Sentences with phrase «spiritual authority in the church»

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But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in suburban Atlanta, was accused by four young men in September of using his spiritual authority to coerce them into sexual relationships.

Lawsuits filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male members and employees of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church into sex.

Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

But the Church, in ministering to their spiritual and physical needs, must not become complicit in their criminality, undermining the moral authority of our country's immigration laws.

In that custodial role a handful of Greek bishops continue to exercise authority over a community almost entirely Arab Orthodox in membership (today numbering about 40,000 in Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.&raquIn that custodial role a handful of Greek bishops continue to exercise authority over a community almost entirely Arab Orthodox in membership (today numbering about 40,000 in Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.&raquin membership (today numbering about 40,000 in Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.&raquin Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.&raquin Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.»

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

While different from the role practiced in the local church, it is essentially a recognition of spiritual authority based on relational and proven experience as opposed to positional leadership.

You might argue that they failed to follow God well, or even that they deliberately forwarded their own agendas in the name of God, but I don't see how they «excommunicated Christ», they did not lead their people saying that their spiritual authorities (the Church) would no longer be advising their governing authorities (the State)-- quite the opposite.

«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.

Putting all their faith in church (or mosque or temple) authorities rather than in the one true spiritual Authority more often than not leads to atrocities, abuses and excesses.

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

By liberal Protestantism we mean those churches which stress the historical approach to the Bible and hence its spiritual rather than literal inspiration, and find the source of Christian authority not in any creedal statement but in God's total and progressive revelation of himself in nature, history, human experience, and supremely in Jesus Christ.

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

In Peter Jesus bestowed upon the whole Church the spiritual reconciliatory authority to bind and loose sinners.

Nonetheless, the lay faithful, always in unison with the clergy and never separated from them, do exercise a real spiritual authority which forms anintegral part of the Church's reconciliatory mission.

If we hold, as I believe we must, that authority in the Christian Church is finally personal and spiritual, the reason lies here in the mode of God's self - revelation.

V. 38 Paul states that if one doesn't acknowledge his teaching as authoritative, then that person should be considered as one having no authority to speak on spiritual things (he has in mind false teachers or church rebels who would oppose his teaching).

William of Occam recognized the authority of the Church in spiritual matters and said that, although they can not be proved, such tenets of Christianity as the existence of God and the immortality of the soul must be believed because they are taught by the Church and the Bible.