Sentences with phrase «other than ministry»

Not exact matches

Teach Away's clients — education ministries, colleges, and other organizations that provide ESL training — are situated in more than 50 countries around the world, including the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

They need love, understanding, and ministry other than someone telling them they are going to hell unless they change.

They need love, understanding, and ministry other than someone telling them they are going to hell unless they change.Those who are in long term commited relationships are a different story.

When credit comes to you for the ministry and talents and abilities you have, let it be God and others who bring it rather than from yourself.

Interestingly, the bullying behavior was by two women were limited to a group that participated in a single church service, and when I left that service, stopped volunteering in the ministry I enjoyed the most, and stopped attending on anything other than Sunday morning, the bullying stopped.

And the New Testament highlights Jesus's nonviolent response to violence as a pattern to follow more than any other aspect of His ministry.

As a result, others may seem better suited for ministry than you.

I've grown more being out of church ministry than any other time in my life.

But you're asking about Jesus himself rather than about the effects of his ministry on others.

Other than youth ministry and a little bit of retail (part - time college job), I don't really have any other job experience or educaOther than youth ministry and a little bit of retail (part - time college job), I don't really have any other job experience or educaother job experience or education.

«There is one thing amongst all others, the loss of which is more deplorable than words can express; We allude to the most holy Sacrifice in which Jesus Christ, both Priest and Victim, daily offers Himself to His Father, through the ministry of His priests on earth.

In the Gospels of the New Testament more attention is devoted to the healing ministry of Jesus than to any other subject except the passion story of the last week of Jesus» earthly life.

Failure to act as direct teacher and dean or principal of a school of discipleship by its pastoral leader probably accounts more than any other single factor for a congregation's inability to mature in its ministry.

Further evidence for the existence of table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners» as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is the role played by communal meals in earliest Christianity (E. Lohmeyer, Lord of the Temple [ET by Stewart Todd of Kultus und Evangelism (1942); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961], pp. 79ff, discusses the central role of table - fellowship in the ministry of Jesus, but he is particularly concerned with the development towards the Last Supper, which he sees as historical, rather than with the relationship between this table - fellowship and the cross, on the one hand, and the communal meals of early Christianity on the other.)

It has been incredibly freeing and I'm doing more ministry than I ever did as a full - time vocational pastor — that is, I'm ministering «with» others to those who are not - yet believers rather than ministering «to» and «for» people in the church.

Could it be that God has given some people more than others, not so that they can feel extra special, or become puffed up about how great of people they are in God's eyes, or how wonderful their ministries are for the advancement of the Kingdom of God, but so that those to whom God has given more can use what they have to bless others who have been given less, and in so doing, be blessed in other ways in return?

This hope, however, lays an obligation also on the authorities of the Catholic Church to be critical of themselves, to respect the conscience of every man which is responsible directly to God, and to avoid anything that may give the impression that the exercise of this ministry may have other purposes than the preservation of the one faith.

Counseling, chaplaincy and other forms of ministry to groups and organizations are also attractive, and more than a quarter of entering students are headed for teaching, social service or administration.

Similarly, students in master of divinity and other professional programs are usually asked about vocational goals; strong interest in ordained ministry is, of course, welcome, but fewer institutions now than in the past require that all students in ministry programs be sponsored or approved by ordaining bodies.

All of the suits involved two men: one, a laicized former priest who left active ministry more than a decade ago, and the other, a priest dead for more than a decade.

He should be sitting on a chair beside the bed, rather than standing, partly to show that he is not administering medicine but mainly to suggest that the nature of his ministry is through conversation, talking and listening, and other procedures like prayer and reading which also involve verbal means.

Todd is not my style and his antics do more to offend me than motivate me, but I can not ignore the fruit of Christ's ministry through Him in people I ended up hanging out with that would not have come to faith in Christ through my mostly cerebral, jovial and friendship - seeking approach or through other types of evangelism.

Mergers as such interest him less than shared Eucharists across boundaries, mutually acceptant ministries among the formerly competitive and participation in each other's gifts.

