Sentences with phrase «christian teaching the church»

In Christian teaching the Church is often spoken of as «militant, expectant, and triumphant» — as the Church in this world of time and space, as the Church as it awaits final fulfillment, and as the Church «in heaven.»

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I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

He teaches us that Jesus Christ is the divine head of the Christian Church.

In particular, the LCMS, along with its sister church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church bodies.»

The Eastern Orthodox Church, for example and certainly not exclusively, endorses the teachings of pioneering Christian monastics known as the Desert Fathers, who placed great emphasis on living in continual «remembrance of death.»

No less important, he said, the Catholic Church also claims an «authoritative teaching authority not made by other Christian communities, and certainly not by the NAE.»

They, mormons, follow the teachings of Jesus Christ (hince the name of the church «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints», so they are chrischurch «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints», so they are chrisChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints», so they are christians.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couChurch has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church couchurch councils.

The North American experience has taught us that it's only too easy to confound civil religion with Christian faith, thus undermining the Church's loyalty to Christ's kingdom.

IT wasn't Christians, but rather the Catholic Church that murdered thousands of people and this was largely in response to the Muslim movement which was converting people by the sword and killing people, so it became a religious war, but this was far from what Christ taught or envisioned.

Some Christians will see some branches of the Church's changes as positive and a step forward, while others will see it as negative and move away from what the Bible teaches.

Moreover, it is demeaning to suggest that Paul VI affirmed the Church's classic position on marital love and procreation (which had been held for centuries by virtually every Christian community until the Anglican Communion broke ranks at the 1930 Lambeth Conference) because he was afraid that changing the traditional position would unravel the entire body of Catholic moral teaching.

I was in a Christian sect called Catholic church, which strayed so much from the Scriptuers in it's teachings and practices, that it's more like a cult, then true Christianity.

If Christians compromise on this teaching — which every Christian church held to be essential until 11:58 on the clock of history — the world will ask what other beliefs they will muffle when under duress.

Although there have been variations through history in the exercise of that governance, and may be further variations in order to accommodate a fuller expression of Christian unity, Catholics believe that Christ has endowed the Church with a permanent apostolic structure and an infallible teaching office that will remain until the Kingdom is fully consummated.

God's reason for this Testament is to fix the problem of one bible, yet hundreds of Christian churches on earth teaching their own version of that one bible.

If you think the bible is enough, just look at the hundreds of traditional - Christian churches that read from one bible, yet teach hundreds of different doctrines, which confuses us as to which interpretation is the truth.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

People may believe that Mormon is «Christian» simply because they may be ignorantly non-resistant to the mormon mental suggestion that it is the ONLY Christian church and for the fact that most folks don't know what the amazing Jesus taught and stood for.

«The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage» (March) is a clear articulation of the importance of marriage in Christian theology and the need for churches to remain faithful to Christian teaching.

We view ourselves Christians because we follow Christs teachings, believe in the Bible and believe Christ guides our church through revelation to our prophet.

If it is evident that Christians are not held to fulfilling the most momentous vow they will ever make to another person, young people and others may be forgiven for thinking that the churches are not entirely serious in their moral teaching about other matters, especially those related to sexuality.

Maybe it's a good idea for American Christians to take a sabbatical from traditional church for a few years and focus on how how each individual relates to the teachings and example of Jesus outdisde the influence of ecclesiastical thought control.

The moment the Christian churches begin Attuning themselves properly to Jesus Christ and Preaching His eternal message of LOVE for Everyone, Without Conditions, and Teaching about the Afterlife as God has promised us there is, and Teaching about the laying - on of hands to heal the sick as Jesus did, and begin truly Sharing their money with the poor as Jesus did, THEN you will find people flocking back into the church.

The Catholic Church is and has been the Biblical teaching authority for ALL Christians for 2000 + years and will continue to be because Jesus said all the powers of hell (including propserity organizations operating under the pretext of Christianity) would NOT prevail against it.

Obama is a Christian and his actions as president are very much in line with the teaching of the new testament, yet I couldn't dare say that at my Evangelical church where the ACA has literally saved the life of our pastors child but here is so much hate for Obama it's down right scary.

Regrettably, few preachers have addressed the matter from the pulpit — partly because most aren't really sure what the Christian position is and partly because their understanding of the Bible and the teachings of the church does not square with either their experience or their reason.

Churches are often a good place to bully because «good» Christians are supposed to be open to being «taught» and «corrected», which to a bully means they have the right to make others think and do as the bully directs.

He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary, an international consultant to the Commission on Ecumenical Missions and Relations, National Board of Missions, of the United Presbyterian Church (USA), and is founder and Director of the Christian Center for Asian Studies, and Director of the Doctor of Ministries Studies, a joint program with San Francisco Theological Seminary.

«teachers,» and «apostles»; who managed the staggering influx of widows and women into the Christian community by providing guidelines to ensure that Ephesian churches remained distinct from the pagan cults of the day, but who still expected trained women to prophesy, to teach, and to lead.

This Lukan passage is a key source in the social teachings of the Roman Catholic Church for the so - called «preferential option for the poor» — the notion that Christian communities have a particular responsibility to take care of the poor in their midst.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

It should be no surprise that in order to pastor a church, or teach at a Christian school, you would have to adhere to their beliefs.

In the churches there was some recognition that this also failed to conform to Christian teaching.

And we look at church history and the churches and leaders we respect, not only in the US but globally, and what we see is that the overwhelming majority of Christians past and present continue to teach that these passages are very much applicable today.

Could the Church possibly say that because «the rules» about the indissolubility of marriage are Catholic rules, they therefore don't apply to non-Catholics, even to baptized Christian non-Catholics, even when those persons become Catholics and put themselves under the jurisdiction of the Church's teachings?

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Many of our churches are excessively influenced, and some even dominated, by radical ideologies whose agendas contradict the Scriptures and historic teachings that are the foundation of Christian faith.

I so enjoy your art, your wit, and most times your insight into the idiocy of some of the «thoughts and teachings» of some christian churches.

Here, Francis anticipated the Second Vatican Council's teaching that the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy is the source and summit of the Church's life, and of every individual Christian's life.

Some churches focus on teaching and training Christians, while others focus on reaching out to unbelieving seekers.

I wish this weren't true, but when you ask Christians why they attend a certain church, you will inevitably hear, «I agree with what they teach.»

Of course faithful Christians constantly mediate between the teachings of the Church and our needs in the moment, but the «moral complexity» mindset tempts us to recast this tendency as a kind of sophistication.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

Teaching churches focus on training Christians, but do a relatively poor job of reaching the lost.

Though they held different views of Church government, they were quite close on their view of what was Christian truth and how it was to be preached and taught.

Already in this sense he recognizes that Jesus» teachings were used by the primitive Church as kerygmatic proclamation of the exalted Lord: «One can hardly object that Jesus» preaching was after all not Christian preaching, on the grounds that Christian preaching proclaims him, but was not proclaimed by him.

Theologies of play and of the body could be understood as the church's teaching on these topics, although in fact they tend to call for some shift in Christian thinking as a whole based on attention to what can be learned as one takes play or the body seriously.

... Renewal in the Church perforce requires a restoration of first principles, principles by which the early Christians, under their bishops, taught the world about poor relief.

«The defamation of religion, its symbols and teachings is incompatible with Christian values, the teaching of Jesus Christ and the apostles as is demonstrated in the Bible,» the statement continued, «so those who participate in such a production, display or promotion of such a films should be held fully accountable for operating outside of Christian principles and church laws.»