Sentences with phrase «thing about ministry»

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He made his life about ministry and spreading the good news because I think he saw and experienced so much and may have done some things himself that didn't sit right in his heart.

The very things that the world disdains about us can become our greatest ministry to one another, make us precious to the ones who love us, or become our altar for meeting God.

Thanks for the kind things you have said about the ministry of Calvary Chapel, in the last [part] you mention Calvary as my ministry.

It is about the big things: Inviting people to church but loving them just the same if they say «no,» actually making it a priority to participate and serve in the ministries of the church, financially investing in the mission of the local church and yielding to God's direction of my life over my own ideas of how this life should go.

I was fired by a ministry organization for reading about things that the founder of the organization didn't think I should be reading.

It is He that is teaching us things about life, ministry, and caring for others that probably could not have been learned any other way.

But look, here's the thing about pastoral ministry... it gives a man (or a small group of men) a whole bunch of power they should never be given.

After all his ministry was all about helping the poor, and if I'm not mistaken he had some very specific things to say about moneylending which does not bode well for 99.9 % of America, assuming you subscribe to their mythology.

I heard some people talk about a service opportunity in a low - income apartment complex, and a few other things, but ultimately, their ministry seems to be loving each other.

When you start out at seminary with an eye toward entering the ministry, the first thing they want to know about you is not whether you believe in God, or pray, or go to church.

Maybe you have some preconceived idea about how all church ministries should function, and then someone comes along and does things differently, and you find yourself thinking, «That's not ministry.

I heard some people talk about a service opportunity in a low - income apartment complex, and a few other things, but ultimately, their ministry seems to be each other.

Only when things are truly up - front will we even be able to make an informed decision about whether the ministry is something we would want to engage in.

Even I, although I have argued throughout this chapter for understanding the ministry basically from a monoepiscopal point of view, have sometimes been nostalgic about the first century, where everybody seemed so keen and enthusiastic (literally filled with God) that things got done and «offices» were not established.

Father Thomas Reese, S.J., who recently resigned as editor of America, a Jesuit weekly — or was removed, depending on which account one credits (see First Things August / September 2005)-- complains, «The Vatican is making decisions about the appropriateness of ordaining homosexuals in total ignorance of how many current priests are homosexuals, how well they observe celibacy, and how well they do ministry.»

It may not be what «the new» mantra for «church» is, but going back to ministry after being away for a time has shown me that to the many that are disenfranchised the «new» way or the pie in the sky of what the church should be... is ending up with a lack of loyalty to the cause, a lack of accountability to leaders — move on if you don't like this or that, complain about whatever and never really commit to the hard things.

One of the striking things about this period is the extent to which the Protestant ministry has reflected new cultural patterns and ideals.

One could suggest that the question of life style in the ministry, so troubling to many of our judicatories — differing understandings of what is acceptable, whether we are talking about things to eat and drink, or clothing, sexuality or divorce — expresses this tension in a most dramatic way.

So, what about them teaching other things, or being involved in ministry work, totally unrelated to them living together?

This would come, in effect, to the same thing as the interpretation offered by Colpe; the reference would be to a future in which the message and ministry of Jesus is vindicated, without saying anything specific about the form of that future, or about the time element involved except that it is future.

Catholics have not used the language of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates often try to settle things by going back to biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.

If I were the minister, I would rather have been all over the place talking about how bad things were and how long it would take to fix them and ask people to bear with me and make sacrifices and demonstrate the sacrifices that the government too was making by asking every ministry to turn off appliances at certain times, etc..

He's been caged; things are going on in his ministry that he did not know about.»

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That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry.

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One of my favorite things about family ministry is getting to work with my family!

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