Sentences with phrase «thinking about a mission»

«Early on in my thinking about our mission, I traveled to India and was inspired by the humanity, spirit and values of the people.

Judicatories should also establish groups to think about the mission of those levels of church life and how they can be fulfilled.

, forms part of CMS's major new «Mission Is» campaign, and aims to stimulate people's thinking about mission and broaden their perspective of the reality of mission in the 21st century.

Immigration is changing how churches think about mission and outreach in North America, and rightly so.

And, although he suggests several ways in which Gloria and her World Outreach Task Force might go about thinking about mission and developing a definition for their church, he does not elaborate a procedure or framework for actually doing it.

Surely Palm Sunday is to be the controlling image for our thinking about the mission of the church and the task of ministry today.

When did you start thinking about a mission to find planets around other stars?

She had me thinking about a mission statement for my blog and while I don't have one yet I would love to know your opinion as to what you like about my blog or what you think should be included in my mission statement?

I've been trying to think about my Mission Statement... I need one!

Over to you: what do you think about my mission to buy ethical fashion?

Through case discussions interactive activities, teambuilding exercises, and small group work, the institute facilitates thinking about the mission of education in the context of the participants» schools.

Not exact matches

«Think about how you, as a business owner, want to impact the world,» said Darn Good Yarn's Snow, who has made it her mission to create opportunities for other people and small businesses within her supply chain.

Every time he went to pay for something, the photo would jolt him back to his mission, and make him think twice about the expenditure.

«I went and I met with Steve Jobs,» says Zuckerberg, «and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be.»

If there's something insane about a CEO who thinks his company's mission is more important than any accomplishment in all of human history — indeed, in all of fish history — there's also something irresistible.

Elon Musk, founder and CEO, SpaceX and Tesla — Referencing Musk's mission to build conditions for a viable colony on Mars, Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, says Musk «is one of the few people not only thinking about the survival of our civilization but also doing something about it.»

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

As Bernstein puts it: «Our mission is to transform customers into digital users without fundamentally changing the way they think about and use pictures.»

In Facebook's year - end earnings call, held Wednesday night, Zuckerberg closed his prepared remarks with some high - minded mission talk about how his newborn daughter has made him think about the legacy his company will leave to the next generation.

It's not hard to get started, as any thinking about a personal mission is better than none at all, which is what far too many entrepreneurs do.

Thinking clearly and definitively about a personal mission will help the leader become better entrepreneur and a better person.

The mission of PRME is to transform management education, research and thought leadership globally by providing a framework, developing learning communities and promoting awareness about the SDGs.

I think I just care about people and I have a mission to support them to succeed.

If you own a business, or are thinking about starting one, you may be considering incorporating a social mission into your company.

Completing one or both assessments entitles you to 15 minutes on the phone (or Skype, etc.) with Shel, to interpret your results and help you think about the kinds of transformative and / or green products and services that match your existing capabilities, skills, and mission.

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When we thought about what we do and the mission that we're on, it was certainly about growing our business, but it was also about the hundreds of thousands of families that rely on our business in what they do,» said ARO ® Global Marketing Leader Liz Cope.

This got me thinking about my earlier post related to Money, Missions, and Ministry.

But recognizing that Germany is mission territory is the beginning of any serious analysis of a grave situation, and any serious thinking about how it might be addressed.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

To answer this question we have to think about the importance of considering the relationship between communication and mission.

In this line of thought it is worth pointing out that Discussion about mission has raised a question about the very nature of the church.

If the Roman Catholic church ceased to profess faith in Christ and his mission what we will get would be the scolding Peter got when he began to think about ruining God's plan (the passion) «Get behind me Satan!

A survey that William McKinney and I recently conducted invited 1,500 conservative and mainline Protestant denominational leaders to choose from a list of 63 contemporary religious leaders and authors the ten who have had «the greatest impact on your thinking about the church's life and mission today.»

Forty - five years later, with so many mainstream Protestants apathetic or uncertain about the meaning of «foreign missions,» it is hard to re-create a climate in which missionary thought played such a vivid role.

I have talked about this before, but I think it bears repeating, if for no other reason than to encourage us in our shared mission once again.

So I'm just wondering where you would start when thinking about creating kind of a mission statement or vision.

When I am urged to pray about a church building project, or when I'm told that God has intervened and made funds available for a vacation or an exotic mission trip, I think about the little boy in India who begged me to pray for his mother, who died of AIDS a few days later.

He concluded his statement by saying, «I think, I shall give my vote for integration with sadness of heart and the deepest misgivings because I can not see clearly that it is the leading of the Holy Spirit».37 F. Berkeli (formerly the mission secretary of the Lutheran World Federation) of Norway agreed with Max Warren and voiced the same apprehension about the administrative unity of the two councils.

These affinities grew out of a common desire to get beyond «liberal» and «conservative» ways of thinking about scripture, mission and theology.

The kid is right in a way Religion is a way to enslave people to the thinking of that particular religion Jesus didn't come to form religion but to give us a way to get to Heaven through him The only mission of a church is to teach you about God's love to help the poor to love one another to do things that Christ would do There is a penalty for not being saved by the blood of Jesus There will be a separation from God for all eternity God made us for one reason to love Him the Creator of all The meaning of life

I infer from Kevin Martin's questions about papal power that he thinks that Dostoevsky would have balked at John Paul's anti «Communist mission, even though Russian Orthodoxy was among its major beneficiaries, because papal realpolitik is un «Christian and should never be enlisted even in the cause of Christ's Kingdom, which is not of this world.

Remember, while Jonah is about missions, it is not the main focus of the story, nor is it about missions in the way that most of us think.

While Jonah is about going on a mission, it is not the main focus of the story, nor is it about missions in the way that most people think.

Missionaries often talk about Jonah, and so we think that Jonah is a book about missions.

They are on a mission to challenge how people think about God and Jesus — even if it ruffles some theological feathers along the way — so they can truly experience who He is.

«Our mission is to promote critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today.»

I hope that many of you who are interested in the missional conversation, or just interested in missiology in general, will take the time to move beyond «missional» as a cliché or buzzword and think deeply about God's mission and missiology in general.

plans while in school, if parents are lucky enough to be employed and insured, I'd think long and hard about a school that thinks this behavior is in keeping with a Christian mission.

This new configuration challenges the basic ways Catholics have thought about themselves and articulated their mission.