Sentences with phrase «use by pastors»

The author examines the changing roles of men and, particularly, of women in the church, and suggests counseling techniques for use by pastors and counselors.

In order to appropriately assign the blame for the state of the «church» we must see - through the clever psychological side - step that's been used by pastors and clergy for centuries to deflect their personal responsibility for the sad state of affairs within Chrisendom.

So 1 Corinthians 9 can not be used by pastors to defend the practice of receiving a salary.

The «suggestions for newcomers» in an Al - Anon brochure can be used by the pastor with families of alcoholics.

Not exact matches

By Vivienne Foley, CNN New York (CNN)- Pastors and their congregants took to the streets of New York on Thursday to protest and to pray for Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse a ban on religious groups» use of public schools for worship service, scheduled to go into effect February 12.

By the way, using your logic, churches and pastors that turn gays away at the door would not be showing or bearing fruit of the spirit, but many are.

There is also a huge difference in tone between the hate used by some people and what Nated Pastor is doing here, I don't see it in anyway as making him or commentors look as bad as the patriarchy views.

A 2003 study by Mark Laaser and Louis Gregoire examined some daily circumstances that factor into a pastor's pornography use, although some conditions could surely cultivate other addictions as well:

No one has power over truth absolute, constant GOD, but always under truth absolute, Ellah, Ellohim, Allah, constant GOD, proven by quantum physics, hindu ignorant posters spew their hinduism, absurdities in following of their hindu filthy desire's with changing winds to run their business of hinduism, denial of truth absolute GOD to attract humanity to hinduism, illegality without any truth, religion's are nothing but a business for hindu, criminal pastors seeking numbers and dollars by use of holy name of GOD like a hindu Pundit, criminal crook with his Pandora box, deserving not to have an audience, but to be in jail's for hinduism, criminality under cover of hinduism, corruption of truth absolute religions.

I expect that «Christian» «leaders» and pastors across the US will be astounded by Russia's «behavior» [or whatever words are used], as the US military implements a «defensive» war for «justice» that it has been preparing for decades.

Henry G. Brinton, a pastor at Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia, writes that the Bible was used a weapon by both the North and the South.

Many pastors and churches use Malachi 3:8 («Will a man rob God») to guilt people into giving to the church while the church is robbing the poor of that which is rightfully theirs by misappropriating these funds into salaries, buildings, etc..

The responses of laity to preaching and teaching and other pastoral leadership activities are extremely important; pastors referred to «feeling that preaching and teaching are falling on enthusiastic ears,» «the recommitment of the faith by members who had fallen away,» or «helping the laity to use their gifts.»

I knew of a pastor who totally used sermons created by others.

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.

The Wesleys, raised by a pastor, held ministry in higher regard than did most of their peers, though even they originally hoped to use Oxford connections to attain comfortable posts.

The same point is powerfully made by Kierkegaard in his Christian Discourses.4 The person who thinks himself a perennial loser needs the pastor's encouragement to be enabled to use those very circumstances of adversity for learning, spiritual growth, and discipline.

I briefly searched the Internet, and could not find any good studies... or even some bad ones, that tried to follow up on the definition of «perfect family» as used by Christian pastors.

In my national sample of 246 AG pastors, 66 percent prayed in tongues daily (only 3 percent did so less than weekly); 93 percent said they had been used by God to prophesy to their congregations; 79 percent frequently received answers to specific prayer requests; and 54 reported regularly experiencing God's direction to perform specific acts.

It's hopeless, at least at this time, as I gave it one more try even using «Biship Tutu's methods for reconciliation,» to be met with it's «my fault for damaging our relationship by bringing up the past» (what she and her pastor husband did, and have been doing to anger and ruin my reputation with my entire family for the past 30 years).

Worship magazine, a bit more scholarly, is also a fully ecumenical bimonthly (St. John's Abbey Collegeville, Minnesota 56321) and could be used with much profit by any pastor.

