Sentences with phrase «faith communities need»

Faith communities need to help youth to articulate their faith in reference to life issues, using the vocabulary, story and theology of their tradition.

Washington (CNN)- The faith community needs to be a check against political vitriol in the 2012 election, which two religious leaders say has the potential to be the «ugliest campaign» in decades.

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«We see our involvement in this process as an opportunity to restore faith in the community by showing what we need more of in the Bitcoin space — trusted leadership,» said Kraken CEO Jesse Powell.

Any faith community can sign up to become a sponsor with a commitment to help with for housing, English language tuition and employment support as well as practical needs.

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

We need to realize that community and radical economics are at the heart of the Christian faith.

Tuesday's roundtable also looked at ways the CFPB can work with the faith community to assist those consumers who need help the most.

The goal is to keep people from being anonymous, going from church to church with needs, and never connecting with a community of faith.

But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted church to be the church, reaching out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith at all.

To reach the fifth child, science has found an important partner in the faith community, which helps bring vaccines to the most remote areas and the children who need them most.

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

When we release our grip of unforgiveness on those who have failed us, we are free to let God meet those needs in new and healthy ways — through our relationship with Him, through friendships and through our own communities of faith.

The faith that is created thereby is in itself the greatest miracle, and if you want it, you need to actually get yourself into the Bible and into the community that holds to the witness.

More often then none people need to be ministered to by being part of the community and grow in their faith — not pushed into serving man, because man has a need.

Well, it's a slightly polemical remark, directed at those Christians who think Christianity is simply a matter of the community of faith telling its own story, and who don't even want to discuss issues of the historical Jesus because they think the Bible and the tradition have told us all we need to know.

Whether it's down to the Church fearing that people may see divorce as an «easy» option, or that it somehow taints and casts the Christian faith in a bad light — it shows that our community's perception and understanding of divorce needs to change.

They need to bring their conclusions before the community, lay their arguments bare and clear, and enable the community to see how their thinking matches with the «traditional» and the key ongoing components of the faith.

But we need to remember also that the faith we personally appropriate is the faith of the community, and this means that even the most internalized, existential act of personal commitment will bind us into a communal relationship of shared belief with others.

... We need to be realistic about the challenges posed by the present age, and we certainly need to repair our communities of faith.

Faith needs the stimulus and impetus of history and community.

13:16), but perhaps the clearest statement of the continuing need for the community of faith to identify itself with the poor, even as has God, is to be found in James 2:1 - 7.

If you don't think so, you need to talk to more educated people in faith communities.

We can move from the side of meeting the needs for faith - based community as well.

By dispensing with the need for «a personal faith - commitment,» Barr casts his lot not with traditional religious communities of interpretation, but that community of interpretation that is the modern pluralistic university.

The most effective responses to the need for faith - based communities has come from conservative Protestants.

Christian faith seemed to make sense of my community and give me the guidance I needed for life.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

I can not give you any specific scripture references that verify that, but the alternative is to assume that every local church (or specific community of faith) has identical gifts and resources, and that every community has the same problems and needs.

It is not defective nor in need of guidance by any other claimant, although other «faith communities» may possess some or even many of the truths taught by the One True Church.

We may need to look at the world through the eyes of the shared expectations of a tradition and community of faith and hope if we are to be grasped by the substance of revelation.

We need to listen to these and see how, if we belong to a different faith community, they illuminate or challenge the convictions that we already hold.

Persons need to be nurtured into a community's faith and life.

If your faith community is actively working to support the systems of white supremacy and patriarchy that are enabling this administration, you may need to take a break, or leave.

In the U.S., the government turns a friendly face to faith communities and asks them to meet the overwhelming needs of the poor, the homeless and the dispossessed.

Even the language of faith needs something to build on, for confidence is more than words and must arise from the relationships of home, church, school, and community.

For nurturing awareness of the love of God, a vibrant community of faith is needed.

William Diehl identifies four domains in which religious faith needs to be connected with praxis in everyday life: Family; Local Community; Employment (those paid or unpaid ways we spend our days); National and global concerns.

«Schools will be encouraged to reflect their own ethos and values whilst being sensitive to the needs of the community, including the context of belief, faith, religion and culture.»

Modern evangelicals do need to «bridge the gap» and speak more plainly about their faith in terms that everyone can understand rather than assume that what they understand among themselves will be automatically understood by those who are not of their community when they speak to others about their faith.

Increasing socioeconomic diversity and promoting opportunity for those in need will never be the primary purpose of a community of faith.

In Practicing Our Faith we talk about practices that address fundamental human needs: honoring the body, hospitality, household economics, saying yes and saying no, keeping Sabbath, testimony, discernment, shaping communities, forgiveness, healing, dying well and singing our lives.

Singles need to serve others, grow in Christlikeness, and lead as their gifts provide opportunity for the community of faith and for the mission of God in the world.

In our thinking, in our prejudices, and in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ into the world, and in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?»

As human beings, we need rituals to mark time and space, to give order and pattern to communal life, and to teach us about our distinctiveness as a family, faith community, or culture.

The faith which arises in encounter with the self - revealing God feels the need to formulate true statements of faith both within the community of those who share this experience and also for outsiders.

A center is needed to ensure that the fruits of these efforts are better coordinated and communicated to the faith communities so that they have a real impact on a dangerous and divided world.

The subtitle is «Re-Evangelizing in the Postmodern World,» and the premise is that many, if not most, who today identify themselves as Christians are, in fact, post-Christians who need to be reintroduced to and reintegrated into the community of faith.

The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.

A society — and this is also true of our international society — needs values, but in a multi-faith society and world, if they are imposed by one faith community, even if it is the majority faith community, this will be resented and these values are likely to prove divisive.

Perhaps what post-Enlightenment universities, which presumably recognize that there is no universal scientific or moral vision that will unite the race, most need to do is to conceive of themselves as federations for competing intellectual communities of faith or commitment.