Sentences with phrase «as a church body»

Much of what we do as a church body is out of ignorance; whether a large church building, or celebrating Christmas and Easter, all while we confuse would - be newcomers with mixed messages of Christ's humility vs church wealth, Christmas trees vs a lowly stable, and egg - laying rabbits vs the empty tomb.

These are just a few issues that we as the Church Body need to be willing to address.

Not exact matches

Oh, and remember, Pope Benedict's last job before his promotion was head of the body of the Roman Catholic Church that we lovingly used to refer to as the Inquisition!

It's far from clear that Madison is saying that government is limited by the freedom the church as an organized body of thought and action.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

Quoting Romans 8:23 «we wait eagerly for... the redemption of our bodies» West says that he hopes that his teaching will ultimately impact the Church by shaping our view of and hope in the afterlife as offering us bodily redemption.

Campaigners plan to protest outside York Minster on Sunday as members of the Church of England's governing body hold a four - day meeting there this weekend.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Anabaptists rejected Reformation structure that put city council as the governing body over churches.

If a church can not tell its flock «what to do with my body,» as the saying goes, with regard to contraception, then other uses of that body will quickly prove to be similarly off - limits to ecclesiastical authority.

I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

'» Or as the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it: «The bodies of the dead must be treated with respect and charity, in faith and hope of the Resurrection.

Although her body was frail, her mind remained sharp and it hurt her deeply for the church she loved to treat her as a nonexistent person.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

«The fact that antisemitism has infected the body of the Church is something of which we as Christians must be deeply repentant.

It seems as though the churches and political organizations have swapped roles: The churches speak more as political organizations, and governments and international bodies as churches.

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

Eph 5:23 -» For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.»

Eph 1:22,23 - «And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.»

I've struggled with this unspoken, subtle pressure to conform — especially as it relates to the church body — as well.

If we define the church as those who are part of the body of Christ, obviously there are those both within the institution and outside the institution who are the church, just as there are those both within the institution and outside the institution who are not part of the body of Christ.

Many of us understand the church as the body of Christ, and a local congregation can be a part of that.

The church ought not do it... it is harmful to the church body as well as the individual.

Thankfully, Jesus is using people like me (and millions of others in the same boat) to show these people who have stopped attending church that there is wonderful way of following Jesus as part of His Body, the church, which does not involve sitting in a pew on Sunday morning and listening to a sermon.

Given a Reformed ecclesiology, an individual believer seems to have no reason to accept a particular ecclesial body as part of the «true Church,» unless its interpretation of the Gospel matches the believer's own.

Only one text, 1 Corinthians 12:27, refers to the church specifically as the Body of Christ.

Like most recent statements from Protestant church bodies, it attests to the seriousness with which such Christians still take the marital bond, which continues to be understood as the most appropriate context for sexual relations.

While as a man, Jesus could only be in one place at one time, as the Head of the church, Jesus can be wherever there are members of His body, the church.

Church leaders should ensure that the Gospel is preached, that people are shown love, and that the Bible is held as the final court of arbitration, and that missional work is done by the churchChurch leaders should ensure that the Gospel is preached, that people are shown love, and that the Bible is held as the final court of arbitration, and that missional work is done by the churchchurch body.

These twin factors converge in passages that picture the church as a Body, and so in the minds of many, the Body is the main image for the church.

I was looking for a place to share this... our church many years ago was going through all this legalism stuff... I heard this from a friend of mine because by the time it all blew open we had stopped going to church... One guy was always trying to say something «wise» so he shared with the group that the other day as he was showering it occurred to him that «the hand washes the body» and repeated it slowly — theee haaaand waaaasheeees the bodeeeee» — My friend took it home with a «meh» reaction and shared it with her non-believing hubby....

Formed by those who'd left the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, a mainline body, and who weren't quite so conservative as to join the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the NALC recently held its third annual convention, and a good time was had by all.

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

The Relationship God Has Always Wanted With You — Wayne Jacobsen The Naked Church — Wayne Jacobsen This Is My Body: Ekklesia As God Intended — Keith Giles Pagan Christianity — Frank Viola & George Barna Reimagining Church — Frank Viola

Evangelicals insist I MUST believe in the Trinity and JW's don't want to touch me with a barge pole, so I'm stuck in the middle; but you are like a breath of fresh air as you prize away people from orthodoxy of «religion» and a dependence on institutions to the true Church, the Body of Christ.

A couple of years after I accepted my best position as minister, serving as pastor of a church in St. Anne, Illinois, my parents came from Mexico for a visit, During their stay my father, who had recently turned 80, suffered a minor stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body.

The oneness of the church — one Lord, one faith, one baptism — is as integral to being a part of Christ's body as receiving the sacrament of bread and wine.

The soul is truly the «form» of the body as defined by the Church, for in this the unique and supreme case matter and form must be really distinct within the unity of the one being.

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

Perhaps the visual notion of the ascension is the movement of the Christ to the place at the head of the table as our great high priest, the head of the true state that is the church, the body of Christ of which Christians are all parts.

Also, as an effect of being joined to the Body of Christ, the Church, they can actually help bring grace to others.

Just as the Church fills up in the bodies of her members the sufferings of Christ, so also the consolations of the Lord overflow to others through her as she fills out the full measure of the healing love of Christ by her sacramental ministry (cf. Col 1,24).

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

In spite of the vicissitudes of human history the developing sequence of events that constitute the history of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ is simply non-negotiable.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

The Church as a body has centuries of experience of reading the Word, of immersing itself in the language of God.

(Psalm133: 1 — 3) As the churches work, pray and praise together, the community experiences a unified expression of the body of Christ.

Carlyle was adamantly Protestant and thought that the church as an invisible reality was a critical counterpart to a natural supernaturalism that informed the body politic.

Release a list of all the Archbishops, Bishops, and priests that molested their congregation, with a list of who was molested, as well as complete signed apologies from all the resulting offenders, and a signed confession by the Pope that these people will be charged in a criminal court for these crimes and will not ever be allowed to preach the word of God in a Catholic church, and then, MAYBE, I'll think you have a right to tell your followers they can't do with their bodies as they please.