Sentences with phrase «biblical mandate»

The role of a civil authority is to govern society and we're instructed to respect our civil authority as a clear biblical mandate.

That day was a turning point in DeWitt's understanding of biblical mandates for care of God's creation and stewardship of the earth.

So long as we obey the «biblical mandates of radical discipleship,» we can let God worry about where the chips fall.

The second relates to the hypocrisy of selectively enforcing / disregarding biblical mandate.

While the example of Jesus and the theme of loving one's neighbor are perhaps the best motivation for social reform, I don't see clear biblical mandates calling for such changes specifically.

These passages served as fundamental proof texts to those who were arguing that slavery was God's will and accusing abolitionists of failing to obey biblical mandates.

Change is desperately needed, but will only come when we, as Christ followers, rediscover the dynamic, biblical mandate for justice and identify how to «do justice» in today's world.

And porn, they say, leads to a lack of intimacy in marriage, threatening the biblical mandate to get and stay married.

And po - rn, they say, leads to a lack of intimacy in marriage, threatening the biblical mandate to get and stay married.»

You seem to be preaching a biblical mandate to them?

------- Assuming all that is true, does that mean that you shouldn't follow the biblical mandate as to how to handle it?

«Through personal stories, proven experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about.»

Many people of faith are calling religious groups to confront the attitudes that have fostered a progressive devastation of our planet, and to fulfill the biblical mandate to assume stewardship over the natural world.

Others will regret that space did not permit Hays to fully address other pressing issues, such as the biblical mandates to share possessions and to treat men and women equally.

Low - church types, believing there was no biblical mandate to name your child Methuselah, began pinning more «all - American» monikers on their little bundles of alloy.

While I do see your point, welfare in the US goes beyond the biblical mandate to provide food, clothing and shelter for the poor.

But they need to believe that «biblical mandates» are the reason for their conviction.

Since its inception in 1962, COCU has taken seriously the biblical mandate for Christian unity.

Luckily, I also group up in a Christian home and was taught the importance of caring for the earth as a biblical mandate (Genesis 2:15).

«The Church has a biblical mandate to speak to politicians and to speak as politicians,» he says.

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How do your rules for Christians (i.e., no smoking, no drinking alcohol, no contact with «naked» art) fit in with the Biblical mandate to put to death the human «do's and don'ts» and embrace the freedom Christ lavishes upon us?

«I think there's a Biblical mandate to look after on another... Church is all about community; it's about relationship building in the places where we are.»

The author argues for what he calls «the agrarian point of view» as regards the creation: It means taking seriously the Biblical mandate to care for the creation.

We have a clear biblical mandate to share the good news, and I worry that my friends won't even consider Christianity because of our perceived views on a few issues.

It can NEVER be Christian and, therefore, not subject to biblical mandates.

Too many have forgotten the biblical mandate to welcome the sojourner.

There are a lot of Christians that fail to live out the Biblical mandate and fail to love as we are instructed.

Hindering another from carrying out a biblical mandate is disobedience to God, otherwise known as sin.

Governments are incapable of carrying out this Biblical mandate if the citizens fail to report the alleged criminal actions.

Therefore, Christians impede this biblical mandate when we fail to report suspected crimes against children to the civil government for investigation and possible prosecution of the offenders.

While we should be free to give money and goods to just about any cause we like (terrorist groups not included), in any amount we choose, there are significant problems, in my opinion, with making «tithing» a Biblical mandate.

So my dad was overstepping his bounds by telling his two daughters to abstain from s.ex until marriage according to the Biblical mandate?

That's their biblical mandate!

Out of a biblical mandate, the sermon challenged them to respond fully to God's call to them, to hear, with God, the crying of God's people.

I don't speak about spanking much but I tell anyone who asks me that I do not believe spanking is a biblical mandate.

For more on why I don't believe spanking is a Biblical mandate, see this series on «the rod verses» from Dare to Disciple.

It's not like any of us can make a Biblical mandate for trivial matters like whether or not text invitations are okay for dates (They're not, btw.)

The idea that ten percent of a person's paycheck is a biblical mandate by God is what my book questions, and it also provides answers about the so - called tithe that many have never realized.

Handling money well is a biblical mandate, but many of us don't understand the full implications of this until financial woes are all too real.

«He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents...» Malachi 4:3 Solution focused counseling with a biblical mandate.»

«Chuck was, and still is, very dedicated to the biblical mandates of «service to all humanity,» «love thy neighbor as thyself,» and «do unto others as you would have them do unto you» — traits that are taught as the highest and best way of living,» says Hall, a 62 - year - old disabled senior.