Sentences with phrase «god calls us to service»

God calls us to service.

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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.

I don't want to go to a service that calls God «Father» all the time, uses male chauvinistic language, and doesn't respect feminists.

It is we who are sanctified, made fit for divine service, by the call of Christ to faith and obedience, just as the fishermen were given roles in God's great drama of salvation.

It will be about God and his Church; to be called to serve them in love and humility through ordained ministry is a privilege beyond imagination for a Christian, and I hope and pray that my future service to all God's people will reflect that trust.

Like the Jews in Babylon living in a foreign land, Christians are — and always have been — «resident aliens» called to love our neighbors with deeds of service so that those around us will «see [our] good deeds and glorify God» (1 Peter 2:12 NIV).

I travel by air and car, speeding up global warming and the exhaustion of resources, in order to attend conferences or give lectures calling for the service of God.

I have not been called unsaved, but I have been called a slanderer and unfit for service, for speaking truth of what the Spirit of God revealed to me.

And the most incendiary ideas are those that call down the force of God or nation (or both) in the service of denouncing those who follow other gods or belong to other nations.

To summarize briefly, he is one who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end laying down his life for the sake of otherTo summarize briefly, he is one who has been given and has accepted a calling from God, and devoted himself body and soul to his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end laying down his life for the sake of otherto his service, bearing witness to the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end laying down his life for the sake of otherto the truth of God, enduring many sufferings, and in the end laying down his life for the sake of others.

He called pacifists «parasites,» death - of - God theologians «infants,» religious services at the White House «complacent conformity,» and, to the end, the name «Richard Nixon» could evoke from him well - chosen epithets.

The Christian Christ with his cross calls us to sacrifice not just for those things which serve our ends, but in the service of God's purpose, which runs far beyond and at times counter to those ends.

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).

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.

Here the call of God is a summons to the new life of service.

The call of God to obedient service is always one which must be hearkened to today.

In his teaching and example of unbroken fellowship with God, of love and service to men, of humility and sincerity, of forgiveness toward even his most malicious enemies, of sensitive understanding of the spoken or unspoken needs of the humblest of persons whose lives touched his, we see the kind of living to which we are called.

The Reformers saw that the basis of moral responsibility and decision of the Christian does not lie in the elaboration of principles but in the concrete response of free men to the call of God, which is a call to action and service.

Over the years I had been led to believe that God's leading and calling is to be understood as the supposed sacred mandate for those who enter «full time» service.

Jesus» call to a secret service of God was based upon his relationship to the Father who sees in secret.

A thoroughgoing biblical inquiry into the relation between the «service of God» and what we have come to call the «service of worship» by the congregation of believers assembled in a specific place has got to be undertaken.

In response to the call of Christ, the Corinth Methodist Church seeks to be a redemptive fellowship serving God and community effectively by: (a) enabling each person to achieve God's will through individual fulfillment; (b) providing religious training for all; (c) ministering to the community through service and witness.

An individual can profit greatly by the criticism of his fellows yet he will realize that they are judging him by standards which are neither his own nor God's, that he is both a worse and a better man than their judgments indicate, and that the greatest service they can render him is to call him back to his own best self.

In the overall scheme of redemption, God alone is the one who foreknows what He will do, takes steps to make sure it happens, calls believers to a greater purpose in service to Him, justifies those who believe, and glorifies for eternity all whom He justified.

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

Furthermore, how do you propose that we are called to service to Jesus, the one who has been sent by God to redeem us, when both God and Jesus have been principle weapons in the oppressive [white patriarchal] arsenal to keep blacks and black women in their appropriate place?

New Delhi said: «[This unity] is being made visible as all in each place who are baptized into Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Savior are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic faith, preaching the one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, and having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all and who at the same time are united with the whole Christian fellowship in all places and all ages, in such wise that ministry and members are accepted by all, and that all can act and speak together as occasion requires for the tasks to which God calls His people.»

There are high opportunities in vocations of Christian leadership such as the ministry, the mission field, and Christian education, and many more young people should be entering them; there are also rich opportunities for Christian service and witness in an endless number of occupations to which God calls the layman.11

In the Word, Jesus tells us to «go out, and spread the gospel to all nations», now understanding that each country is going to be different, the risks are also going to be different, but if you are called to that service, God will make a way, and provide a path for you to deliver His message.

As an added bonus, a sheet was folded and stuffed into the back of this codex which gave detailed minutes of a church business meeting which included the ordination service of Titus» successor as senior pastor of Crete after God called Titus to a larger church nearby.

Of course, for Biblical authors also human sexuality is one of the areas of life that should be in the service of God, and, to be sure, our failure to respond to this call is sinful.

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.

Above all, they were called to declare the Gospel of compassion and pardon of God that people may see the light, which is in Jesus Christ, and surrender themselves to His service.

