Sentences with phrase «christ who»

In fact John preached repentance to help people prepare for the Christ who came to give the Holy Spirit, which John could not give.

But you see, I donâ $ ™ t expect bad things to happen to me as created by other Chrisitans, but I have no illusions or rose - colored glasses onâ $ «Satan is alive and well and will use people within the church system to kill and destroyâ $ «My faith is NOT in the church system, but in Christ who set up the church as HIS Body by calling saved, but flawed people into it.»

In this way the church will show that it belongs to that movement of God's love shown in Christ who went to the periphery of life.

The image of the tribunal, not of justice but of mercy, where the penitent appears before Christ who is both judge and healer, captures something of the peculiar nature of divine justice.

9 This means of course that the living Christ is not open to historical enquiry and «Christian language about Christ must always take the form of a confession».10 The only real Christ is the Christ who is preached, and the Christ who is preached is precisely the Christ of faith.

Looking at the question of people in mission today, «We perceive a change in the direction of mission, arising from our understanding of the Christ who is the center and who is always in movement towards the periphery.

No church worth the name exists to give the minister something to do; the minister has something to do because the Church exists as the fellowship of believers in the gospel of Christ who need to be helped to be better believers.

Yet she proclaims and is in duty bound to proclaim without fail, Christ who is the way, the truth and the life (Jn.

It must have been Christ who got all your pensions back on track and investments on firmer footing, hooray for Christ!

To the Christian, for whom the whole process of hominization is merely a paving of the way for the ultimate Parousia, it is above all Christ who invests Himself with the whole reality of the Universe, but at the same time it is the Universe which is illumined with all the warmth and immortality of Christ.

But you see, I don't expect bad things to happen to me as created by other Chrisitans, but I have no illusions or rose - colored glasses on — Satan is alive and well and will use people within the church system to kill and destroy — My faith is NOT in the church system, but in Christ who set up the church as HIS Body by calling saved, but flawed people into it.

But here, except thou do the quite contrary, except thou send Moses away with his law, and in these terrors and this anguish lay hold upon Christ who died for thy sins, look for no salvation.

We die to self when we at last realise that in us is no good thing and we are totally incapable of living the resurrected life by self effort then and only then will we give up and surrender as a failure to Christ then in us the hope of glory in our hearts rises and we find we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us when we rely totally on Him putting no confidence in our flesh.

If I understand his thesis correctly, it is very similar to what I have argued here — that the Old Testament must be interpreted in light of the New and that, at least occasionally, reports in the Old Testament (about what God commanded people to do) must be relativized in light of the character of God revealed in Jesus Christ who is the Word of God in person.»

As Benedict XVI writes on the beatitudes, in Jesus of Nazareth, Christ who had nowhere to lay his head is truly poor; Christ who said «Come to me... for I am meek and lowly in heart» (Mt 11:28 — 29) is truly meek.

There is One Mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ who mediates in his humanity.

Human nature is only meaningful because it is made in view of Christ who is to come at the fullness of time and confer immortality through union with himself and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

I am to go to church to fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ and regain strength and knowledge in order to go back out into the world to win more souls, but I will challenge ANYONE brother or sister in Christ who does not give God the credit instead of themselves.

CSGC defines martyrs as «believers in Christ who have lost their lives prematurely, in situations of witness, as a result of human hostility.»

If you check out the the history of the trinity concept, you'll discover that it was a group of men 300 years after Christ who determined who the REAL godhead — not very reliable — men are not perfect.

We do it not in our own strength, but through Christ who strengthens us.

I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

It is because of this that he emphasises that we should «shun idols, guard our eyes from «vanities / nothings» (pp. 44, 48) so that we can «adore the God of Jesus Christ who out of love made himself bread broken, the most effective and radical remedy against the idolatry of the past and of the present.»

Polyphonic as they are, Dostoevsky's novels concentrate obsessively on a handful of themes — freedom, beauty, and the Christ who is the standard and guarantor of both.

, the Son of Man comes to judge people on the basis of their response to the Christ who confronts them now in the needy persons of their world.

