Sentences with phrase «god service to the world»

Our mission is the realization of fullness of life through: Worship of God Service to the world Active concern for each other Education to expand the mind and spirit.

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Ministers who do not marry and are true to their calling can focus on their service to God and humanity as they have less cares of the world.

We thank you for your service if you will help us get the world to make the Muslims their personal Gods and Messiahs!

A well - educated and professionally successful Moscow resident, she questions the existence of God, never attends church services, and doesn't even know the Lord's Prayer, yet makes pilgrimages to remote Orthodox monasteries, where she says she experiences a holy world that fills her with utter joy and peace.

Our boundedness by Christ gives us the framework, center, vision and mission: We are the body of Christ, gathering around Jesus, dreaming His dream of the Kingdom of God and sharing His mission of living it (in unselfish service to our neighbour), preaching it and modeling it before a watching world.

It is precisely in the community gathered for worship, and most expressly in the Eucharist, that the Church «puts its faith into action,» «focuses on Christ's teaching,» including the command to «do this» in remembrance of him, and offers its chief service (Greek: leitourgia) to God and to the world.

Spiritual Gifts in the Workplace Many believers feel motivated to serve God wholeheartedly in church services and religious activities but lack passion about their daily work in the world.

That true version of yourself — the one that needs the wholeness of creativity and work and service altogether — exists in a family and in a community and as part of God's love letter to the world.

On the cross, Jesus shows us what kind of God Yahweh is, and how Jesus came to rule and reign, not by might, nor by power, but by self - sacrificial service and taking the sins and guilt and blame of the entire world upon Himself.

The have left the cultural world to focus and devote their lives to God in the simple and daily practices of prayer, ritual, and service.

I have several notebooks full of ideas on things churches could be doing to share Jesus more effectively with the world, to do a better job in making disciples, to help children grow up and «stick» with Christianity, to make the services more meaningful, to help people connect with God, to develop real and genuine friendships within the church, and on and on.

The inevitable response to a true «hearing» some kind of action — first in worship, to be sure, but then just as surely in service of God through serving the needs of the world.

There is a tension between this world and the world to come, but to Jesus its resolution lay in God's control over both realms and man's responsive, obedient acceptance of God's rule in faith and love and deeds of service.

If members experience service to others in the congregation as their ministry, it is much easier for them to see that their work in the world is also service to God.

As we seek in prayer to lay ourselves before God for his service, duty becomes clearer, and staying - power is given for the slow, hard steps that must be taken to fashion a peaceful world.

Rather, they can learn to see their work in the world as service to God and an opportunity to witness to their faith.

His whole argument, particularly in the last portion of the book, is that they are priests after Christ, with priestly duties to perform, some of which are performed out in the world, and others of which are performed in the assembly of believers, gathered before God's throne on the heavenly Zion — and how dare anyone forsake priestly service on the heavenly Zion in favor of letting a Levitical priest do it for you on the earthly Zion!

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.

«be strengthened in their commitment and in the service that they give to the world in an invisible way, keeping vigil before God in liturgical prayer.

You're actually probably trying to do this meaningful thing because you think it's what God wants done in the world and it's service to Him.

«I hope there's words that will just echo and resonate, and say, «yes, there is empathy, there is humanity, there is hope for the world», because I think this service is the platform that can really start to change humanity depending on the right words and - it's a church, people of god - how they convey the message to mankind.

But aside from that this potential can be used for good (such as orienting us as a community to bring practical expressions of God's love to the world, such as pursuing social justice) or for evil (such as when we turn our worship services into corporate naval gazing that never moves beyond the intention to touch the world — there is far too much of this kinda BS pretending to be worship of God, the Bible would call this idolatry).

While it is true that God commands believers to engage in loving interaction and dialogue with unbelievers for the purpose of persuading them that Jesus is indeed the Christ, the primary purpose of the church is for the equipping of believers, not unbelievers, for this work of service in the world.

A pastor committed to service to a people with a different dream is a success when the people of God claim their unique identity as the Body of Christ called to servant ministry in God's world.

