Sentences with phrase «holy church as»

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While specific churches (notably the Santo Daime) have been granted legal permission to use ayahuasca as a holy sacrament in the U.S.A., many people prefer to experience the medicine in Peru or Brazil instead.

«Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth» are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: «the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.

Professor Chung — Korean Presbyterian, graduate of Claremont and Union Seminary, author of Christianity through Asian Eyes — suggested this theological development as part of her keynote address on the theme of the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Canberra, Australia, «Come Holy Spirit, Renew the Whole Creation.»

The same way that it was used in Ephesians 5:25 - 26 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing [a] her by the washing with water through the word,

«I have written to the Holy Father and assured him, as the successor of St Peter and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, of my loyal and filial love, and of my intention to give myself entirely to the service of the Diocese of Leeds.

What the Evangelical church needs is a fresh outpouring of the Holy Ghost, just like in the book of Acts, where daily, thousands recognized their need for Jesus Christ as the only person who could save them from a Christ-less eternity.

The Holy Spirit does not prepare people to accept a hypocritical Christianity and so, as long as the Church refuses to be Christlike, people like Gandhi (a Hindu) will continue to not be Christians.

Everything for me as a pastor is about creating environments for the Holy Spirit to move people along in their journey so that they become dependent on the life of God and not the organization of the church.

The trigger words are «resisting the Holy Spirit» — the ideology in this particular Church is based on outward signs of physical evidence of the Spirit of God, instead of the fruits of the Spirit, as proof of the Holy Spirit.

After a meal, Patriarch Bartholomew briefly addressed the scholars, stating that «open and honest dialogue is the way of the Church and of theology» and envisioning the Great and Holy Council as a vehicle of such a dialogue.

It has been the trend of American churches for some time to venerate marriage as the holy grail of human experience — in spite of the obvious preference of New Testament teachers — including Jesus — for singleness (Matthew 19:10; 1 Corinthians 7).

The changes also include giving clergy to option not to wear traditional vestments while performing official church ceremonies such as Holy Communion or weddings, baptisms and funerals.

This superior epistemology enjoys the firm foundation of divine revelation as treasured by Church Tradition and enlightened by faith and the prophetic inspiration of the Holy Spirit, as the Church, with all her members, engages the world in history.

As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.

As for the ecumenical part of the equation, the Holy See seems to accord highest priority to avoiding anything that might give offense to the Russian Orthodox Church, which it perceives to be one key to advancing a broader agenda of ecclesial reconciliation between Christian West and Christian East.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

Tom, And the Catholics that ran the Holy wars were Catholic, And I am pretty sure that Hitler was as well, except the catholic church didn't want to be associated with him in the end.

He has been telling me for years how he doesn't like «the order of service» as it orders Holy Spirit right out of church.

Much as I would like to think otherwise, it is as if the Holy Spirit is guiding me to start a home church.

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

(25) «Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&Church, and delivered Himself up for her, (26) that He might sanctify her, cleansing her in the bath of water by means of The Word; (27) IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT TO HIMSELF THE CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»&CHURCH IN ALL HER GLORY, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING, BUT THAT SHE MIGHT BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.»»

Yet as my Lord Jesus said «The Gates of HELL Shall Not Prevail Against it» and I trust my Lord Jesus to continue as he has done for 2,000 yrs to guide, protect, discipline, heal, and Shepard his Holy Catholic (Universal) Church.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

Now is the time to look back on Benedict's papacy and glean from it as much as we can, as we prayerfully look forward to how the Holy Spirit will work in our Church under a new pontiff.

's response yesterday as to which church he attends, it was Eighth Day Resurrected Covenant of the Holy Trinity.

If many, many people are deserting the institutional church as Jeremy Myers claims, perhaps this is not disobedience to a command but a latter day reformation driven by none other than the Holy Spirit.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Ignoring the warnings of American bishops that American teenagers would not likely be very interested in listening to what the Church had to say, John Paul called down an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 800,000 youth who gathered with him in theMile High City, taking as his theme the words of Our Lord in John 10:10, «I came that they might have life.»

