Sentences with phrase «position in the church»

If there was a ban, it wasn't - evidently - from a high position in the church.

The pastor and his wife, pastor's sister who is divorced with 2 sons all carried major positions in the church.

It is the dominant position in the church, and it supports the type of policies advocated by most politicians in both parties.

The most public position in the church is, of course, pastor.

So to blame the «masculinity crisis» on the few women who have managed to ascend to significant leadership positions in the Church in recent years, especially when men continue to dominate the field, grossly overstates the amount of power women have over the institution and turns them into unnecessary scapegoats.

Many went to catholic schools, took all the rites and tests and whatnot, many help positions in the church in various forms... and still they left.

The charge of heresy developed about 1700 years ago when church leaders vied with each other for positions in the church.

This is frankly not the time to be defensive about the church and blind to its many flaws; people in important positions in the church have hurt a great many people and the church itself with their hypocrisies and crimes.

Much of America, including many religions, didn't allow blacks to hold leadership positions in their churches well into the 20th century.

Swanny, Yes, I just want the «paying the pastor» to not be the default position in churches.

The liberal position in the Church of England was Latitudinarianism.

Well, the Psalmist here says that it would be better to pick the volunteer position in church!

The believers and the sympathizers who expected inspiring personalities at key positions in the Church were disappointed by a procession of tired bureaucrats who lacked the magnanimity, vision, and creativity necessary to prepare the Church for the coming decade.

This struck me on a lot of levels — one of which was the degree to which the Pastor's Wife is often seen as an official ministry position in a church... even when the pastor's wife isn't usually on the church payroll and often has a job and responsibilities of her own.

Right, it was Peter's confession and not Peter's unique position in the Church about which Jesus spoke.

His bishop told him he was a modernist, and despite his formidable intellectual gifts he was never allowed any academic or intellectual position in the Church.

Ministers need to know about many women's grow awareness of their present position in the church and of their religious and cultural heritage.

Finally, in 1902, the seminary's position in church history opened up, and that is why the greatest works of the social gospel have such a strong historical bent.

There are certainly many reasons for this, but one less - known piece is that Jesuits are actually discouraged from taking high ranking positions in the church.

Rinder and Rathbun are already well - known for leaving their high level positions in the church and subsequently spilling the beans.

In the most memorable of these scenarios, players are positioned in a church steeple with a sniper rifle, watching over a team of soldiers below while they complete their mission.

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

In the context of 1 Timothy the most likely interpretation that takes into account the immediate context is that, rather than abandoning their intended roles by demanding teaching and authoritative positions in the church, women will find true fulfillment through childbearing.

The essence of the Third Secret of Fatima is that Satan has entered the Catholic Church, bringing with him agents to occupy highest positions in the Church.

So is that why there still are positions in the church that women aren't allowed to hold in order to make sure they are treated with «respect and dignity» by keeping them in their «place.»

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.

A position in the church.

You get pretty much the same theology as the Emergents, but you have a church structure filtering out riff raff like these before it gets to a leadership position in the church.

Is it so surprising that positions in churches or schools that are based upon faith in God are denied to someone who denies that faith?

I do find his high position in his church to possibly be a problem because of course it means he is more adherent and less casual about his religion which could mean he would let his religion color his duties as president.

And yet Romney has held a series leadership positions in his church.

This is the point where I can not accept Karl Barth's position as a simple restatement of the original Christian view, not even his position in the Church Dogmatics (K. Barth, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik, II, I [1940], pp. 698ff; III 2 [1948], pp. 524ff, 714ff.)

[18] Insisting on the importance of the veil for women, responding to a situation where a group of young women in the church of Carthage, claiming that the status and virtue achieved by their renunciation freed them from social conventions (which insisted that women remain veiled in church), boldly took their positions in church with faces uncovered and head unveiled, Tertullian reiterates forcefully that there is great danger in such actions because

It relies on the wrong things: background, ancestry, denomination, position in church (elder), knowledge, amount of time you give or money you donate, maybe simply that you go to church.

Prophet is highest position in the churches / my job eval was high to excellent wen I left.

He is in a potion of authority though his position in the church and its members,.

This is a tricky one because many of the biblical passages associated with silence have been used for centuries to suppress women's voices and to keep women from assuming leadership positions in the church and society.

As to the place of women, the report says, «It would seem to many of us that biblically, theologically and pastorally there is no reason why women should be excluded from any position in the churches.

Lockhart's conversion, given his residence at Littlemore, made Newman's position in the Church of England virtually untenable, and provoked his famous sermon The Parting of Friends» which may be said to have marked the end of his Anglican ministry.

Pro-life evangelical women have long spoken up to advocate for women's positions in the church and society.

Many of them still find doors closed when they return to their home denominations for ordination or for leadership positions in churches.

It influenced some in high position in Church and State but within a few years was crushed by burnings and imprisonments.