Sentences with phrase «jesus than church»

I soon discovered that the people the church rejected were more loving, forgiving, generous and generally more like Jesus than Church leaders or congregants who claimed to be Jesus followers.

Not exact matches

And again, anytime doing anything other than prayer, study, church attendance was supposed to be used to work, clean your house to the n - th degree in case Jesus showed up, run necessary errands and then hot foot it back to church.

I myself believe that the Christian church shall «focus» on the Message of Salvation, hence the Lord Jesus Christ, rather than religious legalism.

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

But for now, I would rather be part of a Christ - centered megachurch full of programs where people are coming to know Jesus as Savior, than part of a church of any size where they are not.

That's because we recognize only one Christian nation, the church, the holy nation that is bound together by a living faith in Jesus rather than by man - made, blood - soaked borders.

My comments are more for those who think they know more on morality and faith than the Church Jesus started 2012 years ago.

Many people do not marry in a church, even more (billions) do not celebrate the birth of Jesus, probably even more do not cry out to any gods, or may to other gods other than (yours), and many people consider life elsewhere in the universe because science and reason points to that possibility.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints come from many nationalities, cultures, and backgrounds check this link out for yourself: http://mormon.org/me/3QV2 In fact, there are more members outside of the United States than inside!

All the added ritual and laws by the Catholic Church and politicized evangelical for example followed the footprint of the Jewish leaders of Jesus day that brought darkness, hate and division rather than unity and love.

I know women are more respected in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints than maybe anywhere else.

Those who would denigrate the Church of Jesus Christ (LDS), usually are mis - informed because New Testament Christianity is closer to Jesus Christ's teachings than Fourth Century Creeds.

It was prophecied in Jeremiah 16 that a greater work than that of Moses would occur — that of gathering of the house of Israel — and one fulfillment of that prophecy is the establishment and missionary effort of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

Missional churches want to do more than just have big buildings and Bible studies, but instead want to embrace culture so it can be redeemed and transformed by the love of Jesus.

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

However, a life time of theological / spiritual formation in our Western Churches has left many people with a concept of God that is more like Baal than the Loving Merciful God and Father of Jesus.

Yes, it breaks my heart too that some Christians think that when someone «stops attending church» they are backsliding or becoming apostate, when really, we are only seeking to follow Jesus more closely than we ever have before.

Certainly some churches are more legalistic than others, but for every compassionate saying or act of Jesus, he also lays down requirements and restrictions.

Most of them report a closer intimacy with God and liberty in their walk with Jesus than they claim they felt when «attending» church.

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sChurch (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a schurch in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

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

Rather than treating church polity as secondary, Jesus insists on the reverse: first live as servants of one another and then you will know what to say and do as my disciples.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

When I jumped (and I do mean jumped, a ready or not here I come, head - first dive) from the Sunday - mainstream - church - going - because - it's - what - you - do nominal / cultural Christianity that I was raised with into «serious» Christianity (to use the vernacular: born again, spirit filled, Bible believing, charismatic, etc.) and became what was at the time called a «Jesus freak» (it was 1972) I expected something from the church which was very different than what I found.

But Hunter, the president's closest spiritual counselor, says Obama has technically been a born - again Christian for more than 25 years, since accepting Jesus at Wright's Chicago church in the 1980s.

Growing up, Flournoy says that he always believed the Mormon view of Jesus: «I never had any sort of inkling that there was something else out there that could be more true than Mormonism, because my family and church leaders seemed to be of sound mind.

Let us not rush to get anyone into any position of authority in the «church,» for there is no authority other than Jesus Christ, and there is no church other than the family of God.

The pain I have incurred is a reflection of being a «Christian» in the «Church» more than it has been because I Love Jesus and want to be like Him.

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

As a result, our fourteenth and fifteenth chapters of Mark can be analyzed into two, or even three, classes of material: (1) the old, traditional passion narrative of the Roman church, ultimately derived from Palestine; (2) the additional material inserted into it by Mark, some of it perhaps from Palestine, some not; and finally, (3) some verses which may be later still, inserted in the interest of the risen Jesus» appearance in Galilee rather than in Jerusalem.

Therefore, confirmation must require more than the elementary mastery of a few facts about Jesus, church history, the Bible, etc..

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

Twenty centuries later, I think we are the ones who invest our ego in the church and make the church about our values, rather than seeing our relationship to Jesus as finding expression in a community of believers — quite literally a new family.

Other than the one verse in which Jesus says «Upon this rock...» did he have anything at all to say about «church»?

There have also been churches entrenched in a male - only model of leadership, whose leaders sound more like Plato than Jesus.

The fact is, LGBT Christians often do a better job at living out the way of Jesus than do the Christians who exclude them from their worship services... Really, it would be so much easier to wave a big middle finger at the church and go about our lives.

Since the relationship of faith about which we are speaking is essentially a belief in Jesus, the entire structure of the Church is obviously larger than simply those who are card - carrying (or basket - contributing) members of a particular Christian sect.

When we finally acknowledge that books and lectures and sermons can not adequately contain what we want to say about God's love and God's mercy, we explode in doxology: «Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

I believe that most of those who have converted from Christianity to this form of Buddhism are in fact living in ways more appropriate to discipleship to Jesus than they were when they belonged to Christian churches.

On these grounds Matt.11.12 has a very strong claim to authenticity: it stands in the earliest stratum of this particular tradition and it reflects the attitude of Jesus to John rather than that of the early Church, to which he was at best the Forerunner (Mark 9.

My Unitarian Universalist church models Jesus» love to me a hell of a lot better than anyone like you — Oops.

Many of the churches in Rome are built over or near the tombs of the martyrs, those who willingly faced (an often tortuous) death rather than renounce their faith in Jesus Christ.

5:19 KJV), than to say baldly, «Jesus is God», although this assertion is part of the basis of the World Council of Churches.

More obviously than in other parts of the Synoptic Gospels there is much material which is evidently a casting back, in the form of a narrative about Jesus, of the thought and experience of the Church in later years, and of its controversies with opponents.

The true dilemma is with churches who preach the American dream rather than the gospel of Jesus.

I have struggled with how to answer this question for many years, because while we do not officially «attend church,» we feel that we are more involved with the Church than ever before, and are following Jesus in a more relational way than we ever did as regular church attenders or church lechurch,» we feel that we are more involved with the Church than ever before, and are following Jesus in a more relational way than we ever did as regular church attenders or church leChurch than ever before, and are following Jesus in a more relational way than we ever did as regular church attenders or church lechurch attenders or church lechurch leaders.

Yet even though the differences in usage between Old Testament and New Testament caused some second century Christians to conclude that two different realities were referred to, the apostolic church was adamant, that it was none other than the God of Israel who had spoken to men in Jesus.

Moreover, it must be remembered that the Gospels are the records of early Christian preaching and teaching rather than attempts at objective historical narrative and are thus more immediately valuable as sources for the faith of the primitive church than for the biography of Jesus.

The Catholic church has been hiding or destroying anything that would allow you to see Jesus in any light, other than what the church wants you to believe.