Sentences with phrase «as preachers try»

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What you, David, have touched on is the majority approach to trying to get people to believe as the preacher / believer / missionary does.

He and a few others tried to argue that preaching was a performance and just as an actor can speak Shakespeare's lines, so a preacher can speak someone else's.

Actually, I really wonder if most religious folks actually value Truth or Salvation as much as their preachers and priests try to tell them they should.

Jesus came to help and heal the actual poor people and there are many preachers that try to get away with saying that Jesus actually came to help the poor in spirit as a reason for not helping poor people.

Preachers must be aware of the diversity of persons in their congregation, yet try to speak so that the Spirit, through scripture, addresses many hearts in ways that will be fitting to each, as different as these hearers are known to be from one another.

If I appear ignorant to you perhaps it's because I don't blindly follow the theocratic dogma, or accept the creative translations and cultural contexts that particular preachers try to pass off as the only «true» way to interpret the Bible.

As long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statementAs long as the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statementas the vocabulary of black theology — like theology in general — remains arcane, James Cone's assertion that «black theology is not academic theology» will continue to confound black preachers while they desperately try to interpret the meaning of such statements.

We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.

I'm no preacher and have no plans to be, however I do read the bible and try to live by it as best I can.

Deftly citing Luke 4, in which Jesus» townsfolk in Nazareth are said to want to kill him for suggesting that Gentiles are to be graced by God as much as Jews, Keller quipped that he couldn't be that good a preacher since nobody had yet tried to kill him.

(I know this is so because of my obsessive - compulsive habit of timing sermons - a habit inherited from my father that, try as I might, I can not shake, even though I'm aware it drives preachers crazy.)

As one minister said, «I wish I could find some way to be my own kind of preacher, even the kind that God might want me to be, rather than trying to be a preacher that fits the image someone else has given me.»

All around him people were agitating pro and contra his Theses, which he had in any case only intended as exploratory and as a weapon to try to force the Archbishop of Mainz to tame the preachers of Indulgences in the middle of the growing controversy it was intolerable to remain silent.

The preacher sought to do this by trying to be as directly and transparently related to the text as possible.

I see myself more as a traditional preacher in the Reformed mode who tries to interpret Scripture to the needs of the congregation.

So Ren develops a reputation as a bad boy, even dating the daughter (Julianne Hough) of the local preacher (Dennis Quaid) before he and nerdy best friend Willard (Miles Teller) try to compromise by changing the system so his classmates can hold a traditional dance.

Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself — it's as if the gay - rights movement had to be constructed entirely from evangelical preachers, or the abolition movement from slaveholders.