Sentences with phrase «church lives under»

The church lives under a discipline to be a body of witnesses testifying to the presence of the end of the world in the midst of the world, a sign that the powers of death have been overcome.

Interesting how the Catholic church lives under a primarily Republican painted banner.

Meanwhile the Lutheran, Anglican, and some Reformed groups carried on church life under the practice of Christian nurture rather than revivalism

I know that members of the church live under a microscope when it comes to the rest of the world.

Not exact matches

It can't possibly get worse that what the western world lived under when it was under the thumb of the one and only, most holy Catholic church for 1500 years.

Santorum would have the United States live under control of the Catholic Church, a known pedophile organization that decrees that women must supply them with new victims every year or burn in hell.

Fresh concerns are being raised over the welfare of Eritrea's Tewahdo Orthodox Church leader, who has been living effectively under house arrest for more than ten years.

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the fullness of time by God's eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space of history; in church history under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).

We are gentiles, living in the church age under the new covenant.

P.S. I am a former member of Duluth Bible Church, and have been under Dennis Rokser's teaching almost my whole life.

«[I am] sorry for the pain you all have had to endure under my leadership and watch... but hopefully, that season in the life of our church is in the past,» said Kong, according to CHC.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

The Pope assures his reader, nonetheless, that in communion with the Church's living Tradition and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit «we can serenely examine exegetical hypotheses that all too often make exaggerated claims to certainty, claims that are already undermined by the existence of diametrically opposed positions put forward with an equal claim to scientific certainty» (p. 105).

The Zoroastrianism of the Persians all but disappeared or sought refuge in India, but the Christian churches in the former Persian realms lived on under the Arabs and even flourished.

If they were, then the emergent theology could compete on a more equal basis with traditional ones, and the insights and convictions now gathered under the heading of a theology of nature could penetrate more deeply into the life of the church.

Finally, in 1893 - at the very end of the century, and when two or three generations had lived their lives in the industrialised world - the Church under Leo XIII produced a document exploring the social and financial implications of it all and giving some guidance.The document was Rerum Novarum - «Of new things».

And the encouragement to the churches is to «come out» from Babylon to live under the Rule of the Lamb as citizens of the New Jerusalem.

Under attack from his Congregational brethren for supporting strange views, he was without definite connections with that Church the last five years of his life.

His church has come under scrutiny for everything from its congregants (Hillsong counts Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Kevin Durant among its flock), to its stances («At this church, we are not saying «All Lives Matter,»» Lentz declared in Sep - tember), to Lentz's fashion choices (GQ dubbed him a «Hypepriest» for his col - lection of ultra-hip designer threads).

Evangelism offices and commissions gather and affirm the various groups that identify themselves under their broad banner; they sponsor workshops on church growth, offering helpful techniques for how to make church life more inclusive, how to bring back those who drift away, how to incorporate new members more quickly, how to set up and carry out community - building activities such as lay visitation.

No necessary function in the life of the church is foreign to him or beneath him, under special circumstances.

So long as the archives remain closed, Pius XII and the Catholic Church of the time will continue to live under a moral cloud.

A Christian historian tells a true story about a peasant in the 1600's living under the rule of the Catholic Church.

After eight years of doing this and now dealing with two teenagers living under my very own roof who ask the same question, I've got the answers down pat and can dismiss my students at the bell confident that they have at least a hazy sense that maybe going to church next Sunday wouldn't be a complete waste of their time.

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Under all variations of form, they continued to affirm that in the events out of which the Christian Church arose there was a conclusive act of God, who in them visited and redeemed His people; and that in the corporate experience of the Church itself there was revealed a new quality of life, arising out of what God had done, which in turn corroborated the value set upon the facts.

Through Christian education the fellowship of believers (the church) seeks to help persons become aware of God's seeking love as shown especially in Jesus Christ and to respond in faith and love to the end that they may develop self - understanding, sell - acceptance, and self - fulfillment under God; increasingly identify themselves as sons of God and members of the Christian community; live as Christian disciples in all relations in human society; and abide in the Christian hope.

