Sentences with phrase «calling for unity in»

In the hours before a special election in Harlem Tuesday was expected to add another Democrat to the ranks of the Senate, the party's mainline conference leader was calling for unity in hopes the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference and a ninth rogue Democrat would join forces to oppose Republican policies originating from Washington.

On Sunday, state Democratic Committee Chairman Byron Brown, the mayor of Buffalo, released an open letter through the state committee calling for unity in the chamber, citing Washington dysfunction and the post-storm crisis in Puerto Rico.

After the election, Cook called for unity in an email to all Apple employees.

I believe the call for unity in diversity is a universal, global calling and project not limited to the organized institution we call church.

Facing a challenge from former TV reporter Rachel Barnhart, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren was designated by Democrats the preferred candidate in her re-election bid and called for unity in the party.

Your love for the nation and our people is not in doubt as you have boldly and consistently called for unity in words and in deed over the years since you heeded the call of God to serve the Church.

However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama had during a meeting of party faithful in the state called for unity in the conduct of the election.

She continued to call for unity in July at a forum dubbed «Promising Practices,» where district leaders and charter school operators participated in workshops aimed at sharing best practices.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Catalonia Sunday to call for unity, voicing their opposition to last week's non-binding and referendum on independence on October 1 that was declared illegal by the Spanish government and constitutional court.

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Here's what Pete says: Mr. Obama's speech was not a call to unity; it was a summons to his liberal base to fight — on global warming, for gay rights, for gun control, for renewable energy, and for a diminished American role in world affairs.

Ephesians 4:1 - 3 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

The recent statement of evangelical essentials also calls for «unity in primary things, with liberty in secondary things, and charity in all things.»

It's unsurprising, therefore, to see Pope Francis, like his forbears, calling on Christians to pray for the restoration of unity in Christendom.

The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.

Stapledon believes both must be present on an equal basis and calls for a system of personality - in - community, an ambiguous system of unity in diversity — an organic view of society.

He also called for a greater working relationship between the two churches: «Collaboration between our Churches will be of great value to our people, both in Egypt and Russia, and a symbol of proactive unity to the whole world.»

The relationship between the search for unity in faith and the engagement in the human struggle lies through an insight as old as Isaiah 42:6 — that God's people are called to be in the world as a covenantal sign of the yet - to - come unity and fulfillment of humankind.

In the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needIn the so - called practical fields the unity is even greater; here there is common concern for developing relevant, effective preaching in the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needin the local church on the basis of Scriptures; for a religious education Christian rather than either humanistic or denominational in character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needin character; for guiding men into pastoral work that meets human needs.

The love of God in Christ calls for the three-fold response of worship, unity and mission.

Whatever the exact outcome, those ministers and editors calling for «unity in diversity» may be expected to play an increasingly influential role in the Churches of Christ.

New Delhi said: «[This unity] is being made visible as all in each place who are baptized into Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Savior are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic faith, preaching the one gospel, breaking the one bread, joining in common prayer, and having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to all and who at the same time are united with the whole Christian fellowship in all places and all ages, in such wise that ministry and members are accepted by all, and that all can act and speak together as occasion requires for the tasks to which God calls His people.»

The part of Deep Church that I found to be most relevant to our conversations here at «Monkey Town» was Chapter 3, in which Belcher issues a stirring call for unity around classical Christianity.

Having set out to assert distinctions within the unity of God in order to account for their beliefs about Jesus and the Holy Spirit, theologians then found it necessary to emphasize that they were still thinking in strictly monotheistic terms, not in the tritheistic fashion which has often characterized popular devotion with its half - concealed idea of what the late Bishop Pike used to call a «committee God».

The mission of Israel is identified as a withdrawal from participation [in Lévy - Bruhl's sense] so as to prepare humanity for that day when it would be totally isolated from the world and yet called to the task of realizing a new unity with the world (our time).

