Sentences with phrase «jesus challenges both groups»

the point remains: Jesus challenges both groups in ways they'd be hard pressed to handle.

Not exact matches

These are the extreme examples of the acceptance of the challenge of the forgiveness offered in the proclamation of Jesus, and they are the occasion for the greatest offence of Jesus in the eyes of his opponents; but in the group of his disciples and followers they could only have been a small minority, however spectacularly noticeable their presence in the group might be.

I thought the article was interesting and thought provoking — a challenge to evangelical Christians to embrace Jesus» words independently from the hypocritical political group - think of the religious right and raise their beliefs out of the political debate.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

We have stressed the direct and concrete nature of the challenge to faith in the teaching of Jesus; we turn now to explore further the response - as - obedience aspect of that teaching in terms of a group of sayings which exhibit the radical and total character of the challenge of Jesus altogether.

In this story these characters and their situation are not depicted by analogy but directly, and, in consequence, the hearers are not left to draw their own conclusions, but rather are challenged by the direct statement: «I tell you...» The challenge is the one we have seen throughout this group of parables, the fundamental challenge of Jesus to his hostile contemporaries.

The question of the historical Jesus has to be faced and discussed, in accordance with one's basic presuppositions, in light of the challenge issuing from the other groups and the developments and changes going on in one's own.