Sentences with phrase «christian zeal»

I remember years ago when I was in the first flush of Christian zeal and part of a student group.

Archbishop Chaput: Millions of young people, alone and in the new ecclesial movements, believe in Jesus Christ and live their lives with a Christian zeal that I find astonishing.

According to Lindsell, for example, given a retreat from inerrancy, there is an almost inevitable decline in Christian zeal and evangelism, a tendency toward spiritual sloth, and a high likelihood of apostasy.

Not exact matches

The atmosphere was charged with anti-Westernism due to the attitude of the European powers toward Turkey and the crusading zeal of the Christian powers.

Thank you for proving my point that Christians can't see how religious zeal can lapse into the danger zone of hateful extremism.

For as much as they love to mock the religious for following a God that may or may not exist... They sure love «logically» destroying the beliefs of a Christian strawman, who they believe exists with a religious zeal.

The early Christian community was indeed a missionary community and the East Syrian church in particular was a church on fire with missionary zeal.

It is good to challenge the status quo when it does not line up with scripture (like confronting the desire for violence and vengeance especially among «conservative» Christians), but we should not in our zeal push the pendulum too far the other way and undermine our view of God's sovereignty, power, and holiness.

from the looks of it, he is a korean / indian christian with the zeal to convert to entire world.

Unless Christians recognize that structures can work iniquity as well as justice, they will wash their zeal in frustration as they try to reform American society by reforming individuals.

One can, however, find fundamentalist - like movements in almost every period of the church's history, and today the evangelistic zeal of American fundamentalism has taken the movement to every continent where some indigenous Christian groups have welcomed it.

The zeal with which the Christian community reacts to singleness is perplexing, especially in light of what the Bible says about it.

Are you saying the atheists that «persecute» christians (which by the way... how may I ask) do so with the same zeal as a religious person.

I'm sorry for YOU, considering yourself a God - fearing Christian yet being so judgmental and deprecating to people who do not share your zeal.

As for evangelical and Pentecostal Christians, it is noted that «all churches may benefit from their vitality, their zeal for evangelism, and their commitment to Scripture.»

And make sure that your zeal doesn't make you think you are better than other Christians.

«He believes in No - God, and he worships him,» said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

Saul known for threatening and persecuting Christians did it with zeal.

One only needs to remember the zeal with which Professor Wieman, in recent issues of The Christian Century, claimed Professor Dewey as a co-religionist.

he's saying its not enought just to be christian, you have to have a zeal for God / Jesus.

I know a whack of Muslims who have great zeal and they've blown themselves up... a whack of Christians who thought their god was the only god and they slaughtered god's creation because of that... a bunch of Jews who believe god gave them a strip of land on the Mediterranean and will kill to the end to defend it... thank god there are Buddhists who believe there is no god and who just want to zen out.

I wonder if it will one day enslave me as the zeal birthed in the charismatic Christian church ultimately did.

The zeal of the Christian for the transformation of society, or the revolution in which the Christian is engaged in to change the structures of society, is nothing but following Christ where He has preceded us.

For centuries, the Thomas Christians expanded, thanks to their zeal, though inspired also by the apostolic spirit of their East Syrian brethren.

In Calvin there is the zeal to improve society; but there is a much too complacent view of the righteousness of Christians, and too little awareness of the elements of value and relative progress in the life of purely secular society.

We need a post-Vatican Two equivalent, something both truly Catholic and yet usable in our multicultural society, something that will get us out of the ghetto we are still largely in, but not in order to conform to middle - class culture, rather to call it to conversion, alongside Christians of other Churches moved by the same zeal.

... for a Christian to hate or to despise or to wish to treat degradingly the race from which sprung his God and the Immaculate Mother of his God [is self - destructive... and] the bitter zeal of anti-Semitism always turns in the end into a bitter zeal against Christianity itself.

Their missionary zeal made them agents of Christian awakenings.

Hi, This sassy, Christian lady is a retired Born - again Christian Baby - Boomer, who loves the Lord and has a zeal and vitality for life.

Frank Peretti is not afraid in this novel to tackle the shallowness and innocent zeal of some christians who feel that because they have found the answers to life in Jesus, everyone else just needs to hear the message and will respond the same way, forgetting Jesus» own words that «Many are called but few are chosen».