Sentences with phrase «christ over culture»

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What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

Asked in The Kingdom of God in America, this question was reframed in Christ and Culture as a relationship between a social tradition that seeks to conserve its customs and «the power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men.»

For too long, I elevated popular culture's opinion of me over what I know about being fearfully and wonderfully made, over my logic, over my own feminist and theological convictions, over my beliefs about who I am in Christ.

You are correct that society and cultures have changed dramatically over the ages, but morality and living life in a Christ - centered way have not changed.

The epoch of settled and expanding civilisation which began with the Romano - Hellenic Empire, was the first historically known period of widespread and continuous human culture over a significant area; it came indeed to cover most of the known world by the time of the birth of Christ.

In Chapters 5 and 6 we considered the electronic church preachers who have adopted a «Christ of culture» response which uses the techniques of the world of the technological era, a world of means that values technique («whatever works is good») over human values.

At the same time the church is a community of the present, so that the inherited tradition and the social and biographical situation of the moment are always enmeshed with each other, Insofar as the tradition side retains the «gospel,» it has a certain primacy over the contemporaneous side; that is, Christ should transform culture.

Our secular self - help culture teaches us that our personal success reigns supreme over all, so fully subscribing to the secular doctrine of self - help and prosperity will result in us neglecting our spiritual nature in Christ.