As to this Morris Markey magazine article, Bill Wilson said: «To our great delight, Morris soon hammered out an article which he titled «Alcoholics and God»» (Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age [New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1958], p. 177; see also Dick B., The Golden Text of AA., pp. 70 - 71to this Morris Markey magazine article, Bill Wilson said: «To our great delight, Morris soon hammered out an article which he titled «Alcoholics and God»» (Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age [New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1958], p. 177; see also Dick B., The Golden Text of AA., pp. 70 - 71To our great delight, Morris soon hammered out an article which he titled «Alcoholics and God»» (Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age [New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1958], p. 177; see also Dick B., The Golden Text of AA., pp. 70 - 71).

As a backdrop for discussing the bearing of the kingdom of God on personal living, social action, the state of the churches today, and their possible service to the future, let us assemble some familiar facts about our present world.

A church divided in its manifestation to the world can not render its due service to God or to man.

And it was this doctrine, in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16

He constantly directs us towards understanding our relationship with God as a living and lived reality, always nudging us to take this understanding out into the world in service of our neighbour, which in turn leads us into a deeper and more fulfilling relationship with Christ.

God in the secular world, to the service rendered by Christians to their fellowmen.

At the same time, it means proclaiming that God commits to the poor, the downtrodden, the unfree, and that service in today «s world requires whatever is necessary to help humanize those who are denied a full human life.

For him God is not an object of thought, of speculation; he does not press into service the concept of God in order to understand the world and comprehend it as a unity.

The ministry of all Christians — service to God in family, in the church, and in the world — is a commitment attractive to teens looking for a life worth living.

Every Christian has a vocation, a calling to some particular work in the world, given as their service to God.

He thought that the greatest danger to human progress was «Christianity» — Sunday religion where people attended services to pray and sing, but never let the love of God flow through their lives to a hurting world.

I would suggest that the service of love, then and now, is to effectively proclaim the gospel, as in, «God so loved the world...» The restoration of civilization may or may not be a consequence of such effective proclamation.

What most needs to be impressed on the candidate on the occasion of being set apart for God and God's service in a world confused and estranged from its Creator?

The American and Canadian churches entered the period following World War I devoted as they had always sought to be to the service of God and to the continuation of the patterns of western Christendom. . .

From the world mission to the mission of the world - this transition is, to my mind, the test of whether the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism can turn itself inside out in the service of God's missiworld mission to the mission of the world - this transition is, to my mind, the test of whether the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism can turn itself inside out in the service of God's missiworld - this transition is, to my mind, the test of whether the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism can turn itself inside out in the service of God's missiWorld Mission and Evangelism can turn itself inside out in the service of God's mission.69

The Christian calling is not only to service, not only to self denial, not only to a nature that is foreign to the status quo — it is a calling to life, abundant life — to express realities in the here and now that affirm the true value of creation and redemption as the work of the Father, Son and Spirit — to serve and give ourselves up in a manner that truly allows that to be made evident, that the world may become aware of the true fragrance of God — Jesus Christ.

Madras defined evangelism thus: «By evangelism, therefore, we understand that the Church Universal, in all its branches and through the service of all its members, must so present Christ Jesus to the world in the power of the Holy Spirit that men shall come to put their trust in God through Him, accept Him as the saviour and serve Him as Lord in the fellowship of His Church».46

God's method in history, or «God's elective preference,» in Luigi Giussani's phrase, has been to choose certain groups, individuals, and elements in his creation (for example, the Jews, Mary, the apostles, bread and wine) and then place them in his service in a definitive way, for the good of the whole world.

Dangerous Faith: Growing in God and Service to the World By Joel Vestal Joel Vestal takes his personal ownership of the Gospel and puts it on paper for us to...

Do the statements that God used Herod's tyranny to release Peter for wider service and that God used the martyrdom of Stephen to evangelize the world trouble you?

Franklin said: «I never doubted... the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and govern'd it by his providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.

During this service, gratitude is expressed to God for the creation of the world and humanity.

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«I join millions of your friends and well - wishers around the world to wish you many more years of service to God, to Nigeria, and to humanity.»

With the assistance of this mission, we envision a world free of fear, bigotry, corruption, social injustice and war; where each human being lives, breathes and dies in brilliance, in accordance with their God - given destiny; where true wealth is measured not by how much one possesses, but rather by how much one gives; where true leadership is guided by sacrifice and selfless service, rather than by self - interest and hunger for control; where the highest ambition of every human is to know the Truth, speak the Truth and be the Truth.