Sentences with phrase «when church leaders»

He said it was only when church leaders resolve to ostracise and expose corrupt members of their congregation that the problem could be solved.

(It was only when church leaders began to recognize that such education was in fact not being done in the homes that «Sunday schools» were born — but that occurred much later in Christian history.)

What about when church leaders turn out to be the pigs that trample your pearls under their feet, and turn again and rend you?

In an age when church leaders can dismiss the virgin birth and question the resurrection without seriously rattling theological teacups, this conviction is bound to seem positively conservative.

This is part of why we are so surprised and shattered when church leaders fall — we forget that they are sinful human beings, just as in need of grace and accountability as the rest of us.

But I question whether after some period of time, we can assign some level of ill - will or malicious intent when church leaders continue to deny and attack in the face of persistent claims of mistreatment and / or abuse.

When church leaders sought to correct such false accusations by bringing evidence before the people, they were usually thrown into prison or hunted down as traitors to their country.

That changed when my church leader sat down and shared the Father's love for me.

Not exact matches

«I try and speak to church pastors and leaders when I can and have had some encouraging discussions,» he said.

When leaders of a church are in it for themselves, for their self - promotion, and for their enrichment, then members will see through that and leave.

The leaders hide church history from its members, when we find it, we take it to them, and of course are called aposates, there are so many mental systems in place at every level to control the people and there thoughts and actions, at a very young age.

When it happens, this Council will be an event of considerable historical import, bringing together the leaders of all Orthodox Churches for the first time since 787.

The ordained leaders of the Church, and the laity who are Christ's principal witnesses in the public square, do not enter public life proclaiming, «The Church teaches...» When the question at issue is an immoral practice, they enter the debate saying, «This is wicked; it can not be sanctioned by the law and here is why, as any reasonable person will grasp.»

When we complain about the Church, her leaders and her members we are demonstrating not only a misunderstanding of what a church is, but also a disrespect for Who the ChurChurch, her leaders and her members we are demonstrating not only a misunderstanding of what a church is, but also a disrespect for Who the Churchurch is, but also a disrespect for Who the ChurchChurch is.

There was still silence when, at around the same time, the sons of pastor Alexander Pavenko of the charismatic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were murdered by separatists in the city of Slavyansk, when the priests of the Patriarchate of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and when Greek Catholic priests were tortured by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»

I think I understand some of our Lord's heart, when He must remove the strong leader to ensure His church blossoms.

HEY NICK WAKE UP, I WAS IN THE MORMON CHURCH FOR 36 YEARS, and when i went to the BISHOP AND STAKE PRESIDENT, He Was his words» I do nt process to know much about the curse of Cain, nor do i need to know», OR TRY THIS ONE ON FOR SIZE, THis Nick comes from my former Bishop,» i wont allow now or in the future QUESTIONS TO LEAD ME ASTRAY» IAM NOT MAKING THIS STUFF UP, YOU DO NT QUESTION MORMON LEADERS, FOLLOW AND KEEP YOUR EYEE SHUT

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

Do you believe God and Jesus live on adjoining planets and when an LDS man (who has obeyed the church and its leaders) dies, he gets his own planet to rule equal in all things with your God.

Church leader Michael Green said this past weekend when he opened Premier Christian Radio's «Unbelievable Conference.»

When I read Jones» post I feel that I'm being invited to enslave myself to the strong leaders of the Church so that they can accomplish their vision.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

Why can't god do that on his own??? You believe he can (and does) throw up bright visible rainbows as messages all over the world almost continuously when he wants to, without any church leaders, or missionaries, or the bible's help.

Although they say they do not intend for the minister to dictate his aims for the church, the thrust of Leading Congregational Change is that the pastor or transformational leader brings a vision that must be promoted, first to a chosen group of disciples, then to a «vision community,» and then — only when fully developed and plotted out — to the congregation.

These sorts of statements are usually said when you are critical of a church, a church leader, or some other Christian for something they said or did.

But the reason church leaders have failed to stem the tide of a generation heading for the exit door is that they keep looking for an outside enemy to blame when the biggest problems are inside the church.

Most churches and charities have no contingency plans for when the present leader moves on, trusting instead that «God will provide».

The time before, at another abusive church, also when I was an elder, when I confronted the two main leaders in the church at a meeting at my house with similar behavior, the pastor said «This is the craziest thing I've seen.»

In the second part of the talk, I described a church that sometimes in the past has led in dealing with public issues and sometimes responsibly followed other leaders, but is now ineffective even when it makes occasional pronouncements that are good.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

And after all, what can I expect when, as a church leader, I quit and tell the pastor I can't stay and listen to him preach because it makes me want to throw up — and refuse to preserve the image of the church by lying to protect a sexual predator in the pulpit.

«In any battle, you've got to be clued up about what you're doing,» explains Lindsay, when I catch up with him a week later to talk in more depth, «so I think we need to train churches — church leaders, youth pastors — anyone engaging with youth culture, about what is actually going on... We can't be naïve about this stuff.»

The Church leaders didn't finish editing the «holy» scriptures until the Council of Trent when the Catholic Church pronounced the Canon closed.

I have been involved in churches of many denominations, but was frequently in trouble with «leadership», even at those times when I was myself a leader.

«When we proclaim the notion of sola scriptura,» he writes, «we neglect the original authority of Church leaders that put together that Scripture.

The episode is reminiscent of a time in history when secular leaders did not accept a separation of Church and State.

The Bible: Reforms begin when leaders, through a rigorous engagement with Scripture, perceive a truth that has gone unobserved by the church.

When Dr. George Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, visited Pope John Paul II in May 1992, the two church leaders discussed the probable future ordination of women priests in the Anglican Cchurch leaders discussed the probable future ordination of women priests in the Anglican ChurchChurch.

A lot of people, when they hear this, look at me sort of skeptically, because they have heard the exact opposite from most churches and church leaders.

In the last church I went you when a leader claimed she was being prophetic and doing what God does, I challenged her about being insulting, practicing false prophecy and using God's name in vain in her sexist approach.

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

Westerners encountered Orthodoxy in the flesh when a wave of theologians and church leaders left Russia following the 1917 revolution.

Do Not Forsake the Assembling Generally, when someone suggests that Christians don't need to attend church, a pastor or other church leader is quick to quote Hebrews 10:25.

1,000 church leaders weigh in on how to investigate allegations and when the congregation should be told.

Having the heart of a servant is important when you're a church camp leader.

As a church leader I encourage those questions and challenges, and encourage people to let me know when they agree, disagree, or need more information from me.

But when the explicit intent is to adapt church culture to a distinct culture of a specific age cohort, the leaders need to be born into that culture.

One can start answering these questions by observing that the church's role as a community of memory is being emphasized by thinkers like Maclntyre and Bellah and by many church leaders precisely at a time when an increasing percentage of Americans are not being born and raised in churches, or if they are, they are.

One of my church leaders told me that when God orders genocide in the Old Testament that showed HIs «righteousness».