Sentences with phrase «christian in the state of grace»

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Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Not only did it recognize the ecclesial reality of other Christian churches, but it stated explicitly that «whatever is wrought by the grace of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of our separated brethren can contribute to our own edification.»

Pius XI added, in Casti Conubii (1930), «Even though Christian parents are in the state of grace themselves, they can not transmit this grace to their children; in fact, natural generation of life has become a way of death, the way by which original sin passes to children.»

You will not find this call to true peace and rest in any other faith, All other religions it is a constant never ending struggle of some sort, but not for the Christian, The Bible states (For by grace or ye (you) saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.

In the book I mentioned last week, The Grace Awakening, by Chuck Swindoll tells the true story of a Christian college in the United States where they had very strict Sabbath lawIn the book I mentioned last week, The Grace Awakening, by Chuck Swindoll tells the true story of a Christian college in the United States where they had very strict Sabbath lawin the United States where they had very strict Sabbath laws.

Speaking of your supposed «grace of faith», don't forget that the «loving, personal» Christian god actually, according to what is explicitly stated in the bible, demanded brutal animal sacrifice from his subjects, along with murder, torture and rape of fellow humans.

But what one is suggesting is that the graces which are promised in marriage, the special grace of life and state, must be obtained in a unique and special way though the Eucharist in the case of Christian spouses.»

And, in a more general statement that would include members of so - called «natural» religions, it is stated: «This [i.e., the hope of resurrection] holds true not only for Christians, but for all men of good will in whose hearts grace works in an unseen way.

In principle, these findings could lead to methods — call them «mystical technologies» — that reliably induce the state of spiritual insight that Christians call grace and Buddhists, enlightenment.