... leaders, as ministers and preachers have as our task in designing Sunday services to place before our congregations the revelation of God. It is to facilitate the moving of God in self- revelation. It ...
... homosexuality, war and refugees. In a practical sense we must meet the needs of the disadvantaged and marginalised: housing the homeless, feeding the hungry and ministering to the elderly and disabled. ...
... building.
Is this a true costing of worship?
The largest thing that we have left out is the cost of people running the service. A paid ministers salary may be in the order of $48,000 per year in costs ...
The Spirit of Discipleship
This sermon was written for Pentecost sunday based on the first two chapters of Acts...
There were three men of God, talking over the coffee. One was a Presbyterian minister, ...
... C.A.B.I. reads like a who's who of the church at the time including Moderators, noted ministers as well as people important to the church overseas.22.
C. The First Year
The first teaching semester began ...
Asuza St: America, Pentecostalism
1) Parham and Stone's Folly
The year: 1900 - a young methodist minister compared his life and ministry to acts and decided his needed to change. To seek the deeper ...
... Asahel Nettleton had died in 1844 - he along with most of the most experienced of the ministers in revival were gone.
Even in the pews, most people equated revival with the antics of the new measures. ...
2nd Great Awakening: America, Revival and Revivalism
After the end of the first great awakening, the ministers who were of a revival bent continued ministering after the awakening in much the same manner. ...
... minister of the time, wrote:
Because he loves him he longs for the full enjoyment of him... Because Christ is precious to him, his interests are so too, and he longs to see his kingdom flourish, and ...
... needs. Eventually the financial resources were made available for him to return to Oxford. At this time he struggled with the idea of becoming an Anglican Minister. As the then leader of the holy club, ...
... usefulness
- The Catholics consider it to be deutero-canonical - same level of inspiration but admitted at a second level
- The Anglicans and I think the Lutherans enjoin their priests/ministers to ...
... that these things are local to the time and context that Paul was writing to? It is fairly clear that Paul frequently worked with women in ministry. Romans 16:1ff lists a number of women ministers in positions ...
... the vision found fertile ground in that group.
6) Acts 13:1-5 - Commisioning of Paul (Saul) and Barnabas
One of the fascinating things about this passage is the context. Usually the making of ministers ...
... that followed him, then the general disciples such as the 70 sent out to minister, then the 12 and finally the three - Peter, James and John.
· Why do you think that Peter has moved from the general ...
... the role we normally associate with the terms "minister" or "pastor".
It was James who drove the first council of Jerusalem and Peter influenced the direction by the respect that others had for him. The ...
... has given her.
2) Gifts in the New Testament: The New Testament lists a number of gifts throughout. They are in the terms: this "gift" minister did this or that. Most common are probably the Apostles ...
Leadership in Formation
We often talk about people developing into leadership indicating a process of learning, growing, being mentored and ministry formation. I have used the term "finished minister" ...
... has responsibilities equal to those of an employer.
Within the local church there is a tension between two poles: that of ministering to the people of that church and that of the people being involved ...
... vision?
In both the Titus and Peter passage there is some indication that elders were essentially the ministers of the churches. There is an emphasis on preaching and also on pastoral care. Peter th ...