Sentences with phrase «church as the bride»

The disciples do however later refer to the Church as the bride of Christ.

First, chastity as total consecration, in the image of Christ the Bridegroom who is wedded to mankind, and to the Church as His Bride.

According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).

First, the Church as the Bride of Christ receives her being and life from the Incarnate God in the form of vivifying substance (the Eucharist) and the words of pardon (sacramental absolution).

You can ask the question but if you're looking for an answer in the Bible, there are several references where Jesus is referred to as the bridegroom and his Church as the bride (= wife).

Verse 20 immediately falls under suspicion, since it seems to provide a reason for early Christian fasting, and, more importantly, it uses the allegory bridegroom = Jesus (This allegory is itself a product of early Christian piety, arising out of the concept of the Church as the bride of Christ [II Cor.

the Bible also mentions the Church as the Bride of Christ so that could be what it means and not that he had a wife... if only some people would actually look things up themselves

But unless it can be shown otherwise, any tampering with Communion for the divorced and remarried will corrupt the doctrine of marriage, and — by diminishing the image of the Church as bride of Christ — debase the Church.

You see a jealous God as a negative I see Jesus when he referred to the church as the bride of Christ.

He also referred to Himself as the Bridegroom, and the church as His bride.

Not exact matches

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

We relate best to God as we relate to a male and therefore God's bride the church best relates to the male head of the church, but only as long as the male is focused on his responsibility of care for the church.

Language referenced as Jesus being married coincides with the canonical gospels that the Church is the bride of Christ.

Any historian of theology would know that at the time that this fragment was written, the idea of the Church being the «Bride of Christ» had not yet been created (let alone the CATHOLIC church which originated the idea, as this was a COPTIC fragChurch being the «Bride of Christ» had not yet been created (let alone the CATHOLIC church which originated the idea, as this was a COPTIC fragchurch which originated the idea, as this was a COPTIC fragment).

The church is referred to throughout the New Testament as «the bride of Christ.»

What if the reality is «religion» — which unfortunately a large part of the church has become — died on the cross, and was re-birthed as the Bride in the resurrection: they just haven't figured it out yet.

Weeellll, I wouldn't go so far as to call the Catholic church the whore and the Protestant church the false bride, but I do see your point and agree with you that much of institutional religion is not at all what God intended or wanted from followers of Jesus.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

Steve — Do you really see the human - made structure of Christian demoninations normally refered to as «the institutional church» as the «Church» that is the proverbial Bride of Cchurch» as the «Church» that is the proverbial Bride of CChurch» that is the proverbial Bride of Christ?

We will uphold the «holy catholic church» as the body and bride of Christ.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, it is «an eschatological image of this heavenly Bride of Christ [the Church] and of the life to come» (922 - 4).

The whole understanding of the role of Mary, the understanding of Christ's relationship with his Church as that of Bridegroom and Bride, and the understanding of men and women as a gift to one another - all this is crucial.

Doing so adds a richness to our understanding and perception of the Martyrs, not through knowing them more intimately as individuals but through their united love of God and his bride the Church.

The history of our salvation is marked by a feminine presence that responds actively and fruitfully to God's initiatives: first Israel, which is presented throughout the Scriptures in feminine terms (as the daughter of Sion or, in those times when the prophets urge her to repentance, as a faithless wife); then Mary; and now the Church (the bride of Christ).

In the Bible he often refers to his bride as being his church when he returns!!

They had ardently and hopefully welcomed the Council, expecting that it would produce a Church which would convince the world because she would appear as the radiant bride of Christ, without spot or blemish.

However, to the extent that we as the collective subject respond as Church, we respond as members of the Bride of Christ.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

And just as the bridegroom is always a picture of Christ, the bride is always a picture of the church.

When you are done the Mother Church, the Bride of Christ will be more radiant than ever and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen will be just as true.

If we as the church are to stand together as one under the shadow of Calvary, we need to look out over Christ's Bride and echo His heart: These are my brothers and my sisters.

The church as it is called or the Body of Christ is the bride of Christ.

Perhaps you don't quite understand that the church is the bride of Christ, in other words, we have to make ourselves worthy of Christ (just as any person must make themself worthy of their spouse), and we do it by making ourselves holy, thru the church's sacraments, but the church is not an end in itself; Christ is the end.

She attends a national meeting of bridal consultants where attendees can take a whack at a piñata representing «the bride from hell,» travels to Aruba to learn about «destination weddings,» and visits struggling downtown Hebron, Wisconsin, where a financially strapped Methodist church is marketing itself as a wedding venue called «Chapel on the Hill.»

The church — the beloved, redeemed bride — can rejoice as we call the nations to witness God's great, redemptive love.

When we remember that the church is referred to as the «Bride of Christ» and we recognize that Jesus represents God, this whole angry - God imagery makes people think of God as a wife beater.

Suddenly the bride of Christ is portrayed as the church militant, a people who will withstand evil in the world if they are clothed in «the whole armor of God.»

And in reagards to singing love songs to Jesus, we as the church are his bride and he is the bridegroom.

St Paul writes to the church at Corinth: «I have espoused you to Christ as a bride to her only husband» (2 Cor 11:2).

Nevertheless, the speculative and non-systematic nature of Balthasar's theology does leave some ambiguities — ambiguities which are presumably rooted in the overlapping and necessarily exhaustible analogies of the Church as both «body of Christ» and «bride of Christ».

The Church can not sanction any act of sex outside of true, ie male / female, marriage, because it directly goes against the Church's primary vocation as the Bride of Christ, i.e. that Body of believers who spend their lives seeking «him whom my soul loves» (Sg 3:3) and making him the first priority of their lives.

It almost certainly means the church is his bride, just as many other bride / bridegroom references in the Bible.

If I am an Athiest and my bride is Hindi we are not going to be married in a Christian church, seen as married before a God neither one of us believe in or should we.

The Catholic Church offered a rich and beautiful doctrine of marriage in all its fullness, especially as a picture of Christ's marriage to his bride, the Church.

Most Christians do not accept Mormons as one of them because of their different traditions and religious habbits, much like the Mormon Church refuses to recognize the FLDS and their child brides and multiple marriages as one of them.

What might a woman say about the church as body and bride?

And it will also be crucial to emphasise the fundamental unity that should exist between man and woman, male and female, the centrality of marriage not as a mere socially useful arrangement that might finally one day come into its own again, but as part of God's original plan «from the beginning», the great fact that the whole story of our redemption is a marriage story centred on Christ the Bridegroom and his Church, the Bride.

Jesus referred to His church as «the bride» so he could of been referring to His church... we will never know...

Biblically speaking the church is the Bride of Christ, that metaphor and the other being that we (the church) are the Body with Christ as our head, are two of the biggest metaphors used by Christ to describe the relationship between him and his church.