Sentences with phrase «as people of»

Jubilance, exaltation, revulsion - all those emotions mingled as people of faith struggled to find an appropriate response to bin Laden's death.

Unless there is integrity in our Christian speech and our participation in the liturgy, the Church is not witnessing as the people of God.

Our role as Christians, as the people of the cross within that world, is precisely what Jesus said it was: to be salt, to be yeast, to be light!

«We are looking to Christians as people of hope, to pray and raise awareness during Prisons Week so that those who feel burdened, fearful and worn down will know the positive impact of prayer on their lives.

It allows no room for people's actual lived experiences and as people of faith — we are called to love each other.

Birds of a feather, OK, but as long as people of other ethnic backgrounds are allowed in it really isn't segregated.

The Scriptures of the New Testament, or in other words, the documents of the New Covenant, are the authoritative record of that act of God by which He established relations between Himself and the Church; and they are the charter defining the status of the Church as the people of God, the terms upon which that status is granted, and the obligations it entails.

But this should not censor the witness that we as people of our time with fear and trembling must make.

It is the story of Jesus, who acts and suffers as «Messiah», as representative of the people of God, and so, secondarily and derivatively, it is the story of the Church as the people of God «in Christ».

Here the Covenant is born and the national vocation as the people of God is established.

Do we indeed live and work in the world as a people of hope?

Blending cultures: Faith traditions are becoming more diverse in the U.S. as people of different denominations, cultural backgrounds and ethnic heritages adopt new beliefs or reinterpret traditional ones.

My children lost their friends, people that declared that they were brothers and sisters to us crossed the road rather than speak to us, we lost everything... I saw that as the people of God and the apostle to W...... as he called himself had rejected us it seemed logical that God had also.

As a people of faith, we believe that before God there can be no illusion, no pretense, no lies.

As people of faith, we are called to be honest in our dealings with God, with others and with ourselves.

As people of faith, we can not turn our back on those in desperate need.

In this book, church is being defined as the people of God who follow Jesus into the world.

McCormick discusses areas in which his thoughts have shifted: The nature of the church; the church as the people of God; the church as servant; the church as collegial; the church as ecumenical; the ecclesiological nature of the church; importance of lay witness; the teaching competence of the episcopal and papal branch; the church and moral truth; the place of dissent; birth regulation; ecclesial honesty; the dynamic nature of faith.

But when it comes to modern media like radio, television, and the internet, we can be guilty of a certain level of naiveté about the effects of technology on our lives, especially as people of faith.

On the other hand, however, it also becomes evident that the official order of prayer of the Church as a society must also be the prayer of the Church as the people of God in the Holy Spirit.

But it is not merely a record of the past, for as the people of Israel told and wrote the story it was continuously re-created as a commentary on the meaning of Israel and the life of its people.

The chapter entitled «Waging Identity Wars» forced me to confront some of the reasons why I can be cruel and dismissive toward conservative evangelicals (``... when we're suffering an identity crisis, we take cheap shots at other groups in order to feel better about ourselves») and how to move forward (``... we must affirm who we really are as the people of God before we can begin to interact with each other as the people of God.»)

The question is how to connect evangelicals to the Great Tradition, which brings me to Pope Francis's appeal to the church as the people of God.

«Thinking Catholics, who knew what had happened in Rome before the encyclical, who had absorbed all that Vatican II had to say about the Church as the People of God, had assumed that their concerns would be listened to and change in the Church's stance on birth control was inevitable.»

There are also signs of a new dawn, as people of faith are renewed in their spiritual life and engage more actively with the problems and suffering of the world.

How can we form ourselves as a people of the Book?»

This is what Vatican II implies when it speaks of the Church as the people of God.

The alternative would be to make a tactical retreat, hand over our schools gradually to the state, and insist on the right of Catholic pupils in state education to be treated with the same consideration as people of other faiths.

It was their shared sense of grace, their breathing together as the people of God.

«There's this kind of complex dance that we do as people of faith in this world and sometimes it means accepting something that's not perfect,» Metaxas said, «I think the reason this rankles, not just for me but for so many people, it reminds them of Pharisaical thinking, it's legalistic.

We follow the crucified Christ as people of hope.

The moderate Qadianis, however, treat Muslims as people of the book, just as Muslims look upon the Christians and Jews.

In light of the above, we need to get past this tendency to identify the West with ancient Israel as the people of God.

It also gives rise to her insistence that we must respect the «historical integrity and moral autonomy» of Jesus, Paul, and the evangelists as people of their own time and place, concerned with issues (such as purity regulations) that do not concern us, and unaware of our concerns as modern Christians or Jews.

And so I believe that we — as the people of God — are called to prophetically live out the Kingdom of God in our right - now lives.

But these texts call us to re-imagine our life together as the people of God, and the texts» images are of sheep and shepherds.

Therefore, the assumption that «so help me god» is a direct reference to the god of Abraham shouldn't just enrage atheists, but also people who believe in a different god, such as people of the Hindu or Native American religions.

No, «sure, we have differences, but how can we go out together and serve the world as people of God and servants of Christ?»

Catholics do not have to live under a Catholic state in order to sustain their life as a People of God.

That is one of the reasons why west decided to take in to becoming religious rather than secular since only with that the tension might be reduced and not be considered as infidels attacking Islamic lands but as people of the scriptures!

You can't SEE gay, so you can't say that gays suffer the same types of discrimination as people of color who can't hide their skin color or ethnic features.

Try to avoid saying non Muslims, try to address others as people of «other faith».

First, as the people of South Africa were divided by the race - based ideology of apartheid, so the people of Ukraine are divided by the ethnicity - based ideology of the «Russian world.»

Is our true desire to explore how we can be more faithful together as the people of God or to correct someone for the sake of being right?

That said, Atheism has become a new religion in it's own right, stating with as much certainty as people of «faith», THERE IS NO GOD.

As people of faith, we are called to address the injustices of the current health care system; as investors and professionals working in the field, we are called to address its inefficiencies.

«He would have flourished, as the people of Apple surely will, on this luminously designed campus.»

We compared Millennials» survey results to their colleagues» to ensure Millennials had as positive an experience as people of other generations.

But then later on as the people of, you know, John Ford, William Wilder, people like that, they had a lot more power because they became stars themselves, you know.

And I think you've always had a reputation as a person of principle in the Congress.