Sentences with phrase «church than the greatest»

The reason it is better to be least in the Church than the greatest in the world is because of the gifts we find in verse 11.

It is better to be the least in the church than the greatest in the world.

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As a result, food banks, soup kitchens, churches and other emergency food providers across the country say they're seeing greater demand than ever.

(I Timothy 3:5) God has used that verse to challenge me to manage resources in His church with the same care (or greater) than I manage resources in my home.

The Great Upper Church, however, may be the greatest attraction, with its five soaring domes more than 100 feet above the floor.

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, an event that has been in preparation for more than half a century, will take place at the Orthodox Academy of Crete on June 19 - 26, 2016.

The problem is not with biblical Revelation, the problem is when the Church or individuals within the Church interpret it as either a metaphysical treatise or a moral manual rather than the greatest Love Story ever told.

The rate of abuse within the Catholic Church is no greater than outside the Church.

It was prophecied in Jeremiah 16 that a greater work than that of Moses would occur — that of gathering of the house of Israel — and one fulfillment of that prophecy is the establishment and missionary effort of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

It occurred to me about that time that the Zionsville Rotary Club was asking me to make a greater commitment of involvement — and promising swift retribution if I fell short — than I had ever dreamed of demanding of church members.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

Nothing could be a greater indictment of the modern Church than this (The Myth of a Christian Religion).

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

But they point to a greater vibrancy in the Church than is sometimes acknowledged.

Perhaps I have a greater appreciation for the season of Lent than some of my low - church colleagues.

There is no greater threat to the unity of the church than legalism.

There is no more distorted reflection of the power of the Spirit than Pentecostal services in so - called liturgical churches, which embroider Christianity's memory of great historical moments with the pomp and circumstance of banners, dramatic proclamations and unsingable hymns and anthems.

If the subject is knitting the social fabric, I expect the Church has done a great deal more than city government.

Our church bought a house to use as a meeting hall; after the purchase, the church was denied a permit to meet because in order for 30 or more people to meet, the proporty zoning stipulates that the footprint has to be greater than 15 thousand sq. ft.. We are AT 15K sq ft, and two variances requests have been denied.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

They need to be read correctly, to be widely known and taken to heart as important and normative texts of the Magisterium, within the Church's Tradition... I feel more than ever in duty bound to point to the Council as the great grace bestowed on the Church in the 20th century.»»

Hardly anything survives from Constantine's city, but the great church of Hagia Sophia, «Divine Wisdom», now a mosque, which was rebuilt on more than one occasion, is on the site of the church built by Constantine, which was itself built on the foundations of a pagan temple.

They believe that the churches can do a more effective job than any other agency in this area of great need and that such involvement can bring churches alive with a new sense of mission.

It is clear from all this that it will be one of the great duties of the Church to take perhaps more account than before of the moral questions confronting the Christian in his daily life and to approach them frankly and courageously.

A small church could have the wrong heart (taking what little they receive for their own internal needs) about giving towards outreach and the great commission and there are 20 times more of them in America than mega churches.

Hence non-liturgical prayer may well in certain cases be holier and of greater value for the Church than liturgical prayer.

Who would deny, for example, that the prayer of a martyr in his lonely prison cell before his execution, in which he unites himself completely with the death of Christ has greater dignity and validity before God and for his Church than many liturgical prayers?

For example, the Church need not have any greater foresight into the future than is possible to the normal average decent person.

And, let us be frank: is it really so certain that formerly, when religion and the Church played a greater part in public life, men really had more true faith, hope and charity, which, after all, are more important than anything else?

Life, for the early Church, was spiritual warfare; and no baptized Christian could doubt how great a transformation — of the self and the world — it was to consent to serve no other god than Him whom Christ revealed.

They did not submit to the terms of Stout's description, but they did suggest that their efforts to make their churches more faithful yields greater service to the world, rather than less.

For it lets God be greater than both man and the Church.

See Matthew 12:6, Jesus is speaking of himself, «But I tell you that something greater than the temple (church) is here.»

It seems to me that now, more than at any time in history, the church looks like the great multitude described in the Book of Revelation — a multitude from every tribe and nation.

«Unfortunately,» said Pro Mundi Vita of the Vatican's attitude toward the Latin Americans» lay - directed renewal, «the church's efforts have been directed more toward preserving discipline, order and doctrinal purity than the great work and challenge of being evangelical.»

But with church resources as limited as they are, and the need so great, it seems clear that the churches will have to develop patterns of working alongside other personnel, with the chief resources coming from elsewhere than the churches and with administrative patterns different from those in which the minister is also the general administrator.

When the focus became numbers, rather than the people themselves, the church ceased to be a people of God following Jesus into the world, and became a business that maneuvers for greater market share.

And when push comes to shove, the traditional teaching of the churches has greater strengths than does the position of the new reformers.

«Since I have been coming to church, I have been thinking a great deal about the idea of a transcendent, something that is other than this world.

During his struggle for independence Kirkland wrote: «I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.»

«More than any great Christian leader before him,» Niebuhr observed, «Luther affirmed the life in culture as the sphere in which Christ could and ought to be followed; and more than any other he discerned that the rules to be followed in the cultural life were independent of Christian or church law.»

I say to you candidly, as I have said before, I have never found a man, be he Methodist or be he non-Methodist, willing to contribute to our work here who has not endorsed a liberal Christian policy in the administration of affairs... I have never denied our Methodist allegiance, I have never denied our Methodist history, but I have maintained that, greater than Methodism was the cause of Christ and that the call for service in His name was greater than the call to the service of the Church.

DH «I am in favour of recovering the biblical understanding of shaming in the sense that «God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong» 1 cor 1:27... as an encouragement to anyone who is a victim (and therefore considered weak in the eyes of the world) that there is a greater power to call on in order to shame... any person in a position of power in the church that is using their power to oppress rather than serve... Does that help or hinder?»

Yet there was in early Christianity another path from Jesus to the church, less dramatic than the great theologian and missionary Paul, but more pervasive in the actual life of early Christians: the Gospel of Mathew!

But even with this activity the Methodists remained as a group within the Anglican Church, and far smaller in numbers than the three great Churches — the Congregationalists, the Anglicans, and the Presbyterians.

If he knows the great tradition he will also know that it is his duty to represent it, interpreting the mind of the Church rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church meChurch rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church mechurch members.

But such discoveries depend upon a greater exposure to the bankruptcy of old familiar forms of «spirituality» than we have managed in our safe and sedate churches.

It is true that one can find among individual theologians support for an «inerrancy» position throughout the history of the church, but it is also true that these same theologians often exercise in their exegesis much greater freedom than Lindsell's or Schaeffer's interpretation of their theory would seem to allow.