Sentences with phrase «called by baptism»

What I was trying to argue in my article was this: the celibacy to which some are called by special vocation and the chastity to which all are called by baptism are not two distinct things.

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Part of Israel's call was to be a light of who Yahweh is so that the nations around could come to faith, through faith, by the Passover blood and then the sign of circumcision, which for us I believe plays the same role as baptism.

For you to call it Jewish baptism of repentance implies that it is in some way Old Covenant which clearly it is not since it is to receive the Holy Spirit which was promised by Joel for the latter days i.e in the new covenant era.

The Gospels prepare us to hear the word of grace by first making us hear the voice of John, the voice crying in the desert, denouncing and exposing the leaders of the people as a «brood of vipers» and calling all to a baptism of repentance.

Into the brief period of which we have a record are compressed his baptism by John the Baptist — a prophet of the Old Testament stamp — his time of solitary meditation and temptation in the wilderness, the calling of his twelve most intimate disciples, his going about with them healing and teaching in Galilee and its environs, the journey to Jerusalem and his triumphal entry, the stormy events of passion week, his crucifixion, and resurrection.

We are made in God's image to respond to him with the God - breathed spirit that gives life to our finite bodies; and we are called by name in the waters of baptism, in which we are incorporated into the life of the One whom the Father calls his beloved Son.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

Its main lines were fixed from the time of testing which followed his baptism; but the kind of action it called for at any given stage must be determined by developments in which he read the signs of the divine will for his guidance.

This freedom which is Christ and which he gives is appropriated by the man who obeys the call to this freedom in faith and through the baptism which is its expression, submitting himself to the event that opens the prison of the world; namely the incarnation, death and resurrection of the Son.

The word of baptism is first of all about the delight of God in this beloved, this chosen, this child called by name.

A Year of Faith is a time set aside by the Church to focus on the meaning of our baptism» in other words, who we are, what we believe, and how we're called to act as a Christian community.

It matters because we blaspheme when we presume to undo the consequences of baptism by differentiating between «so - called Catholics» and the genuine article.

And now we come to that rediscovered doctrine of our day: the mystical Body of Christ in which we, by Baptism, are incorporate so that «in Christ» we live divinely human lives, as members of the order of supernatural charity which permeates and penetrates this order of relative justice which we call the secular world.

Focusing initially on key events in Jesus» ministry — his baptism by another eschatologist, John the Baptist, and his call of 12 disciples, probably symbolizing the restoration of the 12 tribes — he only later turns to the sayings material.

If these new Catholics were properly catechized before their baptism or reception, they were also prepared for the Christian reality of failure, which the Church calls «sin:» they would have come to understand that every one of us lives by the divine mercy alone; that we are all «worthless servants» (Luke 17.10); and that we are, finally, saved by the merits of Jesus Christ alone.

3 See for example the case studies analysed by G. Rajamani and C. Lawrence, «Baptism and Conversion with Special Reference to Socio - Cultural Dimensions,» in Godwin R. Singh, ed., A Call to Discipleship: Baptism and Conversion (Delhi: ISPCK, 1985), pp. 112 - 136.

It does not recognize as valid the rite that is called baptism by either the Mormons or the Jehova's Witnesses because neither of these is a christian denomination.

It is not an accident that at baptism you receive a name by which you are known, and you receive that name by being baptized in another name, the name of God, now called by Christians not Yahweh but Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The followers of Christ, called by God... have been made sons of God in the baptism of faith and partakers in the divine nature, and so are truly sanctified.

They were called Anabaptists because they insisted that the baptism of infants was not true baptism, that only believers should be baptized, and that if an individual had been baptized in infancy, after he had the experience of being justified by faith he should be re-baptized.

But, so far as I can see, the only claims that Paul makes about any distinctiveness or originality concern (1) his conviction that he was specially called by God to conduct a mission to gentiles, and (2) his view of the terms on which gentiles were to be received as full co-religionists with Jewish believers (baptism / faith in Jesus without taking on Jewish observance of Torah).

Or you are saying that all those outside the Catholic church in general are not called by God to do anything because of a ritual (baptism / confirmation in a certain church) and therefore are «second class citizens».

Brooks called her on stage, handed over his guitar, and invited her to perform in a «baptism by fire.»

He articulated many of the same challenges that all teachers go through, and reminded me of my challenges when I first started teaching (what I like to call baptism by fire).

Volunteer • Provided tier one services to the church by manning the reception • Ensured that members and guests were provided with information they asked for and directed to concerned church staff • Took telephone calls and directed to the right staff member • Prepared church correspondence and obtained pastor's signature of various documents • Assisted in handling events such as sermons, baptisms and child dedications • Provided inventory and stock control support

We are a people called by the Holy Spirit and gathered together to be a community of faith centered in baptism, the proclamation and study of the Word, and participation in the Lord's Supper.