Sentences with phrase «as missionary disciples»

Asked for a wish - list of what might help to arrest the decline of the Church in its former heartlands, he is emphatic and seems to relish making a list... one which rather chimes with what many other thinking Catholics would offer: «1) strong, evangelically assertive bishops who know how to handle the media and can call the people of the Church to live out their vocation as missionary disciples.

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While some early traditions speak of Aggai, a disciple of Addai as the missionary to Parthia, there are other traditions which speak of both Aggai and Mari (another disciple of Addai) as those who brought the gospel first to Parthia.

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?

All of the prophets and disciples throughout the Bible hold great importance but the most influential Christian missionary is the Apostle Paul formerly known as «Saul of Tarsus».

By the members of the Synod embracing their role as a band of joyful missionary disciples, we here in Southeast Michigan will be strengthened for our vocation «to be all in» with the New Evangelization, to have full confidence in the power of the Holy Spirit to heal and transform, to put uncompromising trust in the Lordship of Jesus over every time and place.

Definitely the fourth Evangelist exalts a despised Samaritan woman to the rank of a theologian, apostle and missionary, while he pictures the male disciples mostly as inactive, timid and slow in understanding.103 She is the one to whom Jesus reveals first that he is the expected «Messiah».104

To tell the Story through the language and categories of football would in all likelihood be no less profitable than St. Paul's attempt to liken the Christian disciple to a Roman soldier or the early missionaries» attempt to portray Christ as a divine tribal chieftain or the rock generation's creation of Jesus Christ Superstar.

But those who participate in the internal history of the covenant will see the call of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the lives of the prophets, Israel and Judah's release from captivity, the disciples» missionary fervor after the death of Jesus, and the establishment of the Church as all having a promissory significance that a «scientific» historian might not appreciate at all.

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.