Sentences with phrase «as a missionary faith»

Hall addresses with the question How shall we be able to fashion our life as the community of Christ's disciples (after all, our only raison d'être), and how shall we carry on as a missionary faith, in a world that is multicultural and pluralistic?

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It shocks me to see all the articles where in people describe Mormon beliefs as mysterious, when there's over 52,000 missionaries willing to teach the faith at a moments notice.

Out of all this insanity comes the very wise perspective of a woman who identifies herself as «the very worst missionary,» but who is pretty much «the very best blogger» when it comes to speaking frankly about faith in real life.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of America then raised a general call to all Churches «which accept Jesus Christ as God and Saviour to join in conference following the general method of the World's Missionary Conference, for the consideration of all questions pertaining to the Faith and Order of the Church of Christ.»

The act of being missionary against faith has often involved as much zealotry as has the effort to spread belief.

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

It must be noted that these were not communities of Persian Christians but of Indians by blood and ancestry brought to Christian faith by the missionary activities of Indian Christians as well of Persian missionaries.

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.

A major difference with the US, in Orthodox history, is that in previous instances Orthodox people went to new lands as missionaries, with faith uppermost in mind.

The problems in Africa, as stated in the Matthew Parris article, may be helped somewhat by Christian missionaries, but injecting «faith» into that continent is damaging, at least in the short term.

Because it defines missionary activities as religious practices to spread a faith beyond its members, «if that is interpreted as the Moscow Patriarchate is likely to, it will mean the Orthodox Church can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the region.

Some scientists have gone overseas as medical, agricultural, or scientific missionaries and teachers; are there not in America most of the same opportunities for service to mankind and for witness by word and work to one's religious faith?

Missionaries, usually supported by a military guard, went beyond the borders of white occupation, persuaded the natives to settle down, and taught them the arts of peace and Spanish culture as well as the Christian faith.

Here again, as in the case of the monk - missionaries of the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches, it was chiefly those who were most earnestly devoted to the faith who offered themselves as missionaries and gave to the support of the societies.

Proposition 7: New Evangelisation as a Permanent Missionary Dimension of the Church It is proposed that the Church proclaim the permanent worldwide missionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from tMissionary Dimension of the Church It is proposed that the Church proclaim the permanent worldwide missionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from tmissionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from the Church.

As an intrinsically missionary faith, Christianity repeatedly invades geographically or historically new turf — and it never finds that turf religiously unoccupied.

The priest who first did my instruction in the faith was once a missionary in Africa, and told me terrifying stories of having to do spiritual battle as an exorcist with the same sort of «religious leaders» the pontiff was now welcoming as his honored guests.

«We are proud of the robust and diverse faith outreach program employed by the Democratic Party that begins with volunteer faith captains in precincts all across the country and ends with a Chairman who spent a year as a missionary and has made faith outreach among our highest priorities as a Party,» he said, referring to DNC chairman Tim Kaine.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

Additionally, the commission wants to see more pressure put on Russian officials over repressive application of other laws, including its «foreign agents» law — which restricts missionary activity — and a 2016 anti-evangelism regulation (known as the «Yarovaya law»)-- which keeps non-Orthodox Russians from sharing their faith outside official church buildings.

(How Christianity is to relate, as a minority faith, to pluralistic environments is one of the key topics to be taken up at this month's celebration of the 50th anniversary of Tambaram — the meeting in that city near Madras of the International Missionary Council which included the Third World in a way that anticipated the current influence of the «newer churches» in the World Council of Churches.)

As missionaries all over the world have discovered, to proclaim the gospel they have to be secure enough in their own faith to risk having it shaken.

«The majority of these were undoubtedly Indians by blood and ancestry who had embraced the new faith for its own sake, as proselytes of Christian missionaries from Persia and Mesopotamia.»

The famous missionary injunctions in the Gospels and Acts, such as, «Go therefore and make disciples of all nations...» are all placed on the lips of the risen Jesus, the Christ of faith, and reflect what began to happen only ten to twenty years after the death of Jesus.

Richard Ferre, a psychiatrist in the LDS Church's Missionary Department, is quoted as saying that «there are better ways to cope than to hide illness or to presume [those who come home early] lack faith.»

In the choice of this central theme, the missionary movement came into the same stream of thought as two other branches of the ecumenical movement, namely, the Faith and Order, and Life and Work movements.

Just as the nature of Christ as God and man challenged the full faculties of the faith and reason of Augustine and the Church Fathers, so the nature of Scripture as the Word of God and the word of human authors challenges the full faculties of the faith and reason of evangelical scholars and missionaries today.

Out of the Spanish Reformation issued, as we shall see, a vast missionary movement which carried the faith to the Americas, Asia, and many of the islands of the sea.

The Southerners still were not certain of the good faith of their Northern brethren, so they proposed a Southern slaveholding pastor for an appointment as a home missionary.

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

The movie tells the story of Jesuit priests (played by Liam Neeson and Andrew Garfield), who are persecuted for their faith while serving as missionaries to Japan in 1639.

I was captivated by the love of the missionary couple for each other, by their unrelenting belief and faith in what they were doing, and by their interest and selfless compassion for the people they came to know and love in China - a country they quickly took on as their own.