Sentences with phrase «church admonitions»

Then I began to wonder about stumbling blocks and I couldn't seem to shake off early church admonitions to consider one another, to give preference to one another's weaknesses.

Not exact matches

The first rule, church has to be on Saturday, aligning with the tradition of the Jews and forsaking the admonition of the disciples to set themselves apart from the Jews by worshiping on a different day.

Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

The Catholic church's admonitions to young women to preserve their virginity at all costs consisted chiefly, at least in the past, of dramatic warnings, what one might call «spiritual terrorism,» in that all Catholic girls should be willing to die to preserve their virginity, because Catholic educators told them so and because the alternative was unthinkable.

I have to tell you, I am staunchly conservative, as I'm sure you can attest, and I am against the unending flood of illegal and undocuumented immigration into the U.S.. But, like the statement says, what we need is a logical, enforceable, orderly process by which we, as Americans, can express the opportunities to come enrich our culture to future immigrants that so many of our ancestors enjoyed, which coincides with the Church's admonition to help the needy.

Mutual admonition and the quest for complementarity are a better way than either «polite... opposition» or church - dividing declamations based on careless theological judgments.

Wesley said that the admonition to begin the process of church discipline is not just a suggestion, but «a plain command...

Neuhaus finds as explanation for the approval or near - approval of all three proposals, this kind of ecumenical negotiation requires each church not only to discern the convergences noted above, but also to honor the divergences: to admonish the other about the validity of its own «accent» or «emphasis,» and to open its own ears to the same kind of admonition.

The theological justification for infant baptism depends on the commitment of parents and members of congregations to the task of rearing the children and youth of the church «in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.»

In the face of my admonition that priests should follow the moral teachings of the Church, Neuhaus worries about what I did not say.

That's not a cop out, but an admonition to keep Christ central in our churches... lest the gospel be lost and replaced by the law (what WE DO).

We have promised more through the «go to church» admonition than we can deliver.

As they heard this, many in the congregation remembered Karlstadt's admonition on Christmas Day in the castle church that everyone should go and take the Sacrament both the bread and the wine with their own hands.

Most mainline evangelical churches do not require women to cover their heads, despite Paul's most emphatic admonition in 1 Corinthians that they do so.

«28 In the church of Geneva, Calvin turned the same concern in the direction of discipline: «As the saving doctrine of Christ is the soul of the Church, so discipline forms the ligaments which connect the members together and keep each in its proper place... [For there would occur] a dissolution of the Church... unless the preaching of the doctrine were accompanied with private admonitions, reproofs and other means to enforce the doctrine and prevent it from being altogether ineffectual.&church of Geneva, Calvin turned the same concern in the direction of discipline: «As the saving doctrine of Christ is the soul of the Church, so discipline forms the ligaments which connect the members together and keep each in its proper place... [For there would occur] a dissolution of the Church... unless the preaching of the doctrine were accompanied with private admonitions, reproofs and other means to enforce the doctrine and prevent it from being altogether ineffectual.&Church, so discipline forms the ligaments which connect the members together and keep each in its proper place... [For there would occur] a dissolution of the Church... unless the preaching of the doctrine were accompanied with private admonitions, reproofs and other means to enforce the doctrine and prevent it from being altogether ineffectual.&Church... unless the preaching of the doctrine were accompanied with private admonitions, reproofs and other means to enforce the doctrine and prevent it from being altogether ineffectual.»

And while for the sake of admonition there is a second to the Corinthians and also to the Thessalonians, yet one Church is recognized as spread throughout the world.

His admonition, «When you get home, tell every member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God to go and register for a Political Party.