Sentences with phrase «as sign of the kingdom»

Christians across the several ecclesial divides increasingly recognize that their divisions are no longer justified, and they know that continuing those divisions enervates the church's mission as a sign of the kingdom.

Ecclesial communion is required to restore the credibility of the church as a sign of the kingdom, which is the future of humankind.

(The description of the church as sign of the kingdom, although not as instrument, was adopted by the World Council of Churches in 1968.)

The critical thing now is a sense of urgency in undertaking such an effort, knowing that no church can be fully true to the Lord or to its own nature as a sign of his kingdom unless it engages the ecumenical challenge.

Not exact matches

This view is the outworking of his understanding of the church as the sign of the future kingdom of God.

Yet the central expression of this spirituality is found in the celebration of the Eucharist, which he sees as the proleptic sign of the future fellowship in the kingdom of God, which no political order can fulfill.

Sometimes the healings are to be seen as signs of the coming kingdom of heaven (see Matthew 12:28); sometimes they are marks of Jesus» very human concern for the physical as well as the spiritual part of man.

The healings must be seen as signs of the emerging rule or kingdom of God (see Matthew 12:28), and also as expressions of Jesus» concern for the physical (as well as the spiritual) part of a man.

Jesus himself pointed to the effects of his work as signs of the coming of the kingdom: «If by the finger of God I chive Out the devils, then be sure the kingdom of God has come upon you.»

Jesus Feminist is really a story — a story about how I am learning to set up a little outpost for the Kingdom of God in my real right - now life, as a sign and a foretaste of what it means to be human in God's kingdom.

But we are also called to contemplate on the renewal of Pentecost in our time as a sign of the coming again of Christ in power and glory to set up his kingdom that shall have no end.

This suggests that by the end of the first century, when John's Gospel was written, both baptism as the external sign of regeneration and the Holy Spirit as its inner agency had become linked to the concept of the kingdom.

When his opponents asked when this kingdom was to appear, he answered them, «The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed [e.g., as a cosmic catastrophe];... for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you» [or alternatively, «within you»](Luke 17:20 - 21).

Just as theologians have said that the revealed God remains the hidden God, so we can say that the power of the age to come in our midst means that signs of the kingdom, very real signs, are revealed to us while at the same time the kingdom remains hidden and is yet to be revealed in all its glory.

Namely, God's mission works primarily through Jesus Christ's sending the people of God to intentionally cross barriers from church to nonchurch, faith to nonfaith, to proclaim by word and deed the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ through the Church's participation in God's mission of reconciling people to God, to themselves, to one another, and to the world and gathering them into the church, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, by the work of the Holy Spirit, with a view to the transformation of the world, as a sign of the coming of the kingdom in Jesus Christ.

While in his first epistle (2:18) John speaks of the coming of many antichrists as a sign that it is the last hour, and of the coming of the day of judgement (4:17) and there are vestigial traces in the gospel of Jesus» prophecies of the destruction of the Temple (2: 19, 4:21) of his heavenly kingdom (13:36, 14:2 - 3), of his second coming (5:28 - 29, 21:22), and of the judgement of the last day (6: 39, 12:48), in the gospel at least these sayings are given a new significance.

Why, in all the kingdoms of those that are baseball does Ned Yost, or as my phone calls him, Bed Post, think that Cheslor «You Only Exist to Me Because We Signed Moose» Cuthbert is a clean up hitter??? Why, Gawd, Why, did this man fall out of a tree and hit his head or something?

TiLL thine kingdom come, we may never understand the true purpose of wenger signing a crocked KIM KALLSTROM...... Just to Let you know the kinda person we have as a manager.....