Sentences with phrase «work as my ministry»

The biggest challenge Claudine faces as a Christian social entrepreneur is in the distinction between work and ministry: «I really do see my work as my ministry.

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Bloomberg quoted the country's vice minister of industry and information technology, Xin Guobin, as saying the ministry is working with regulators on the timetable of the phasing - out.

Azari - Jahromi, Iran's youngest minister and known as an innovator, said in a tweet in February that his ministry's Post Bank had been working with local experts on an experimental cryptocurrency model that would be presented to the country's banks for review and possible approval.

Most of the people I work with are aware of it, and some the stuff I do on the side is because of it, like youth ministry and working as part of the teaching team at our church.

The Center's also set to have a spa and fitness centre, time - share apartments and holiday suites, work offices, an education centre and also act as the new headquarters of his ministry, Morris Cerullo World Evangelism.

I scroll through pictures of them running ministries in South Africa, working on staff with Hillsong in Europe, raising their kids in the California sun — and here I am, posting pictures of my boys in many of the same parks that I once explored as a child.

The Convention paid them so they could afford to do what they were called to do, but their work was regarded as a ministry and a calling.

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

Betel is wanting to work more closely with other Christian groups that promote abstinence, as well as the thousands of Christian ministries to the homeless in the UK to become more effective in tackling the problem.

It must come as something of a shock to many of these people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a ministry whose chief work is preaching, baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled, comforting the sick and bereaved.

The editors viewed their job as a committed ministry and believed that they were working toward building a positive society by calling attention to social evils and praising worthwhile social developments.

They engage, as they always have, in works of mercy and compassion, and they are increasingly willing to engage, along with partner churches, in ministries of social change as well.

Filled with beauty, hard truth, and brave vulnerability, Jesus Feminist urges the church to stop asking «man or woman» as a qualification for ministry and to start helping everyone find freedom in the fullness, hope, glory, and work of Christ.

We also assume that he worked as a carpenter up until he began his three years of ministry at about the age of thirty.

As Lynne (wife) and I have watched this, it has been extremely painful for us to see this controversy continue to be a distraction that is hindering our Elders and church staff, as well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquAs Lynne (wife) and I have watched this, it has been extremely painful for us to see this controversy continue to be a distraction that is hindering our Elders and church staff, as well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquas well as the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.&raquas the WCA (Willow Creek Association) staff, from carrying out the work of these fantastic ministries.»

As it turned out, my point of departure from the «emerging ministry movement» took me more into the missional wing of things, where I've been continuing to work with several virtual, international teams on social transformation projects.

Yet there are some ministries there are culturally relevant; ones that truly work within the community for its good, rather than as means to feed the machine.

Confusion of the preaching office of the ministry with the work of the pastor as teacher has been a bad thing and has produced bad results; for no sermon is long enough to be, nor is its purpose properly envisaged as, an exercise in teaching.

You are most generous in saying that Driscoll was a victim, since this is not exactly what I've heard and read from those who were closest to him and knew him best, especially those who worked in «ministry» positions under him, those he fired when he perceived them as a threat in any way.

To be more specific, the Synoptic Gospels represent Jesus» ministry as exercised chiefly in Galilee until about the last week of his life; John has much to say of a ministry in Judea before Jesus began his work in Galilee.

Such a ministry is geared toward early help with minor emotional disturbances, crisis situations, parent - child relationships, and critical life experiences such as birth, death, illness, marriage, school, and work adjustment.

I have worked in sales support quite frequently as both a bivocational element alongside ministry, as well as my sole employment.

Still, that method has not ended if God has gifted someone as an evangelist to equip God's people for works of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.

Maybe ministry works better as a special interest, an unpaid calling, rather than a career.

These charisms may well be called the democratic aspects of the Church, especially as it is evident from dogmatic ecclesiology as well as from church history that this freely working Spirit can be active not only in the official ministry of the Church but also in every individual of the demos, that is to say of the people of God.

If you, as the pastor, used to do 90 % of the «ministry» functions of the church (however that is defined) during your 60 - 70 hours of work, but you can now only devote 10 - 15 hours per week to «pastoral work» (but see the point above), this means that someone else in the church is going to have to step up to the plate and fill in the gaps.

As we saw yesterday, in the era of the New Testament, there were two main ways of gaining financial support for the work of the ministry.

When I first started living and working as an intern in the beleaguered but promising city of Camden, New Jersey, some leaders from our ministry held perhaps one of the most candid orientation sessions I've ever experienced.

Chief executive, Andrea Williams told Premier: «We've met at Christian Concern many ex-prisoners who've been absolutely delighted - and had their lives transformed - as a result of the work, ministry and witness of Pastor Song.

Church members and older pastors think of youth ministry as «entry - level» work, which only encourages younger clergy to climb the ladder toward something worth their time.

God will withhold work from one He has called into ministry as a test to the layman.

The only thing that can rightly be expected as Jeremy Meyers stated, is that the individual be engaged in actively doing the work of the ministry which includes feeding the poor.

I am speaking from experience as a church planter, who leads a flock and started the ministry while working a full time job, 50 hours a week.

To make matters worse, the average congregation is more worried about overpaying the staff than underpaying them which leads to the church being crippled spiritually by pastoral changes as the pastor moves to a better deal or leaves the ministry or works multiple jobs just to support his family.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

In the long run, however, science and medicine will properly be in charge of much of this work, and ministry will have to be conducted through staff cooperation just as in relation to physical and mental illness, alcoholism, and other health problems.

Thus, although we still need to respect the doorbell image, in the sense that the pastor must make himself available to his people and not merely wait in an office until they come, we must reject its hidden assumptions that pastoral work with people is routine, perhaps dull, and certainly not as central to ministry as preaching.

The support and theological training I receive as a student has been outstanding and is practically equipping me for working in Christian ministry.

Often church members themselves, they say that their work is not affirmed or viewed as a valid ministry.

As it enters its third decade of life, COCU is working consciously to foster such togetherness, in theological agreement, in ministry and mission and in congregational life.

If members experience service to others in the congregation as their ministry, it is much easier for them to see that their work in the world is also service to God.

As the conception of the work of the ministry changes into the idea of the whole Church ministering so the conception of call changes into the idea of the called and the calling Church — always, of course, as Church under the authority of GoAs the conception of the work of the ministry changes into the idea of the whole Church ministering so the conception of call changes into the idea of the called and the calling Church — always, of course, as Church under the authority of Goas Church under the authority of God.

In the schools the lack of a clear - cut conception is evident there where a frankly pluralistic approach to the work of the ministry has been accepted and where men are prepared for the varieties of the ministry as well as the varieties of ministerial work without reference to a common function to be carried out by all ministers and by every minister in all the things he does.

Other truth is, I've worked for these organizations, and lets just say there is sometimes creativity as to what business practices constitutes the stated purpose of the ministry.

This balance as the goal for ministry has produced the latest attempts to epitomize the work of the minister in terms of the master roles11 of «facilitator,» «enabler,» and «conflict manager.»

He seems to have been the first person to attempt to construct in writing a sketch of the whole ministry of Jesus, although he must have worked on the basis of an oral account such as the skeleton speeches in Acts suggest formed part of Peter's preaching (e.g. Acts 10:37 - 42).

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

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.

Detailed comparative analysis of individual sections or pericopae in the synoptic gospels has confirmed the hypothesis that during the lengthy period before the writing of our earliest gospel individual sayings and incidents in Jesus» ministry were — note the verb — used: as they were worked over and adapted, their context and wording may have been altered beyond recall.