Sentences with phrase «church moves beyond itself»

Aware and concerned, the progressive church moves beyond itself in word and deed, but it tends to stop, short of an analysis - of and actions - against the strictures of injustice, even while it promotes programs to alleviate misery.

We have moved beyond Luther's sola Scriptura for the same reason the Catholic Church moved beyond the canonized Scriptures after the fourth century.

Not exact matches

What will it mean for both sides in this debate — at least as it takes place among believers, in and for the church — to move beyond political ideologies and culture wars and stand together under God's word of law and gospel?

What stops those outside of the church in their tracks are those who have learned to move beyond the words.

Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today's church to move beyond man - made restrictions and fully welcome women's diverse voices and experiences.

My hope is that as evangelicals move beyond the modern paradigm of individual autonomy (particularly as it applies to biblical interpretation), we will begin to appreciate church tradition as an undeniable foundation for our faith.

It promises to move the ministry of the congregation out beyond the boundaries of the institution to the world Christ longs to contact through his body, the church.

Theologians, however, can still be moved by the question: The Lutheran Church historian Carter Lindberg, for instance, offers a strong defense of the classic Protestant understanding of almsgiving in his book Beyond Charity: Reformation Initiatives for the Poor.

To become a church in mission St. Andrew had to let go of clericalism and convert the members into ministers; let go of the myth of size and develop a vision of what a small church can do; move beyond «coffee fellowship» in its conception of worship and food; and leave behind traditional notions of church in order to focus on the congregation's mission on the margins.

We must move beyond the dead ideas of «church» and into the forgotten, more difficult, Christian Community in order to achieve what Christ called «The Kingdom of Heaven».

Once we have attained a calmer and historically deeper sense of what has been happening — once we move beyond both panic and panegyrics — it should be possible to discern more clearly the future roles of these churches and of the religious forms of liberalism.

We need churches that are instead the very ground of community, that define and build and embody a kind of common life that can move beyond the walls of the church and demonstrate common living in the wider society.

The challenge to the church is to tap its tradition for those practices that will enable people to move beyond the utilitarian ethic of our individualistic,

I wanted to move beyond «them and us» thinking on the issue of mental health — the idea that Church is for the fixed, while the broken are out there.

But if we are truly to understand the problems the church faces in today's world, and respond appropriately to them, we need to move beyond the blame game, and beyond seeing the matter in purely theological or ideological terms.

Asian theologian C. S. Song urges theological reflection to move beyond the Greek and Latin captivity of the church.

Doing this will require moving beyond the sterile polarities that have defined the church in the modern era: liberal vs. conservative, traditional vs. contemporary, reason vs. experience, faith vs. science, megachurch vs. maintenance church.

Only by recognising this dimension can we understand the Church's maternal and bridal nature and so move beyond a mere sociological understanding of the Church:

As white Christians have tried to move beyond the prejudice of their grandparents and second and third generation black British Christians feel less need for the safety of a culturally specific home church, the challenge is to find ways of reintroducing both sides to each other.

It is clear that the BEM document was an attempt to consciously, creatively, sincerely and prayerfully to face up to the challenges of the time and to offer to the churches a document, which while not being in a position to satisfy everyone and reflect every shade of opinion, nevertheless, optimistically looked forward to a time of greater ecumenical interaction, moving beyond «the false ecumenical solution of a comfortable denominationalism in which the churches each tend their own gardens, careful not to bother or insult others, but in no way living out or even seeking a truly common life.»

To move beyond mere theories of church growth or models of social change, one will need to supplement this fine study with additional materials.

Regardless of size of church or its location, effective youth evangelism is possible when those within the church will take personal responsibility to move beyond thinking and talking about reaching youth for Christ, and put into place the practical steps to equip and assist their youth to witness to their peers.

Stearns issues a moving call to action that challenges Christians to look beyond the walls of their churches and work together to demonstrate God's love for the world by acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.

Beauty is of great importance in worship as elsewhere in life; in church services, these things have a point that includes but goes beyond sheer beauty, since they have as their principal reason the provision of a context in which the worshippers as whole men and women are moved to pray, to adore God, to listen to his Word, to confess their sin, to receive assurance of his forgiveness, and to be strengthened for discipleship.

James issues a stirring call for the Church to move beyond stifling arguments over gender roles and embrace a holistic understanding of God's calling for both men and women.

I think the time has come for black theologians and church people to move beyond a mere reaction to white racism in America and begin to extend our vision of a new socially constructed humanity in the whole inhabited world... For humanity is whole, and can not be isolated into racial and national groups.

... But though the church has a life that is beyond history, it also moves in history and here it learns, adapts changes.

In their eagerness to highlight and address the inevitable contacts between religion and government, and to move beyond implausible, distorted versions of church - state «separation,» Eisgruber and Sager abandon too much.

The «ex-gay» approach was the topic of our second discussion around Torn, and as I said there, I think this may be the most difficult reality for the Church, and evangelicals in particular, to accept — that we have to move beyond the default setting of trying to change people's sexual orientation upon learning they are gay.

In this chapter, Justin identifies seven things the Church must focus on if we want to create a better world for the next generation and move beyond the culture war mentality that is literally costing some gay Christians their lives:

Pope Benedict's legacy, beyond the extraordinary rarity of his decision to resign, will undoubtedly depend on how effectively he is seen to have moved the Church on from the child sex scandals which have so damaged its reputation in recent years.

The following details come from Gematsu... - 3D Mode characters move vividly in a three - dimensional world - in 2D Mode, the game is depicted in nostalgic pixel graphics - at the start of your adventure, 3D Mode is depicted on the upper screen, and 2D Mode is depicted on the lower screen - when the two modes are displayed at the same time, conversations and such are displayed on the upper screen when using the slide pad - on the lower screen when using the d - pad - As you progress, you will choose which one of the two modes to you want to continue playing with - can visit the church to switch between modes - in 3D mode, monsters will attack if they notice the protagonist running by - with 2D mode, you will encounter monsters randomly while walking - will be able to see the «Memories of Your Journey» at certain places - with 3DS version, you can look back on important scenes in the story that you have already seen in your favorite visual mode - allows you to also see how that scene played out in the style you are not playing in - a village where a special tribe among the Incarnations of Time known as the «Yocchi» live - here you can make use of the system's StreetPass features - also discover a dungeon that only the Yocchi can enter called the «Labyrinth Beyond Time» - send in the Yocchi you gathered through StreetPass to explore - exploring the Labyrinth Beyond Time may open the door to surprises - Yocchi have an important mission, and want the protagonist to help them carry it out - in order to help the Yocchi, it seems that it is necessary to find «Adventure Log Passwords» in the Labyrinth Beyond Time

Their mission is to move beyond the church walls to reach stepfamilies in desperate need of wisdom, hope and our Savior.