Sentences with phrase «body of believers finds»

«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.»

Not exact matches

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.

But it's not so much an argument of how «we» as Christians chooses to structure our regular meetings or find comfort in them, it's more about the perception those meetings elicit in both believers and those outside the body.

Our congregation is beginning the process of finding «Gods mission» for our body of believers.

In the light of this profound and difficult thought about the resurrection of believers, and bearing in mind that he believed Christ to have been the pioneer or «first - fruits» of those who will be raised like him, I find it difficult to think that Paul could possibly have believed that Jesus rose from the grave as, or in, a physical body.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

If one will examine the occurrences of e n C r i s t y in the New Testament, one will find that they divide rather evenly as between those which are used in allusions to God's action (when the meaning «event» would be paramount) and those which are found in references to the situation of the believer (when the conception of community, the body of Christ, is dominant).

If instead, you are loved, accepted, welcomed and helped, you may have found a genuinely authentic body of believers.

Communism tried to kill it, but when communism crumbled it was found that the «church» that body of believers had grown stronger under persecution.

Liz is a strong believer in whole body health and recognizes the importance of finding balance physically, mentally and spiritually.

Things take a darker turn when the body of a neo-Nazi girl is found in the dressing room - or green room in entertainment - industry parlance - with a knife in the head, the result of an attack by a fellow believer.