Sentences with phrase «christian conversion experience»

In fact, few places in Scripture speak to the Christian conversion experience through any method other than relational metaphor.

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We have already had the experience of religion... The Inquisition... The Salem witch trials... The forced conversion off native peoples throughtout the Americas to the christian faith... oh and the priests who like to play with alter boys...

Since his dramatic conversion experience age 20, Moby has thought long and hard about what it means to be a Christian.

They may also occur between those who have experienced dramatic conversions and those who have grown up as Christians.

The new Roman Catholic «Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults» has also attracted attention as a means of making the conversion of an adult an experience shared in community rather than an individual matter.

(I Corinthians 15:29) The profoundest experiences of Christian conversion — especially remission of sins, (Acts 2:38; I Peter 3:21) the death of the old life and the resurrection of the new, (Romans 6:2 - 4; Colossians 2:12) and incorporation into the body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:13, 27; Ephesians 4:4 - 5)-- were associated with baptism.

On the one hand, there is his clear conviction that he did not become a Christian, despite his having been baptized and reared in the church, until he had a conversion experience while an undergraduate at Oxford.

Unlike other restorationists and more mainstream Christians, Pentecostals taught the «baptism in (or with) the Holy Spirit» — a religious experience beyond conversion made evident in the convert's ability to speak in tongues.

But now, the later revivalists saw God at work primarily in the conversion experience and in the resulting life of Christian good works.

For many other Christians, the journey to faith is more gradual, although some of those who speak of a «conversion experience» were already, like John Wesley, active church members.

A foretaste of that radical Consummation was already attained by those who underwent the experience of conversion that has been so central to every generation of Protestant Christians in America from the early 17th century to the present.

In spite of speaking openly about his Christian faith and conversion experience, his religious beliefs were often distorted for political purposes.

The only real difference between a Bushnell and a Moody concerned whether children must also have a conversion experience in order to know that they are Christian.

«6 Bushnell believed that if a young child was influenced for good early enough in «a Christian home,» a conversion experience during the impressionable teen years would not be necessary.

Christian affections are not part of our inherent nature or received wholesale in a onetime conversion experience; we need to grow into them.

While Christians rightly believe that all truth necessary for such a spiritual experience is mediated only through the revelation in Christ, they must guard against the assumption that only those who know Christ «after the flesh», that is, in the actual historical revelation, are capable of such a conversion, A «hidden Christ» operates in history.

Third World Christians, calling for the conversion of Christians in North America, have noted the danger: «Ironically, just when there is talk of more peaceful coexistence between East and West, our countries in the South experience increased hostile attacks from the West.

This practice can seemingly justify delinquent behavior that occurs after the conversion experience, and eliminates the Christian sin factor.

If, as we are maintaining, to become a Christian is to live a life and not merely to have a conversion experience, then the congregation must exemplify that life if it is to be the place where that life is nurtured.

The good news that there is more to the Christian life than this often leads to what seems like a conversion experience.

A major focus was on Christian experience, especially on conversion.

Without a profound, existential religious experience of conversion one could not be a Christian.

He takes up this theme again in The Origins of Christian Morality (1993) in which he considered morality and its implications for community, conversion, city and household, the world, mutual obligation, the experience of evil, the body and worthiness.

Schillebeeckx would have a stronger argument if there were an established cultural tradition of a specific type of conversion experience such as can be found in certain Christian denominations, particularly in «evangelical» sects and in the southern United States.

The former, he said, were characterized by adherence to the great doctrines that Christians had always deemed essential for salvation, plus (although he did not use this terminology) explicit individual apprehension of the faith through a conversion experience.