Sentences with phrase «something as a ministry»

Doing something as a ministry, then asking people to financially support it just annoys me.

Not exact matches

If (and when) I believed that, I doubt I could have accepted having someone in ministry in my congregation that I believed was living a lie, accepting something sinful as a central part of their lives and identity.

Collapsing the Practical into the Principle One possible response to declining relevance is the insistence that my ministry forms offer something better, even as their fruitfulness erodes.

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.

If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient experiences; is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative experience for the patient.

But if these similes are dominical, they tell us something quite startling about Jesus» understanding of his ministry: they tell us that Jesus regarded his ministry as marking a new point of departure quite incompatible with the existing categories of Judaism.

In any case, there is no doubt of the force and point of these similes: something new and different in the ministry of Jesus marks that ministry as bursting the bounds of late Judaism.

Church members and older pastors think of youth ministry as «entry - level» work, which only encourages younger clergy to climb the ladder toward something worth their time.

A decade later, we might well ask ourselves whether what we are experiencing today is a spiritual awakening, or something better described as a numerical multiplication of evangelicals due to the success of conservative churches and parachurch evangelism ministries.

A congregation that is able to see its ministries as service to God probably has a pastor who has helped people to recognize that why they do something is as important as what they do.

You mentioned at one point that you lost your «job» because of changes in your viewpoint — I would be interested in hearing more of that, as both myself and a number of my close acquaintances suffered something similar in our ministries over changes in our eschatological perspectives.

Sister Sara Dwyer, coordinator of the congregation's justice, peace and integrity of creation ministry said: «This is something that we felt as a matter of conscience.

But as I read the comments I realized something — there is really a problem with the way people envision pastoral ministry.

There is something about this ministry that can not be captured even by professionals, which is why, I suspect, Paul refers to it elsewhere as a «secret.»

The eschatological tension of this situation, constituted essentially as the denouement of a ministry of suffering love, implies for ministry something other than mere encouragement to persons who are suffering.

Something approaching missionary zeal for the rural ministry has developed in this century as an increasing number of young men have decided to devote themselves to it.

Later I will have something to say about other parts of the congregation's ministry, such as preparation and delivery of the church's preaching.

If «ministry» narrowly defined is «word and sacrament ministry», the thing the church is specifically called to do, as opposed to all other service, which we also provide in our secular callings of all kinds, then we have narrowed it down to something.

Please make sure it is unique (i.e it is not something you've copied and pasted all over the internet on dozens of websites to promote a product or some promotion as this will damage our free ministry for single Christians).

If you are in ministry, or a parent, or work with kids in any way, I have a feeling you will find something helpful as you look around and read.