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Michael Youssef (born September 25, 1948) is an Egyptian-American pastor. He is the founding rector [ 1 ] and senior pastor of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia, and the executive president of Leading the Way .
The church was started by Youssef and 28 people who held a meeting in a local school in 1987. [1] Before its expansion in the late 1990s, the church had 1,150 members and a capacity to seat 1,500. [2] In 2006 at least 3,000 people attended services in the $70 million brick building, then recently completed. [1]
A hanged wolf in sheep's clothing. A 19th century illustration of the mediaeval fable attributed to Aesop. False prophets are frequently referred to in the New Testament, sheep were an important part of life in the Galilee of Jesus' era, and the metaphor of the pious as a flock of sheep is a common one in both the Old and New Testaments.
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The Teacher is bundled into a van and driven to a local stonemasons, where he is handed a cross. He then follows Simon's drum, and a procession of all the people in the town begin to walk. The Teacher collapses and is carried into the town centre, where his mother bathes his wounds and replaces his crown with one of roses.
Hayford's mother, Dolores, was a Bible teacher who spoke at interdenominational women's classes and Women's Aglow Fellowship (now Aglow International). [7] Although Hayford's parents did not always attend church, he has credited them with providing him with a Christian upbringing.
In January 1980, Lutzer became the 16th senior pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. The church and its ministries grew significantly under his leadership, leading to the construction of a new Christian Life Center to complement the existing 75-year-old building. [4]
Conciliarism was a movement in the 14th-, 15th- and 16th-century Catholic Church which held that supreme authority in the Church resided with an ecumenical council, apart from, or even against, the pope.