Sentences with phrase «christian life of service»

And it was this doctrine, in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16

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Osteen's Christian self - help books, including Your Best Life Now, have been a mainstay of bestseller lists since 2004, and Osteen has been broadcasting services from the Houston church since 1999.

I'm not proposing that we put our feet up and opt out of life and Christian service.

Having shared the great grace of baptism and having been appropriately catechized into «the mysteries,» evangelical Catholics understand, appreciate, and live the biblical truth of Christian vocation as given by St. Paul: «Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.

But, if you feel there is never a wrong reason for becoming a christian, even if an individual does it for no other reason than playing it safe, never believed in god, will go their whole never never truly bielving, does the minimum (paying lip service), and to really point a cherry on top, doesn't live anything close to a «christian lifestyle outside of the few hours on Sundays (just a rotten to the core person, thief, liar, cheater... rappist, murderer...) Is there STILL no wrong reason for becoming religeous?

In a statement released by the FCO, his family said: «We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Ian, a loving father, husband, and devout Christian, who dedicated much of his life in the service of others.

We have stressed that in the Christian view the saved and the healed life is given in responsible and loving service in the great task of world - making, and is not concerned merely to be relieved of private burdens.

Baptism, grounded in the Easter event, starts the Christian life, and the same paschal joy echoes even in the service of Christian burial.

This means Christians working for and advocating the redistribution of goods and services so that poor people can experience a positive, productive quality of life.

Look at the 2013 list of top - rated charities (the ones that give the most money to their ministries vs. those who take a huge chunk of the donations for «administrative fees»)- It's a mixed bag, but the ones that tend to do the best are the Catholic Charities (Jesuit Refugee Services gives ~ 97 % of its donations directly to the poor) while the bottom 20 are filled with religious, non-Catholic charities like «Victorious Christian Living International» and the «Gospel to the Unreached Millions» Which give 57.2 % and 56.9 % of their donations to the poor, keeping the rest for administrative costs.

I believe he is providing a prominent professional service to humanity free of charge, where he doesn't have to, out of belief in the «Sanctity of Human Life» and as a Christian with a directive from the Lord Jesus Christ to do so.

The Christian peer Baroness Cox — who in 2011 attempted in the House of Lords to enact legislation called the Arbitration and Mediation Services Equality Bill, to protect women living here from the effects of Sharia as it is already allowed to be practised in this country — reacted to this démarche with some alarm.

Jesus commends those who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19: 12).20 Christian celibacy is dedication to a pattern of life in which one fruitful and natural kind of experience is renounced for the sake of service to God and neighbour.

Today, though a Christian be as thoroughgoing as the Quakers in discarding ritual, he must none the less appreciate the often superior quality of inward spiritual life and outward social service on the part of those who in the sacrifice of the Mass see Christ verily present.

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

The vision of a congregation maturing in the Christian life implies a multilevel organization that services the needs of the various phases of maturing in the Christian life.

Like the Jews in Babylon living in a foreign land, Christians are — and always have been — «resident aliens» called to love our neighbors with deeds of service so that those around us will «see [our] good deeds and glorify God» (1 Peter 2:12 NIV).

The Sunday morning worship service reminds us of the simultaneous juxtaposition of all the phases of the Christian life.

The friends of Jesus, and afterwards Paul himself who had been, until that moment, an active enemy and persecutor of the first Christians, found that Jesus, who had died and been buried, encountered them as their living Lord and claimed them for his service in the world.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

But Christians are in no small part called to a life of service here on earth, and if you were to end your own life prematurely, I can't help but question in that instance whether you would in fact get to the good part at all, however it is not my place to judge.

He challenged it in the name of a call to service, openness, love, and to the vocation of giving life and love away, which becomes the Christian vocation.

Is Israel's call or the Christian Church's call a call to a privileged status, or is it a call to a life of service?

The story opened in a swank Protestant church where at the conclusion of the service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?

Is Lindsell correct in his assertion that Willi Marxsen's denial of the bodily resurrection denies him the possibility of being a Christian, even though, as Beegle states, Marxsen is «absolutely convinced that Jesus of Nazareth is living and calling him to faithful service»?

