Sentences with word «apostleship»

Art. 8 pronounces equality of apostleship in general and prohibit the exalting of any one apostle over the other.

24 And they prayed and said, «You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which of these two You have chosen 25 to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.»

Those with the gift of apostleship today we most often know as missionaries to unreached people groups.

As for the work of the apostle and the relationship he sustained with the churches, we must depend almost entirely on the letters of Paul — and this means that we can know very little except about Paul's own apostleship.

This prominence of prophecy continued in the Pauline school in the ranking of prophecy second among the gifts after apostleship (Eph.

I thank God I learned as a teen, Paul's unique apostleship and the message of grace for LIFE (Titus 2:11 - 13), that scriptures can be wrongly divided as well as rightly (2 Timothy 2:15) and that God never, NEVER will hold me accountable for my sins, mistakes, errors, misuse of His Word, etc..

Would we rather not accept the responsibility of apostleship at Pentecost and its radical implications?

2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

The Spirit was invoked, lots were cast and Matthias was appointed to take the place «in ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to hisown place» — his own place being generally interpreted as «the grave» or «hell.»

If so, what do we call those who have the gift of apostleship today?

Callings to the apostleship come from God, not to please a politically correct society.

There have been good experiences - discussing the apostleship of Mary Magdalene with an Episcopal priest during coffee hour - and bad ones - the Baptist preacher who struggled during a sermon illustration to think of a magazine that all the women present would know and like and finally came up with Ladies» Home Journal.

Mack shows how Paul was able to use the judicial argument for his apostleship in I Corinthians 9 to deliver an encomium, an epideictic speech of praise.

She visits detainees and leads the apostleship of prayer group in taking radical options on certain political issues like boycotting sham elections.

Accusations and defenses are examples of judicial rhetoric, as illustrated by Paul's defense of his apostleship in 2 Corinthians.

This time he was not defending his message but his apostleship.

The opposition of the divine and human terms and the orientations they represent structures Paul's thoughts about his apostleship, his motives, and his message.24

After the opening introduction of his name and tide «apostle» in 1.1, he states that his apostleship is not from or through any human agency.

11 - 12 Paul asserts that his gospel (like his apostleship in v. 1) is not a human gospel nor was it taught to him by any human.

1 - 12, four of them plural) highlights the contrast.25 In other words, Paul has introduced his narrative by stating simply and plainly, «I did not receive my apostleship or my gospel from any human source, and I do not want to please any humans.

I received my apostleship and gospel from God and Christ and God and Christ are the ones I want to please».

By his insistence on his apostleship (Gal.

We're going to see later in the book that there might still be the spiritual gift of apostleship, but this gift is not to be confused with the office of apostle.

Is it possible to distinguish between the office of apostle, and the spiritual gift of apostleship?

A new development has been their teaming up with Catholic charities, including Missio, the Apostleship of the Sea and London's Cardinal Hume Centre to present a message.

But he was set apart from the rest of mankind by an excellent inborn morality, by the divine knowledge granted to him, and by the dignity of his apostleship: he is the head of all believers.

He claims, as the basis for his apostleship, to have «seen the Lord» (I Coy.

The two opening questions introduce the themes of Paul's freedom and his apostleship (1 Cor 9:1), themes that the chapter will develop in reverse order, 1 Cor 9:1 — 18 treating the question of his apostleship and the rights that flow from it, and 1 Cor 9:19 — 27 exploring dialectically the nature of Paul's freedom.

The church in mission lies at the root of Paul's whole understanding of his apostleship.

And they prayed and said, «Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which one of these two thou hast chosen to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside, to go to his own place.»