I think there is a difference between a pastor being a rock star, being narcissistic, and a pastor being used by God to serve a church...

This article was adapted from The Unnecessary Pastor, by Marva Dawn and Eugene Peterson, published in December, l999, by Eerdmans and used by permission.

When I was a pastor, I used to preach an annual sermon on the first Sunday of every year in which I recounted all the tragedies and horrors of the previous year, and concluded by saying, «See?

Speaking the Christian God may be of some use to local church pastors and worship leaders who address these questions week by week and evaluate alternative trinitarian naming.

The self righteous self serving people who refuse to discuss anything that has not been «taught» to them by pastors... I hope people are wise to their false love and bait they use to get you in....

By complying with the pastor and his use of a biblical directive, the council members allowed him to protect himself and them from the truth.

We do not find ourselves permitted by the Word of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except by force of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].

A 1999 study conducted by Alan and Cheryl Klass concluded with the suggestion that the LCMS use licensed deacons, supervised by a local pastor, to fill the more than 1,000 vacant ministry posts.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

The reason I say this is because there is an event in the life of Jesus that is often used by some power - hungry and control - freak pastors to beat and cajole the people in their church into submission, to quell all dissension, and to quiet all objections.

The whole point is, people are following / using / taking the words / phrases created by modern pastors / reverends and spreading that ideology around.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

Words like cult and false god were used by some of the more outspoken pastors to explain why they had to support other candidates.

In previous centuries, this same passage from Luke 14 was used by other theologians, pastors, and church leaders to «persuade» people to convert to Christianity at the point of a sword.

As for the unattributed copying in the church's Bible study guide, by «Pastor Mark Driscoll»: this was, without a doubt, improper use.

Pastor: It might be helpful for us to use a kind of diagnostic approach to see if you might, by chance, be on the road to the illness.

Further, the use by either a pastor or a secular counselor of a profane and shocking vocabulary to exhibit his personal «release» is more a sign of lingering infantilism than of maturity.

When, as a leader, I walked away because of the behavior of the pastor, I was shunned, vilified... and just last week (4 1/2 years after I left) I was treated with condescension and pity by someone that used to be a good friend.

As a pastor, I talked with so many Christians who wanted to be used by God.

A Lutheran pastor who also serves as director of the Visual Education Service at Yale Divinity School, where he has taught courses on media and ministry, Everist has served as editor of Please Copy, has written a soon - to - he published book on Creative Uses of Media by the Church, and has created a four volume review publication, Educaid.

Anyway, I hope others help you celebrate the 4th by buying one drawing to use as a conversation piece in their house so the word of the Naked Pastor spreads!

If the pastor feels that God wants him to get by on less, then he will inform the board of that, or use the money elsewhere.

The reason I am «not tough enough» was explained by the statement «we are used to people being a little off, here, particularly our pastors.»

Once, when I was a pastor in Montana, I was outside by my woodpile (we use wood to heat our houses in Montana) talking with a man about all of this, and he wasn't persuaded.

I battle as a pastor in my mind if I'm doing wrong by using donations to survive and few times went to work but noticed the church and ministry start falling apart

I was married all of a sudden, to silence the mouths which are so used to complaining about me», he wrote to Amsdorf, by now the local pastor in Magdeburg.

This pastor may as well celebrate Christ by using Oreos for eucharist or having a BBQ on Friday.

I don't see how we can care for the stranger, the orphan or the widow by using trickle - down economics.Once the pastor is paid and then the staff and then the mortgage and then improvements and the technical equipment and the roof repaired and so on and so forth, THEN we will hopefully have enough left - over to give to the stranger, the orphan and the widow.

Weaving the story of Mary Magdalene through her own, Nadia reclaims the term «pastrix» (used derisively by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) to highlight the absurdity and goodness of a God who would choose someone like her to be a «pastor to her people» — alcoholics, depressives, misfits, and cynics.