I don't think it's so much about the levites being paid for their service it's about us doing what's right toward Pastors that must feed and tend to the flock of GOD if GOD has called them.JESUS even said in luke 10:7 that the laborers are worthy of their wages.In luke 8 1 - 4 it's says even JESUS HIMSELF recieved financial support from the women who ministered to him with their possessions.Now most people today would say he should have been ashamed of taking money from those poor women but JESUS accepted their support and they was blessed for sowing onto the LORD»S work.1 Corinthains 9:1 - 15 says dint muzzle the ox while it tread out the grain was GOD talking about oxes no he was talking about those who labor in the ministry.Who goes to war at their own expense.Or who goes to war but pay for their clothes, guns, etc.No one because the goverment if that country provide these things because of the soilders service.Who plants a vineyard and don't eat from it.Who tends a flock and don't drink the milk of it.I think it's just spiritual sense to support a pastor that's teaching you the word, casting out devils, laying hands and healing is manifesting in people lived, going to hospitails, prisons, and house calls to pray for the sick and shut in, going to graduations and funnerals, praying and fasting for himself and the flock.I think a person who think a pastor shouldn't be paid for their service either don't know they need to be paid and need to be taught or they are demonic in their thinking and either hate GOD, PASTORS, AND GOD»S PEOPLE.Why do nt you hear people saying anything against the dope dealers, strip clubs, dope houses, liquor stores, etc.It's only when people give into the LORD»S work that evil minded or misinformed people have a problem with it.No sir we don't have to use the old testament to show that we should support out pastors.You don't use the law, love tells me to support the pastor.Under the new testament LOVE is the greatest of all.Love for GOD and man.If GOD asked for 10 percent under the law to support the levites who didn't have all the responsibilities of Pastor today.Church rent, gas for vans of thd church, insurance fir the church and church vehicles, feeding and clothing the poor, light, gas, and water bill, mantience on the church or vehicles, not to mention the Pastor own house, cars, children, insurance, etc.If would be foolish for one to think that a pastor should take care if his house and GODS HOUSE without people supporting the work of the KINGDOM OF GOD.If we love GOD we are going to support HIS KINGDOM and HIS PASTOR.If under the law GOD asked for 10 percent how much should we give under the LOVE COVENANT?Example I love my wife and if I had 300 dollars I would surley give her more that 10 percent which would be 30 dollars because I love her.The law says you must give LOVE says I chose to give because I love GOD and man.Again we don't have to use the law just love and spiritual sense because hate and a carnal senses will not understand.Now I have given you scriptures please do the same when you respond not your opinion.Please respond right away I await your answer.GOD BLESS.

If such a program arouses opposition, as it is likely to, this calls for the tactful but courageous insistence that the house of God is a place of prayer and service for all peoples and the Church of God can not sanction discrimination at any point.

Or we can try what Robert Jensen calls «syntactically impossible pronominal neologisms,» such as «Godself,» or blander still, appeal to the deconstructed deity invoked by the Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson at the Lincoln Memorial inauguration service: «O God of our many understandings.»

An integral part of the infallibility and inerrancy of the Word of God is the way it calls us and leads us and teaches us to be the family of God — living here and now as children of a God of unrestrained love and unconditional grace gathered as a community of justice and compassion who are living lives of generosity, hospitality, and service.

(On a more positive note to end, I just heard Peter Scazzero say today that Moses was «an eighty year old man with a stick» - and a dismal failure in his life, when God met him and called him into service — a ministry that would change everything.

The real tension, however, was between two aspects of the service of man to which God had called him.

Believe Midwifery Services, LLC exists as a result of God's call to serve women and their families with wisdom during a most precious, exciting and life changing time.

By the special grace of God I used to be a politician, I'm one of the people that people in the National Assembly will not accept and because there is an urgent need for us to take Nigeria out of recession and Post can contribute huge amounts of money to the National coffers that will be distribute among the tasks of government and most importantly, Post can render what we call financial inclusion service, that's getting the people in rural areas, farmers, artisans who don't have access to normal bank services because Post offices are scattered all over the rural places.

Ambode, in his Sallah message signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Habib Aruna, said the period of the celebration was a clarion call for Nigerians to imbibe the lessons of the season such as selfless service to God and humanity, sacrifice and sincere commitment to righteous conducts in their private and public life.

Mr. Mahama has been a staunch member of the Ringway Assemblies of God Church and he doesn't hesitate to offer his service to the church whenever he is called upon.

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Guided by the Holy Spirit, Mission San Buenaventura is a parish rich in Catholic heritage called to «go forward» in worship to spread God's Word through compassionate service.

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First, we went to a Christian Marriage Therapist, one who respects women and does not espouse the old ignorant belief that God put us women here for no other reason than to bow down to men, bear their children, submit to his abuse, serve and service him, and call it JUST because Eve enticed Adam with a bite of fruit 6,000 or so years ago.