Sentences with phrase «church at this time in history»

I think a lot of you will resonate with my story and the stories of so many others who are trying to make sense of what it means to be part of the Church at this time in history.

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There was no other church in Christian history at the time of this writing.

Forbidding cremation was a law of the Church at a particular time in history.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

So it has been throughout the history of the Church's mission in different cultures and at different times.

And the Bible is kept by the Church as a book of history to remind believers of the dynamic nature of the divine revelation, «at sundry times and in divers manners.»

In a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its lifIn a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its lifin the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its life.

For these and many other reasons, it is understandable that the Church feels itself authorized and indeed obliged to have something to say in the name of Christ in the domains of history, civilization, economics, politics and international relations at the present time.

Paradoxically, the church must diminish the particularism of its various local, regional and national histories, but at the same time include them in the stories it tells, reinforcing its own authority as it does so.

It seems to me that now, more than at any time in history, the church looks like the great multitude described in the Book of Revelation — a multitude from every tribe and nation.

Rather, at this time in history when many Jews are recognizing Jesus as their messiah, the Church should make room for them, remember her own Jewish heritage, and reach out in friendship to all Jews in hope of the messiah's «recognition by «all Israel»» and the day when «the people of God [will] achieve «the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ»» (CCC 674, Eph.

At the mid-point of the Decade, the WCC initiated a project of ecumenical Team Visits - Living Letters - to every member church, for the first time in its history on a single major ecumenical theme.

Not only so, but the church - style incarnation confines it to one man at one time in history.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

The Church and its leaders can not let them down at such a crucial time in the world's history.

She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.

But even though iconoclasm in the material sphere was the characteristic act of Christian intransigence at the beginning of the Church's history, at the time of the monks of the Egyptian desert in the fourth century, and in the Reformation, it no longer seems to concern us much.

With well over 2 million people imprisoned in the United States — more than in any other nation at any time in world history — the church has ample opportunity for renewal.

The notion of an interim state never did achieve complete acceptance in the church's history and is not widely affirmed at the present time.

There were many theological ideas within the early church that I do not agree with, especially at this time in the history of the church (as I discuss further below).

Throughout church history there have been 3 basic schools of thought: The soul is is created at conception, it is genetically passed on from the parents, or God created all souls at some specific time in the past and places them in the individual.

Smith explained in a statement how they've managed to progress global access to God's Word: «New strategies, methods, tools, and resources are empowering the local church and Christians to translate God's Word into more languages than at any time in world history.»

At times in history some churchmen have played into the hands of this false image, but far from the Church being suspicious of cultural and political globalisation, she actually holds the key to the future of humanity.

At this time in history, the churches were receiving pagans into the church ranks, the pagan holidays were incorporated with the church so that no one was offended and to keep the pagans comfortable while learning our Savior, Jesus Christ's message of truth.

Goodspeed holds the opinion that the letters were carefully kept by the churches to which they were addressed, perhaps read and reread from time to time, but that there was no attempt made at collecting them until after the appearance of Luke's early history of the church, the Acts of the Apostles, and that it was this which gave the impulse to a revival of interest in Paul, and led to a search for and collection of his extant writings.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

Thus, it is correct to say that at a given time in history the Christian church was born of the Holy Spirit.

Church, whose Harvard lab published on the utility of CRISPR gene - editing in mammalian cells at the same time as Zhang's, disputed Lander's history as well in press accounts.

It is also to be found in Thomas Fuller's Church - History of Britain (1655), so presumably the expression was in reasonably common use at the time.

A Brief History of the Amish The Amish are direct descendants of the Anabaptists of 16th century Europe who rejected infant baptism and believed in the separation of church and state (which were entirely conjoined at the time).