Sentences with phrase «ruling elders»

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By 1788 they had approved the formation of a General Assembly to be composed of ministerial and ruling elders elected annually by the presbyteries.

Since last fall, the church says, «members of congregations elected to serve as ruling elders have come together to pray, discuss, and try to discern the mind of Christ» on the issue.

So one of the ruling elders read a sermon from a different pastor, because he couldn't preach.

When teaching and ruling elders come together in councils they do not leave behind their essential calling; they are still ordered ministers with responsibility for teaching the faith and for discerning faithfulness.

The church authorized the ordination of women as deacons in 1910, as ruling elders in 1930, and as ministers in 1956.

Presbyterians have a three-fold ordained ministry: deacons, ruling elders, and teaching elders (ministers).

At the core of their vocation, teaching elders are called to teach the faith and ruling elders are called to rule out, to measure out, fidelity to the gospel in the life of the church.

And the story of subsequent Jewish political development is to be traced, not primarily in the hierarchy of restored Palestinian Judaism and the arrogance of the House of Hasmon, but in the popular assembly with its ruling elders which continued, with local adaptations and variations, it is true, but in essential uniformity, right through the long centuries of the dispersion and into our own times.

But I had a profound Presbyterian childhood; my family provided generations of Ruling Elders, including the first woman Elder ever in the local church (my grandmother).

Peter J. Leithart is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.

The ruling elder performed many functions of an assistant pastor, though he could not administer the sacraments.

The officers were a pastor, a teacher, a ruling elder, and deacons.

If a minority went over, then Mr. Robinson should remain behind and Mr. Brewster, the ruling elder and assistant to the pastor, should go.

Timothy himself, presumably as a «ruling elder», can ordain (I Tim.

Not exact matches

An interesting correspondence on the punishment of Christians survives between Pliny the Elder (c.61 - l 13), who had been sent to reorganize the province of Bithynia, and the Emperor Trajan (c.53 - 117; ruled 98 - 117).

5:17 — «let the elders who rule well be considered worthy»

Then he moves to the issue of elders who rule well being worthy of double honor (which could imply financial remuneration).

you know... a list of rules about what not to talk about around Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, a set of behaviors to not do when in the presence of Pastor Jim, a personal interest to keep hidden from Elder Bob, and my political leanings to stay silent about around Miss Morrell.

The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.

Yudhisthira, as eldest, exercised rule and soon won the love of his subjects.

At the time of Hillel, an elder contemporary of Jesus of Nazareth, the negative form of the golden rule already must have been proverbial, perhaps because of Tobit 4:15.

By God's own teaching, his plan required that his creations, having free will, yet no appreciation of hardship or adversary, must, like all children do as they move from innocence to adulthood, think that they know better than there parents and elders and break seemingly arbitrary rules.

Simpson's daughter Arnelle, 48 - who is the eldest of his four children, told the board «we recognise that he is not the perfect man» but she said he has been «a perfect inmate, following all the rules and making the best of the situation».

When the new elders were installed to make up a ruling body of four men and four women the entire congregation was invited to reach toward the altar to share in the blessing.

The earliest rule by the elders of the community and the essentially democratic freedom inherited from nomad society would seem to imply a respect for inherited custom and some more or less crude sense of justice.

Here there are (1) an overseer or bishop, apparently an elder who «rules well» (I Tim.

However, due to a short - haul exemption, only one - third of Five Star's fleet will be required to begin logging by the December 2017 enforcement date set by the DOTs new ELD rule.

Mr Jackman said the introduction of the ESCAS rules had allowed bigger players, such as Elders, to grab a larger share of a shrinking market as smaller exporters could not afford the compliance costs.

The only change is that Francis Coquelin takes the place of Mathieu Flamini alongside Mohamed Elneny in the middle and the elder Frenchman picked up an injury that rules him out anyway.

We have also just re-established our rules (our kids are 6, 4 and 2): No screens before school No leappads during the week No technology at the dinning table No TV before homework (but the little ones get to watch it when hubby is working so I get 1:1 with my eldest to actually do homework) No screens at the weekend before bedrooms are tidy

I think that for Baby Bunchers, getting the elder child to pee in the potty or on the toilet needs its own rule book!

A member of the New Patriotic Party's Council of Elders Boniface Gambilla has revealed that the party's General Secretary Kwabena Agyepong will be the next to be expelled after party chairman Paul Afoko is suspended for breaching party rules.

The party elders said the Osun West Senatorial District was the only district that had not produced a governor since the return to democratic rule in 1999.

Hundreds of New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters in the Awutu Senya, including former regional and constituency executives as well as the council of elders, have defected to the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Number of issues Mr Afoko raised a number issues in the petition, which include Professor Mike Oquaye and Madam Ama Busia being members of the National Council of Elders of the NPP who sat and heard their own petition as a clear and egregious breach of the rules of natural justice and of the provisions of Article 4 (5)(b) the source pointed out.

«The President recalls the unique role of the elder statesman in the nation's return to civilian rule in 1999 and trusts that, as a tireless advocate for equity, he will be long remembered and honoured for his dedication to the advancement of his people, especially in the fields of education, social welfare and infrastructure.

Important families and a council of elders ruled, as in the south, and offered sacrifices to local and regional deities.

Many studies have shown that dominant individuals, from tribal elders to workplace bosses, are more likely to orchestrate laughter than their subordinates, using it as a means of wielding power either to bond their followers or to divide and rule.

Pisces rules hospitals, elder care, and addiction (hello, opioid crisis).

I believe you should live by the golden rule and respect your elders.

One has to learn the basic rules and tricks of playing the dating game with elder people and know how to impress them.

As a general rule, a younger woman should understand the likings of any elder man she wants to date with.

In order to save his life and destroy the forces of darkness, he must locate the third, called the «elder wand,» which Voldemart needs to rule the world.

The Grandmaster — who ruled over Sakaar — is an Elder of the Universe, making him hundreds of years old.

«The Great Killing» follows Shogunate Elder who sets out a plan to rule Japan by making the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun.

The Last of Us (which may be the quintessential action / adventure game) ruled 2013 and while RPGs got 2011 with Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the action / adventure genre snatched two wins in a row with Red Dead Redemption (2010) and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009).

Part of a notorious clan of outlaws led by his criminal father (Brendan Gleeson), Chad struggles to instill good values in his children, as the elder Cutler praises bad behaviour over good and lets brawn rather than brains rule the day.

A kind of puritan paradise, the village is ruled by a group of elders who carefully protect the «understanding» they have brokered with the beasts who live in the forest surrounding the town.

Mundane school rules have urgency at the GLC; students who don't maintain ordered lines might be in the way of an ambulance worker with a gurney or a frail elder with a walker.