Sentences with phrase «pastoral leaders in the church»

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.

Not exact matches

Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»

We are both seminary students looking toward pastoral ministry, and have a lot of questions about how to be leaders in the church without abusing it with our demons.

With new awareness of their theological and pastoral value, preachers in these churches might practice the discipline of preparing an apt collect to follow each sermon, and youth leaders and church educators might generate innovative ways to teach this form to children and youth.

Attitudes have begun to change in churches where the senior pastors have made a regular and conscientious effort to use clergywomen as supply preachers, as workshop leaders and speakers, and as substitutes during pastoral emergencies or vacation times.

Perhaps the kinds of studies that have been made of the art of administration, of the relations of policy and administration, of organization and management in other: spheres will be carried forward into the sphere of the Church and may show how much the pastoral director of our time, as pastoral preacher, teacher, counselor and leader of worship has also become the democratic pastoral administrator, that is to say, a man charged with the responsibility and given the authority to hold in balance, to invigorate and to maintain communication among a host of activities and their responsible leaders, all directed toward a common end.

What seems most evident in the case of the modern pastoral director is that he can think of himself neither as parish parson responsible for all the people in a geographic area nor as the abbot of a convent of the saved, but only as the responsible leader of a parish church; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fchurch; it is the Church, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility fChurch, not he in the first place, that has a parish and responsibility for it.

Why does it matter for church leaders, outside of pastoral issues they may face in their own congregations?

Robert C. Leslie, a leader in the field of group pastoral counseling, has observed: «One of the healthiest signs of renewal in the life of the church is the increasing number of small, intimate, sharing groups which are springing up on all sides.»

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.

But in the dramatic opening sessions of the council in the fall of 1962, the assembled bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church, headed by those from Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, refused to follow the agenda set by the traditionalist Curia, repudiated their reactionary schemata, and unexpectedly showed themselves to be, in the majority, progressives open to John XXIII's agenda of sweeping pastoral renewal.

Nor do the authors pick up on the same pope's astonishing invitation of the leaders of other churches and their theologians to a «patient and fraternal dialogue» to help find ways in which the pastoral and doctrinal ministry of Peter might be differently exercised in the service of universal Christian unity» a move that opened the prospect of a «reformed papacy» such as Luther, at least, was willing to contemplate.

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.

He has helped train students and church leaders throughout Eastern Europe in the fields of marriage, family and pastoral counseling.»