Sentences with phrase «as members of his body»

Christians as members of the Body of Christ and also simultaneously being members of society, with obligations in both.

As members of the body of Christ we are all called to be pastoral caregivers.

As members of the body of Christ, we are the fulfillment of that promise.

Group counseling can become one means by which the pastor fulfills his essential function «to equip God's people for work in his service» (Ephesians 4:11 - 12, NEB), and through which laymen perform their priesthood as members of the Body of Christ.

In another sense the Christian of today can also confirm that conviction in personal experience as a member of the Body of Christ, the Christian fellowship.

In this sense, then, Jesus Christ himself is remembered by God; and those who are «in Christ», as members of his Body or as branches of the Vine which he is, are also remembered.

Jesus only lived a single lifetime called to specific roles, as members of the body of Christ we are called to apply the Truths he revealed to us to many more roles.

«And just as Christ gathers to himself all those who believe and makes them his body, so the Christian comes to see himself as a member of this body, in an essential relationship with all other believers» (LF 22).

By baptism and by faith he has incorporated us as members of his body.

Likewise as members of the body of Christ, humans may be achieving aims which far transcend human imagination.

Catholics defined the church as the body of Christ, its members compacted inseparably as members of that body.

Do we primarily participate in the mind or collective consciousness of Christ as members of his body (the masculine / bridegroom dimension) or is our participation more akin to the fundamentaland constitutive feminine dimension in the role of Mary (or bride dimension)?

Just as importantly, we will miss the opportunity for spiritual participation in their suffering as members of the Body of Christ, and the joyful solidarity that results.»

As members of the body of Christ, should parishioners expect that many circumstances now widely viewed as private are actually the community's concern and are not to be held confidential?

Needless to say, if that automatic recount happens, it might be a little while longer before either candidate enters the chambers of the State Senate as a member of that body.

As members of the body setting up a review of Liberal Democrat policy on immigration and identity under Andrew Stunell MP, or members of the review itself, we feel the need to put a few facts in the public domain following Nick Clegg's speech on Friday.

Not exact matches

Amy Cuddy, a faculty member at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has conducted an experiment with her graduate students demonstrating that holding an assertive body posture for as little as two minutes increases the amount of testosterone in the body, in men and women.

Retrieving the dead is itself a potentially lethal endeavor: Last week, a member of the Civil Defence Force was killed when a bomb buried under the ruins of a home exploded as he tried to free bodies trapped there.

The ICSA is made up of 17 member organizations that make regular recommendations about the global marketplace to a number of prominent economic bodies, such as the OECD.

Through engagement and cooperation with political, regulatory and legal bodies, members commit to working together, as representatives of the UK cryptocurrency community to:

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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.

I am a proud member of the body of Christ... put me down, make fun, scoff, spit on me, diminish what I believe, tell me I am wrong, or persecute me verbally, physically, or mentally — I will forgive you as He forgives me, I will pray for your as He instructs, and I will do my human best to love you because He loved you first.

It is, as Richard Rohr calls it, the spiritual «symbiosis» between mutual members of the Body of Christ (Things Hidden, 2).

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.

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).

His reply has stayed with me as an encouragement to pray for those unable or unwilling to pray for themselves, invoking the privilege we enjoy as members of one body to count for as well as count on each other in asking for what we need.

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.

Further, the transmission within the body is one which introduces increased emphasis from occasion to occasion as the experience rises to the level of the final percipient, which we maintain need not be a member of the dominant nexus.

Instead, being pastoral means being the body of Christ in some concrete living form as people turn to the church and its members for assistance and guidance in living their lives.

As we mature, we receive the fullness of the gifts of the Spirit in confirmation; these gifts ready us to bear witness to Christ in the world as full members of his body, the ChurcAs we mature, we receive the fullness of the gifts of the Spirit in confirmation; these gifts ready us to bear witness to Christ in the world as full members of his body, the Churcas full members of his body, the Church.

We must delight in each other, make others» conditions our own, rejoice together; mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body...

1 Corinthians 12:12 [Unity and Diversity in One Body] For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is ChrBody] For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Chrbody is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Chrbody, being many, are one body, so also is Chrbody, so also is Christ.

As members of Christ's body, pastoral listeners participate in Christ's attentiveness.

He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body.

Reaching for the wholeness of Scripture is to read each text in the canonical context, not to see it as an atomic unit all alone but as a member of the divinely willed body of the canon such that the light of every part is shed on all the rest.

Already there are more Mormons than Presbyterians; by conservative estimates, the LDS church, as the Utah body is often called, will alone have upward of 4.5 million members when its sesquicentennial Hosanna Shout rings out.

The members of the living nonsocial nexus which is at the base of personality must inherit some of their data from bodily structures.6 We must either discover a new body to support this nonsocial nexus, or we must dispense with it as the basis of person.

Something of this broadened sense of connectedness must have been part of Paul's sense that he and other Christians were «members of one another» as united in «one body» of Christ (Rom 12:5).

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

«The church» might mean the religious establishment, but in its truest sense, it is the very «Body of Christ» with each of us as members.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

He enjoined his shipmates to «delight in each other, make others» conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our... community... as members of the same body.»

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

In matters of some significance, such as congressional «representation» of religious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 1980s.

But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.

The most important elements of this world for a human being are the personal past, the body, and other persons such as family members.

13); and the diversity of gifts, by the same Spirit, were divinely intended as the equipment of members of the body for function in its life.

For this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce together in all meeknes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity, wee must delight in each other, make others Condicions our owne, rejoyce together, mourne together, labour and suffer together, allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community in the worke, our Community as members of the same body, soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us as his owne people and will commaund a blessing upon us in all our wayes, soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome, power, goodnes and truthe than formerly wee have beene acquainted with.

Emergent as a movement has never sought to be a brand, much less a new denomination, but instead is a friendship network among members of several church bodies.