Sentences with phrase «christian sacraments»

The four lessons included in this bundle cover the Christian sacraments.

What about the historic Christian sacraments like baptism and the Eucharist, and what about the liturgies of the churches?

This is one of the meanings of the Christian sacraments.

This concentration in Jesus» teaching upon his action made it possible for the disciples to conceive of his death also as divine action, which in turn led to the primitive Christian sacraments as custodians of «Jesus» understanding of himself».

The rites and myths of the contemporary pagan cults afford impressive materials for comparison, and they undoubtedly had an influence on the later development of the Christian sacrament.

This is the heart of the Christian sacrament.

It is transformed by Jesus into a Christian sacrament.

I've forgotten which verses in the Bible are used to justify smoking weed as a Christian sacrament.

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Little children, Jesus never came to bring religion, he never professed saying «i come to bring the catholics or the christians, Jehovah witness, mormons or the pentacostals, babtists, sacraments or holy water» etc..

But it is equally offensive to Buddhists, Muslims, and to all other people of faith, including Christians who have already been baptized and don't believe they need that sacrament / ordinance again, especially after death.

This is one more demonstration that Mormons are not just one more Christian denomination: they are a different religion which rejects Christian baptism and believes only their sacraments are salvific.

So marriage is, for Christians, the primordial sacrament, the sacrament that's most deeply the visible sign of the presence of God or personal logos in the world.

It is commonly understood among the followers of Christ that when one receives the blessed sacrament of the altar, one participates fully and wholly in the body and blood of our Lord Jesus, and in his most sacred gospel, or «good news,» establishing beyond any and all doubt that the one who so participates and lives accordingly IS a Christian.

The novelty and power of Thatcher's accomplishment is evident, first of all, in his central thesis that the core of Christian marriage should lie in the partners» «mutually administered sacrament.»

On the plus side, he makes clear that Christian worship is an encounter in Word and Sacrament with the living Christ, who is present to the church by his Spirit and who forms the church as a divine and human communion.

Fourth, although the sacrament has been central to most of Christianity, the main agency of mediating Jesus» causal presence and making it real, it is not essential to Christian existence.

For some Christians this is explanation enough of the real presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament; but for others it is insufficient, since it does not distinguish the Eucharist from a mere memorial.»

So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: «Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.

The Society of Friends has as much claim to the label Christian as has any other group, in spite of its rejection of traditional sacraments.

I am a Christian because of the sacraments, which Kerlin describes as «faith under our fingernails,» and where Jes says «abundant life is not only personal, but communal,» experienced in bread, wine, water, words, touch, sound, and smell.

In all aspects of Christian life, especially in the Sacraments and most especially in the Eucharist, we receive the free gift from God given through another person.

Perhaps the deletion of marriage as a sacrament has also diverted Christians from seeing marriage as life in God.

What Christianity would have been like without its great hymns and oratorios, the poetry of the Bible, the time - transcending liturgies of the sacraments, and the distinctive beauty of Christian houses of worship is hard to contemplate.

This was a movement that attacked the Christian conception of God, scoffed at the Bible and sacraments, detested the ministry, and denied the necessity of the Church.

The drama of sacraments as occasions in which the power of God comes to dwell in the believer can become obscured when a church takes its rites for granted or forgets the radical nature of Christian identity.

The effect of Jesus» call was not to make Andrew, Peter, James, and John full - time Christian workers, nor was it to make daily work a sacrament.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.

A third sacrament that belongs with baptism and Eucharist for the continuous strengthening in Christian identification with God is penance.

Sacraments are concrete actions by which Christians may be marked, fed and touched by the Holy Spirit so that the reality of God and the work of Christ become embedded in the body and psyche.

As one who weekly receives God's self - giving through Word and sacrament, the Christian is enabled to give himself or herself for others in a struggle that outlasts each of us.

On this Sunday, the Sacrament - what Mormons call the remembrance of the Last Supper and what other Christians call Communion - is said in French, a nod to the area's burgeoning West African population.

Fortunately, the church has the means of focusing Christian minds and upbuilding the community: the sacraments.

The sacrament of baptism, the Catechism (1213) tells us, «is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua), and the door which gives access to the other sacraments.»

In recent months there has been much discussion as to what the first Christians believed about marriage and the discipline of the sacraments.

So the argument that Christians require sacraments because otherwise we get all up in our head and detached from the world is just empirically false.

The modernist — the extreme modernist, infidel in all but name — need not be called a fool or hypocrite because he obstinately retains, even in the midst of his intellectual atheism, the language, rites, sacraments, and story of the Christians.

Through the sacrament of baptism Christians participate not only in the death of Christ but also in his resurrection.

In the fulfillment of this sacrament, the marriage of Christian man and woman is a sign of the marriage between Christ and the Church.»

If Lutherans really believe what their theology says about Word and Sacrament, then I think they would be equally passionate about engaging other Christians: When Christians understand what Christ offers in the sacraments, that understanding, and what is actually received, changes their lives because they come into direct contact with the death and new life of Jesus.

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

(CCC: 2500) People have always been drawn to Christian faith by the sacred beauty that the Church offers us in the revelation of God in Jesus, scripture, liturgy, sacraments, lives of the saints, sacred art, miracles of conversion and healing, and in her own very nature.

In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.

Should it acknowledge that two previously married persons were suddenly no longer conjoined in a sacrament, or maintain its teaching that a valid marriage between two baptized Christians was indissoluble unless one of the partners died?

Episcopal liturgist and well - known blogger Sarah Dylan Breuer devised the U2charist in 2004 to pair the Irish rock band's passion for God and social justice with the sacrament of Christian worship.

My central claim, both today and tomorrow, is that being a Christian is primarily about a relationship with God lived within the Christian tradition as a sacrament — a claim to which I will return at the end of this talk.

And not all religions use the one - man - one - woman Christian rule for administering this sacrament.

Most Orthodox churches do not rebaptize converts from other Christian denominations since the Orthodox teach that baptism is a one - time - only sacrament.

In the consolation of the brethren (Christian encouragement) and in the Water, Bread and Wine of the Sacraments.

Within most Christian communions, for example — even those which do not view marriage as a sacrament — there remains an idealism about marriage and a feeling that second marriages are never quite as good as first ones.