Sentences with phrase «spiritual authority and power»

In a statement to Premier, the Diocese of Oxford said: «Abuse of spiritual authority and power falls far short of the obligations and duties of those in Holy Orders.

Not exact matches

«It disregarded the role of the spiritual authorities and of all those intermediate social forces which enframe, protect, and control the life of man» and which thereby check the growth of Power.

While there is a certain amount of authority inherent within the pastoral position, it is, like any other form of power, easy to abuse, and while pastors are spiritual leaders, this does not make us immune to the lust for power, but to the contrary, often seems to amplify it.

We are fighting against forces and authorities and against rulers of darkness and powers in the spiritual world.

Adnama Satan uses external circumstances to direct our steps he knows that if we walk according to the flesh we come under his authority for the flesh is weak and he manipulates by keeping christians in bondage to sin through lust or whatever sin the christian is weak in.He can also fire into our minds evil thoughts to make us feel condemned or guilty these are fiery darts they are not ours and we need to stand on the word to rebuke them by faith.If we have given our lives to Christ then we belong to Christ so if we walk in accordance to the spirit the enemy has not power to effect us either internally or externally that is not to say that he can not manipulate situations and circumstances to his advantage that is why we need to be alert and pray against the work that he does we are in a spiritual battle but we have overcome in Christ so fear not brentnz

Paul reminds us that «our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm» (Ephesians 6:12).

«Let us not forget,» wrote Nietzsche, «in the end what a Church is, and especially in contrast to every «state»: a Church is above all an authoritative organization which secures to the most spiritual men the highest rank, and believes in the power of spirituality so far as to forbid all grosser appliances of authority.

You have authority in the spiritual realm over all the powers of darkness, in Jesus» Name, including fear, worry, anxiety, and dread!

We can become disoriented because we have no settled place of authority and power, with all the accompanying benefits, financial, social, emotional, and spiritual.

And their enemies are not blood and flesh, but rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, spiritual forces of wickedneAnd their enemies are not blood and flesh, but rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, spiritual forces of wickedneand flesh, but rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, spiritual forces of wickedness.

For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

I prefer Von Campenhausen's scholarly Ecclesiastical Authority and Spiritual Power, which comes to some similar conclusions about the post-apostolic early church.)

And such subordination requires explicit, institutional recognition of the truth of the faith and the authority of the spiritual power, precisely because we are dealing here with the subordination of one common good to anothAnd such subordination requires explicit, institutional recognition of the truth of the faith and the authority of the spiritual power, precisely because we are dealing here with the subordination of one common good to anothand the authority of the spiritual power, precisely because we are dealing here with the subordination of one common good to another.

This is a clear indication that the spiritual power and authority of Christian educators — usually women — is subordinate to the spiritual power and authority of pastors — usually men.

Yet indirectly, the stand they took in placing the authority of God above all human powers was to bring upon them the persecutions under Nero and Domitian, and precipitate the mood of spiritual confidence in defiance of earthly «principalities and powers» that is reflected in the book of Revelation and elsewhere.

The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church by David Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen

In order to convince the confused and alienated masses, we must be able to demonstrate that Catholic social thought treads the middle path between theocracy — the ambition of strict Islamist ideology — where the spiritual authorities simply subsume the powers of the State, and the atheist secularist agenda, which eventually leads to the State assuming God - like powers, yet without the compassion and respect for human freedom that is characteristic of the true God of Love.

Definitions Exousia: (Strong's Greek - Bible Hub.com)(a) power, authority, weight, especially: moral authority, influence, (b) in a quasi-personal sense, derived from later Judaism, of a spiritual power, and hence of an earthly power.

I would like to recommend the following book: The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church by David Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen

[For more on this, check out The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse: Recognizing and Escaping Spiritual Manipulation and False Spiritual Authority Within the Church by David Johnson and Jeff VanVonderen, and Is It My Fault?