Sentences with phrase «resign as pastor»

To caricature evangelicals, it highlights the rise and fall of Ted Haggard, who was forced to resign as pastor of New Life Church in Colorado after he confessed to a sex scandal.

If you are a pastor who struggles with power, one of the best ways to lead the people of your church may be to resign as pastor and invite them to follow Jesus Christ as the sole Head of the Church.

It is for this reason that if a pastor struggles with power, it might be best for him to resign as pastor.

None of this means, of course, that if you resign as pastor, you no longer need to seek the advice and counsel of others.

In fact, the decision to resign as pastor should probably be something you discuss with your board.

A lot of this can be accomplished simply by resigning as pastor as I have suggested in the previous posts.

If you do end up leaving, remember this: Resigning as pastor doesn't mean that you actually stop being a pastor.

Resigning as pastor may actually help you become a better pastor.

Doing so will not cause the desire for power to simply disappear, but instead, resigning as pastor hinders our ability to use our pastoral position in damaging and abusive ways.

By resigning as pastor, the temptation to leverage your position to increase your popularity and fame disappears, because the position is not there to leverage.

Though resigning as pastor will not automatically remove all these goals and desires, it does help divorce these dreams from the pastoral position.

Not exact matches

I am sure that there have been other pastors with doubts, who were smart enough to keep quiet and line up another job to support their family first before resigning as a church pastor!

But in a remarkably fast fall from grace, Driscoll resigned Tuesday as pastor of Mars Hill Church, a congregation he founded 18 years ago and turned into a force in the mostly secular Pacific Northwest.

I recently (within) the last year resigned from a vocational position (youth pastor) as I sensed God calling me to a new expression of «church».

Senior pastors who are resigning or retiring can encourage that possibility by advising church leaders to explore the names of ordained women as potential candidates for filling the positions.

I'm not sure if I should congratulate you or rebuke for resigning your position as Pastor.

After eight years serving as the associate pastor at my church, I resigned last week after admitting to secret struggles with alcohol.

After Orlando pastor David Loveless resigned from his Discovery Church in 2013 due to a past extramarital affair, the church stated: «While we believe [he] can be restored to Christian fellowship and productive Christian service, we do not believe he can serve as a pastor.»

Tchividjian resigned as senior pastor from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last June after admitting to an affair and consequently losing his ministry credentials.

I sometimes wish that rather than resign, I had simply taken a secular job in the community and remained on as pastor without taking a salary.

It's been eight months since he resigned as lead pastor of Mars Hill, describing himself as an «imperfect messenger» who has apologized for «past pride, anger and a domineering spirit.»

Tchividjian resigned as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale earlier this summer after admitting an extramarital affair.

Popular pastor and author Tullian Tchividjian has resigned as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.

Update (July 30): Less than six weeks after resigning as the senior pastor of a prominent Orlando - based church because of an affair, Tullian Tchividjian says he has no plans to withdraw from the public eye.

-LSB-...] church is losing a lot of good leaders... Naked Pastor is resigning as of April 25, 2010 from his Vineyard church.

Yes, my post from today shows that if the pastor resigns but stays on as pastor, the rest of the people must step up and do the ministry they were supposed to be doing all along.

Arizona megachurch pastor Les Hughey has officially resigned as senior pastor after several women

Arizona megachurch pastor Les Hughey has officially resigned as senior pastor after several women accused him of sexually abusing them decades ago as teenagers, when he served as their youth group pastor at Scottsdale Bible Church.

Robert A. Schuller has resigned as the Senior Pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Santa Ana, Calif..

Earlier this month, he announced he was resigning as senior pastor.

The founder of the Latter Rain Assembly and convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to resign as...