Sentences with phrase «power than ministry»
Many of the people that have latched onto the Christian Coalition and the Moral Majority are more in love with being the power behind the power than ministry.
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These papal priorities, implicitly or explicitly, strike a contrast with Kirill, whose nationalistic - ecclesial ideology of the «Russian World» bolsters Putin's military aggression, whose ministry has been more than susceptible to the power politics of deep church - state entanglement.
The reality and the power of our call to ministry are more immediate than that: we should care for them not because they «are Christ» but because they are human, and because they need us.
This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.
Narrative ministry, so to speak, finds no more receptive audience than a group of young people, particularly a group of high - powered, pressured children and adolescents who have not frequently experienced the joy and luxury of having stories told to them.
What is effective in any ministry is far more a power accumulated through centuries of experience than anything which we exercise as individuals.
Let us compare that with capital releases to the same ministries in 2017, when oil price was between $ 50 and $ 60 a barrel, N415bn for power, works and housing, N80bn for transportation; N65bn for agriculture; totalling N560bn, at a time when we were earning at least 50 per cent less than we were earning in 2014.»
Excerpt follows: ----------- Reuters, 5 May 2009 — China is set to smash its target for a roll - out of solar power by 2020 more than fivefold and possibly even tenfold, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission, the economic planning ministry, said on Tuesday.