Sentences with phrase «went about ministry»

However, as the church, we are the Body of Christ, and just as He suffered as He went about His ministry, so also we will suffer as we follow the ways of Jesus in this world (John 15:19 - 20).

Not exact matches

Jesus taught about it in His earthly ministry and went to prepare a place for us.

They are taking up time that myself and others could be using to go deeper with a prof who really cares about us and our ministries — who desires that we are able to communicate on the level of the man on the street.

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 certainly find these ministries to be bloated and impersonal, and I think sometimes it is difficult to have any sort of transparency about where the tithe and offering money goes in these organizations.

Both were about the same age when they began their public ministry: «When he [Buddha] went again to the garden he saw a monk who was calm, tranquil, self — possessed, serene, and dignified.

If the minister has not read and studied the Bible, gone to theological seminary and learned about other branches of theology, acquired an insight and a skill or two along the way, and seen what he was trying to do in a context appropriate to the ministry of the Christian church, none of what I am asserting would follow.

O'Boyle added: «We're really looking forward, we're looking at how the landscape is changing in this country when it comes to mission and how we need to adapt to that and so we're looking at making significant changes when it comes to our ministry and how we go about reaching young people effectively.»

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

Insofar as we are talking about people going into parish ministry, there are obvious topics that have to do with leadership in the parish that need to be engaged.

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

On Biblical grounds, we note, for example, that Jesus» ministry is summarized in the Gospels in ways like the following: «And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.»

If you are really serious about God, you go into full - time ministry.

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.

He was overwhelmed with woe over his own unworthiness, his life of bourgeois privilege even during this ordeal into which he had led the city's black community, and finally about the superficiality of his «inherited» call into the ministry, although he «had never felt an experience with God in the way that you must... if you're going to walk the lonely paths of this life.»

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy... and then he went and ministered to them both.

I think he was asking about condemning people, telling them they are going to hell, and banning them from ministry because they are living in persistent adultery.

But then I get second thoughts about Paul, who, with both his genius and his humility, was nevertheless going to fight all corners who said he was not a true apostle — even though he did not meet the formal apostolic criterion of having known Jesus in his earthly ministry.

Nevertheless, we must try to take our bearings; try to formulate some of the nascent agreements about the character of that Church in which theological education goes on and for the furtherance of whose objectives the ministry is being educated.

Bultmann goes further than most at this point and questions also the authenticity of the accounts of the ministry of Jesus, with the result that we know little about him.

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It is clear from the ministry of Jesus, that more than anything else, He went about casting out devils and healing folks.

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.

And before Perry goes on a kick that God has called him to the presidency, oh, it's shades of a very famous preacher who once said that God would call him home if he did not receive millions of dollars for his ministry, stop to think about that too.

Then go talk to the leader of that ministry and say, «Hey, I'm really excited about what you are doing, and what God is doing through you.

After a mostly unexpected boost over the past few years, these ministries are unsure how Trump will go about repealing and replacing Obamacare — particularly how his policies might impact the demand for insurance alternatives.

So enthusiastic was he about Philip's ministry that he followed the evangelist about wherever he went.

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.

Our team was going to perform a creative ministry piece (sans puppets) about «testimonies».

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

Please tell us about yourself - what you do professionally and what you have going on in regards to any ministry endeavors etc?

If principals and school leaders are going to allow volunteers organised by para-church youth ministry organisations into our schools why do we need to obscure the truth about why they are there?

It's your home base, it's where you can just tell people to go and they can find what they need to find about you, your books, and your business or your ministry; it's your online home.

Our occasional updates about worship, ministries, classes and programs tied to spiritual life and everything going on in the cathedral congregation.

I also act as a nanny to my two grandchildren who live with us, with our daughter whom still has about 1 1/2 years to go in studying for the ministry.