Sentences with phrase «as communities of faith»

What moral qualities and purposes are integral to congregations as communities of faith?

Both the baptism of believers and the baptism of infants takes place in the Church as the community of faith.

I don't look forward to those events because I feel that we are so misunderstood as a community of faith.

As the community of faith, Israel pioneered the Christian Way.

The recovery of the church as the community of faith will not come out of the blue, but out of the existing, fragmented and outwardly dying ecclesiastical institutions of Christendom.

There is emerging today a new form of the church as the community of faith which is the leaven of that faith and of hope and of love in a unsettled world.

As a community of faith gathers to read, hear and study sacred texts, as it sings hymns of praise and confesses its sins, and as it practices acts of hospitality, compassion and justice, it learns and relearns how to receive and embody God's truth.

We formed as a Community of Faith in January 2010 out of deep conviction to stay true to Jesus» mandate to love God and people and to make disciples.

Not exact matches

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

«We see our involvement in this process as an opportunity to restore faith in the community by showing what we need more of in the Bitcoin space — trusted leadership,» said Kraken CEO Jesse Powell.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» she told Religious News Service, which first reported on the initiative.

This includes donor - advised funds at houses of worship and as well as those that have a mission to serve a particular faith group or in the name of a particular faith, such as Jewish Federations or Catholic Community Foundations.

I am prepared to fight, as I have since 2003 in the faith community, about the rightness of the position that the President has now taken.»

Then the canon, the listed set of writings making up the Bible, is recognized by the community of faith as the written word of God, possessing final authority for faith and life.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

Would you look the other way if the muslim community put a symbol of their faith in the museum as well?

It is the supreme expression of «faith in action,» as is Christ's presence with the gathered community the source of all other faithful actions.

As human rights lawyers, independent writers, journalists, and Tiananmen survivors joined us aboard our vessel, our community of faith also became a thorn in the regime's side.

As a result, much energy was expanded on delineating the implications of Christian faith in life generally, without regard to the historic locus of faith in the life of the Christian community.

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

Second, we also have to consciously locate our reading of Scripture in the context of our faith community, submitting whatever the Bible would say to me as an individual or my personal experiences to the more primary setting of God speaking to the community.

Faith communities are rediscovering the theology of hospitality As congregations change, many have been forced to reclaim this wisdom as old as AbrahaAs congregations change, many have been forced to reclaim this wisdom as old as Abrahaas old as Abrahaas Abraham.

I have to admit I'd read allot of the arguments (I find allot of these movement relationship dynamics fascinating from a sociological and psychological perspective as well as having endured my own share of toxic faith communities that have left me with a perverse fascination with researching what is going on).

That means opposing the self - contradictory «dictatorship of positivist reasoning that excludes God from the life of the community and from the public order, as well as acknowledging... human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its exercise».

As Asher Lev's vocation is rooted in the visual arts, this novel is also delightful meditation on the intersection of art, faith and community.

«Quite to the contrary, this request is seen by our community as standard operating procedure for people of faith.»

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

Having said this, however, we must also notice what ought in any event to have been obvious: that the several gospels are collections of brief tales, remembered incidents, bits of sayings, and the like, all gathered together in the interest of giving what St. Mark's opening words so well describe: «the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God» — the account of the historical happenings, as the Christian community remembered them, which gave rise to the faith that Jesus is the promised Messiah and the divine Lord.

It is the relationship to a community of faith which may make it difficult for a person of one faith to treat scriptures of another faith with the same authority as he or she accords to the scriptures of the faith community to which she or he belongs.

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

The acceptance of a scripture as authoritative goes with adherence to a faith community.

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

But it has its setting also, as Professor Paul Minear has lately insisted, in the «faith - situation» and in the «worship - situation» of the Christian community, if these barbarous terms may be allowed.

Here he quotes Craig Albert: «The Christian faith did not grow in response to a book, but as a response to God's interaction with the community of faith.»

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

And as to solidarity with others, the main thing, certainly, is not the community of faith but revolutionary action.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

As members of a community of faith, we miss the point when we refuse to offer guidance in ways that are concrete but not intrusive.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

We are saved by faith and baptism into God's holy eschatological community that will be vindicated at the End as those who have fulfilled Torah to the glory of God.

This means that the lections, though similar in function to preaching, also have a distinctive role as the written record of the community of faith's common memories.

Along with pastoring The Way Christian Center in the Bay Area, I serve as the director of the LIVE FREE Campaign, a faith - based movement committed to organizing the moral voice and actions of the faith community to end gun violence and mass incarceration.

The bonds of trust that bind communities together in shared faith, hope and charity will be corroded from within as human nature itself withers like branches detached from the Vine.

The Church in its widest sense, then, is the entire community of men as related by the faith in God to which Christianity aspires in the name of the Lord Jesus.

This is an important and helpful book for the Catholic community as it struggles to respond appropriately to the challenge outlined by Watkin — and by Ronald Knox two years earlier in 1945 (see the first part of his God and the Atom, summarised in Faith Magazine Nov / Dec 2012).