Sentences with phrase «as signs of repentance»

In the New Testament, Jesus refers to the use of sackcloth and ashes as signs of repentance: «Woe to you, Chorazin!

Instead we can now ask them to believe that God in his goodness has received their innocent victim and they should have a Mass said as a sign of their repentance and in thanksgiving for God's mercy.

Not exact matches

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

The act of acceptance — making the sign of the cross or blinking one's eyelids — was surely not the same as repentance, and administering the sacrament after death, of course, asked for no act of will at all, and was scarcely defendable even if one made the curious concession to time that the body must not be cold.

Or to ask it differently, what is the relationship between Cobb's signs of genuine vitality (societal engagement, responsiveness to challenges, repentance for past wrongs) and sociological criteria of ecclesial vitality such as numerical growth and attendance?

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.

8:12) leave no doubt as to Jesus» meaning: Jonah brought the people of Nineveh none of those predicted apocalyptic signs, but rather he himself, his call to repentance, was the one and only signal that was given them.