Sentences with phrase «pastoral leaders make»

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

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

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While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

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.

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

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.

But even in the prime of its politicking, for instance in the fabled 1960s, no survey showed general sympathy for the pronouncements made by leaders, and there was little congruence between lay (and sometimes local pastoral) opinion and what was being said at conventions or in commissions.

A new report published by charity Teaching Leaders and think tank LKMco maps out the «sophisticated mix of skills» that make an effective middle leader, such as a head of year, head of department or pastoral leader.