Sentences with phrase «churches are all images»

As long as what is being presented by the CHURCH is the Image of God and not the Facade of Man.

The church is an image and reminder that the Christian, like the church building he, too, is very much in the world but not of the world, to use the expression of St Paul.

Not exact matches

For some consumers, even Google's generally superior cameras and image displays will be insufficient to tear them away from the church of Apple, whose products and services tend to work best when paired together.

Images of giraffes and the color purple — two of Christina Morris» favorite things — were in abundance during the service at First Baptist Church.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

When the Church can not sing that love song powerfully and effectively to awaken hearts and invite hearts to fulfilment, sex degenerates from being an icon; an image that points us to heaven.

They noted the «increasing departure from the basis of the WCC» — which they defined as primarily to restore unity to the Church — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the cChurch — and cited «a growing departure from biblically based Christian understandings» of the Trinity, salvation, the gospel, the doctrine of human beings as created in the image of God, and the nature of the churchchurch.

The belief that all are made in the image of God carries with it profound moral implications for the church.

The Formula of Concord, which is central to the confessional documents of the Lutheran church, declares that original sin has replaced the image of God in human beings with «a deep, wicked, abominable, bottomless, inscrutable, and inexpressible corruption of his entire nature in all its powers, especially of the highest and foremost powers of the soul in mind, heart, and will.»

i got such a shock when i saw this image and comment, the image took me by suck surprise, after 8 months of not being in church, and not caring what you thought, to start crying in the students union, is kinda a big deal..

North Point's funky architecture, the hologram that beams Stanley's image to satellite churches, the stage lights and visual props Stanley uses during sermons — all of it is geared toward pulling in that new audience.

Could it be that the Church has long been seduced by the Enemy to operate a Christian image management system that cost us our authenticity and capacity to be trusted?

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

This dude is a novelty to this all black church... He hasn't found god, unless you xtains want to beLIEve that he was made in your gods image.

If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?

Instead I hope these conversations of practice return us to the unique image of God our churches were meant to reflect in our local context.

One image I have of the church is of a gigantic stubborn bull that won't move.

In His own words: «blessed are those who hunger and thirst» I don't feel that one can disregard «all images, all philosophies, all religions, all theologies, all spiritualities, all institutions and organizations» Jesus showed us the way though His church and through communion with others.

The Catholic church has been venerating images for 1900 years and has always been the most popular and powerful form of the religion.

The Mormon Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 2church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24).

This image reminded me of the gracious convo we had on FB last night in regards to my leaving my church after being asked to join the board.

«Most of the baptized have an image of the church that, on the one hand, is family friendly in its attitude, whilst at the same time considering her sexual morality to be unrealistic,» the German bishops said, according to National Catholic Reporter.

When I arrived in Africa, my image of the relationship between church and state was fired by headlines about Desmond Tutu and Allan Boesak.

According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.334

Yet they tend to reinforce an image of the Church as dusty do - gooders whom you might smile at but aren't part of a movement to which you would give your life.

It is no mere coincidence that God is never imaged as Israel's (or the church's) wife, but always as her husband, nor that God is never addressed as Mother.

Marriage was God's first institution (Genesis 2:24), and the image of what the relationship should look like between Jesus and the church (Ephesians 5:22 - 33), and yet we have utterly corrupted it.

But informing the whole is the image of Scripture as a painting, with Jesus the incarnate Word as the «ground» against the «background» of the triune God, and the Church and cosmos in the «foreground.»

The original pecepts of the only church were tarnished by men not the church's image.

Brittni has left the industry behind and is now married to a pastor at her church, but the contracts she signed when she was younger give porn companies the legal right to profit from her images and videos indefinitely.

This is why the church flirts with danger when it tries to look successful, present a public image and further itâ $ ™ s noble agendas» (NP)

This is why the church flirts with danger when it tries to look successful, present a public image and further it's noble agendas and become really big.

These twin factors converge in passages that picture the church as a Body, and so in the minds of many, the Body is the main image for the church.

843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved.

These churches figure that if we're all created in God's image, that's a good enough starting point for valuing one another.

My favorite image from this journey has been from a Church of the Brethren we're considering.

2) Equating worship of a deity with worshiping an image of said deity is ludicrous... unless you believe that all of the Christians with pictures of Jesus and / or crosses in their homes / churches are worshiping the picture / cross.

This is now being properly researched by historians like Dr Foa, who insists that, as a result, we can be sure that the «more recent image of the aid given to Jews by the Church arises not from pro-Catholicideological positions, but above all from thorough research into the lives of Jews during the occupation, from the reconstruction of the stories of families or individuals.

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

First, chastity as total consecration, in the image of Christ the Bridegroom who is wedded to mankind, and to the Church as His Bride.

A properly ordered heterosexual relationship is a liturgical event because it is a mirror image - a sacrament - of the covenant between God and mankind, between Christ and the Church.

«The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son not daughter; the Father and the Son create man and woman in His image and give them the name man, the name of the male... God appoints all the priests in the Old Testament to be men; the Son of God came into the world to be a man; He chose 12 men to be His apostles; the apostles appointed that the overseers of the Church be men; and when it came to marriage they taught that the husband should be the head.»

While liberation may not be adequate as a summary motif for the church's mission and derivative leadership roles, it does hold out for us a more active overarching image than shepherding and counseling.

If, as was maintained in the «60s, the church is mission, then the overarching image for the total ministry must be more assertive.

And it is a dismissive, hurtful way to speak about women, who Piper seems to have forgotten were also created in the image of God, were appointed by God as leaders at critical times in the history of Israel and the Church, and were the first to whom Jesus appeared when he inaugurated his new Kingdom on Resurrection Day.

But that's one of the marvels of Scripture: The unfolding history of the Church draws out of the inspired Word of God allegories and images previously unrecognized.

Love Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church's upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves.

Our interpretation of the self - image becomes theological when we speak from within the faith of the Church and say that the objective reality which stands between persons is God made personal and available to us in Jesus Christ.

is the author of Finding Divine Inspiration (Destiny Image) and The Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation (InterVarsity Press).

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, it is «an eschatological image of this heavenly Bride of Christ [the Church] and of the life to come» (922 - 4).