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Qualifications of Church Leadership. Leadership is all about influence.
Paul understood this unique reality of leadership and it ...
church leadership. ... The modifications made by the leadership of the Romanian Orthodox
Church, after December 1989 have no longer been sanctioned by state organs. ...
... It is the goal of church leadership to ensure that teachers are effective in meeting
with, teaching, loving and nurturing those for whom they have stewardship. ...
... In chapter ten he basically presents a message given by Dr. Gilbert Bilezikian
at a church leadership conference at Willow Creek. ...
... Until a local church leadership group "owns" (through thorough study of the Scriptures
and prayer) the biblical purpose and mission of a local Christian ...
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Romanian Orthodox Elders and Spiritual Fathers
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The Orthodox Church in Romania
The Romanian people - a Latin people as its language in all its structural elements also makes evidence - is the only one in the East of Europe that belongs to the Latin people. Its formation is the result of the symbiosis of the native Thracian-Gaeto-Dacian population with the Latin one and of the gradual assimilation of other nations temporarily settled in the wide hearth in which it came to existence. Here, Christianity penetrated in Apostolic times. In Dobrudja - the ancient Scytia Minor - the Word of the Gospel was preached by Saint Apostol Andrew - in the second half of the first century A.D. After the Roman Empire had conquered Dacia (106 AD), the number of the faithful increased either by settling here the followers of the new faith who had left the Romanized populations in the Lower Danube or by those who came in this place together with the colonists, the army, the miners and the merchants who were sent by the Roman Empire in its new province.
The majority originated in provinces already christianized by the Lord`s Apostles.
After the withdrawal of the Roman administration and army in the North of the Danube, in 271 A.D. the Christians, being no longer threatened by the pagan authority of Rome that chased and persecuted them for there faith, increased in number and started to organise themselves as a Church.
The great number of Dacian-Roman martyrs in the South of the Danube during Emperor Diocletian`s persecutions (284 - 305), who paid with there lives for confessing their faith in Christ, brings evindence of the spreading of Christianity in this area at that time. Moreover it strengthens the convinction that Christianity was much older in this area, as long as, during the...
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