Sentences with phrase «out of ministry into»

Not exact matches

Now, three years out of pastoral ministry, and looking at heading back into it through church planting, I have been able to think, reflect, watch, and study these two models at work, and see numerous pros and cons to both.

As it turned out, my point of departure from the «emerging ministry movement» took me more into the missional wing of things, where I've been continuing to work with several virtual, international teams on social transformation projects.

But that kind of interpretation requires that we read the Gospel backwards, that we already know about the sending of the disciples out into the world to extend Jesus» ministry.

While I think we can all agree that Christians should withhold condemnation regarding the abuse allegations until the facts come out in the case and the issue has been thoroughly investigated and subjected to due process, what baffles me is Christian leaders» continued support of Sovereign Grace Ministries in spite of the ministry's repeated efforts to evade external investigation into this matter.

If by the power of God's grace we are in a position to accept ourselves as pilgrims, as mortal men seeking their way with difficulty through the darkness, as failing again and again and yet bound in duty to an earthly task; if the Church effects that acceptance by celebrating the death of the Lord, and makes us men of prayer who are really conscious of the future judgment of God, if the Church sends its children strengthened with God's grace out into their own maturity which burdens them but sets them free, then the Church by its official ministry has done what it alone can and must do.

Africa must make a quantum leap of faith into God's governance out of the church's history, sacraments, ministries and Christianity.

A part of the job of a church or temple is to develop its own strategy for reaching out redemptively into the community, using its own unique style of mental health ministry.

Instead of activating members of the church to go out into the community and serve there is mentalities that if you want to serve you need to be in one of the endorsed ministries.

We have earlier noted how Jesus, in his ministry, took the questions of life out of the temple into the fields, the lakeside, the home and the street.

Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons: loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro

Some of these men move into forms of the ministry that carry no expectation of a sermon, or out of the ministry altogether.

Such a concern is echoed by those who point out that the inadequacies of several classical formulations of the significance of the person and work of Christ did not take into account the social setting and the political implications of the ministry of Jesus.

When we started out I was very anti all of that stuff, but I was involved with ministry because of course I married into a family that was the Vineyard.

What I learned later was that they were also trailblazers, women who were clearly gifted and called by God into ministry, but who had to fight (gently and patiently, as it turned out) for the chance to serve the church — as women — as Ministers of Word and Sacrament.

But what they don't understand is, they had influenced others who were not as informed or devout, people who have experienced chaos and grief, and they sought a way out of all of this, by paying into Camping's ministry.

Not only was I bullied into resigning from leadership by my abusers, but when I spoke out and suggested that something was wrong with this I was «relieved» of my ministry position too.

In «that sinful and unrepentant region... the very conscience of the professedly religious portion... was debauched...» and the ministry was «guilty beyond the power of language to describe in that they were debauchers, and... both preachers and people were backslidden into a depth out of which even the mercy of God might fail to lift them.

Community clergymen can therefore move into action in the prevention of mental and emotional disturbances in each of these three areas: (1) by using the mental health center resources to make their total pastoral ministry more effective in the early detection of problems; (2) by becoming more comfortable in the use of their own style of helping troubled people so that some crisis situations can be contained; (3) by using the rich resources of social concern in the churches to attack the wider problems out of which so many individual cases of emotional disturbance arise.

You were not called «out» of ministry when you left your paid position but you actually dove «into» it!

The Didache, out of date as the liturgy and ministry of the Church developed, was rewritten and assimilated into later, larger documents of the same kind (Didascalia, Apostolic Constitutions).

Starting with the story of conservative Christian ideology being peddled at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs (where fliers for Mel Gibson's The Passion were handed out, and Ted Haggard's New Life ministries touted) and winding back in time, the movie follows author and former Roman Catholic priest James Carroll as he interweaves his own family history with a grander inquisition into faith, and in particular the nasty, tangled intersection between Christianity and Judaism.

Separating the justice and welfare aspects of crime into two ministries is better at both meting out justice and promoting welfare.