Sentences with phrase «presides over a church»

Since the days described in the New Testament Christian ministers have preached and taught; they have led worship and administered sacraments; they have presided over the church and exercised oversight over its work; they have given pastoral care to individuals in need.

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.

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?

The priest also teaches and preaches; he governs and cures souls; he presides over the church; but above all he offers the, sacrifice of Christ in the Eucharist and is the minister of those sacraments «through which the grace of the Savior flows for the good of mankind.»

Charlemagne had modeled his empire on Rome, and that included imperial control of the priesthood, but the Hildebrandine Revolution secured the right to appoint bishops, preside over church councils, etc..

He now presides over a church that officials say caters to a population that is roughly 60 % Catholic, though only a fraction attends church services.

Finally, Galilee — or Deccapolis — was the home of Jesus» family after the destruction of Jerusalem; and accordingly, so Lohmeyer assumes, his brethren carried on missionary work there for some time, although later on we find James residing in Jerusalem and presiding over the church in Judea.

The agent of revelation, sometimes an angel and sometimes the pre-existent Church, tells Hermas to transmit the content of the visions to two leaders of the Roman church (one named Clement) and to read it himself with «the elders who preside over the church».

The Archbishop who presides over a church membership of over 100,000 said the exposure to an unsustainable lifestyle, forces the politician to «do everything to maintain that lifestyle».

Pastor Glenn is a longtime Lakewood resident who presides over a church in Howell that serves primarily African - American congregants.

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The actual RC church would be reduced to an apathetic cluster in W. Europe + a smattering across the US, and we would probably see another pope elected to preside over the rest, something that hasn't been seen since the «Babylonian Captivity» of the Avignon Popes.

Polygamist husbands in the FLDS & fundamentalist Mormon communities don't earn enough to support their wives and children: many husbands do not work at all, but merely preside over the family and conduct Church business.

The Latin tradition claimed with increasing emphasis, not to say stridency, that, presiding over the pastoral and prophetic ministry of the Church's bishops, is an «office of Peter» which is vested for all time in the bishops of Rome.

This church had radio broadcasts and missionaries all over the world due to the minister that was presiding.

Some of these set up camp at the Institut Saint - Serge in Paris, a seminary for Russian 6migr ~ s presided over for a time by Sergei Bulgakov, who along with Vladimir Lossky was one of the beloved leaders and theologians of the Orthodox church of his generation.

Presiding over considerably secularized societies, remnants of these state churches, veritable «mini-Christendoms,» have endured until the present.

Presiding over the event will be a mutilated Christ statue rescued from a bombed - out church 15 years ago - perhaps the most powerful reminder of the senseless political violence that left more than 250,000 people dead and millions displaced.

With the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding over Friday's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and with William in line to become supreme head of the Church of England, the royal nuptials will be steeped in religion.

For example, Riley, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Minneapolis, presided over a collection of schools that furnished so many pastors for that region that he was able to engineer a temporary takeover of Minnesota's Baptist organization.

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

The current «non-teaching Church», presiding over its own decline, seems to have continued oblivious of all this outstanding catechesis.

There the balding, self - effacing personage of Pastor Chuck Smith (himself raised in Aimee Semple McPherson's International Church of the Foursquare Gospel) presided over the transformation of his small, independent church into a magnet for Orange County's hippies, beach bums and teenChurch of the Foursquare Gospel) presided over the transformation of his small, independent church into a magnet for Orange County's hippies, beach bums and teenchurch into a magnet for Orange County's hippies, beach bums and teenagers.

Says Talmage: «By divine direction, a president is appointed from among the members of the High Priesthood to preside over the entire church....

He presided over the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Hammond, Louisiana.

The six decades during which she has straddled the roles both of head of state and of Supreme Governor of the Church of England have witnessed such societal change that it is almost as if her detractors are waiting patiently for her to leave the stage, before redeveloping the constitution over which the Queen presides.

He soon became one of the elders in the rapidly growing Jerusalem church, and when we come to Acts 15, we read that he presided over the Jerusalem council.

Among those that oppose the beliefs, which is part of the church's official doctrine in their «Book of Discipline», is Rev. Thomas Ogletree, the former dean of Yale Divinity School and Drew Theological School, who recently presided over the wedding of his gay son.

Budapest has not one but two splendid Protestant churches, and one of them, in the center of Budapest, the «Calvinist» church, presides over what is plainly marked by a street sign as «Calvin Square.»

The 50 year old presided over a national service to mark 20 years since women's ordination in the Church of England.

Resisting the power of the church and guarding the secret history of the grail over the years has been a secret society, the Priory of Sion, presided over by a committee of sénéchaux (grand masters).

The Wall Street Journal announced that the pope's presiding over twenty weddings at St. Peter's on Sunday indicates his desire for a more «open and inclusive church.»

Democratizing knowledge in the community is a threat to all of us who preside over the establishment, for we have long known that knowledge, even in the church, is power.

His immediate successor, Pope Paul VI, presided over the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, which gave to the Church many profound teachings on the importance of the family.

His brother, John, lived half a century more in order to write his Gospel and preside as bishop over the church in Ephesus.

It is clear that each of these churches had a body of elders and a corps of deacons; but presiding over both and over the congregation as a whole is the bishop.

The presiding Pastor of Light of Grace Church, Mr Osara, has been arrested alongside his wife for brutalizing her junior brother's wife, Charles Eunice, mother of three over house rent fee in Owode Ibese area of Ikorodu Lagos.

Nyamekye will preside over the affairs of the Church with over 2.5 million members in Ghana and over 3 million members worldwide in the next five years.

The empty eulogy becomes an epigraph for a defiant anti-establishment rebellion fallen into decadence and anarchy and Heavenly Blues proceeds to preside over the desecration of a church and the systematic trampling of every boundary of decency that Corman could push past censors in 1966.

Set in upstate New York, Toller (Hawke) is a man of God presiding over a small historical church known mostly as a gift shop.

In 1968, Kusama presided over the happening Homosexual Wedding at the Church of Self - obliteration at 33 Walker Street in New York and performed alongside Fleetwood Mac and Country Joe and the Fish at the Fillmore East in New York City.

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