Sentences with phrase «after encountering jesus»

No such people in the underground churches in Communist countries, no addicts who turned a new leaf after encountering Jesus (miraculously, though to what extent this has to be, to be accepted as a convincing proof by you is unknown), no news site links of such things, nothing!

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It wasn't the summer that brought an end to my doubt, but it was the summer I encountered a different Jesus, a Jesus who requires more from me than intellectual assent and emotional allegiance; a Jesus who associated with sinners and infuriated the religious; a Jesus who broke the rules and refused to cast the first stone; a Jesus who gravitated toward sick people and crazy people, homeless people and hopeless people; a Jesus who preferred story to exposition and metaphor to syllogism; a Jesus who answered questions with more questions, and demands for proof with demands for faith... a Jesus who healed each person differently and saved each person differently; a Jesus who had no list of beliefs to check off, no doctrinal statements to sign, no surefire way to tell who was «in» and who was «out»; a Jesus who loved after being betrayed, healed after being hurt, and forgave while being nailed to a tree; a Jesus who asked his disciples to do the same...

«In so far as one wishes to speak of a modification of faith before and after Easter, it can only be said that «once» became «once for all», the isolated encounter with Jesus limited by death became that presence of the exalted Lord such as the Fourth Gospel describes.»

After these various encounters, Jesus speaks to the crowds in parables, that is, in stories designed to set forth principles and truths.

It looks much more as though these texts caught the eye, and were regarded as prophetic, only because it was already known, on the testimony of witnesses of the Resurrection appearances, that Jesus was actually encountered as the living Lord on the third day after his death.

I came to another conclusion — probably a couple of months after that first encounter with Jesus — that I couldn't change myself, but what I needed to do was to surrender and let God change me from the inside out.

Had an encounter with Jesus after reading a James Michener novel.

It is clear that after the encounter with the five thousand patriots things could never be the same again, and it is no surprise when Mark tells us that Jesus withdrew for a time into foreign territory.

According to the tradition reported by Paul and the Gospel writers, Peter encountered Jesus as Lord and Christ on the third day after his death.

After all, his aim is to interpret the gospel, and the gospel is not an analysis of the formal structure of human life and of the universe, but the proclamation of event and encounter: God is present in Jesus Christ.

Another way of putting it is to say that for the first Christians the best in everything they had ever known about religion was fulfilled for them in their encounter with Jesus — in his life, in his death, and particularly in his new life after death.

Saul's encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus was so definite, after all.

Born and raised as Muslims, both women grew unsatisfied with the teachings of the Koran and converted to Christianity after personal encounters with Jesus.

Except Paul didn't know Jesus until after the encounter on the road to Damascus, at which time his name was Saul.

4:27).102 The woman, who had been confined to her own house, realized a sense of freedom after her encounter with Christ to face her own people and introduce Jesus to them.

In this first section of section of the Gospel after the prologue, the Apostle John displays the Word in a series of incidents and encounters that Jesus had at the outset of his ministry.

The really tragic part is that once you actually encounter Jesus Christ in a real way, that is, become Born Again, leaving behind sin and chasing after righteousness becomes easier and easier.

So, what you're saying is, much more than other Christians not showing persuasive proof of lives changed from an encounter with Jesus, it is the lack of change in your own even after feeling confident that you've met and experienced Him that caused you to decide to stop believing?