Sentences with phrase «responsibilities as the pastor»

He does not function or have the same responsibilities as the pastor of a church or temple.

But the church needs its Marthas as much as it does its Marys, and Van Slaag's detachment is an abnegation of his responsibilities as pastor.

But as pope he has the responsibility as a pastor to teach all of us, believer and nonbeliever, that when we make a mistake, it is best to admit it promptly.

The preacher begins with the text as would any member of his congregation, asking the immediate and spontaneous questions, as in the paragraph above, but now his responsibility as pastor - teacher - preacher demands exegetical work, careful and honest.

Not exact matches

The key concept here is that the bishop of Rome, as the first in the ecclesiastical «taxis», the order of the local churches and their pastors, has a responsibility for ensuring the harmonious functioning of that taxis as a whole.

As blogging and Facebooking become more and more the norm, what, if any, responsibilities rest with both clergy and lay people in the transmission of their ideas?How do you respond when your pastor holds a position with which you don't agree?

Last January, LifeWay Research found that Protestant congregations in America were twice as likely to fear refugees as help them, though senior pastors overwhelmingly believed that «Christians have a responsibility to care sacrificially for refugees and foreigners.»

Which takes me back to my conversation with the pastor who clearly did not see «my people» nor «our struggles» as something he was either empathetic toward, or felt responsibility to help resolve,.

Elder / Pastor / Overseer as laid out in 1 Timothy and 1 Peter lay it out what a responsibility it is, not to be taken lightly, not under compulsion either.

It reminds me, as a person entrusted with the responsibility and care of a community of people, that I must continually hold myself up to severe scrutiny in order to be a good pastor.

Just prior to my arrival as pastor, the governing board of the church I serve voted to «differentiate spiritual responsibilities from administrative responsibilities.»

Now, as a pastor, it is my responsibility to be about the business of making disciples.

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 hePastor'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 hepastor's wife isn't usually on the church payroll and often has a job and responsibilities of her own.

(16) Many pastors remain in trouble, or are at least ineffectual in their preaching because as keepers of the store they assume sole responsibility for choosing and displaying the people's metaphorical stock.

As a Pastor I think that we have a responsibility to speak against those things that are in contradiction to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

The work of a pastor can be described as responsibility for Word, Order, and Sacrament in the life of a congregation.

This does not mean that it is the preacher's responsibility to hand down a more or less authoritative interpretation for them, but as pastor - preacher he will lead them into the experience of hearing the message of Scripture for their situations.

We shall say more about the significance of the Church as a saving community in the last chapter; but here we concentrate on the pastors responsibility when a person comes to him for guidance.

I Timothy 5:8 is a favorite of anti-SAHD pastors to toss out and use as biblical justification for why men MUST be the breadwinner and leave the responsibilities of full time child - rearing and running a household to their wives.

The idea that bishops are pastors who have a responsibility for the soul welfare also of politicians, the idea that bishops are to help also politicians to form their consciences in accord with their professed beliefs» such ideas are dismissed as a pious guise for partisan power plays.

The bishops don't have this problem; it's time that they took some responsibility for their people, as they are supposed to be pastors, or shepherds of them, and they are supposed to serve them, towel in hand.

«Members of growing congregations perceive their pastors as having more responsibility for church growth and as more able to handle conflict positively and to develop a spirit of unity in the congregation.»

Beginning with a definition of the Christian idea of responsibility they proceed to examine the erroneous or heretical forms of church responsibility and conclude with an effort to understand the positive content of the Church's social obligation by considering its functions as apostle, pastor and pioneer of humanity.

One of the problems, to be sure, was that the disciplinary procedures of the church were badly confused, but, as Baxter pointed out, there was sufficient opportunity for the pastor to discharge this responsibility if he so desired.