Sentences with phrase «affirm together»

My attitude toward Mohler is the same as my attitude toward Ken Ham: We can disagree on the age of the earth and still have peace with one another, for at the end of the day we can affirm together that Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again.

Richard and I held a press conference in New York during Holy Week to announce a joint statement of the truth we could affirm together.

Or is the gospel a message about God's Son that Protestants and Catholics affirm together?

Bringing as they did, quite different theological traditions and resources, were there some things they could affirm together?

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

But in the face of a society marked by unbelieving ideologies and the culture of death, we deem it all the more important to affirm together those foundational truths of historic Christian orthodoxy that we do hold in common.

So let's affirm together that feeling how you feel is OK, but it's what you believe that may need some tending to.

We shall then be ready to consider the positive implications of this theological perspective in which the creative and the redemptive work of God are affirmed together, for Christian ethics, for Christian politics, and for the life of the spirit when the Christian commitment becomes a way of meeting both life and death.

Yet what we have affirmed together in this document, we believe, is of fundamental importance.

6:19, R.S.V.); in poetry of surpassing beauty where the greatness of God and man, his supreme creation, are affirmed together.

Not exact matches

Anyway, I got to hang with my friend Kid Dynamite this week in Boston and our time together affirmed what I had already suspected — that he knows his stuff and has been there for real.

Together we affirm that Scripture is the divinely inspired and uniquely authoritative written revelation of God; as such it is normative for the teaching and life of the Church.

She went on to say: «He very much valued the importance of relationships, of people affirming those relationships and of seeing stability in relationships and people able to be together with people that they love.»

There is the psychological structure of the self with its two loves, the self - affirming drives and the self - giving drives, and the precarious freedom in which they must be held together.

As Malloy writes, in reflecting on the uniqueness of the Catholic Church «one can affirm both the essential fullness of the ecclesial reality of the Catholic Church and the concrete poverty and woundedness of her lived life, together with her practical need of the expressive ecclesial riches found outside her visible boundaries.»

In the theological study group known as Evangelicals and Catholics Together, we have been led to affirm our unity as brothers and sisters in Christ.

In that spirit, then, Dionysius could affirm that love, as applied to the Godhead, «means a faculty of unifying and conjoining and of producing a special commingling together in the Beautiful and Good... and holds together things of the same order by a mutual connection, and moves the highest to take thought for those below and fixes the inferior in a state which seeks the higher.»

It is a commitment to hold together with those who share a similar norm, to carry on mature conversations, to affirm a oneness in the gospel, while working on the issues that currently divide.3 Evangelicals need the collective wisdom of their best minds and spirits working together on the theological task of the church.

Together, however, we do affirm that no true Christian, living or dead, can be outside the communio sanctorum, the fellowship of all who live in the crucified, risen, reigning, and returning Lord.

While Evangelicals find no biblical warrant for the doctrine of Purgatory, we together affirm with Paul, «If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

In that statement we together affirmed the way in which we understand justification by faith alone as a gift received by God's grace alone because of Christ alone.

Although Catholics believe that the Church is visible in its universal dimension and not only in local congregations, we as Catholics and Evangelicals together affirm the statement of Amsterdam 2000:

We can talk about our disagreements knowing that what we have in common far outweighs our differences, for together we can affirm that Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again!

Spend some time together each day seeking to get reconnected through communicating, caring, affirming each other, and dealing with small hurts and frictions that otherwise may build into a cold wall that blocks the flow of loving, sensual feelings.

We can talk about our disagreements knowing that what we have in common far outweighs our differences, for together we can affirm hat Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again!

Indeed, without Richard's influence and leadership, we never could have pulled together Catholic and evangelical leaders to openly acknowledge our theological differences, affirm the things we held in common, and confidently assert the Christian worldview we shared.

My own hope is that the religions of the world will come together to affirm the spiritual and moral values on which a new world society needs to be based.

It affirms our common evangelical mission first to our lost brothers and sisters and secondly to construct together a Christian culture.

Despite all our cultural differences, despite the structures in society and in the Church that obscure our confession of Christ, and despite our sinfulness, we affirm and confess Christ together, for we have found that he is not alien to any culture and that he redeems and judges all our societies.

And since they must say it together, the result would inevitably be reductionistic, for the agnostic would have veto power over affirming anything of theological significance.

We'd need a deeper understanding of this weekly rhythm, one where divine and human come together in intimacy to affirm the goodness of both.

The witness of the Spirit does not erase individuality but affirms it by drawing together all sorts of people to share what they have heard God say to them.

Thus, together, they can affirm an ecumenical perception of Christian mission expressed in the following convictions under which they covenant to work for the kingdom of God.

In The Hindu (13 July 1999) C.V. Narasimhan provocatively justifies the coming together of the mother - tongue, the mother - land and the mother - religion in Hinduism.19 While I wholeheartedly affirm the necessary and positive role that Hinduism can and ought to play in nation - building, the notion that the land, language and religion of India can be viewed as coming under the «motherhood» of one monolithic label is dangerous and unacceptable.

It does mean that Catholics and Protestants affirm the gospel together.

We affirm our conviction that genuine interfaith dialogue and cooperation is a significant way of bringing the world together.

In any case, when people laugh together at something absurd in their own group, it can be a way of affirming that they belong to it.

Moreover, each human being must be constituted of many millions of these «unit - happenings» or «experiences,» because Hartshorne affirms that persons have about ten new ones per second and that they fit together so smoothly that the transitions between them go largely unnoticed.12 And inasmuch as everything in the universe is composed of similar unit - experiences or actual entities, the number of them that occurs at any given instant of time (if we may legitimately speak of such instants) must be stupendously large.

In view of all that inheres in the first four «words» and in the light of what is there already affirmed both explicitly and by inference; in consideration of ancient Eastern modes of thought and the characteristic psychological identification one always made of his own life with the life of immediate and also more distant progenitors; in recognition of the meaning of Covenant, together with Israel's faith in God's creation and his continuing exercise of the powers and prerogatives of Creator and Sustainer - in acknowledgment of all this it is apparent that the intention of the fifth commandment is to establish and perpetuate not merely the parental but by and through the parental the divine claim upon every life in Israel.

Making love with an experienced, liberated partner who can affirm both her or his sexuality and yours, is qualitatively a deeply satisfying experience, an experience that can have a unique and changing meaning for each couple throughout their years together.

... Christians and Muslims can together affirm many important truths about this great God — his oneness, eternity, power, majesty.

We, Evangelicals and Catholics together, affirm the truth and the reality of marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman, established by free and mutual consent and by God's action.

What if, with a slight bow and palms pressed together in reverence, we affirmed the fact that God is at work in the life of the notorious gossip next door, the scary homeless guy on the street corner, the aggressive legalist in the front pew at church.

Think of Affirmed and Alydar going down to the wire together in the Belmont Stakes of 1978 — and think how it would be if that neck - and - neck tension were prolonged over minutes, not seconds.

As a spiritual guide, I affirm that a couple should stay together not because they have to but because they want to.

Seeing my daughter and her brother together affirms our decision to choose open adoption and most importantly, to keep choosing it.

It does help to affirm for me, though, that I am making the right decision in exploring options, such as joining the nearby gym, so that our family is able to spend time together in the water.

At the end of your journey together, you will affix the VALID id to your teen's Journal and sign it to affirm that he or she has agreed value themselves as God created them and carry out their mission.

Kalu affirmed that the right of the Igbo had been embedded in the United Nation's charter, which gave them the full right to ask for secession if they were no longer comfortable in living together as one country called Nigeria.