Sentences with phrase «preaching ministry of»

I refer especially to the preaching ministry of Graham's daughter, Anne Graham Lotz.

The stories about Jesus which are recorded in the gospels, had first been told and retold in the teaching and preaching ministry of the church.

Not exact matches

Jesus first word of his ministry was «Repent» if I'm not mistaken: Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

The best of what I am calling Pentecostal mysticism envisions a «worldly» ministry in which «the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news preached to them.»

It must come as something of a shock to many of these people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a ministry whose chief work is preaching, baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled, comforting the sick and bereaved.

Besides, who can deny that God has blessed the preaching and sacraments and ministry of evangelicals in Latin America, Africa, and China» contributing at least as much as Catholics to the conversion of sinners and building up the saints in holiness?

In Jesus» ministry, there were seasons of preaching and teaching to the big crowds, but there were also times of focused teaching just to the Twelve, to three or to one.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

Protestantism has often identified preaching with prophetic ministry and relegated the rest of worship to a priestly role, as if there were some distinction between these two aspects of ministry.

After a time in the wilderness, Jesus started a ministry, mostly around the lake of Galilee, preaching about God's kingdom and healing many who were ill.

And once this recognition is at the heart of our ministry, our preaching will become effectual — not that we are ever more than unworthy and «unprofitable» servants, but that God in Christ can and does use our unworthiness for his own great ends and makes even our imperfections to serve him.

He chooses four disciples to help in his expanding ministry and travels freely through all of Galilee, teaching, preaching and healing (4:18 - 23).

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

When a man is ordained to the sacred ministry in any of the Reformed churches — and this includes the Anglican Communion, which even the staunchest defenders of its «catholicity» must acknowledge is a «reformed» catholic communion — a form of words is used in which the centrality of the preaching office in that ministry is affirmed.

There are thousands of pastors, active in ministry, preaching every Sunday,...

There is room for each of these in our ministry, but none of these things is what is meant by preaching the gospel.

The material that the evangelists use had already been shaped by the preaching and teaching ministry of the church.

Confusion of the preaching office of the ministry with the work of the pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in teaching.

For one whose whole ministry has been spent theological teaching it may seem presumptuous to speak on the subject of preaching.

The ministry of the church encompasses a variety of things such as worship, preaching, teaching, administering programs, and prophetic witness.

She answered her call to ministry at the age of 15, and has been preaching, teaching and pastoring in the local church ever since.

Go back and re-read Theo's post where he said, «Our ministry to our fellow man,... must never be divorced from the preaching of the gospel, or all we are doing is making this world a better place to go to hell from.»

It means sending checks now and then, making thanksgiving baskets once a year, preaching about justice, and launching new ministries — all while sitting comfortably at the head of a tiny table, dropping scraps of our abundance to the floor.

Now, I believe in the teaching ministry of the church, I usually preach 3 - 4 times a month, but the research tells us that groups are the most effective tool a church has, and they still are not committed to it.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept science, avoid aligning with a single political party, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc. but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

Participate occasionally in the preaching ministry, the leadership of public worship, ministering to the hospitalized, and speaking to church groups.

If I had to preach for the rest of my life within the box that is the seminary sermon, I would quit the ministry.

I will gladly stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ and answer for why I refused to pay the preacher, but I will first explain, as Jesus already knows, that before I refused to pay the preacher, I myself resigned from full - time ministry so that no one would have to pay me to preach.

All the while mind you, preaching do God's will, and that the local church is dominant above all other ministries regarding tithes and offering and everything else, and nothing should be done without your local church being a part of it.

I had the privilege of preaching at the ordination of a friend to the ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the small Protestant denomination to which I belong.

Like preaching and other functions of ministry, it must of course develop suitable methods and alter them according to circumstance.

In spite of the emphasis placed by the Protestant Reformers especially Calvin, upon the function of teaching, no image of the ministry as teaching — apart from preaching — has come down to us from that age.

When we look at the combined elements of this image, I contend that we are viewing the essence of ministry as administering in exactly the sense that the image of open - Bible — pulpit — preacher gave us the image of preaching.

The true preaching image of ministry is not.

The few people I know who attend mega churches here in San Diego tell me that they go because: 1) They like the their pastor's preaching (Most of those pastors have radio ministries) 2) They like the other high class guest speakers 3) They like the bookstores, cafes and so on the church has 4) They can blend into the crowd

Even though our account has not yet set forth the image of pastoral care, we can still make a preliminary appraisal of the preaching image to see whether, as is often charged, it is in opposition to the ministry of pastoral care.

The most serious, troublesome, and subversive distortions of the ministry in Protestantism have come, however, from literalizing some single aspect of the preaching image and ignoring the indispensability of all the parts and the subtlety of their symbolic interrelationships.

Thus, the real box score of the act of ministry symbolized by the preaching image is not back there at all, but is rather in the appraisal of the remote and mundane hydrolysis the next week.

They stressed communicating the message of the Bible; and while they spoke of this procedure as both preaching and teaching, it was preaching that was unique to the ministry.

To take any one of the basic elements of the preaching image of the ministry, therefore, as exclusive, or to lift it out of context of the whole, produces pathology; and hardly anything that can be imagined has failed to happen in actual life.

Like every other image of ministry that will come before us for serious inspection, the preaching image emphasizes some things and neglects others.

Admittedly, all of this might seem impossibly esoteric, but it has everything to do with what is preached from thousands of pulpits and taught to those who will bear the ministry of the churches in the years ahead.

And Paul does address the issues of driving out demons through the examples of his ministry (he was once imprisoned for casting a devil out of a young girl) and by preaching truth where these spirits have planted deception.

Jerusalem and Benares represent what are probably the two sharpest alternatives in the religious history of mankind» the city in which the Ark of the Covenant was set down, in which Jesus ended his earthly ministry, and from which Muhammad ascended to heaven» and that other city, where a thousand gods descend into the river at dawn and near which the Buddha preached his first sermon announcing liberation to all sentient beings.

The longer I stay in ministry, the more grateful I am for the example of powerfully wise women who lead, counsel, advise, preach — and sometimes just sit in silence.

No wonder the atheist movement is growing... all of the scandals over let's say just the last 30 years... from all the child molesting that is rampant to mega church ministries and their ministers personal wealth and property... (why don't they live modestly and give all their money to those in need as they preach).

In his work the pastoral director carries on all the traditional functions of the ministry — preaching, leading the worshipping community, administering the sacraments, caring for souls, presiding over the church.

This book aims at applying some insights from pastoral psychology to the major dimensions of a church's program — worship, preaching, the prophetic ministry, the church school, the group life, the family - life program, administration and evangelism — as a way of mining this ore.

These Separatists would allow preaching only by a converted ministry, and demanded that a congregation be composed only of known saints.

In those periods when clear - cut ideas of the ministry prevailed pastors and people were relatively agreed on the acceptable answer to the question: By what authority do you do these things, i.e., preach, care for souls, preside over the church and administer the sacraments?