Was any consideration given to the outreach ministries of churches that minister to people of significantly different ethnic, cultural and socio - economic backgrounds other than in worship on Sunday morning?

He reminded his congregation that they must follow him no farther than he followed Christ, and he urged them to be open to all truth from the ministry of others who live in Christ.

Your hate blinds you such that you continue to slander me and others here who have nothing to do with xxxchurch.com other than I see them as a valid ministry that loves people in the Name of Jesus and frees them from the sin you hate so much.

The other day I posted an older cartoon suggesting that people are more important than ideas, and quickly wrote a short post about the Reverend Gretta Vosper, a United Church of Canada (UCC) minister who is being tried for her fitness for ministry.

Jack Marcum, head of research services for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence of a literal shortage of ministers... We are training more than sufficient numbers of ministers of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»

and can there be other than «men of God» in ministry.

In the past half century, perhaps no other Christian ministry innovation has been more influential and polarizing than contemporary worship.

If I may just quickly offer a little, hopefully constructive, criticism: In reading through the bridging the gap materials on your main website (before I dug a little deeper and became a little concerned by the Exodus connection and the other two websites still run by your ministry which I am unable to describe as anything other than ex-gay, hence my deeming it Exodus - lite) I could not shake the very strong us - them mentality that seemed to permeate everything.

ACT estimates that in the past decade, more than half have launched ministries to the poor, trafficked, or other groups.

I have found the most effective way to deal with fear is in the company of a compatible companion (someone other than my wife, she has her own ministry) This is why the first disciples went out 2 × 2 and law enforcement people have a partner and soldiers have a buddy or wingman.

On the other hand, many of us who are called into ministry or humanitarian work are tempted to believe the lie that our work is more important than that of others.

But it is to this order especially, rather than to other orders, that divine law has bestowed the more divine workings of the sacred ministry.

I believe that «ferment» is a better description of what is happening in the ministry today than are such other terms as «crisis,» «maceration,» «breakdown,» or «upset.»

Everyone knew some were better at ministry tasks than others, but there was no sense of being a «success.»

The eschatological tension of this situation, constituted essentially as the denouement of a ministry of suffering love, implies for ministry something other than mere encouragement to persons who are suffering.

But the office of ministry is extremely important, perhaps more so to others than to ourselves.

Women have gained far more status in most other professions than in the ministry.

I was determined to shape my ministry by a process of listening, which would enable me to identify felt needs rather than impose an agenda on others.

Sometimes we think that some personalities are better suited for ministry than others, or that certain personalities are ministry handicaps.

A lot of my other Christian friends went into full - time ministry or started working at nonprofits, and sometimes it seems like their work is more important in an eternal sense than what I do.

Lawyers for Kentucky's Department of Insurance are encouraging a judge to hold Medi - Share, a cost - sharing ministry that helps pay medical bills for Christians who don't smoke or abuse alcohol (among other qualifications), in contempt for continuing to operate in the state more than a year after a circuit court judge ordered the Florida - based group to stop until it meets Kentucky insurance regulations.

Not so sure about the synoptics, other than they were a good and faithful witness to the events surrounding the ministry of Jesus, and therefore a witness as to His authority.

Helping people overcome addiction to pornography or alcohol, creating space in our churches or ministries for people who are not yet followers of Jesus, or even getting to know the neighbors or co-workers who have emigrated from different parts of the world are all great ways of bringing justice in places other than the inner - city.

Respondents included those who switched to a ministry other than shepherding a congregation as well as those who left the ministry altogether.

I have had personal contact with Driscoll and his ministry about his affiliates and was dismissed rather than he and others confronting sin!

The minister designate for information, Musatpha Hamid, has revealed that he would have wished heading a different ministry other than that of the information ministry.

Sweden, which has summoned the Ecuadorian ambassador to the ministry to answer Quito's «serious» accusations, offered a stern denial that it would offer anything other than a completely fair trial for the 41 - year - old Australian.