Sentences with phrase «baptism still»

So the question for us today is this: Is water baptism still required today?

Forgiven once «and «for «all at our birthing baptism we still circle high seas, forget to breathe the airy Spirit, go under and under.

Not exact matches

BAPTISM IS JUST LIKE A WEDDING RING, ITS A SYMBOL, A PROCLAMATION, BUT IF YOU ARE MARRIED AND YOU DO NT WEAR A RING, ARE YOU STILL MARRIED?

If being a «liberated Christian» means separating oneself from the body of the faithful, you may still be a member of Christ through baptism, but how «living» you are is another question.

Indeed, when Benedict reflected on Holy Saturday as the day of his baptism, he made a similar statement: that «through God's silence, still we hear him speak, and through the darkness of his absence, we glimpse his light.»

Still wet from his baptism in the Jordan, «Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

It was Mark who began this process of transvaluation, as far as we can make out at this distance, by insisting that Jesus became Messiah at his baptism — though perhaps the evangelic tradition had already received this interpretation in the Roman community, or even, earlier still, in Palestine or in the early Gentile church.

In Baptism the water is the instrument used for the administration of grace but it still remains water in the administration.

We understand that but we must also understand our body is still sinful after conversion and baptism (infant baptism is valid).

In early Christianity, mystery, a quality that modern technocracies have laboured hard to erase, still surrounded the rite of baptism.

Still wet from his baptism, Jesus struggles, apparently, with the burden that lies within the words, «You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.»

I can't promise that after you die you won't have a proxy baptism, but we believe you still have the choice to accept or reject.

The question is not «How little water can we use and still have a true baptism?»

The usual questions to a person seeking baptism or confirmation are still:

But for instance, I can disagree with a Lutheran on Baptism and we are still brothers in Christ.

Craig both seventh day and anglican are believers they are saved by faith in the death of Jesus Christ and they believe in the forgiveness of sins sactification and the resurection at Christs return.This is what i meant regarding theology one has to be careful otherwise you exclude groups of christians because some of there other theology may not be the same as ours.They still hold to the central truths of the bible but have differences ie like sabbaths or baptism but that does not mean they arent saved or are christians.What church denomination do you belong to if you mentioned jehovah witness or mormons that is a different story as they do nt believe that Jesus Christ is central to there faith they have relegated him to nothing more than a prophet so there is no salvation in those religions.brentnz

While secondary issues, like modes of baptism or the role of women in leadership, are still weighty doctrines and deserve careful consideration, there may be a time when you need to set them aside.

They believe people can still learn about Jesus after death & before judgement and get an opportunity, so they do baptisms here for them.

We may arrange «a group of professing believers in Jesus who have been baptized and have organized themselves under the leadership of elders and deacons for the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission; for conducting the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper; for building up of the Body through the worship of God, the fellowship of believers, the teaching of the Word, and the exercise of spiritual gifts» and still not be receiving the presence of Christ.

I have asked God for clear understanding on baptism MANY times and still find myself in a pickle over it so conclusion is «do what they that were mentioned as saved did» I already TRUST IN CHRIST as my savior, knowing I can not earn my salvation by works or deeds.

While the loss of nearly 4,600 baptisms was not as steep as last year's drop, the continued decline (full stats below) is still enough for LifeWay Christian Resources president Thom Rainer to tell Baptist Press, «I am grieved we are clearly losing our evangelistic effectiveness.»

Baptisms hit a 60 - year low for the denomination, though still totaled more than 330,000.

While the deep symbolism of baptism is still present in the ritual, it is not naturally understood or comprehended by the average Christian, let alone the person who knows little about Jesus and Scripture.

But even churches that do not have buildings and paid pastors still practice baptism and the Lord's supper.

It is still a Jewish baptism.

Can we get rid of baptism and communion as regularly practiced and still be the church?

the book of acts was a transitional book to the dispensation of Grace.Water baptism was occasionaly done as a carry over (over lapping of the 2 dispensations) while the jews were still being dealt with and until the New Testament was finished

Would you still require water baptism as a symbol of burial in these other cultures where such a practice is completely foreign and meaningless?

