Sentences with phrase «christian life results»

If we say the progress of the Christian life results in a freedom only to do the good then we make spiritual maturity a development out of responsibility into mechanism.

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This however extreme it might sound, is largely what I have tried to do with the result that, now, very late in life, I have come full circle and after years of cynicism and doubt have become a Christian — but even now — not one who unthinkingly accepts every facet of my Doctrine of choice.

The result of that evolution, Evangelical Catholicism, is an expression of the four enduring marks of Christian ecclesial life — unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity.

Mr Cox went on to say: «I would like to see churches pray for increased opportunities to celebrate truth and justice in the media and for lives to be changed as a result, for Christians working in and with the media to shine for God and to become more influential.

As a result, much energy was expanded on delineating the implications of Christian faith in life generally, without regard to the historic locus of faith in the life of the Christian community.

For fellow Christians to implicate one of the beacons for Christian thought in the 21st century as a bigoted, senseless, reactionary institution, is equivalent to denying the ultimate conclusions and results of Wheaton's work in the 21st century up until this point, which as a graduate living in a secular world, has been mostly of incredible benefit not only to our world, but the kingdom beyond.

«I never tire of repeating those words of Benedict XVI which take us to the very heart of the Gospel: «Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

As a result of this ongoing power of sin in their lives, some of them begin to wonder if they are truly Christians.

His more general understanding of Christian ~ experience has been colored by this personal frustration, with the result that he has reduced the Christian life to the mere memory of a past event (he labels this «Israel») which seeks to make its believers hard, tight, and controlled.

In that study, those «annoying» people probably became believers and Christians as a result of many events and influences in their lives.

Pope Benedict XVI offers a way forward in his reflections in Jesus of Nazareth, saying that being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice but of an encounter with a person which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.

Though the Bible occasionally speaks of the death of the soul (cf. Ezek 18:4; Matt 16:25 - 26; Jas 1:21; 5:20; 1 Pet 1:9) these texts do not refer to the death of the soul itself, but to the separation of the body from the soul, which results in physical death (see the following articles by Bob Wilkin: «Soul Talk, Soul Food, and Soul Salvation»; «Saving the Soul of a Fellow Christian (James 5:29 - 20)»; «Saving Your Soul By Doing Good (James 1:21)»; «Gaining by Losing (Matthew 16:24 - 28)»; «Suffering which results in Abundant Life (1 Peter 1:9)»).

Newman goes on to argue that claiming that faith must always proceed works in living the Christian life is «mistaking a following in order of conception for a following in order of time...» In fact, he writes, our works are «the concomitant development and evidence, and instrumental cause, as well as the subsequent result of faith.»

Fundamentalist Christians enjoy the fruits of scientific advancement in every aspect of their daily lives, yet don't see the inherent hypocrisy of denying the results of scientific inquiry into what they consider their magisterium.

i will tell you that the one thing that god gave us is the power of will or choice and that is why we can decide to do good or bad or follow him or not but the evidence of a true christian is that person life will change and not is a small way.my people open your eyes and do not be fools to believe that there is no god because you know in your own heart while you say it, deep inside you can see that a god do exist and i do not need to tell you that or prove it to you because you know it is true.unfortunately there are false preachers who do not teach the truth or a halph truth which has led millions down the wrong path and today we see the result of it everywhere.

Richard reminds me of the Apostle Paul, Paul was vehemently seeking out Christians to stone them in effort to do what he believed to be the truth until God got a hold of him and revealed to him the real truth that being Jesus Christ The Way The Truth and The Life And I believe if Richard Dawkins continues to seek the truth as he is The same result will occur in his life, Jesus will reveal Himself to all that seekLife And I believe if Richard Dawkins continues to seek the truth as he is The same result will occur in his life, Jesus will reveal Himself to all that seeklife, Jesus will reveal Himself to all that seek him

You see, works are important in the Christian life, but they are the result of living by faith, not the means of living by faith.

Nor will they deny that a Christian of that kind, absolutely faithful to the Church and its principles, can make the most terrible wrong decisions with catastrophic results in private and public life, without perceiving any contradiction between his decisions and the principles of the Church which he accepts.

Chief executive, Andrea Williams told Premier: «We've met at Christian Concern many ex-prisoners who've been absolutely delighted - and had their lives transformed - as a result of the work, ministry and witness of Pastor Song.

You said, «Let us Christians just lead our humble lives (those of course that are humble), and let the result of afterlife be enough.»

Let us Christians just lead our humble lives (those of course that are humble), and let the result of afterlife be enough.

For the Christian this same constitutive function is exercised by the teaching, life and death of Jesus Christ, and by the affirmations about Jesus made by his disciples as a result of their Easter experiences.

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

They looked for sweaty feet to wash and when terrible plagues hit and huge swathes of the population fled the cities, abandoning the sick, the Christians stayed behind, nursing the ill back to life, with some of the carers dying as a result.

These are ordinary Christians who feel overwhelmingly that their Christian beliefs are being marginalised and that as a result it is becoming far more difficult to live as a person of faith in the UK...»

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

In the last lecture we traced one line of development from the original apostolic Preaching; that, namely, which starting from the eschatological valuation of facts of the past — the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ — resulted in the production of that distinctively Christian form of literature known as Gospels.

