Sentences with phrase «church sees the glory»

Not exact matches

Taking the time to discover the wider Church in all its messy glory helps us to see the truly global vision that Christ encompasses.

When the world sees the glory of God, they will flock to the church again.

After the conversion of Constantine, the church leaders saw that using the power of the Roman Empire and the threat of the sword would help them gain glory, riches, honor, prestige, land, and wealth.

Writing to fellow churches across Pennsylvania, the association's leaders explained that through Bucknell, they sought «to see... the cause of God, the honor and glory of the Redeemer's kingdom promoted in all our bounds, and spreading far and wide until the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ.»

So far we have seen that the church seeks honor and glory, but in all the wrong places.

In addition, as the vast majority of both the older and newer Pentecostal churches see themselves as part of a broader community of evangélicos which includes their historic brethren, the latter have been able to bask in some of the reflected glory of Pentecostal growth.

The chief end, he suggested, is «to build God a Church,» and in order to do this «I am bound in conscience» to leave «all contenting pleasures and mundall delights, to reside here [Virginia] with much turmoile, which I will rather doe than see God's glory diminished, my King and Country dishonoured, and these poore soules I haue in charge reuined.