We believe that Jesus
Christ rescues people from the emptiness of life and invites them to live life to the full.
Not exact matches
For Luther after 1518,
Christ is central not as pattern but as
person; we are saved by the faith which acknowledges his authority, competence, and willingness to
rescue those who call on him.
Presiding over the event will be a mutilated
Christ statue
rescued from a bombed - out church 15 years ago - perhaps the most powerful reminder of the senseless political violence that left more than 250,000
people dead and millions displaced.
Just as every
person who believes in Jesus for eternal life is transferred from the living under the power of darkness and brought into the Kingdom of Jesus
Christ (Col 1:13), so also we who have been so delivered are to take the Kingdom of Heaven with us into the dark and hellish places on earth, so that those who are entrapped and enslaved can also be
rescued and delivered.
Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and
people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as
Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young
people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that
person» not the sin but the
person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and
rescued us!
And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus
Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God
rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the
People of Miltenberg (1524).