They are not able to observe the discretion of the New Testament authors, including St Paul, in this matter; or to be satisfied with the joyful assurance of the Apostle when he says that henceforth death can no longer separate from Christ him who has the Holy Spirit.

When the Christian Church speaks in language of Messianic expectation of the Christ who will come again in glory, the faith proclaimed is not primarily concerned with describing a descent of Christ from Heaven like an astronaut returning to Earth after a time in space.

No need to take my word, warning comes before destruction and it Jesus Christ who shall give you the very evidence that you refused to accept while being alive and by then, it will be too late for the unbeliever and the religious people who has taught false doctrines.

Yet this Christ, now regnant with the Father, is the same Christ who for us men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven — so we are driven to make terms with Him, the Incarnate Lord.

In spite of the «cloud of witnesses» mentioned in the Book of Hebrews, and the Jesus» reminder that «our God is the God of the living, not the dead, few Protestant Christians have any sense of a connection with our brothers and sisters in Christ who have passed into the fullness of Eternity.

So Peter with an extraordinary completeness presents us with the Christ who pre-existed in history and before history began (1:10, 11, 20), the Christ who came to this earth and who suffered and died for men on the cross (1:16 - 22; 2:24), the Christ who descended into Hades and so tasted the full bitterness of death (3:19), the Christ who rose from death (1:3, 21; 3:21), the Christ who ascended into glory (1:11; 3:22), and the Christ who will come again (1:7, 13; 4:7; 5:1, 4).

It is not only Jesus Christ who has a purpose; God has given a specific purpose to every individual Christian the face of the planet.

It was also a model of the Christ who would come (God's firstborn) and the Son of God who would indeed be sacrificed for the sin of the world.

Paul to the Ephesians (real guy to real people in a real place about a real Christ who is everywhere)

I respect pastors, and others who follow Christ who treat others in a Christ - like way.

7 Kerygmatic declarations are found primarily in Paul and John where the accent is not upon a Jesus of Nazareth enmeshed in historical relativities but upon the crucified and risen Christ who now calls men out of death into life.

I would suggest you focus on Christ who can ONLY be one of three things — LIAR, fully aware that he was tricking mankind, OR a LUNATIC — of a demented mind and actually believing he was GOD, but was not OR He was LORD.

If we truly do feel that the money that has been invested in church buildings has been misappropriated, then it is not Christ who has spent it, but one who is against the aims of Christ.

In the process, we become the joy we were created to be (Isaiah 65:18), stunning the world with the reality that we have discovered the secret of being content in all circumstances — in highs and lows, plenty and hunger, abundance and need — we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us (Phil.

It is Christ who both distinguishes and unites the church.

Yet exclusively Jesus - centered and exclusively Christ - centered groups contradict not only each other but also contradict Jesus Christ himself who will not bear witness to himself but to the one who sent him.

The Christ of faith, that is, the Christ who has been introduced into our personal histories by the faith of those who trust him and are loyal to him in his loyalty, is a specific individual figure.

Good article, raises pertinent questions on key concepts, the answers to which focuses on one person, Christ who is the key to answer the question that the God of the Bible is not the god of the Quran.

Commandments in which Islam rejects... 500 years later a man, claiming to be a prophet (Muhammad), is visited by a so - called angel... This angel gives him words and commandment that totally refute the commandments of Jesus Christ who is supposed to be a holy prophet in their eyes.

It is Christ who was chosen before the foundation of the world.

The Jesus Christ who loves us has created and reigns in a world in which such seeming pacts with the devil are the price of existence.

It's also possible he is saying that we can not begin to locate the God that Wilmot lost until we confess that there is no substitute for belief in the Christ who was born «across the sea, with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.»

Hharri, my role model is Jesus Christ Who is yours?

I think, at least in our lifetimes, there will always be followers of Christ who's deepest convictions are that Scripture precludes sexually intimate gay relationships.

But I would argue that it was Christ himself who said, «You are the salt of the earth, and you are the light of the world.