As brothers and sisters united by the Holy Spirit we weep with those who weep knowing no act of hatred can truly prevail against the church.

There is Lot who committed incest with his daughters, Ananias and Sapphira who lied to the church and to the Holy Spirit and who died as a result, but will still be in heaven.

While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of God's presence in the world, we sometimes wonder if the church's early theologians invented this connection as an explanation of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead to orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality, much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the real joy and meaning of sex.

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

Once St. Paul told Timothy he should use some wine as a drug, and wine was ever used at the Lord's Supper which is one of the most holy actions of the Church.

Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

The relevant loci are the creation story, the Sixth Commandment, Ephesians 5 with its meditation on marriage as a sacramental sign of the union of Christ and his Church, the end of Revelation with its depiction of the marriage of the Lamb, and the whole narrative stream of Holy Scripture that assumes the heterosexual monogamous norm, despite the fact of royal and patriarchal polygamy.

All the ordinary means of sanctification which are given to us in God's mercy through the Catholic Church are available to those who choose to be involved in Faith, most especially, the Holy Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance and personal prayer, as well as devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

«We receive all these books, and these only, as holy and confirmation of our faith; believing, without any doubt, all things contained in them, no so much because the church receives and approves them as such, but more especially because the Holy Ghost witnessed in our hearts that they are from God, whereof they carry the evidence in themselves.&raholy and confirmation of our faith; believing, without any doubt, all things contained in them, no so much because the church receives and approves them as such, but more especially because the Holy Ghost witnessed in our hearts that they are from God, whereof they carry the evidence in themselves.&raHoly Ghost witnessed in our hearts that they are from God, whereof they carry the evidence in themselves.»

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

All Popes in history that have proclaimed Truths from the Chair of Peter in this way have never failed in delivering the Truth to the people, not even a Pope that was otherwise not a holy Pope; this can only happen because the Holy Spirit is doing exactly as He promised... protecting His Church from evil and guiding Her into the fullness of Truth «as we can bear it&raqholy Pope; this can only happen because the Holy Spirit is doing exactly as He promised... protecting His Church from evil and guiding Her into the fullness of Truth «as we can bear it&raqHoly Spirit is doing exactly as He promised... protecting His Church from evil and guiding Her into the fullness of Truth «as we can bear it».

Mathison might say that by such a refusal, I am placing myself as an individual above and against the Holy Spirit - guided consensus of the rest of the church, which therefore places me in the category of «heretic.»

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

As a kid growing up in Evangelical churches, I would occasionally hear about the ultimate in Christian travel — the Holy Land tour.

We will uphold the «holy catholic church» as the body and bride of Christ.

The administration of the Church's sacraments is equally important, of course, and this is especially true for us if we accept the position of the sixteenth - century Reformers that in the celebration of the sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion, as well as in the pulpit, the gospel is proclaimed and expressed.

As AW Tozer once said: «If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference.»

«The challenge», wrote Father Alexander Lucie - Smith in his Catholic Herald blog shortly after the Holy Father had announced his resignation, «will be in having to watch the airwaves fill with a whole load of people who are very marginal to Church life, and yet who will be invited to pontificate on all matters papal and religious, giving it their own particular slant, which they will advance as a mainstream view.»

«Then at least,» I wrote at the time, «left to ourselves, we will be able, under the guidance of a new Holy Father (who will, I hope and pray, see it as his aim to complete the work of the pontificate which has just come to such an unexpected end), and with God's help, return in the light of a new Eastertide to the business of building up the Church once more, free of the attentions of the roving media protagonists who so rarely care a jot about what, for a week or so, is currently attracting their fitful attention.»

In order not to burden the church, Paul sacrificially earned his own income while preaching the gospel so as to model a righteous and holy life (2:10).