Sentences with phrase «by our faith community»

What he had was a construct created by his faith community that was given to him... as he grew, the construct faded away.

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To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

It's a group defined by its values — faith, community and family — all of which directly influence buying decisions, brand loyalty and attitudes towards brands.

«We see our involvement in this process as an opportunity to restore faith in the community by showing what we need more of in the Bitcoin space — trusted leadership,» said Kraken CEO Jesse Powell.

The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

She said that the community center in debate is basically a JCC type of organization with the difference being that it is run by people of Muslim faith.

Then the canon, the listed set of writings making up the Bible, is recognized by the community of faith as the written word of God, possessing final authority for faith and life.

Such exploration should be undertaken within a community and tradition that provide necessary correctives by reference to the rule of faith (regula fidei) and teaching authority (magisterium).

She said: «I am inspired by faith and very much looking forward to getting to know and serve the community.

This is part of a series called concrete liturgies by a Christian community, Vaux, where they're exploring what it means to express faith and worship in the language of the city.

Many of us have been given this message (often by the media, the scientific community or well - meaning believers) that science and faith must be somehow at odds.

Stigma against people with HIV / AIDS is pretty widespread» even children suffer it in schools across many countries» and faith communities are by no means alone in stigmatizing people.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

This most recent theology no longer addresses the doubts and questions of faith raised by the community of faith but the doubts and questions of the contemporary cultured ignorers of faith.

Negatively, it will have to address itself to the ideological appropriation of Christian faith, which is inevitably the case where theology is claimed by a particular human community alleging privileged access.

It has become so settled in the mind of the denominational community that «Asking Jesus into the heart» has become the defacto method for becoming a Christian, fearing baptizing converts immediately upon profession of faith will cause them to be «saved by works».

Upbring is a leading Texas - based, faith - inspired nonprofit organization working to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

«Quite to the contrary, this request is seen by our community as standard operating procedure for people of faith.»

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

In this «beloved community «their faith was kindled, by its consensus of opinion their thinking was directed, and in its mutual encouragement they gained stimulus and stability.

Thirdly, just as Christian scriptures are the gift of the Word of God offered by the Christian community as a record of its faith, so other scriptures can be considered also as a gift of the Word of God offered to Christians by members of other religious traditions.

The Courage to Be will be enjoyed by many for its spiritual and rhetorical excitements but, divorced from the truth claims, worship, and life of the continuing community of faith, such excitements are but another option on offer in the marketplace of modern spiritualities.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

This means that InterVarsity seeks to foster close - knit communities, tied together by a common faith and a common vision of what that faith ultimately means for one another.

Most of their work is done by them partnering with other faith communities and churches in the metroplex.

«There is much to be admired about them, including their commitments to their faith, marriage, family and community,» Austin wrote, but added that the Gaineses «did not get where they are by putting their family first.»

Personal spiritual experience should be balanced by reference to a community of faith and its traditions and to scripture.

Usually, my first reaction to these kinds of messages is to get defensive and frustrated by the fact that critical thinking, compassion, and honesty are so often presented as liabilities to faith within the conservative evangelical community.

Becca Folkes, Faith Child, CalledOut Music and renowned London Community Gospel Choir lead by Bazil Meade performed to the delight of the audience, which included MOBO Award winner Guvna B and African gospel artist Sammie Okposo who flew in specially from the USA for the award show.

For example, if one understood by the church simply the historically given communities with their multiplicity of beliefs and practices, the view of theology as the articulation of the church's faith would lead to a plurality of theologies that could hardly escape the recognition of their relativity with respect to historical factors.

We are saved by faith and baptism into God's holy eschatological community that will be vindicated at the End as those who have fulfilled Torah to the glory of God.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

I believe you have raised a pertinent issue here though with church attendance being likened to a «badge», a sort of measurable physically viewable achievement that people measure community, commitment and faith by — which is sad in a way because the regular meetings during the week aren't always for everyone.

It is essential that leaders in communities of faith learn how to preach, how to counsel and how to manage an organization mostly staffed by volunteers.

The Church in its widest sense, then, is the entire community of men as related by the faith in God to which Christianity aspires in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Yet Hasidic life is characterized first of all by its wholly personal mode of faith, and it is only through the action of this faith that a community is formed.

Furthermore, many of the members of the community of faith who engage in such thinking consciously or unconsciously turn away from the convictions nurtured in them by the community while they pursue this thinking.

This isn't information where we can simply say «I believe this way, and here is my evidence for it, and Bill believes that way, and here is his evidence...» These are claims that Bill makes to undermine the faith while citing data that is fabricated overtly or else is rejected by the scholarly community.

This is an important and helpful book for the Catholic community as it struggles to respond appropriately to the challenge outlined by Watkin — and by Ronald Knox two years earlier in 1945 (see the first part of his God and the Atom, summarised in Faith Magazine Nov / Dec 2012).

A touch of madness is often shielded by this transcendent effect as well as by institutional freedom — a madness which, if not checked, discredits the fundamental insight of faith and destroys community in fanaticism.

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For some reason people of faith raised in the eccliastical sub-culture are less threatened by non-conforming non-members than they are by non-conforming members of their faith community.

Reasoned Faithedited by Eleanor Stumpecho point books & media, $ 34.95 A decade ago, the well - respected Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga urged Christian thinkers to philosophize not only for skeptics but for their own faith communities.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»

More often then none people need to be ministered to by being part of the community and grow in their faith — not pushed into serving man, because man has a need.

«Church Urban Fund is working hard alongside other charities, churches, faith groups and community organisations to support those affected by food poverty, isolation and financial difficulties.

I am Rev.D.Samuel, founder / Managing trustee of India Rural Gospel Mission Trust, which in involving in out - reach, Evangelism, church planting / growth, and children's home and community social service run by faith.

The consecration service will be attended by around 500 people including some from other faith communities across the UK and the Episcopal Church in the US.