We ask that the Church should now proclaim the Primacy of
Christ over all Creation.
Not exact matches
Her necessary cooperation with
Christ in founding His incarnational work, intrinsically shares in His incarnational pre-eminence
over all
creation.
I have been baptized in the Holy Spirit, I walked the aisle, I am born again, I will rise up to be with
Christ at the rapture, I name and claim many things
over my life and my childrens, (I have never name and claimed a mercedes, or useless materialstic worldly things), I have prayed the sinners prayer and am a Christian, a
Christ follower, a faithful believer in Jesus
Christ, I am Spirit Filled, I am forgiven, redeemed, a new
creation.
Those standing in the Presbyterian pulpits before luminaries such as Carson, former Sierra Club head David Brower, and The Monkey - Wrench Gang author Edward Abbey were probably aware of Abraham Kuyper's exhortation that Jesus
Christ cries «mine»
over every «square inch» of
creation.
Christ restored the order of
creation over the cross, and if marital love involves sacrifice, such is a deeper participation in
Christ's life.
Over against various forms of evolutionary optimism, he states that «Our hope lies not in an encouragement to make more of the potentialities of present process, but in a call to participate in
Christ in that eschatological transformation constituting the new
creation, which is to grow from the seminal event of his resurrection.»
One church member might affirm the objectivity of the presence of the risen
Christ as the first fruits of a new
creation and still be entirely agnostic
over the question of what occurred in the tomb.