They will still be technically in hell, since they will lack the beatific vision, but they will enjoy a kind of natural felicity, like that of infants who die without baptism.

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

This romanticism was still present in the Nietzsche who wrote The Birth of Tragedy, but it was conquered in his prophetic realization of the death of God, and his consequent baptism of time and death in his vision of Eternal Recurrence.

Here Joyce also discusses the changes in Tertullian's thinking with regard to the implications of penance, between the treatises De paenitentia, written while Tertullian was still in the catholic church, where «he had expressly taught that full and entire pardon is secured by penance,» and the later De pudicitia, where he «utterly denies the Church's power to absolve from any sin which deprives a man of the sonship of God conferred on him in baptism.»

Baptism understood as the expression and celebration of one's conversion to Christ, of one's acceptance of Christ and his ways, of one's attitudinal changes to form a more inclusive community with the one goal of a fuller humanity is still meaningful.

Baptism understood as the celebration of a new vision of society, of a new pattern of relationship with people, God and the cosmos is still desirable.

Part of my job, as a minister in The United Church of Canada is to celebrate the sacraments of baptism (in the name of the Trinity, in fact, we still have to use the traditional trinitarian formula, even if we wish we could do otherwise) and communion.

However, Brother Fletcher is now at our Church «still» getting all liquored up and now peeing in our baptism fountain.

The baptism of the newly born is less common and varies according to different denominations, but it is still a widespread practice.

Some of these have affinities with Jewish proselyte baptism, others with the practice of circumcision, and still others with certain aspects of the «mystery religions `.

Today's readings in Isaiah and Acts offer us a glimpse of something bigger still: a God who is not limited by our understanding of baptism and what it signifies — a God who created humanity in the divine image and whose love for us is so great that it embraces all people, no exceptions.

Thus in 1829 John Henry Newman — still at that stage an Anglican — affirmed that Christians become entitled to the gift of the Holy Spirit «by belonging to the body of his Church; and we belong to his Church by being baptised into it».24 And more than a century later, Michael Ramsay, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1960s — whose meeting with Paul VI in the 1960s was a central moment in the ecumenical movement of that era — took a generally Catholic approach to baptism, if expressed in a somewhat vague, «Anglican» way: «The life of a Christian is a continual response to the fact of his baptism; he continually learns that he has died and risen with Christ, and that his life is a part of the life of the one family.»

I still love and appreciate the ceremonies of baptism, marriage, confirmation and funerals to mention a few, as well as like some of the structure of the average mass.

If Jeremy somehow wants to argue that «saved» (11:14; cf. 15:11) and «forgiveness of sins» (10:43) and «gospel» (15:7) and «believe» (10:43; 15:7) and «washed» (15:9) do not refer to the event in which these Gentiles were justified before God and saved from hell, and if he wishes to contend they were already saved from hell before Peter preached to them, he still must admit this is the event that they were placed into the body of Christ via the baptism of the Holy Spirit which Peter mentions in 11:16.

Comments a young woman: «For me the baptism of the Holy Spirit was a particular moment in my life; a moment when all time seemed to stand still and I truly felt the presence of the reality of Christ.»

Cavadini is wrong when he essentially argues that the manner by which one lives out the faith received through baptism has no effect on whether or not one can still be considered fully Catholic.

His contemporaries such as Ambrose still held to one faith, one baptism, and one (public) penance.

... when these dangers have reached their height and there is no possibility of flight, do we not realize how great a gathering there usually is in the church of both sexes and of every age, some clamoring for baptism, others for reconciliation, still others for acts of penance: all of them seeking consolation and the administration and distribution of the sacraments?

Manchester City avoided a group of death in their first Champions League draw but Roberto Mancini's side still face a baptism of fire.

I still have to edit our family Christmas photos and ones from Nico's Baptism.

And don't forget the Valve games (and BL2, I think) are also LAN - able, not just online, if you still drive your PC round to a friend's house (or better yet, go to a LAN party, although that might be a bit of a baptism of fire, if we are talking about ways to introduce friends to videogames).