Sentences with phrase «called to repentance for»

There is censure for the more overt sins of the flesh and transgression of conventional moral codes, and sinners are called to repentance for unchastity, drinking, lying, stealing, swearing, cheating one another, and neglecting duties owed to God through the Church.

Our role in patterns that have created the suffering of world poverty and hunger would be exposed, and the church could be called to repentance for its participation.

It contents itself with applying retrospectively the radical rhetoric of the present, calling us to repentance for our criminal past.

Not exact matches

It would make an evangelistic call for biblical repentance central to its approach.

I said that in the seventies it was possible to hope that the spirit of Christ was transforming all society, bringing forth repentance for our many crimes and calling us forward to becoming sustainable societies.

John the Baptist's fiery call to repentance sounds harsh when we're in the midst of preparations for the baby Jesus.

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 eFor 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 efor the latter days i.e in the new covenant era.

The German political theologians see their task as calling the church to repentance for the way in which it supports the oppressors so that the church may speak effectively against injustice in every society.

To call for a reform in the worship of God, however, implies that the churches» standing before God is flawed seriously enough to require a turnabout, the biblical word for which is «repentance.&raquTo call for a reform in the worship of God, however, implies that the churches» standing before God is flawed seriously enough to require a turnabout, the biblical word for which is «repentance.&raquto require a turnabout, the biblical word for which is «repentance.»

In other words, the silencing stirs the other to continue the call to repentance in preparation for God's approaching reign.

The assumption of the innate innocence of the human person and human perfectibility leads to neglecting a call for personal repentance and Christian conversion.

She took to Twitter to call for repentance and reform, implying that evangelicalism has, broadly speaking, «colossally blown it.»

First, it must again be stressed that the eschatological message of Jesus, the preaching of the coming of the Kingdom and of the call to repentance, can be understood only when one considers the conception of man which in the last analysis underlies it, and when one remembers that it can have meaning only for him who is ready to question the habitual human self - interpretation and to measure it by this opposed interpretation of human existence.

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

The text assigned for the fourth Sunday was John the Baptist's quintessential call to repentance: «I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness.»

It is a call to repentance from our sins and to turn to Him for salvation of our soul... just as we were once warned.

In fact, all the prophets and Jesus himself would call for men to «make amends with God» through sincere repentance.

Famous for his moving delivery, he attracted massive crowds on both sides of the Atlantic, calling them to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

What God requires above all else for salvation is our acceptance of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, our repentance for sin, our moral obedience to his call, and our willingness to try to love God and our neighbor with the full dedication of our lives.

God calls for people to live a life «in repentance» not merely repent.

And I also found provision from Yahweh — I call Him Yahweh because His name is not «God» — to acknowledge that willful sin, and for repentance from it.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

Any who hear his call to «repentance» and accept from his teaching the direction for their «change of mind,» are members of the Israel - to - be.

Unlikely and eclectic prophets with cardboard signs using port - a-potties, perhaps, but their call to repentance isn't just for government or for the 1 % or a particular political persuasion — it's for us all.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

His call for repentance and faith was directed at least to the whole house of Israel.

Yet, I am troubled that no one seems to be willing to counsel Cardinal Law and others that repentance with some acts of penance is profoundly called for.

Repentance is called for not because we have chosen false means to the achievement of our ends but because our ends themselves are idolatrous.

Yet her majestic presence in flowing fire and shaking rock also demands repentance, calling one back to respect for creation and reverence for life.

I am not denying the calls for repentance or the requirements to live in the Kingdom of God.

But, let me REMIND YOU of what THE LORD JESUS CHRIST says: «I have come to call the SINNER to REPENTANCE, I have come for those who are SICK and BOUND, not those who are well and need no physician.»

God is working through the poor of the earth to awaken the consciousness of humanity to his call for repentance, for justice and for love.

God calls for repentance - that is man turning away from his wicked ways and making and being transformed into who God has called us to be.

Let us call such grief Repentance; for what is repentance but a kind of leave - taking, looking backward indeed, but yet in such a way as precisely to quicken the steps toward that which liRepentance; for what is repentance but a kind of leave - taking, looking backward indeed, but yet in such a way as precisely to quicken the steps toward that which lirepentance but a kind of leave - taking, looking backward indeed, but yet in such a way as precisely to quicken the steps toward that which lies before?

The Holy Father's clear guidance is that the Church at large is still called upon «to enter a period of purification and repentance and of prayer for the victims of clerical child abuse».

Today, in face of the disasters toward which devotion to economic growth is leading us, it calls for a profound, a truly radical, repentance.

It's calling us all, and myself, to repentance for that.

It is the place where for forty years the people of Israel learned to trust in God, the place where Jesus prepared for his mission and it is the place where people will arrive in great numbers to respond to John's call to repentance and to prepare themselves for the coming of the Messiah.

This reluctance to call for conversion goes with a somewhat slanted reliance on the recent theology of Grace, which emphasises the gentleness and welcoming side of Grace, but neglects the theme of Jesus breaking in with a call to repentance, the theme of the Spirit as refining fire and rushing wind.

God's action to bring in the Kingdom is the basis for the call to repentance and faith.

Matthew 9:13 Jesus said he didn't come to righteous but for sinners to call them for repentance, and that includes tax collector (verse 10) that you always brought up.

I hope that he can move from remorse to actual repentance for his actions by also publicly calling for the removal of this book.