Sentences with phrase «pastors say their churches»

Overall, 72 percent of pastors say their church is personally involved in racial reconciliation, and 90 percent of pastors strongly or somewhat agree that racial reconciliation is mandated by the gospel, the LifeWay study found.

Our research has found that 72 % of pastors say the church they serve is doing background checks for children's workers.

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As a pastor, Young's income «was all over the place,» he says, and so were the gigs — he was constantly moving his family to a different town or state with every new church.

To do so, they and others paid $ 150,000 in bribes via the church to Gross, its pastor, in exchange for facilitating Murgio's takeover and arranging for Lebedev and others to be put on the credit union's board, prosecutors said.

«If a church writes us saying «Can you help us find a pastor?

«I try and speak to church pastors and leaders when I can and have had some encouraging discussions,» he said.

In Chan's sermon he agreed with this analogy and said: «This pastor was saying our church is so much like that - it feels like a big zoo.

The assistant pastor at the local Catholic church is from Kenya (few can understand a word he says, but most know the schtick already).

I hope this applies to your question, many times, sitting in services in a particular church, the Pastor would give a reprimand to the congregation, saying: «If you feel the urge to raise your hands and do not do it, then you are resisting the Holy Spirit.»

I heard a pastor the other day say that his church's giving was down by 50 percent.

(Let me just say, I'm no average church member; I grew up in the Lutheran church; I attended a Christian high school and a Baptist college, and ultimately was a pastor's wife in an Assemblies of God church) What if none of them completely resonates with you?

If it weren't for people like you and Naked Pastor, many folks — myself included — would have said to hell with the churches, they're all a bunch of hypocritical, self - righteous bigots.

If that is what you are intending to say, are you suggesting that similar woudn't be happening in churches led by female pastors?

And if you say you are not trying to destroy, then I ask you, did you start the church you are a part of, or did you come to the church as a new pastor and are now trying to deconstruct?

«It's time to put the bed back in church and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,» says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship Cchurch and God back in the bed because God is the one that thought sex up,» says Ed Young, senior pastor of Fellowship ChurchChurch.

It will be too late for Millennial to take responsibility but then it would not be their fault it would be the leaders of the free, love church's like my Pastor said this morning God's grace is killing us!

i really would love to be led by somebody who feels what i feel and is courageous enough to say that even though he is the pastor and this is his church and there is nothing to be afraid of because Christ found us and not the other way around, yet he still gets scared.

A pastor, author and life coach says elderly people are the most underused resource in the church.

The church should be there to pray for both families, the city of Sanford, and our nation,» said the Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orchurch should be there to pray for both families, the city of Sanford, and our nation,» said the Rev. Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New OrChurch in New Orleans.

I feel I can comment on the effect of the naked pastor's blog on me, and whether pastors can and should say these things in general, but as for whether or not it beneficial for the church members of his church, surely it is only for them to say, and perhaps not online..?

Pastors aren't supposed to say that... they're supposed to be whatever windup doll the board requires on any given day... you know the board... the one made up of church people, not necessarily spiritually mature people.

Pastor Mike Wilkerson of Mars Hill Church in Seattle says it best: «Shame is often both the consequence of giving in to an addiction the last time, as well as the precondition for giving in to it next time, resulting in more shame.»

So I asked the pastor one Sunday how he figures out what to spend the donations on around the Church and how much to keep for his own expenses and he said «Well, I take the money box out to the parking lot Sunday afternoons and throw all the money recieved that day in the air, I figure what God wants, he keeps...»

Yes, ironic... ironic that the fellow who is on the slow train to hell, who she was warned by the pastor not to get involved with because he was an atheist, the fellow who has never had anyone in the church leadership say more than a sentence to when he did go with her to church, is the minister behind the minister of coffee.

The pastor said of what he has read about Mourdock's remarks, they largely lined up with the church's teachings on the sanctity of life and their belief that life begins at conception.

After, the pastor said that the divine message was — wait for it — God loved that church!

Sorta like when Atheist say Christians hate Gays while ignoring the Gay Bishops, pastors and Gay friendly churches.

A question on your comment (nakedpastor said, on May 18th, 2007 at 11:57 am) «I am a pastor of a church community.

I am a baptist and a democrat and I left my church after the pastor said that Obama was the antichrist.

There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and control.

Have you ever heard pastors say that church services should have the same excitement and thrill of a professional football game?

«We were not acting out of hate, as many thought,» says Douglas Hacker, pastor of the Sherwood Oaks Christian Church, whose views represent another group of ministers who disagreed with Miller's statement.

Now something tells me the first pastor or someone else from the first church got to him and said something.

Our pastor says that the church is like a spiritual hospital.

Obama is a Christian and his actions as president are very much in line with the teaching of the new testament, yet I couldn't dare say that at my Evangelical church where the ACA has literally saved the life of our pastors child but here is so much hate for Obama it's down right scary.

In addition to my earlier comment I will say that I will be surprised if any of the mega church pastors have any comment on the Jonestown massacre that took place on November 18, 1978.

Anyway, trying to communicate this, and the other issues, to my then pastor was also fraught with problems as he seemed too preoccupied with how my leaving was making him feel than with the years of rejection I described which led to me leaving, I say leaving but I only moved to a church up the road (I had been in the first church for over 20 years but couldn't bear it any longer, which was a sad outcome).

Afterwards we talked with our friend about this, and he said the pastor was even more of a bully when not on the platform, as we noted in what he said to us when we left church.

Although they say they do not intend for the minister to dictate his aims for the church, the thrust of Leading Congregational Change is that the pastor or transformational leader brings a vision that must be promoted, first to a chosen group of disciples, then to a «vision community,» and then — only when fully developed and plotted out — to the congregation.

Barbour, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Chester, Pennsylvania, from 1933 to 1974 and mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., during the latter's Crozer Seminary years, amassed such influence over the years that it is said no decision affecting blacks in Chester was made without his input.

The current pastor and church members say «All are Welcome!»

One comment above said (paraphrasing) they were shocked that a pastor, or someone in church, would be a bully.

We've seen that, as in «You're finding fault with (the pastor's sermon, how the church spends its money, what our group says, etc.), so you're a reprobate and need to repent (loosely translate as «do what we say») or get out.

As a child I know that I would read the Bible and believe the things that it said to be true and then I would go to church and all the adults and pastors would seem to live, act, and preach differently from what I had read and it confused me.

Woodson said that she told associate pastor Larry Cotton what Savage had done, and he told her that the church would handle it internally, urging her to not go to the authorities.

The Pastor was trying to get someone to join the church and this person wouldn't join because he said The most so called religious or Christian people will abandon you when you are at lowest.

Among pastors, 1 in 5 (19 - %) say their church is helping refugees overseas, and 1 in 3 (35 %) have addressed the Syrian refugee crisis from the pulpit.

@Lainie... I was just saying that there is so much arrogant, even if unintentional, Messiah complex running rampant in the Church and her pastors and leaders — groups of «equally unqualified clergy.»

It's a project that fits Friends Church's Quaker tradition, said Creative Arts Pastor Brent Martz.

(CNN)- Fred Phelps - the founding pastor of a Kansas church known for its virulently anti-gay protests at public events, including military funerals - has died, the church said Thursday.