Sentences with phrase «as its followers think»

The aim in studying another religion should be to know it as it is and as its followers think it ought to be.

Not exact matches

Have you ever thought about the impact an Ellen Degeneres or LeBron James could get you with something as simple as a tweet promoting your brand to their millions of followers?

Followers do accept requests without complaint, and perform just as well as their counterparts, but the lack of independent thinking and leadership is a major fault when you look at your company from a distance.

Some think of Twitter as a numbers game, in which the more followers you have, the more powerful you are, and so they build up as large a number of followers as possible.

This tweet abundance also reflects badly on their personal brands as they come across as inauthentic with little thought for their followers» feeds.

As entrepreneurs, we should be thinking of platforms that captivate this new sense of social awareness and moral duty, while helping our consumers rebuild their online communities based on shared values and genuine interest rather than likes and followers.

The trap most people fall into is thinking that all followers are equal, and that any new follower will have the same value as any other.

This same scenario is what happens online when you use your thought leadership marketing as a means to sell, rather than to provide true value to your followers.

I think I will retweet this to our pet industry followers as some of them do not know what the word «link» even means; and I'm not being rude.

Santa: I think he might mean my second sentence where I called Ham a con - man and referred to his followers as sheep.

I personally am a follower of Christ and think its important to talk to others about my belief in God, as it has had profound positive impacts on my life.

As a follower of Jesus I have wrestled with those thoughts.

If you think that your personal experiences and emotions consti - tute evidence, then by that same logic, every other god and religion is equally as valid, and their followers say and feel just as you do.

I can understand people wanting proof of bin Laden's death, but I think his followers who will portray him as a martyr will be proof that bin Laden lives no longer.

As you are a follower of Luther and seem to hold great stock in everything that he said, it is of little surprise that you would think the Jewish people deserved their fate during the Holocaust, Theo.

At one time the Catholic natural law philosophy of Thomas Aquinas and his followers dominated European thinking, but its metaphysical foundations were undermined as science replaced Aristotelian teleology and Catholic theology with a materialist worldview that considers only efficient causes.

You do nt think that followers of Zeus were not believers, just as my mom believes in her Roman Catholic God?

One would think that as well known as Jesus was... since he did have followers coming from far and wide to see him....

We cast ourselves as the star and think about how to entertain our followers.

I don't exactly disagree, though I think where we differ is that I see a distinction between receiving eternal life by faith and living as a follower of Jesus.

I could much more easily go with «Christian» as «follower of Christ» but... the term is so loaded, and everyone thinks you mean one of the other three versions of what «Christian» is, and besides, while there is a lot about Jesus that works for me, there is some that doesn't and I believe it is likely stuff inserted in after the fact to make things fit, but... * shrugs *... then that is speculation as well.

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.

The figure of Beatrice was probably derived indirectly from the life of St. Francis, who was thought to have offered his followers as close an approximation of an experience of the nearness of Jesus as anyone since apostolic times had ever felt.

As Whitehead's thought became better understood among academic theologians and philosophers, it attracted a small but staunch group of followers who found his explanation of God to be both intellectually satisfying and religiously credible.

I bought a low cost car and gave it to her which I thought was my responsiblity as a follower of Jesus.

On Thursday, Pope Francis continued with his economic message by tweeting «My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a result of a self - centred mindset bent on profit at any cost,» to his almost 2.5 million followers.

Some think it could even have been written by one of his followers as a tribute.

As followers of Jesus we think the first option is almost always the best option.

I think one of the things God calls us to do as followers of Jesus is help provide for those who are poor and hungry.

So many people look at the church as a representation of Jesus, and if they don't like what they see, they think, «If that is what Jesus - followers are like, I want nothing to do with Jesus.»

I think the people of Antioch noticed how «Christ - like» the people were who claimed to follow Him, and so they started to referring to this Christ - like followers of Jesus as «Christians.»

When you read in the Bible about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the author who wrote that text was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.

Nevertheless, as followers of Jesus, I think our preferred path is to pursue peace whenever possible.

Chris is right in implying that Jesus» followers didn't think of him as «the Lord Jesus Christ», or the only begotten son of God, etc..

In addition, as I think has been mentioned already, the whole basis of taking a sample of twitter followers of 10 celebrities is a great example of selection bias.

Do you really think I want followers who think they get to ignore everything I say as long as they pretend to believe in me?

The Romans are renowned as the one of the most powerful empires in history, if they had really cared, they could have snuffed out christianity in a heartbeat, they didn't because they thought christ followers were as crazy as non-christians today do.

This post is the conclusion to the series on Giving up our Rights in which we have looked at some of the rights we think we deserve, and have seen that as followers of Jesus, we may be called upon to give up these rights for the sake of the gospel.

Jesus liberated women but once his followers got a generation or 2 removed I think some of them lost sight of the freedom he brought us as they tried codify that freedom into another religion.

As much as this is an attempt to get a rise out of Matt Walsh's followers, I will simply say your fanbase isn't all that different from Matt's as you might like to think it iAs much as this is an attempt to get a rise out of Matt Walsh's followers, I will simply say your fanbase isn't all that different from Matt's as you might like to think it ias this is an attempt to get a rise out of Matt Walsh's followers, I will simply say your fanbase isn't all that different from Matt's as you might like to think it ias you might like to think it is.

As a follower of Christ, I think Christians became the hated minority when many forgot Jesus's two commandments — Love God and Love people.

Don't think his followers would have been willing to face torture and death as Jesus did, if they hadn't seen him, knew he indeed had been brought back from the grave, as all who believe on him will be.

As followers of Jesus, we need to carefully think through every aspect of what we do and ask «Why?»

I'm not saying pick and choose either if yeshua honered all of these laws and holy days and thought them don't we as followers of yeshua have to live by his example which means we need to follow the ten commandments and do the Lord's holy days?

Please read genesis where there is no where it is mentioned that there was another partner with the Lord God... don't you think if what you are saying is correct than it will be mentioned in the OT... or OT and NT are contradicting each other... i could show more from the bible itself... i think most of the follower of it does not pay attention what to follow... they just follow blindly as Catholic church does not allow to have a copy of bible with the worshipper while they are at the church... they just have to be listening to the preacher....

Whatever we may think of the OT or the book of Revelation, we know that as followers of Jesus, we need to look like Him.

With that in mind, I think it's our duty as Christ - followers to be outspoken in our praise, and what better way to do that than celebrate Earth Day with vigor.

One can think of religious restructuring as partially motivated enterprise in which organizational leaders and followers produce ideas and actions within given institutional constraints.

More important, I think, is what you have described as a «remarkable story» of the development and spread of what the bible firstly called followers of the way and later Christians.

On a personal note, Scot has gone out of his way to encourage and help me as a writer and Christ - follower, often including me in theological conversations that many other credentialed theologians might think me unqualified to join.