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.
Not exact matches
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 States
Congregations, a new federation
of 24
congregations (there are over 30 in the United States
congregations (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.»