Sentences with phrase «other church leadership»

Melody plays piano frequently at her church, teaches children's Sunday School and serves as a lay Eucharistic minister and in other church leadership roles.

The clergy and other church leadership would have to be specially trained for such spiritual exercises.

I say it is a Pharisaical system, because the man made Church is everything Jesus confronted the Pharisees about is found within the vast majority Pastors and other Church leadership.

Not exact matches

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

Fact is many men who are in leadership or positions of power in Church, business, entertainment, sports, etc., feel it is their unilateral right to have access to sluts, regardless of what the Bible says or any other moral teachings.

My decision and the «church» has made no attempt to call me back, so it must have been no big deal for the vicar and his other leadership team!

These changes in the numerical balance, together with the increasing replacement of American missionaries by nationals in leadership positions at the lower levels of church structure, have inevitably raised the issue of when and to what extent the distribution of leadership and other staff at headquarters will reflect these developments.

Allen identifies and comments on seven areas of concern that African Christians face in their churches, including the Africanization of theology, relationships with other religions, church and state, pastoral leadership, relationship with Euro - American partner churches, theological education, and struggles with social concerns.

And chances are very good that other children have been abused by these two, especially if they are in church leadership positions.

However, constituency meetings, especially those at the higher levels of the organizational pyramid, have proved unlikely to act independently because the system for choosing delegates (who are appointed rather than elected) has ensured that the vast majority hold leadership positions in the church or other church - paid positions.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Now at almost 600 comments, the one thing I hope for outside of the apologies that Julie (and others) so richly deserve is an end to the evangelical / pomo / dispensational / Calvinist / church - growth / emergent / author / leadership / Christian conference scene (pick one or more categories as YMMV).

Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a network of Reformed church plants in 21 countries still dealing with the aftermath of an internal investigation of founder and president C. J. Mahaney's leadership, now faces allegations that its president and board chairman, among other leaders, covered up child sex abuse by church members.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

Each issue contains new articles and insights on leadership training, updates on what's been added to BuildingChurchLeaders.com, and other practical help to build faithful and effective leaders in your church.

The servant model doesn't set as a priority requiring others to come help the church / leadership / pastor fulfill their mission.

New technologies can facilitate interconnection among church leadership and can also help an individual bond with others.

Origen, for this and other idiosyncrasies such as his universalist doctrine of apokatastasis, 32 came to be identified not as orthodox but heterodox by the church's official leadership.

On the contrary, it asks others how the church / leadership / pastor can help them fulfill the vision God has given them.

Some are severe (others would say strident) indictments of the leadership of the Catholic Church, maintaining his reputation as, in his own words, «a loud - mouthed Irish priest.»

A useful group - life checklist allowing participants to rate a group on communication, acceptance of persons, leadership, climate of relationships, and other aspects can be found in Philip Anderson's Church Meetings that Matter.10 Evaluation is not a frill; rather it is essential to discovering what you are accomplishing in groups and how you can do better.

And I think this must be even more intensive within the church and its leadership because the church, like any other human institution, is prime culture for deception, abuse, bondage and slavery.

The means adopted to arrive at this end was to place great authority in the hands of powerful bishops and then, in the fourth and fifth centuries, in the hands of a central, authoritative church in Rome under whose leadership the others were expected to be subject.

In addition to general cultural dynamics, there are other reasons why large churches are more resistant to women's leadership; these reasons are related to some of the basic differences between small and large churches.

I have encouraged the church to provide opportunities for young people to develop leadership skills that can be transferred to other areas of life.

Beginning with the that that we are what we think, Dr. Earl Radmacher invites the readers to take a journey of the mind, and then begin to transform their mind by beginning to think right about God, church, church leadership, and a variety of other topics.

They can embrace this report on the «Crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States» as a starting point and set themselves on a course of reform and renewal that could, among other benefits, restore the confidence of priests and people in their leadership.

I've tried to encourage others to take on leadership roles in the Church and so when you are at that level it encourages others.

On issues such as women in church leadership, and other religions, we are free to come to a «developed, or even different, view» from what we find in the canon, just like William Wilberforce did with slavery; but that is ok, because the word of God is «ultimately a person, not a manuscript».

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.

In the context of the church, what are leadership abilities other than gifts of the Spirit?

«If I were him, I'd probably just not go while I was president, if only out of courtesy to other patrons,» said our source in church leadership who didn't want to be named.

The church's leadership believed the approach would attract people searching for answers, bring them into a relationship with Christ, and then capitalize on their contagious fervor to evangelize others.

From Sara: Many experiences I have had with members of Pentecostal churches and their leadership believe and teach that the Catholic church (and other liturgical Protestant denominations) are not Christian churches.

Bishop Kay, who is married with two adult sons, told ABC that she hoped her election as Archbishop would inspire other women in the Church to seek leadership roles.

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary tChurch and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary tchurch on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

«The real issue is whether denominational leaders, of whom Land is perhaps the most public right now... have any intent on sharing real denominational leadership with Luter or other non-whites outside the traditional networks of denominational power,» said Bill Leonard, professor of Baptist studies and church history at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

But then in other churches, he very specifically praises the leadership of women.

Because the Episcopal Church allows for diversity of practice, the leadership of «out» LGBT and women clergy is more prevalent in some places than others.

Consequently, its ability to provide leadership in restoring a theological vocation to the church, on these issues and others, maybe severely limited from the outset.

People targeted our children to gain favor with the church leadership — like the man who was helping with Sunday School who insisted my 11 year old daughter speak in tongues, laying hands on her and yelling at her in front of the other kids — all without our knowledge.

When I realized that I was comprising my own integrity by badmouthing the leadership and making others feel bad about being connected with a church they were formerly thrilled with, I knew it was time to leave.

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

Churches are divided over theology, politics, leadership, music style, finances, ministry opportunities, community involvement, what is and isn't sin, and numerous other issues.

And next to love others, particularly the disenfranchised, over trying to please those in church leadership.

The question to be asked, then, is this: Is it most theologically adequate to see the movement of theological education as a movement from source (of «revelation,» of «wisdom about God,» etc.) to personal appropriation; or as a movement from source to application of source in life (especially, perhaps, the life of church leadership); or as a movement from source, to doctrines implicit in the source, to applications of doctrines to life's problems; or as a movement from sources, to theories about the sources, to applications of those theories to life; or in some other way?

He also suggests that there was simply a conflict of personality or style between him and the church when he says, «Other issues, such as aspects of my personality and leadership style, have proven to be divisive within the Mars Hill context.»

If you have time prior to the disaster, reach out to your congregation using your normal and most common means of communication to let them know how they might be able to stay in touch with the church, leadership, and each other.

In January, Ed asked me (and a few other friends) to do some volunteer ministry leadership at Two Rivers Church where he serves as the interim pastor.

Too often, someone in a church will read a book, or hear of another church somewhere that is doing something, and they will think it is a good idea, and will try and charge ahead without ever consulting others in the church, or consulting the leadership of the church, or, most importantly, consulting God through prayer and fasting.