Sentences with phrase «with leaders of the church»

However, I also want nothing to do with the leaders of our Church.

Work with the leaders of church groups with the goal of increasing their groups» abilities to meet the needs of persons.

A series of meetings organized by the Full Gospel Church in Kenya (FGCK) at Afraha Stadium, Nakuru, ended with leaders of the church reaffirming their total support and confidence in President Daniel arap Moi's leadership, the government and the ruling party, KANU.

The announcement came on Thursday with the leaders of the church confirming the reason this decision has been made is to deal with the continued costs of fighting child sexual abuse charges against some of its clergymen.

Not exact matches

«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

Notwithstanding that I consider that there are some such flaws in the approach adopted by the Judge, I consider it is important that the church does acknowledge, as I do, that we were, and I include myself, at that time only at the beginning of learning how to deal with disclosures of abuse, and leaders such as myself did lack experience and training.

Given the history of these failures, it is reasonable for the Orthodox Church leaders to proceed with due caution to spare themselves yet another public embarrassment.

Nadarkhani is the leader of a network of Iranian house churches and was first charged with apostasy in 2010 for converting from Islam to Christianity.

The reason I left my last church started with a conversation this with a female leader (and it is important I think that I mention she was female in the light of this conversation).

Many Christians say that some Mormon beliefs, including that Mormon church leaders are prophets and that the Book of Mormon is sacred scripture, are incompatible with Christianity.

Yet, your devout faith transcends the arbitrary commands of the «leaders» of the Catholic Church, who believe they are the only «chosen» ones with a direct line to God.

After a back - and - forth with a variety of Christian leaders, most notably the Catholic Church, the rule was amended and some religious organizations were given an exemption.

The pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, South Carolina, Page won a first - ballot victory this summer against two prominent candidates with close ties to what is sometimes called the college of cardinals» a close - knit circle of Southern Baptist Convention leaders who have handpicked the denomination's recent presidents.

In 2016, we at RELEVANT posted hundreds of articles on everything from current events to interviews with church leaders to listicles about relationships.

I have a fundamental issue with many religious leaders, and it has actually drawn me far from churches of all kinds.

And it will be for me quite a poignant moment going there [to Whitehall] with the other church leaders and the Queen and all the others to think of him.

Even Jews who disagree with Church teachings about any given issue will benefit from a closer working relationship between the Church and Jewish leaders from the broadest possible spectrum of ideologies and denominations.

Ben Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at advocacy charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide, told Premier: «The Islamic Defenders Front, they for years have been pushing this agenda, trying to shut down churches, attack the Ahmadiyya community - who're a sect of Islam that other Muslims disagree with - and also often raided nightclubs and bars and want Sharia law to be established.

This reminds me of the way the church deals with critical issues today such as women's rights, racism, sexual abuse, sexuality and gender, same - sex marriage, corruption among its leaders, and so on.

For the first time since Pope Francis has been the leader of the Catholic Church, he is meeting with President Obama.

The church's leader was shot to death along with many other menbers of the church not to mention burning down homes and what they considered thier sacred temple.

Charter predicts in the future there will be «an increase in the current trend of churches that have made no provision for children and will, therefore, be in decline with fewer leaders.

Dalahäst If you dug through all of Church history you might find a few leaders like St. Patrick who openly opposed slavery, but the vast majority regarded it as consistent with Christian theology up until the general abolitionist movement.

Church leader and theologian Steve Holmes wrote: «I agree profoundly with Steve in his concern that our pastoral practice in this area has often been appalling, and needs to change... his diagnosis of a real and urgent problem is spot on... [He] names a pastoral scandal that we have swept under the carpet for too long.»

The authors conducted extensive interviews with clergy who have left parish ministry, voluntarily or involuntarily, and with denominational leaders from five church bodies — the Assemblies of God, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist Cchurch bodies — the Assemblies of God, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist CChurch in America, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist CChurch — Missouri Synod, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist CChurch (U.S.A.) and the United Methodist ChurchChurch.

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.

We've elected to challenge our inquirers to a seven - week series of interactions with staff members, lay leaders and other inquirers that clearly communicates the mission of our church and actually initiates the behaviors that are consistent with being a disciple of Jesus.

Because I am tired of church leaders with expensive church buildings and bloated church budgets trying to shore up their ineffective church programs by demanding further sacrifice and greater commitments from tired and weary church members.

More recently, theologians and church leaders from denominations that have historic ties with churches in the north have encouraged African Christian expressions that are free of northern acculturation, are faithful to the gospel and draw upon traditional African

But these films do well to portray the inner battle of church leaders as they find themselves wrestling with their own beliefs.

Maybe I overlooked it in your comment, but have you spoken directly to the church leaders, since it seems most of the problems come from the choir loft and worship team, along with leaders wives and intercessors.

That Church with an unbroken line of leaders affectionately called «Pope» meaning «father» (Just as the Apostle says that he has become a «father» to many Christians.)

The Catholic church signed the Reichkonkordat (Reich Concordat) with Hitler on July 20, 1933, with Cardinal Pacelli (who later became Pope Pius XII in 1939) and Franz von Papen (became vice-chancellor of Germany after marshalling Catholic Action and leaders of industry to oppose communism) signing the concordat as their agents.

[But] Church of Pakistan leaders... estimate the death toll to be at least 150, with hundreds more wounded.»

Although church leaders are called to pursue someone who's left a church, that responsibility also belongs to every single one of us who has a relationship with a leaver.

Whereas the leader of al - Azhar felt the need recently to break off dialogue with the Vatican following Pope Benedict's highlighting of the persecution of Coptic Christians, this latest charter unequivocally condemns the recent bombings of Coptic churches.

But the funding of the Crossover Project wasn't straightforward, and in 2012, the six leaders were arrested and charged with misusing church building funds to promote Ho's career.

Unlike in the cultic churches, where people who step out of line with the leader's vision and dare to tell the truth are destroyed — or «thrown under the bus in driscollspeak — here, they are impotent, they try to shame, impugn, backhandedly discredit, all while appearing above it all, and yet, they are paper dragons.

We are both seminary students looking toward pastoral ministry, and have a lot of questions about how to be leaders in the church without abusing it with our demons.

The Sunday following Trump's order, leaders of eight evangelical organizations involved with the Evangelical Immigration Table released a letter to the president and vice president, saying, «While the US has... received only a fraction of 1 percent of the world's refugees annually, we believe the refugee resettlement program provides a lifeline to these uniquely vulnerable individuals and a vital opportunity for our churches.»

Though a lot of church leaders would love for it to be otherwise, this is real communion and community with each other.

Of course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderOf course it would be naïve to assume that sitting down with ISIS terrorists would produce a quick change of heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderof heart, but a fearless, coherent defence of orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaderof orthodox Christian belief about the human person, human love and thus human society is essential and is, at present, generally lacking even among church leaders.

Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a network of Reformed church plants in 21 countries still dealing with the aftermath of an internal investigation of founder and president C. J. Mahaney's leadership, now faces allegations that its president and board chairman, among other leaders, covered up child sex abuse by church members.

A church leader would have a good following of people in a particular town or city, and some other teacher would arrive in town, and begin to teach Scripture in a different way or with a different emphasis.

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.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

It is impossible to list separately the many leaders in the Christian Church in Australia, of all denominations, who were so generous to me during my stay in their country; but I thank them with all my heart for all that they did to make my visit memorable and pleasant.

Your battle, your problems, your agonies, with the leaders - organization of the church pale in comparison with what those apostles put up with.

I refuse to work as a pastor in a church anymore because I'm so sick of how leaders get away with it all.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)