Let us illustrate this point of view toward which our whole discussion has been moving by looking briefly at the sacraments of the Church, the Christian meeting of death, and the Christian life of active service as expressions of the way which is enclosed in the grace of this kind of community.

«I am not an orthodox Christian,» he said, «but the Christian tradition is so much a part of our life, of my life, and Christ is to me so commanding a figure who so released all that I care most for that I feel justified in asserting a Christian service which should not play up personal immortality» (Swanberg, p. 407)

We must live and act as Christians in this order of the state as also we must live in the economic order, and in the family, but «we should be fully aware that the Christian, in the service of love, is summoned to place himself within an order which is inherently loveless.

24) This judgment is based upon Karl Barth, The Christian Life (London: S.C.M. Press, 1930), and The Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation, esp.

The Christian conception of the moral life as service in the world of the order of good which is never wholly realized in the world opens the way to moral integrity.

However, Mr. Blake would have done CNN's readers a much better service to have included comments from Billy Graham, Tim Keller, Rick Warren or host of other Christian leaders who actually live the life of faith and believe in the divinity of Christ rather than to focus in on Borg who has little influence inside the Faith because he does not accept its basis tenets.

Maturity in the life of loving service is a recognizable fact in Christian experience.

If you are trying to find a ministry, and trying to become effective in the service of the Lord, if you seem to be going every which way in your Christian life, this is probably an indication that God is lifting you up.

It demonstrates how Christians living in an empire can be easily co-opted and how the gospel's liberating message can be perverted and placed at the service of the empire.

The writer of Ephesians thinks about the daily life of Christians in terms of service to God and to one another.

The ministry of all Christians — service to God in family, in the church, and in the world — is a commitment attractive to teens looking for a life worth living.

Some Christian pacifism has made its radical protest on that point alone, the refusal of military service, but more often it has appeared as the declaration of a way of life intended to express love directly, as in the Society of Friends.

(CNN)- Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

CNN: Nigerian forces kill 13 Boko Haram militants after church attacks Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.

[20] The individual Christian ideally should find in the humble service of the deacon — especially in his role in the celebration of the Mass — an example of self - abnegation and the virtue - filled life.

Are parishioners urged to invite others to services, pilgrimages, groups and talks as part of their everyday Christian lives so as not to miss what may be heaven - sent opportunities?

The Kingdom of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary principle of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three principles of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child of God and is destined for a life of eternal fellowship with Him... Love... finds its primary expression through Justice — which in the field of industrial disputes means in practice that each side should state its own case as strongly as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...

So I hope that as he flies home on September 27, the Holy Father will understand that American Catholics share every ounce of his passion for Christian service and human dignity — beginning with the unborn child, but not ending there; including the poor and the immigrant, but reaching from conception to natural death... and confirming that the «joy of the Gospel» comes from a Gospel of Life.

They explained how Reyes, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, «joined Christian leaders who mobilized to stop legislation that would have criminalized ministers for transporting the undocumented to church services,» while Cross «saw the impact of this sort of legislation firsthand in Alabama» at his Southern Baptist church.

Recently we have been joined by a good number of Roman Catholic lay people, who have found ways to give their lives in Christian service, especially through the Grail.

«Today, in all Christian Communions, the emphasis in pastoral life and equally in the liturgical prayers is upon «love»; upon love, courage, service and very rarely upon truth as the Light of God.

I basically told him (though not in quite these words) that he was the new Christian and I was the trained pastor, and God Himself planned our lives before the foundations of the world, so we should follow God's example and plan our church services.

Whatever one's marital status, a rich and useful life of Christian service is the will of God.

The Christian calling is not only to service, not only to self denial, not only to a nature that is foreign to the status quo — it is a calling to life, abundant life — to express realities in the here and now that affirm the true value of creation and redemption as the work of the Father, Son and Spirit — to serve and give ourselves up in a manner that truly allows that to be made evident, that the world may become aware of the true fragrance of God — Jesus Christ.

As Christians, service has to be the ideal of our life.