Sentences with phrase «gospel as a new beginning»

Thus Christians joyfully hailed the Christian Gospel as a new beginning, saying, «The old has passed away, behold, the new has come.»

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Mike i like what you wrote about the relationship with Christ its all about that.To me the gospel description is found in that verse it covers our fathers love that he has always loved us from the beginning when he created us it covers the reason why Jesus was sent to put things right to remove our sin guilt and shame and to receive from him new life his life eternal but it is just as real today and tomorrow and forever.brentnz

As we have seen, evangelism in the third century began with the hearing of the gospel and the call to a new lifestyle.

Obviously, the adoption of these proposals might become part of a decline of the ELCA into a more than dubious liberalism (although parts of the ELCA seem to be traveling along such a road already without help from others, thank you), but there is no reason why it should be such, if the proposals are adopted for sound theological reasons and if Lutherans enter these new relations precisely as the beginning of a process of pursuing a common life that must be held to the gospel the proposals witness to.

At any rate, a redemptive idea of suffering, which had begun as an individual intuition centuries before, became in the New Testament the organizing center of the gospel.

NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN)- As the sun rose the morning after Whitney Houston's death, congregants at the Baptist church where she began her singing career as a member of the junior gospel choir gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the pop superstaAs the sun rose the morning after Whitney Houston's death, congregants at the Baptist church where she began her singing career as a member of the junior gospel choir gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the pop superstaas a member of the junior gospel choir gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the pop superstar.

Their founder was Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyons who, seeking salvation, in 1176 took to heart the advice of Jesus to the rich young ruler, paid off his creditors, provided for his wife and children, gave the remainder to the poor, began begging his daily bread, and traversed the countryside and the cities preaching the Gospel as he found it in a vernacular translation of the New Testament.

As a result of the missionary activity of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel throughout the colonies and particularly in New England, and with the introduction of the Church of England worship in Boston, the very heart of New England, clergy and laity alike began to fear a vast plot to overthrow the liberties of their churches and to establish the Church of England.