

It is certainly possible and, for the particular man, necessary that he take all the training to be a teacher of theology or religion without necessarily becoming an ordained minister.

That a man - made organization with (presumably) good - intentions has had women bishops ordained ought not be mistaken as bearing the authority of scripture.

In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

Women will not EVER be ordained because the men won't give up their power... wake up already!

Certainly this is an excellent spot for competent women to serve the church; but of late years more men are holding such positions, and more directors, both men and women, are ordained ministers.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

When only men were ordained, the pastor's wife often made calls at the homes of church members.