Sentences with phrase «as a servant of»

«A CEO today literally should recognize themselves as a servant of their company,» said Glaser.

This was the assumed function of theology as a servant of the church.

Rather than treating church polity as secondary, Jesus insists on the reverse: first live as servants of one another and then you will know what to say and do as my disciples.

Envisioning ourselves as servants of Humanity can be a vice.

The person who loses — gives — any such organ as a servant of Christ shall find it.

It is a summons from Jesus to live in the Christian community as the servants of one another.

Especially must it be free from ideologies that deride charity as a stop - gap measure or even as the servant of an unjust status quo.

You shall not compel him to serve as a slave: In the Mosaic law, if one chronically could not pay his debts, he would have to work off the debt as a servant of his creditor.

It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness.

Here then is a summary of the essential purport of the life and work of Jesus in a kind of symbolic shorthand: he undertook his mission, our informants are saying, as Messiah, as Son of God, as the Servant of the Lord, in the power of the divine Spirit — and this is «God's truth,» affirmed by the divine voice whose echo can be caught by the inward ear.

There are reflections both of baptism and of the Lord's Supper here, but we are likely to recall primarily the description of Jesus in the other gospels as servant of all (Luke 22:27, for example).

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

It can be put most forcefully, even shockingly, if we say that Christians identify themselves not only as servants of the anointed king but as Christ.

Modern economics is thc science of self - interest, of how to best accommodate individual behavior by means of markets and the commodification of human relations... In this economic world view, the traditional human faculty of reason gets short - changed and degraded to act as the servant of sensory desires.

In this faith he can work with courage and hope as the servant of God for the conquest of evil.

As servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute.

Paul, as a servant of God, was sent by God to preach to the Gentiles in Antioch.

Running throughout all these variants is the question of whether Christ's followers as the servants of God have a responsibility for bringing it to pass — «building the kingdom» is the phrase formerly often heard — or whether God in his wisdom and power will usher in the kingdom in his own good time.

.15 He says that the Church is an event; it is where the people of God are taking servant shape around the needs and hopes of the world - as servants of Christ and therefore servants of humanity.

In 595, John had assumed the auspicious title of Universal Bishop, which Gregory thought to be self - serving and regrettable.8 In order to demonstrate his own response Gregory publicly defined the role of the Roman bishop as the servant of the servants of God (servus servorum domini), a term that thereafter was used to describe the heart of papal authority and one which has been thereafter always associated with the Gregorian political imagination.

If the challenge were simply criticism of ourselves in this generation as poor witnesses to the Gospel, excoriating us for failing to live as credible disciples of the standards of goodness we proclaim, then our response should be one of penance, redoubled prayer and renewal as servants of charity in the world.

However, when we begin to understand the Church as a servant of the Kingdom, and salvation as effective growth as God's children in freedom and love, into the likeness of the Christ, then there is a relativization of all rites, including baptism.

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

Hence, the challenge today to the followers of Jesus, to the Church as the Servant of the Kingdom, is not to form an exclusive sociological entity but to be a movement, which empowers the powerless and which is open to all with a similar vision.

The ox as a beast of burden belongs most appropriately to Mark, who sees Jesus as the servant of the God who sent him, while the man should be given to Luke, who presents Jesus to the Gentiles as the universal man.

What it does do is to allow latent identities and identifications with the church to emerge freely, and to provide an occasion to recapture and reconfirm one's identity as a servant of Jesus Christ.

As the servant of all?

In Spain... the national - state... was believed in as the servant of the true Catholic religion.

so it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.

Trump as a servant of reason — it may appear inconceivable.

«I have finished my work as a servant of God and that is why I have come out to say it but I don't expect Ghanaians to insult me because I've pronounced doom on a party.

If the status of constable as a servant of the crown, and, therefore, the protection afforded to that status, is removed, police officers will understandably seek parity with other employees.

«There can't be a vacuum and as servants of the law, we must be seen at all times to be people who are duty bound to uphold the law and to do the right things at all times in the eyes of the law.»

Now she must work in the village's bathhouse, as a servant of the witch Yubaba, in the hope of finding a way to rescue her parents from their magic spell.

Given how much greater a role the arts and humanities play in their own right — the arts for arts» sake — they certainly don't need to be justified by their utility as servants of science.

Follow Evan as he continues his odyssey as Servant of the Gods in The Labyrinthine Journey.

Because cats are nocturnal creatures and do their roaming at night, they were seen as the servants of witches and out to harm those that the witches had cursed.

Issues of Nintendo Comics System portrayed Toad as more outgoing than previous incarnations; with another Toad named Wooster acting as the servant of Princess Toadstool and the Mushroom King.

The sword - wielding captain of the Jellyfish Pirates, Johnny will return for the expansion, along with Jack - O, a brand new character passively mentioned in the companion manga as a servant of That Man.

Lightning will act as a servant of god, and she is sure to rescue her own self from the pain she hides in her heart, through rescuing people.

He sees himself as the servant of art: «I'm always on duty.

Indeed, US culture has been telling these important stories about scientists as servants of the power elite since the Manhattan Project, and for good reason; science has been beholden various forms of power for centuries.

Judicial review — «In this we see ourselves as the servants of the sovereign legislature» keeping the Government and Executive within the powers which Parliament has given them.

The Government argued that past OLRB case law made it clear that Ministers, as servants of the Crown, are immune from the application of the LRA.

Jean - Noël Jeanneney, President of the Bibliothèque Nationale has a long record as a servant of the French state — chief executive of Radio - France, head of the Commission for the Bicentennial of the Revolution, and junior minister for foreign trade — but he also holds intellectual culture in high esteem, especially if it is French.

Practitioners with an «inherent» sense of duty and responsibility to ones» clients, thus their employers (not their brokers in this instance), will not need to be constantly reminded of their duties as a servant of the public.

Not exact matches

It may seem counterintuitive, but this is the heart of servant leadership: As you help others succeed, you become more successful yourself.

That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

«With a record of service that has spanned more than 30 years as a public servant, as an adviser, as a scholar, Ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation's foremost national security leaders,» Obama said.