Sentences with phrase «church body also»

Perhaps that is true also of a member or church body also.

Not exact matches

One day that last goyim that will enter the Body of Christ, by faith in Jesus, will believe and be also heir with all the rest, both Jewish and Gentile, who have believed and have become members of The Church.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

1rst, the definition of cult according to the dictionary in this case Webster «Cult: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents» so anyone involved in a church is in a cult period.

Also, as an effect of being joined to the Body of Christ, the Church, they can actually help bring grace to others.

I think so i know why but i am not sure you can type in google judgement day for cristians and also you can go to church and be batipized and also get councelling and also you can try praying to Jesus and also try to find ways to remove demons from your body and also for sings only then you can know wheather you are demon possed or not thank you

Just as the Church fills up in the bodies of her members the sufferings of Christ, so also the consolations of the Lord overflow to others through her as she fills out the full measure of the healing love of Christ by her sacramental ministry (cf. Col 1,24).

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

Christians should, given their tradition, be inclined to find sense in body language, not only because of the resurrection of the body but also because of the bread and wine of the eucharist as the body and blood of Christ, and the church as the body with Christ as its head.

also i think most of you didn't get the analogy because you are confusing the institutional church with the alive people of the church or the body or community we call church.

``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on car window and trying to damage car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out of wedlock, talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»

And also the carnality of the church: There was a body on the cross.»

For Holloway this flows from the fact that «in a mysterious way, God has united himself to every man» -LCB- Gaudium et Spes 22), and this unity is also a visible, social reality in the Body of Christ which is the Church.

Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..

He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body.

Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Since Christ and Messiah are kingly terms, when Paul speaks of the corporate life of Christ in the church, he is also thinking of the rule and reign of God on earth through the body of Christ, the church.

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

They assume not only a settled ecclesiastical system in the Church, but also an established body of orthodox beliefs against which to judge heresy and, what is most significant, a collection of Christian Scriptures.

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

So also, «in fidelity to the deposit of faith,» is the unity of hierarchical and charismatic gifts in the body of Christ, the Church.

This linkage also applies both within the body of the church and within the body politic.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

By incorporating us into Christ, the Holy Spirit also makes us members of his body, the Church.

«Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body.»

Not only then could God upset the experiments of the scientists, should He so choose, but also He had already delivered to the church a supernatural body of knowledge to which the experimental scientist as such had no counter.

It is also one of the fastest - growing Lutheran church bodies in the world; in 2016, they counted about 4 million members, and they are opening a new congregation every week.

They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

The idea is foreign to the whole Catholic tradition, which is preserved in the Orthodox Church also: «There is only one Christ and so there can only be one Body of Christ...

But you may also find that in following these suggestions (which initially seem «anti-church»), you and your church is liberated to function as the body of Christ is truly supposed to function.

The Church is also the Body of Christ enjoying his abiding presence through the ages, as well as the guidance of the Holy Spirit who continues to remind us of all Jesus did and taught, as Jesus himself promised.

However, as the church, we are the Body of Christ, and just as He suffered as He went about His ministry, so also we will suffer as we follow the ways of Jesus in this world (John 15:19 - 20).

The church elders brought in an investigator and mediator from the larger church body, who is also a pastor.

HEAD OF THE CHURCH: Ephesians 5:23... as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of theCHURCH: Ephesians 5:23... as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of thechurch, He Himself being the Savior of the body.

But it is well to remember that not only did He interpose his body (which these days is the Church — something to think about and quite in line with the blog's point) between the woman caught in adultery and the mob out to persecute her quite literally to death, He also turned to her and said, «Go and sin no more.»

That Word spoken in the creation of the natural order also brought Israel into existence, and that Word incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth became the means whereby the church, the body of Christ, was created.

Thus the Holy Catholic Church is both a society of men and women, hence susceptible to study in a sociological fashion, and also the Body in which Jesus (now taken into God's everlasting life) is still made available to succeeding generations down to our own day.

There was also greater recognition of the younger churches as the «Body of Christ» in their respective places and to which, all Christian activities in that place, were to be ultimately related.

Paul's application of the unity principle to the church in his soma Christou metaphor not only necessitates the distinction between the Body and its Head, Christ, but also distinctions within the membership (the eye is not the hand, and so forth).

The presupposed existence of the church as a body with disciplinary powers also makes it difficult to attribute these elaborate directions to Jesus.

Also, because we are one in the body of Christ, Paul was talking to us in that he knew there would be generations to come and in speaking to a certain church, I believe he had the vision of the future, just as we do when we pray.

Emphasizing the collegiality of the Petrine office, the Pope says: «When the Catholic Church affirms s that the office of the bishop of Rome corresponds to the will of Christ, she does not separate this office from the mission entrusted to the whole body of bishops, who are also «vicars and ambassadors of Christ.»

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

I also will not put myself under the inspection of someone of a sect or church to take personal inventory of me or demand I be accountable to them, a church body, elders, or to some group only.

(Ephesians 1:22 - 23; cf. also I Corinthians 12:12) Thus the individual's relation to Christ is given in his relation to the Church which is the Body of Christ.

Should the church, understood as a separate religious congregation or faith - communion, also set itself as a separate social and political community, or should it consider itself as a ferment in all social communities and the larger pluralistic secular society without itself becoming a communal body?

Still trying to agree on a definition of the Eucharist, theologians over a wide range of background had finally agreed in the Wittenberg Concord that «with the consecrated bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ are truly and substantially present, shown forth and received», also that the sacrament has its authentic value in the Church and does not depend on the status of either the minister or the recipient.

Rather, we find ourselves expanded by the gaze of the other within, in whose reflection (as in a mirror) we see all others also with the same eyes in whose loving gaze the many are being drawn into the one: the mystical body of Christ that is the Church.

This mundane political usage was mirrored by the Christian community which began to signify ecclesiastical dignitaries by the term, and then also all those Christians with standing in the community of the Church, and finally, all individual members of the Mystical Body of Christ.