Sentences with phrase «pastoral leaders»

This is a time when pastoral leaders have a tremendous opportunity to reclaim the significance of the gospel for daily life.

Being knowledgeable about some of these unique issues helps pastoral leaders and congregations become welcoming and supportive communities.

The result is that the average pastoral leader feels bound to grant the biblical precedent but compelled to resist its practice.

'19 The idea of speaking in tongues is highly disturbing to the vast majority of pastoral leaders because it puts them in an impossible bind.

But the very nature of the division of spiritual formation of Christians between lay leaders in the Sunday School and pastoral leaders in the church leaves people with the idea that Christian faith can be learned by attending classes.

This understanding reduces the pastoral care burden often experienced by pastoral leaders within the school, and encourages students, staff and families to recognise how much they can contribute to a positive, safe and supportive school culture.

Theologians and pastoral leaders make a big mistake when they ignore the fact that global audiences interact with these stories as they view them.

This note on tongues implies two useful rules for pastoral leaders.

Unless the group is a true co-op with full equal rights (ie with no named or paid pastoral leader) then the group has to face up the fact that their equality is relative.

Effective pastoral leaders will have God's people breathing together, modeling a common way of life that is good for the world.

But over time, ineffective pastoral leaders weaken congregations, and weak congregations often attract pastors who reflect and perpetuate mediocrity.

So there is much at stake in recruiting, shaping and sup - porting excellent pastoral leaders.

Strong congregations cultivate a life together that inspires and requires gifted pastoral leaders, who in turn take risks and pose questions that raise the standards for what is possible and needed for congregational life.

As for ideas to help small congregations, Lummis discussed a) developing financial supports and incentives from denominational sources, b) using retired clergy, c) employing clergy from other denominations, d) ordaining people to less - than - full clergy status and e) using lay pastoral leaders or cluster teams of clergy and lay leaders.

Ecclesial imagination is most likely to emerge when pastoral leaders possessed of rich pastoral imaginations make it their primary task to guide and resource communities in embracing this kind of life.

«Little Lever School in Bolton commented that it enables pastoral leaders to monitor very effectively students» successes and areas for development.

In turn, such congregations appreciate, support and emphasize the importance of pastoral leaders, for they understand the crucial importance of articulating this theological vision and nourishing it through worship, education and ministries.

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.

Each pastoral leader will know best what fits his or her situation and unique sense of calling.

But the pastoral leader is responsible to a confessing community committed to Christian maturing in particular.

The answer to the extra time and energy demanded of the guide is that as parishioners mature they grow to the point of sharing the ministry which the pastoral leader has heretofore carried mostly alone.

By engaging directly in teaching and in planning the complete educational strategy of the congregation's life, the pastoral leader models the importance of education.

The vision of a congregation maturing in the Christian life offers the best chance I see of clergy being delivered from the impossibly hectic and forever unfinished round to which the profession now threatens to condemn every pastoral leader except those few who have large staffs.

The pastoral leader as administrator does aid the organization by helping to set objectives for each arm of the operation, but his or her chief contribution will be to insist that every long - range or short - range objective has a clear connection with the overarching vision.

The master role of prophetic guide shapes the major roles required of the pastoral leader so that in each of them the goal sought is that of maturing in the Christian life.

Beside preaching, explicit instruction in prayer by the pastoral leader best acquaints parishioners with the master vision of the life of the congregation as a corporate journey toward maturing in the Christian life.

The pastoral leader will always need to teach in learning groups geared to discipleship because the authority that the clerical leader bears at this stage can not be duplicated by another member of the congregation.

As the congregation matures, the pastoral leader may withdraw from much of the direct teaching but will need to continue to supervise teachers in terms of vision.

The pastoral leader acts as guide in the use of these means.

Imagine the focus it would give the life of a congregation to have the pastoral leader making appointments to hear life journeys.

Practiced consistently and with integrity, the master role of prophetic guide gives a chance to assert control over the crazy quilt of incessant demands placed on the pastoral leader in a typical twelve - to thirteen - hour day.

It is true that most congregations already have enough groups and committees to occupy the pastoral leader on every available evening.

After a few months on the job, I am realizing that the culture I find myself countering as a pastoral leader is not out there in «the world.»

The New Testament does not display an office of minister comparable to the pastoral leader of our institutionalized church.20 It does offer a variety of figures whose prophetic function provides a model for the office of ministry today.

«Clergy psychologists and others who have to deal with clergy health problems and burnout» now strongly caution pastors that to enhance their overall physical, mental and spiritual well - being and maintain effectiveness as pastoral leaders, they must learn to maintain boundaries, particularly between church work and private time.»

This particular function of the pastoral leader is what gives the ministry its special identity.

I will illustrate in a final chapter how this master role as a metaphor for integration can direct the energy of the pastoral leader in each of the professional roles.

Ann Svennungsen, president of the FTE and a former senior pastor in the program, says that «if we are to raise up the next generation of pastoral leaders, pastors must be intentional not only about inviting people to consider ministry, but also about retaining those trained for ministry through times of disillusionment.»

The task of the pastoral leader is not to do all of the work of the church; it is to engage all of the people in all of the work of the church.

If a congregation is to know the power of God's word, the pastoral leader needs time to learn what it means to faithfully exegete Scripture.

As pastoral leader I am one traveler on pilgrimage speaking to and caring for other pilgrims.

Secondly, Jones divorced his wife Julie which makes him Biblically unqualified to serve as a pastoral leader according to the Scripture.)

In the measure to which the group embraces the work of both nurture and mission foci, it is coming to share the work of the pastoral leader.

Let us see what this means role by role for the pastoral leader as prophetic guide.

I would not expect a soma group to form in a parish until the pastoral leader has done considerable preaching, teaching, and counseling about life in the Spirit and about the marks of the church as the body of Christ.

After the fact, pastoral leaders may find themselves for the first time in a position to receive ministry as well as give it.

What it means role by role for the pastoral leader as prophetic guide: preacher - liturgist, pastor, educator and administrator.

Personally I think that pastoral leaders are ethically free to use all kind of means to influence their flock as long as they don't sin and they love their flock by not using any controlling behaviors.