Sentences with phrase «christian laymen»

Only in 398 did Emperor Acadius for the East and in 408 Honorius for the West limit the scope of the episcopal court in respect to Christian laymen to those cases in which both parties sought it in preference to the regular tribunal.

Issued by the Testimony Publishing Company, Chicago, and distributed with the «compliments of two Christian laymen».

The community mental health effort is, therefore, a lay effort and requires committed Christian laymen at the center of the movement.

It is not the sheer indoctrination of Christian laymen in what is sometimes called «definite Church teaching.»

Other such projects are the Sigtuna Institute in Sweden, the Kerk en Wereld center near Utrecht in Holland, Cluny in France, the Zoë movement in Greece, and numerous other less permanent arrangements by which Christian laymen meet occasionally for a week end of conference on matters of mutual Christian concern.

On those Tuesdays I gave a number of addresses, answering questions often asked by Christian laymen and inquirers; the answers were taken down by tape - recorder and are here printed with very slight changes.

On those Tuesdays I gave a number of addresses, answering questions often asked by Christian laymen and inquirers; the answers were taken down by tape - recorder and are here...

Good works of proper kinds, ecumenical engagements, discussions with captive groups of Christian laymen of all kinds — yes.

There is nothing that Christian laymen are told more often and know more fully than that they ought to pray.

My bet is that you, as a Christian layman, are going to feel that way too.

here are some materials you might can use outdoors with your street outreach ive used them in prisons and street ministry here in nw Louisiana im a Christian layman do my own ministry work

I doubt that any juror among us believed that the defendant was innocent of all involvement in the brutal robbery and murder of a Christian layman discharging his responsibilities.

For the Christian layman, what can be the motives of such fundamental research?

A thoughtful Christian layman has adapted an article from Printers Ink entitled «Your Copy Is You» (by substituting «sermon» for «copy»):

He does not push the movement, but speaks in a matter - of - fact and utterly persuasive manner about how Opus Dei has helped him to understand and sustain his vocation as a Christian layman.

Not exact matches

Catholic laymen must take up their place in life and face their family, their love, their children (who perhaps do not always come up to their expectations), their professional duties which grow ever more irksome and their duties as citizens; in doing so they will meet situations in which, because they reflect on their faith, they will know how to behave as Christians living in the grace of God, the light of the gospel and the imitation of the crucified Christ.

(My Understanding the Christian Faith gives a survey of theological concepts and is written primarily for laymen.

Rather, enlightened by Christian wisdom and giving close attention to the teaching authority of the Church, let the layman take on his own distinctive role [Gaudium et spes].

Naghmeh Abedini, the pastor's wife, said last week that a few laymen with the Christian church in Iran told her husband's attorney that they had been called to testify in the case.

Naghmeh Abedini said this week that «a few» laymen with the Christian church in Iran told her husband's attorney that they have been called to testify in the case.

A constructive image of evangelizing requires a review of contemporary methods like revivalism and mission, and leads to the concept of the Christian, whether minister or layman, encountering others, whether as individuals or in a group, in a discussion of their expressed needs, and depends more on attitudes than techniques.

The bishops have Pajeros, the educated laymen are frustrated and drop out of church life, and the poor Christians are left to serve as sweepers.

Apparently there is a longing on the part of laymen for the preacher to give an honest, intelligent, passionate, personal presentation of Christian conviction rather than the coldly rational, dispassionate presentation of objective truth.

(In my Understanding the Christian Faith, which is intended primarily for laymen, I have given a survey of the basic convictions of Christian faith, with a chapter on principles of biblical interpretation.

Nature and God by L. Charles Birch, a biologist, is an attractive work for the sophisticated layman.133 Richard H. Overman's Evolution and the Christian Doctrine of Creation is more extensive.

The New Testament Greek word «laos,» from which «layman» and «laity» are derived, refers to all Christians!

See also the «Layman's Theological Library» series (Westminster Press); the «Christian Faith» series (Doubleday); and the «Reflection Books» series (Association Press).

I have said enough, I hope, to show why so many of us feel so immensely indebted to this layman, perhaps the greatest exemplar of the Catholic laity in the last two centuries — a master of many wisdoms, a metaphysician, a philosopher at once humane and Christian, an ethicist and philosopher of history, a political philosopher, a saintly and childlike man.

Hence it was possible for the word quest to become almost sacred in Christian circles, for the leading Modernist journal to publish an editorial on «The Cult of the Questers,» for the Laymen's Appraisal Commission on Missions to suggest that the missionary activity of the church be also made part of the quest for the truth or the true religion.

Laywomen are generally closer to the life of the church than are the laymen, not because they are essentially better Christians, but because they find more to do in the church's voluntary organizations.

When the Persian king Kavadh I had to flee his country to Central Asia in AD 499, he met on the way a group of Christian missionaries — a bishop, four presbyters and four laymen — going to Central Asia to preach to the Turks.

There are high opportunities in vocations of Christian leadership such as the ministry, the mission field, and Christian education, and many more young people should be entering them; there are also rich opportunities for Christian service and witness in an endless number of occupations to which God calls the layman.11

Furthermore, when ministers get discouraged and seem to be accomplishing nothing, again and again their hearts are warmed by the fidelity of those laymen — perhaps only one or two in a congregation — who can always be depended on, who see at least partially what the minister is driving at, who in an unpretentious way are genuine Christian saints.

12) with its emphasis on the layman's ministry to the world, gives both worship and Christian education a fresh, practical relevancy.

But on a deeper view no Christian minister or layman escapes the profound mystery of confession and absolution.

A second observation is the main theme of this book — that if the layman's life is to be radically affected by the Christian gospel, the Christian faith must be communicated to him in language that he can understand.

Only as laymen decide they care enough about the applications of the Christian faith to unite in study under leadership, or to unite in discussion to learn from one another in a fellowship, are we apt to get far toward bridging the gap between the Church and the world.

It is a discovery he is not likely to make unless theologians and ministers do a much better job than we have thus far in stating the eternal truths of the Christian faith in language both simple and relevant to the layman's world.

The ideological foundations of these other faiths are seldom carefully analyzed or theoretically defended, but they make their impact by such powerful and continuous stimuli that relatively few laymen in concrete issues oppose them with the counterclaims of the Christian gospel.

This is not to say that most laymen are bad or that they are poor Christians.

Protestant women and laymen were active in winning their fellows to the Christian faith.

He issued a new sermon in April on the Mass: «Faith is the real priestly office... All Christians are priests, man or woman, young or old, lord or servant wife or maid, scholar or layman.»

He is a theologically reflective Lutheran layman who has through the years strengthened his support for our Christian heritage.

And Karl Gaspar, Christian teacher and layman, brought some of his college students together and began teaching them how to do improvisational protest drama.

A Lutheran Layman is a Confessional Lutheran Christian Blog without all the NONSENSE so common to Christianity today.