Sentences with phrase «call to discipleship»

As a consequence, their pleas for radical change are sometimes perceived not as calls to discipleship but rather as ego - trips to expiate guilt or even attempts to re-create others in their own image.
We used to ridicule those who talked about justification by faith because that talk seemed to be an excuse for them not to take Jesus» call to discipleship seriously.
As people called to discipleship and the making of disciples of Jesus, Christians are filled with his Good News.
Each contains a description of events still to come, and each ends with a renewed call to discipleship in the here and now.
This is a double call to discipleship, really; it seeks to enlist persons in ministering to others, and it also asks from those ministering their cultivation of a capacity to be ministered to by others who can only «be,» and whose «being» seemingly never can include genuine receptivity, response or mutuality.
Before the first four who were called to discipleship knew quite what they were getting into, Jesus had declared that they would continue to be fishermen, only it would be people they would catch (Mark 1:17; Matt.
Nor is it helpful to bifurcate church experience so that the women get all the comfort and love while men get all the challenging calls to discipleship.
But the possibility that a relatively casual and unchallenging style might be all there is to a community's worship life is bound to be deflating to those whose call to discipleship and cause them to yearn for something more in aesthetic formation and development.
After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.
The call of the Spirit is a call to discipleship, and the Church simply lies if it obscures the high price of that call.
Communicants classes would graduate into church membership as their committed response to the call to discipleship or perhaps as part of an Epiphany pageant.
These are calls to discipleship; not calls to unbelievers to believe in Jesus for eternal life.
Those called to discipleship were not called to a formula, but to an open ended journey into the unknown.
For such as us I see the the call to discipleship as first of all a call to a sort of eunuchhood which may or may not have healing on the other side.
As many commentators point out, this is a call to discipleship.
In Jerusalem Jesus will complete his exodus to God and from Jerusalem the call to discipleship will reach to the ends of the earth.
We have three different responses to the call to discipleship.
Perhaps then the call to discipleship is the call to die to our mask making ways?
Thus the death of Jesus reveals God's wrath and love; the call to discipleship both stings and encourages the Christian; the parable of the Pharisee and the publican sends a delicately mixed message, depending on the character with whom we identify.1
The salt that characterized his pungent words and marked his call to discipleship dripped from his brow in bloody sweat at Calvary.
As Christians and churches, we must see as an act of God's grace and forgiveness as well as a call to discipleship and commitment that we — who many times have been indifferent to the suffering of the poor, or allied with their domination — are allowed to join in the struggle for justice.
A Corinthian - like experience of speaking in tongues no more guarantees a maturing life of faith than did the response of the four fishermen to Jesus» call to discipleship.
If a call to discipleship is indeed the doorway by which we enter into this experience, let it be noted that not all, even if the Spirit be the tug at our heart, immediately follow, unerringly, His voiced.
He calls us to discipleship, not church membership.
Once establishing the religious devotional quality of Jesus and his call to discipleship, Troeltsch can then investigate the sociological characteristics of the «gospel ethic».
He calls us to a discipleship that is willing to go past these boundaries and journey into Tyre and Sidon, where Jesus promises to be to the end of the age.
The words, «Let the dead bury their dead,» seem to imply that the spiritually dead, those who have not heard the call to discipleship, can bury the physically dead.
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