Sentences with phrase «body of believers»

Further, belief is seen to have a concrete social base in the organized body of believers.
If instead, you are loved, accepted, welcomed and helped, you may have found a genuinely authentic body of believers.
«The race or ethnicity of that couple is never a valid reason and any local body of believers who rejects a couple on those grounds should be reprimanded.»
Along with the individual bodies of believers in different churches, we also need to remember that every church is part of the Body of Christ spread across the globe.
ekklēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.
In his sermons, Landry invites his people to walk in the robes and sandals of the ancient community in order to be clearer about how to walk in the dress of a relevant body of believers today.
God's vision for the church has always comprised a global body of believers proclaiming the gospel on every continent and in every corner of the world.
one between the risen Jesus Christ who has come to claim His bride, the worldwide body of believers.
«On an issue on which the whole body of believers finds so many unresolvable questions, I find it unacceptable to force a large number of our members to face this dilemma.»
But any change would have to be accepted by a large body of believers to whom we look to for theological guidance, and it would have to be accepted for a considerable length of time by the whole church.
Her book, The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, explores what this population can teach the wider body of believers about integrating faith and activism.
He was in search of a unity that could make the Muslims what they were intended to be — a compact body of believers inspired by the unity of spiritual ideals.
However, the path of the person that has eschewed all religious organizations is one that is meandering and largely inefficient, and the unfortunate result of not of the religion or the belief itself, but of the way in which bodies of believers function within society.
So, in the spirit of Unity and with the Hope of being a small part of a healthy body of believers, I've started to ask myself: Does what I'm about to say make me sound like a douche?
This helps confirm the meaning of the «spiritual body» of the resurrection of 1 Cor 15: it is the corporate body of Israel rather than the personal body of the believer.
But don't consider this your evangelism unless you are also joining with people from your own body of believers.
Instead of residing in the «Holy of Holies» inside of the Temple, where only select members of the religious community can access, human bodies of believers become living temples.
Buddhism speaks of what is sometimes rather loosely translated as the Church, but this approximates more nearly to the monastic groups of Christians than to the entire body of believers, lay, clerical, monastic, and non-monastic, as is the case in Christianity.
I'm hoping for the day when the churches are completely empty because the membership is actually being the Church (Christ's representatives / body of believers on earth) to the masses.
And, there is something very worthwhile in referencing the classics and hold them up against all the «NEW» that is being presented to the His body of believers in this day and age.
ecclēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.
The havoc they wreak on a Christian body of believers will be returned on their own body.
We're in the world but not of the world, and that means that as long as there's a global body of believers, we have the ability to adapt to changes and new information.
The same relation is illustrated by that which subsists between the husband and wife; and the whole body of believers is called «the bride, the lamb's wife.»
Racial discrimination can never be wholly acceptable to a people who have heard from their youth that God has «made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...» (Acts 17:26) There is no evidence or even likelihood that this testimony would have been preserved apart from the action of the organized body of believers.
The first one takes place between Adam and Eve and the last one between the risen Jesus Christ who has come to claim His bride, the worldwide body of believers.
The term is a symbolic reference to a body of believers who will peacefully and lovingly serve God and serve others, not bring destruction on anyone who is not a Christian.
There are many problems in churches find one with a body of believers who believe Jesus is God's son, the Bible is true, and where they love one another.
If you just get on the table that there is a single mother coming every Sunday who works two jobs and that there's another family there who might have a lake house, what if we actually talked to each other and talk about what it means to take care of each other within our bodies of believers in terms of money.
And define IN the Church... (Church - the body of believers.
Even the best of us have, at some point, succumbed to the need for material things and the need to bring people into the «church» as a building, not necessarily as the body of believers.
I know there is no perfect church, leader or body of believers.
The objection is often made that a demon can not dwell in the body of a believer because the believer's body is the «temple of the Holy Spirit».
It is personal: that is, it does not come through the body of believers, as such, but is known to the individual...
We need to get past the way that religion describes church and set our hearts and minds on the fact that we are here to serve the father but he also calls us to be apart of a body of believers for accountability support etc..
Now God is done with the Nation of Israel, and is focused on the divine Israel, the body of believers.
As a body of believers, it does seem like anger, sadness, and hurt are not tolerated very well.
Paul's usage of these terms can be classified as follows: Something humanity receives or has received through Christ as mediator — 34; the oneness of God and Christ (the love of God is represented in the life and death of Christ) and what the believer gains out of this oneness — 8; identification as the church or body of believers — 47; and the believer as a transformed person — 63.
In fact, all throughout Scripture we're encouraged to invest in significant relationships within the body of believers.
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