Sentences with phrase «christian life styles»

At first it took the form of wanting to understand radical Christian life styles.

Common to all Christian life styles include: 1.

A few general elements common to all Christian life styles are clear.

A Christian life style is one that puts trust where it belongs: in God, not in material possessions — or even in a life style.

The call to develop a responsible Christian life style within the community may be resisted because of the hard demands of the gospel.

That family is the exclusive Christian life style.

Not exact matches

«Her style of life and what she does and how she conducts herself isn't the Christian way, and we're Christians,» he said.

So, to be plain in my answer: if both hetero and gay couple are Christians and they die living out that life - style, I believe they will NOT go to heaven.

(LOL) if they do not want me because of my beliefs, even though I live a better, more «christian» life style than most christians I deal with... no problem..

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

Beginning with Friedrich Schleiermacher in a letter published in 1807, biblical textual critics and scholars examining the texts fail to find their vocabulary and literary style similar to Paul's unquestionably authentic letters, fail to fit the life situation of Paul in the epistles into Paul's reconstructed biography, and identify principles of the emerged Christian church rather than those of the apostolic generation.

Their path is attractive to less ascetic Christians and admittedly to those who find themselves heavily committed to consumption - oriented life styles.

Jitsuo Morikawa gathered around him a group of imaginative younger Christians (including Harvey Cox, at one time), and with them he initiated a program they called Evangelistic Life Styles.

Is play to be the Christian's life - style, as Sam Keen argues; the Christian's mission, as Jürgen Moltmann suggests; or the Christian's opportunity, as C. S. Lewis describes it?

The rules of monogamy, the proscription of sexual intercourse outside marriage, the traditional rules of sexual restraint, are important for the Christian style of life.

The biblical understanding of life never had a chance to shape its own culture and ethic, and thus to create a context for sexuality within a Christian style of life.

bootyfunk your and idiot because that passage in mathew 10 its a parrable he is trying to get people to realize that God needs to be the most important thing your life because with him you would not be period so to say that Jesus Christ the son of God is promoting volience is ridiculous, it tares me up that people like you take bit's and peices of the bible and make sound like you want it to if your going to read the Christian hand book then read it all do nt take stuff out of contence just to suit your life style your truly and always be a devoute Christian

The general purposes are to enrich marriages and help couples discover how to implement the Christian life - style.

There lived at that time in Asia a Christian leader of such influence and reputation that he could in his correspondence style himself simply «the Elder.»

That distinction being presupposed, let us first ask what is to be said on the question of mutability or immutability of canon law and the Catholic style of life bound up with it, if we may so describe all the practices, rules, modes of behaviour in a Catholic's church life and his secular life lived on Christian lines, which hold good or previously held good through education, church precept etc..

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

God, with his mighty power, out of the riches of His glory, wants to remake your inner man through the help of the Holy Spirit so that Christ can dwell comfortably and in style in your life, so that you will have love for other Christians.

The doctrine produces outward Christian activity - an informal code on what is «Christian» life - style (the agreed points of which are nevertheless being whittled down with each passing year), Christian activity in and out of church, and a Christian empire with organs of entertainment, education, and political influence - but it does not necessarily produce Christians who are, at the roots of their being, Christian.

It's not uncommon for Christian singles to engage in this style of Dating Survivor while complaining that they'll never meet «the one» and are doomed to a life of singleness.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

Virginia Stem Owens has suggested provocatively in her book The Total Image that Jesus increasingly is being commended, not through proclamation, but through marketing in a subtle way that favourably blends the Christian message with identifiable consumer life - styles.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

His life - style of «Christian realism» began to produce a new breed of church leader.

Articulated by editor Jim Wallis in his book Agenda for Biblical People, as well as by editorials and articles by the staff, the Sojourners position reflects a Christian radicalism steeped in the Anabaptist tradition - one committed to rigorous discipleship, corporate life - style, and societal critique.

The Reformed Journal editor recognizes that suffering will be the necessary style of the Christian's entire life.38 Just as God entered fully into history in the Christ - event, taking upon himself its pain, so Christians must commit themselves to the human situation, assuming its misery.

Thus the strong economic and political critique of American and world - wide power is balanced in the pages of Sojourners by an increasingly strong commitment to a communitarian Christian life - style.

We have already touched on these themes, but now we shall examine them more closely as Bonhoeffer develops them as guidelines for the life style of the «religionless Christian» who believes, in contrast to Marx, that his humanity becomes meaningful only in obedience to his Lord.

CNN: In Obama's first term, an evolving Christian faith and a more evangelical style Welcome to the intense, out - of - the - box and widely misunderstood religious life of President Barack Obama.

It is the religious bigots (mostly christian in the US) that are trying to impose their perverted life style on the rest of society.

The terms charismatic and Pentecostal have become virtually interchangeable, and both labels tend to be avoided by mainstream Christians who have incorporated various «Spirit - filled» beliefs or styles into personal and congregational life.

When they have the big Gay Pride parades for all to see, publically shoving their life style down others throats who do not believe in it the only ones called out are the Christians protesting it.

Recently I assigned a class Gustavo Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation, a book that to my mind combines at a fairly systematic level many of the qualities I have been speaking about, most notably the insistence on the relation of Christian belief and life style.

The simplest way to characterize this note is to say it is a remarriage of theology with ethics, or a renewed insistence that Christian faith inexorably involves a style of living in a concrete, actual time and place.

In the UK Christians are not allowed to offer prayer in a hospital to the sick, on airlines wearing a Christian symbol of a cross is not allowed, Christian teaching in school must not be taught as the only truth, and a blind eye is turned to extreme religious life styles.

The Christian life - style is intentional but it is more.

He wondered if he was also rejecting the Christian way or style of life.

But Christians no longer need to follow Jewish law as Christ is the ransom.He did not come to change the law but Christians aren't Jews and we don't have the same life style.

Christian parents may be more understanding of the life - style of their children if they realize that the world in which their children have come of age requires their children to make decisions about sexual behavior that were not even issues in the past.

(See the Council's document on revelation, Dei Verbum) In the past, a defensive style of theology, remnants of which still unfortunately live on, sought to preserve an often rather narrowly conceived Christian notion of revelation from attack by alternative positions, whether religious or secular.

Are we prepared to undertake the rigorous examination of parish, family and personal life styles called for in a world of scarcity, and as a Christian community to make a serious effort to understand and confront the systems which perpetuate the problem of separation between the rich and the poor?

People have learned and helped others to learn, and with such learning has come an improved pattern of living, a life - style with Christian reference.

The Christian style of life is always a matter of word and deed.

This means that the individual Christian will have to assume a new life style.

Other conventional signs of Christian identity are to be found in personal dress and life styles, church architecture, forms of worship, including music, as well as a concern with numerical increase.

Salvatore Rino Fisichella, a Catholic archbishop, said of members of his own church: «Looking at us probably no one would recognize we are Christians today because our style of life is the same as non-believers.»