Not exact matches
The church is just a bunch of us sinners who have been brought together to
hear that Word (of law and
gospel), and receive Baptism and the
Lord's Supper.
At Zhang's
hearing, IRB adjudicator Leonard Favreau ruled Zhang joined a church in Canada to support a fraudulent refugee claim because Zhang only knew the names of two of Jesus» apostles, two of the
gospels, and one prayer — the
Lord's Prayer, which he recited incorrectly.
Mormon 3:21 21 And also that ye may believe the
gospel of Jesus Christ, which ye shall have among you; and also that the Jews, the covenant people of the
Lord, shall have other witness besides him whom they saw and
heard, that Jesus, whom they slew, was the very Christ and the very God.
In the same letter, we read that the
Gospel message «was declared at first by the
Lord, and it was attested to us by those who
heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will» (Hebrews 2:3 - 4).
An excellent illustration is to be found in I Corinthians 11 where Paul's text is the tradition («The
Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread...»).14 His text, translated and proclaimed for the Corinthian situation, stands now as our text for proclamation to the situation of the present hearers, a situation that will, in dialogue with the text, create a new speaking and
hearing of the
Gospel.
In Christian terms, nobody who has
heard our
Lord Jesus Christ speaking in the
gospels will dare to think that the Creator and Father / Mother of all women and men can be satisfied with this organization of the family.
They have stressed obedience to the
Lord's command «Go, and teach all nations» but have been shy of stating the conviction of Scripture and Tradition, up to and including Vatican II, that unless they
hear the
Gospel and enter the Church, many will remain slaves of the devil, the flesh and the world, and may never attain the eternal life Christ won for them upon the Cross.
According to John's
Gospel, our
Lord said, «Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.»