Sentences with phrase «ecclesia church»

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

Standing in front of his congregation at Ecclesia Church, a congregation he admits is different - more diverse, more urban - than many evangelical churches - Chris Seay encouraged them to do so something he said combines the ideas of sacrifice and devotion that mark the Lenten season, the 40 - day lead up to Easter.

A leader on the team is my Pastor in Houston at Ecclesia Church (Chris Seay).

Not exact matches

The notion of a Church always in need of purification and reform is drawn not from the Reformation slogan ecclesia semper reformanda, but from within the Church's deepest inner dynamics: its longing to be joined to its spousal head, Christ the Lord, and its passion to share his love with those to whom it has been commissioned to bring the gospel — that is, everyone.

Then he will head to the Mater Ecclesiae (Mother of the Church) building, which formerly housed a cloistered convent in the Vatican gardens.

Which IMO, just confirms that the church is not the ecclesia that Yeshua Bar Yoseph is building.

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian....

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian culture, and the Roman Catholic Church.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

This is the church, the ecclesia < / i), the gathered, of the maginalised.

In a word, he might be said to have formed the first ecclesia, the earliest church, called out from the doomed majority to be a redeeming minority.

> how churches usurped the Ecclesia, and have held it captive for over 1700 years.

The processive nature of the Church is implied in the expression Ecclesia semper reformanda.

Harvard University's crest, it seems, used to read Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae [Truth for Christ and the Church].

The Church herself is sancta Ecclesia not only because of the objective holiness of her members.

Hauerwas insists the first task of the church is to be a people, an ecclesia, called out from the world (the root meaning of ek - klesia), whose task is not first to change the world but to form a people who live in accordance with the nonviolent way of Jesus.

But all affirm the maxim extra ecclesia nulla salus — at least to the extent that one must have heard the preaching of the gospel or read the Bible, both of which are impossible without the Church.

In saying yes, the bride and groom agree together to found a new Ecclesia domestica, the domestic Church that is the family.

Catholic University of America in Washington was the site of a meeting with hundreds of educators, and, echoing the language of John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990), Benedict underscored that Catholic schools are «integral to the mission of the Church,» and «the primary mission of the Church is evangelization.»

Yet, at the same time, the church first experienced itself as church, first used the word ecclesia to describe what it was.

Churchmen seemed to have no ideas at all on the subject (6) The earliest form of Christian marriage was a simple blessing of the newly wedded, «in facie ecclesiae» — outside the churches closed doors — to keep the pollution of lust out of God's house.

The other takes seriously the principle of Ecclesia reformata sed semper reformanda (the Church reformed, but always to be reformed).

It has been seventeen years since John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae (From the heart of the Church) and the progress toward making Catholic schools more Catholic has been, to put it gently, slow and mixed.

The key term — ecclesia — was used for the local congregation as well as for the total community of the followers of Christ, his «body,» the church.

That, of course, is also the proposal of the apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (From the Heart of the Church), which Coughlan does not mention.

Church in the Greek Language of the New Testament was called the «ecclesia» is the Greek word «ecclesia» is correctly defined as: «The called - out (ones)» [ECC = out; KALEO = call].

In reality, church is better described by the word ecclesia.

Ecclesia is also a odd word because it is a word that can be used to describe the Roman Senate so it is much more of a political reference than they we use it to describe Church.

What has been known as Church since the time of Constantine is not the Ecclesia Christ is building it is the bastard child of Constantine.

Hahn points out the crucial role of the Church, the qahal, ecclesia, in Benedict's thought, and the crucial interrelationship of his Christology and his Ecclesiology.

[3] This doctrine was later given pride of place in the Lutheran ecclesial communities for Luther himself said that it was the «articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae» (article by which the Church stands or falls).

The claim that «justification by faith alone» is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae (the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls) is a distinctly minority position among Protestants who call themselves evangelicals.

Seay at Ecclesia has reached out to fellow pastors to request that churches send relief teams to help:

In her human structures the Church is always in need of reform — Ecclesia semper reformanda.

I say that to tell you my original response to David's post was not written out of hatred or bitterness, but out of the firm conviction that what people know is church is not the ecclesia Christ is building.

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The word «church» in the original text is «ecclesia» and is best translated by the English word «assembly.»

ecclesia has drawn a lot of (mostly negative) attention to its church over the years.

At Harvard one can still see the original seal with the word «Veritas» surrounded by «Pro Christo et Ecclesia» — for Christ and the church.

The reality is that some still reject the church as God's missionary instrument, seeing the missio dei as something that encompasses much more than the missio ecclesiae.

The new era in world mission challenges all churches to manifest the universality of the ecclesia by sharing resources in the common task of expressing the redemptive action of God, in Christ.

«The early motto of Harvard was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae, meaning «Truth for Christ and the Church.»

We must continually remind ourselves that the mission of the church and the seminary is to be committed always to a permanent reformation — ecclesia reformata and semper reformanda.

We face the challenge of being not only an inclusive church but also a public church — a church that is a public, an ecclesia, a genuine republic of Christ.

But Luther was unable to sit down and write a quiet academic piece, De Ecclesia, on the Church.

Though the church drew its primary name from the ecclesia of Greek public assemblies, this theme was gradually submerged under the monarchy of Christ, of the Father, of the bishop and later of the pope.

Luther entitled his piece De Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesiae Praeludium (Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church).

It has been more than sixteen years since Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae, underscoring that the Catholic university is born from «the heart of the Church» and should faithfully serve the Church's faith and mission, meaning the faith and mission of those who are the Church.

This drew an answer from the redoubtable Mrs Daphne McLeod, of the ginger group Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, who suggested that we should, rather... look at dioceses in America and Australia where bishops have addressed this problem so successfully they now have full seminaries and churches packed with young people in stable marriages living good Catholic lives.

Carl Braaten, one of the key figures in the «evangelical catholic» movement and founder of the journals Dialog and Pro Ecclesia, recently wrote an open letter to the ELCA's presiding bishop in which he cited some of these conversions and lamented a «brain drain» in the church.