We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past... (few) years.»

There is a remarkable parallel between the Eucharist as an action in which the Christian fellowship regularly engages and the meaning of preaching as it proclaims the event of Jesus Christ, what that event has accomplished, and what its «benefits», or results in the life of the believer, bring to the believer.

Though he prefers the older word «piety» — with its deep rootage in Roman history and Calvinist theology — J. I. Packer offers a succinct positive definition of Christian spirituality as an «enquiry into the whole Christian enterprise of pursuing, achieving, and cultivating communion with God, which includes both public worship and private devotion, and the results of these in actual Christian life.»

Rick i struggled for over 20 years as a christian in the end i said whats the point of struggling i feel powerless and useless so i gave in to sin that did nt work either but i was so sick of struggling and seeing the same results i became more miserable and even more powerless in my struggle with sin.I decided one day no more enough was enough i needed to get my life back in order.That was years ago and it was a process over 5 years that God dealt with all those things in my life that needed fixing most days i just said to him Lord i cant do this i just do nt have the strength and he said thats okay you cant do it anyway just trust me.So now now i l know what it means to be an overcomer in Christ sin does not have the victory over me anymore because Jesus is my strength in my weakness.I know i cant live a christian life in my strength but i certainly can with Christ in me he is my strength and in him i am an overcomer.If this is speaking to others just want to let you know that you to can be an overcomer you do nt have to struggle or battle with your walk or feel miserable because you give in to sin there is a better way.Just admit that you cant do it and ask for his help for the holy spirit is in you and he is the one who helps us in our weakness.regards brentnz

The result of separatism and separation has been the proliferation of Paul - ist, Cephas - ite, Apollo - nian denominations that in their prosperity (contrast Europe's dying establishment churches) suggest the values of capitalist competitive models for church life — even if they seem to contradict the drive toward Christian unity.

In a sacrament, a material and visible — in brief, a «sensible» — thing or action is taken and used by God, in accordance with the will of Christ (whether that is by direct institution, as with the eucharist, or through what Christians believe to be by the Spirit in the life of the fellowship, as with baptism), to convey and to effect a spiritual, invisible result.

Bonhoeffer treats sanctification in three aspects of the saints» lives: (1) holy living will be achieved only by not being conformed to the world; (2) Christian living will be a result of walking with Christ; (3) «their sanctification will be hidden, and they must wait for the day of Jesus Christ.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

A dualistic theology of the Christian life inevitably results in a disembodied spirituality.

Even today, many Christians in China, Africa, and the Middle East lose their lives as a result of following Jesus into the darkness.

Here there is entrance into the «benefits» — the results made available for the lives of men — which Christ's life, death, and resurrection effected and which gave rise to the specifically Christian claim that he is God's Son, that One in whom True God dwells supremely in a true man, for the wholeness of all men.

But I also hope that one result of Veritatis Splendor will be a more precise definition of proportionalism, not for the sake of the academy only but more urgently for those Christians who live lives in circumstances giving rise to hard questions of moral action.

Surely, the dynamic character of the life of these early Christians was in large part the result of the interrelationship of these four shared elements.

We are fortunate to live in a nation that protects us from the «red martyrdoms» that Christians in many parts of the world risk by becoming a Christian believer, but that doesn't mean that, although faithfulness will not make God love us any more or faithlessness will make God love us any less, there are not «white martyrdoms» that will result from attempting to confess our faith with our lives and not merely profess our faith with our mouths.

This results in foreign churches that are dependent upon American churches and missionaries for most of the things related to Christian life and practice.

As a result, I think a Muslim and a Christian, simply by living and engaging in a pluralistic society like the United States, have the opportunity to get to know more about their respective faiths, just through experiencing life in a society that includes members of that faith.

There are Christians who break the law by gathering together for church, Christians whose family members have been executed for their beliefs, Christians who have been imprisoned for following Jesus, Christians who live in poverty and fear as a result of their faithfulness.

Suggestion: SOMEBODY might want to clue in the apparently well - meaning Pope of the theological mechanics necessary to rectify the spiritually - bereft condition resulting from embracing the aforementioned «modern - day prophecy» which include these key steps FOR A BELIEVER - IN - CHRIST (vis - a-vis a «believer in Mary») having since become a Matthew 9:16,17 DEFEATED believer for reason of having erroneously elected to attempt to live the Christian life sans the Power and Presence of the Enabling, John 16:8 - 13 soul - convicting, 2 Cor.

They are grounded in Scripture, they have been tested by the Church's experience, they are confirmed by reason, and they may be validated by their results in Christian life.

My ex-wife and my sx life was horrible and only got worse over time, and I largely attribute it to my conservative christian upbringing and teachings and resulting shame, guilt, lack of experience, lack of communication, and lack of knowing my own body and likes and dislikes.

If a weakness of international ecumenism today is that people in the pews can not see the result of the efforts made, local ecumenism is flourishing and bringing a vivid sense of the life and vitality of Christian encounter across denominational lines.

persecutions were local, sporadic and often caused by mob action than the result of definite state policy Tertullian's idea that «the blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church» became a terrible reality in the life of many Christians during this period.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.