It may well be that the church at the end of the first century, living under Roman rule and permission, is anxious to underline the Jewish responsibility and to minimize the Roman part.

It is the book which the Church recommends people to read in order to know about God in His relation to man and the world, to worship Him intelligently, and to understand the aim and the obligations of human life under His rule.

If it was legitimate on the plateau to pull ministerial rank, or to preach and live as if there existed a kind of clean Christian rank for all of us in the church, we know now that this may not be in Israel in drought, in the church - in - the - world under conditions of sustained exigency.

Under the leadership of the late Roy Burkhart, that church took as its aim the guidance and spiritual enrichment of life «from birth through all the years of life in the tabernacle of the body.»

... then if the dead are being prayed for the living keep paying for that too... then those who are left behind will continue this vicious cicle of the churches all over again... with the next generation... because those who are left behind are obligated to teach the next generation into opening up their billfold... and that is why the people without knowiledge go under!!!!

The church must be prepared to enter into common cause with any group, regardless of caste, color or creed, in the task of restoring meaning and purpose to human life, under whatever rubric this task might be conceived, whether it be called salvation or liberation, redemption or humanization.

After exerting influence on state affairs under Czarist rule, the church found itself overnight banished from public life, its property confiscated, its worship repressed, and its role in the educational system ended.

It's that living under law thing that kills us (the Spirit gives life but the letter kills), trying to live up to standards and rules, principles and guidelines, etc... The church these days has pretty much no idea what grace even is, and if you start talking about God's love, I mean his real love based only on Christ's merit, people call you a heretic.

To the right of that post, a bit under the gallery, sits Bishop Anderson of Chicago, and two seats away is the saintly face of the Rev. Alexander Whyte of First St. George's Church, Edinburgh, whom more American preachers love than any other living pulpiteer.

But I'm also trying to read Michael Heiser's The Unseen Realm (on Jeremy's recommendation also) and finish reading The Skeleton Church AND think through the resulting Deep Thoughts that result - Plus i do it all in triplicate because i have concentration problems (the result, i am sure, of a lifetime of living in my head instead of focusing on what was under my nose) and did i mention i love this stuff?

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

Galileo would disagree, the church put him under house arrest for the rest of his life on biblical assessment.

In that conversation, voices have been heard urging a view of conscience that is curious, even dangerous: Under certain circumstances, conscience may permit or even require that a person choose acts that the Church has consistently taught are intrinsically wrong — such as using artificial means of contraception, or receiving Holy Communion while living the married life in a union that's not been blessed by the Church.

With a glorious and powerful figure who seeks to detach us from our God, to ensure the triumph of the world, to use propaganda to revive the temptation with which Jesus was tempted, to bring the church under submission to money or the state, there is no dialogue, for dialogue is not a value of its own and is not the supreme expression of the Christian life.

Though the Catholic church itself eventually failed to realize the truth of its own teaching it had done its job so well that for three centuries after the Reformation Catholic, Protestant and freethinker alike continued to live under the spell of Christendom.

jay: «Galileo would disagree, the church put him under house arrest for the rest of his life on biblical assessment.»

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

The same Directory also speaks of the spiritual climate in which alone there can be a successful ecumenical reception: «The life of faith and the prayer of faith, no less than reflection on the doctrine of faith, enter «into this process of reception, by which the whole Church, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit... makes her own the fruits of a dialogue, in a process of listening, of testing, of judging and of living.»

what can you do for the victims as long as Christians hold power in our country, were living under christian tyranny, my heart goes out to my Sikh brothers, and i will protect them but those in power calls them evil, what we need is a separation of church and state, that's the only way to help us, as long as Christians have all the power, we will always besecond class citizens,

The rest of his life he devoted tothe Church, especially in Northern Germany, Denmark and Norway, whose Catholics were placed under his care when he was made a bishop in 1677.

Under communism the church was severely persecuted and many ended up in the gulag, in psychiatric hospitals and dead for being dissidents, i.e. true martyrs, who paid with their very lives.