(1) clarity, strength and persuasiveness of Christian conviction and commitment; (2) good preaching and the ability to design and lead meaningful worship; (3) conviction of and commitment to pastoral calling as integral to Christian ministry and pastoral care; (4) deep sensitivity to the needs of people individually and in groups; (5) concern for, dedication to, and skill in working for congregational development and growth as a part of faithfulness, for the nurture and retention of members who show signs of slackening commitment, for the motivation and training of lay persons to work for church growth; (6) capacity to generate enthusiasm in other people, personal warmth, competence, spiritual authenticity; (7) ability to encourage and generate a spirit of unity in a congregation; and (8) organizational development and conflict management skills.

Second, there are the educational interculturalists who stress the unity and beauty of peoples and groups in all their diversity, and who call for mutual understanding, tolerance and respect.

Joseph Sittler's «Called to Unity,» his address to the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi in 1961, was notable for putting Christian unity in the larger setting of the value of nature.

This involves a causality which Holloway calls physical and perfective: physical, because it is Christ, God made man, who acts directly through the material elements of the sacraments; perfective, because this is the fullness of God's one work in creation, which creation finds a special fruition when matter calls out for spirit and the two are joined in one unity which we call «man».

When unity develops in the church, and allows all people to work together for the common purpose to which we are called, but in our own unique way and with our own unique contribution.

It speaks to me of the investment of «That - Which - We - Call - God» in humanity and their total unity, the oneness of all things, the erasing of the dividing line between secular and sacred, compassion for all, and justice in the world.

«After a century of intense theological activity, the churches in most places seem no closer to unity,» reports Alan Falconer, the director of the Faith and the Order Commission of the WCC to a major meeting in Tanzania.32 Konrad Raiser, the General Secretary of the WCC, has called on the main Christian traditions — the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal churches — to start preparations in the year 2000 for «a universal church council to reconcile the main issues, including the authority of the Pope.»

There can be no good diversity in disunity, for Christ's has called us to unity in the truth.

We undertake this engagement in search of unity, in penitence for our wounding the body of Christ, and in obedience to the call of the Spirit, fervently hoping that our witness will be made more efficacious and that before the eschaton, we shall come to the day when we can sit together at the table spread by our common Lord, Jesus Christ.

He was in the outpouring of compassion at a victim's funeral and in the passionate call for unity from a resolute councilwoman and at the bedside vigil of a wounded victim's church community.

Those concerned for the ecumenical movement also note with appreciation that Pope John Paul II, in his apostolic letter concerning the preparation for the Jubilee Year of 2000, calls for examination of conscience for sins that have been detrimental to Christian unity.

What was Paul requiring but the social solidarity of the Corinthians when he called for them to assert their unity in Christ?

The quest for Christian unity is a call to a new life, to lifelong metanoia, and to conversion in the deepest sense.

The very act of attempting to convert one's colleague may be an act of solidarity, a way of creating a mutual bond, and the pastor who preaches in individualistic terms may still invoke a sense of community by calling — in the collective setting of the morning worship service — for unity amid diversity.

May God give us the strength to testify to a fidelity that is inclusive of Jews and Palestinians, even and especially as the unity that is called for seeks to silence those who protest in the name of justice.

In the letter, Dr. King calls for unity among his fellow clergymen and defends his strategy of nonviolent, but active, resistance in the Civil Rights MovemenIn the letter, Dr. King calls for unity among his fellow clergymen and defends his strategy of nonviolent, but active, resistance in the Civil Rights Movemenin the Civil Rights Movement.

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IF they joined with the sensible fans in calling for Wengers head, and all Gooners were thus in unity in wanting him out, and said so, LOUDLY AND OFTEN, the club would by now have acted.

But I have never seen such a show of unity and solidarity to back him like some SPECIAL PLAYER has been getting since last season even if he was played in his so called best position for all of last season, but he did fck all playing in that position.

The fact that Arsene calls for unity means, he understands there is a disturbance in the force.

Our veteran defender Laurent koscielny has also called for unity from everyone at the club, as he told Arsenal.com: «We know we're in a bad situation, a bad period,» he said.

BTW in one of thw previous articles there was Koss the boss calling for the «unity» so this pri # k is lieng!

Nick Clegg calls for unity: Clegg quickly dismissed Oakeshott as a serial complainer and urged his party to take responsiblity for their time in government.

At the same time, Appelbaum called for unity between the IDC and mainline Democratic factions in the state Senate.