Sentences with phrase «spiritual leader of this congregation»

I'm the spiritual leader of this congregation.

Very few Protestant pastors ordained in the last thirty years have been educated to think of themselves as the spiritual leaders of a congregation.

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Currently the spiritual leader of Beth Messiah Congregation in Rockville, Maryland, he is president of the Union of Messianic Congregations, a new federation of 24 congregations (there are over 30 in the United StatesCongregations, a new federation of 24 congregations (there are over 30 in the United Statescongregations (there are over 30 in the United States and Canada).

Since we become Christian as we participate in the life of a congregation, the way church leaders order the life and worship of a congregation is crucial to the spiritual well - being of all members of a congregation.

Until pastors become aware of the ways in which the dualisms of the Victorian family ethos have been institutionalized in the church, confusion about their own role as spiritual leaders in a congregation will continue.

A pastor who is not aware of his or her own spiritual weakness and destructive self - images will not be an effective leader of a congregation.

But to listen to Andrew Sparks, the spiritual leader of Avodat and an ordained PCUSA minister, the denomination has acted with unprecedented faithfulness in supporting his congregation.

A lay leader of a congregation where worship is the spiritual center of the life of the congregation — like the hub of a wheel — reported that her pastor's gifts in worship leadership and preaching are «unequaled.»

Martine and Philippa, the spiritual leaders of the little congregation, never marry, for «earthly love, and marriage with it, were trivial matters, in themselves nothing but illusions.»

With a congregation of 22 million viewers, Oprah Winfrey has become one of the most influential spiritual leaders in America.

The film opens with Rav Krushka, the beloved leader of an Orthodox Jewish congregation in London, delivering a sermon about the tricky place human beings occupy in the world, torn between the forces of spiritual good and darkness, but provided by HaShem (God) with free will — i.e., «the power to disobey.»