Sentences with phrase «churches for an affirmation»

Female believers look to the churches for an affirmation of their roles and their interests, and they naturally seek justification in the scriptures, which provide a vocabulary for public debate.

Not exact matches

Such an affirmation, though it might well elicit and sustain «saving faith» in any individual, might not be adequate for the church's public teaching of «the faith.»

This decision should not be interpreted as an incipient feminism in Southern Baptist life (out of more than forty thousand churches, only a few dozen have female pastors), but rather as an affirmation of a pattern of cooperation that has served Baptist mission causes well for more than a century.

The proper course, it seems to me, is for church leaders and people of good will to make every effort to connect the human - rights project to an affirmation of the essential interplay between individual rights and democratic values.

But Vatican II nonetheless opened the door for a future affirmation of the radical equality of all people in the church and in the world.

We have been speaking of the need for finding a way of stating the kerygma which will be relevant to our own time, while it will also be true to the abiding affirmation of faith which gives the Church its essential being.

For example, in his recent, well - received book, Christianity in Evolution, Jack Mahoney SJ has used evolution to challenge the Church's crucial affirmation of the existence of the spiritual soul (see our third letter).

In a briefing, sent out ahead of the meeting, the Church said the Synod would look at «the liturgy for Affirmation of Baptismal Faith, contained in the Common Worship service book, may be used with people who have already been baptised» but who wish to «reaffirm their identity in Christ after a significant personal transition, including gender.»

Even if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are praying.

The document «Mission and Evangelism - An Ecumenical Affirmation «defines the vocation of the churches as having been called to announce, denounce, console and celebrate, assuming responsibility for the consequences that this might have.

To interpret the statement as a straightforward affirmation of Reformed commitments, as de Chirico does, smacks of the way Pentecostal and holiness churches were initially invited to join the National Association of Evangelicals for their numbers, not their theology, a history Molly Worthen has chronicled in her Apostles of Reason.

Sometimes the church tends to engage in an unqualified affirmation of sacrifice and suffering for the sake of the larger community — the common good — without taking into consideration who sacrifices what, for whom and within what kind of relationships.

In the current literature I detect not a rejection of those earlier slogans but rather an affirmation that, unless there is a church, there can not be a «church for others.»

The idea of communal affirmation for gifts or vocations dates back to the early church.

Lausanne, and Rome with regard to the understanding of salvation comes at three points - the affirmation of its comprehensive nature, thc recognition of the eschatological basis for historical action, and the understanding of the church as a sign and bearer of salvation.55

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

This ecumenical affirmation is a challenge which the churches extend to each other to announce that God reigns, and that there is hope for a future when God will «unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth» (Eph.1: l0).

For this reason they understand their viewing of religious programs as both an act of protest against the «evils» of general television and an affirmation of their support for the worldview expressed within the electronic - church prograFor this reason they understand their viewing of religious programs as both an act of protest against the «evils» of general television and an affirmation of their support for the worldview expressed within the electronic - church prografor the worldview expressed within the electronic - church programs.

Thus, the early Church's central Christological affirmations about Jesus mean: «Jesus is a model for the Christian life.»

This could provide a point of contact for Haight's own effort to reinterpret and reframe the central affirmations of the early church.

He said: «My Lords, I thank the Minister for her affirmation that according to both the letter and the spirit of the legislation on same - sex marriage, it is for the Church of England and all faith communities to determine their doctrine and what is appropriate conduct for their clergy.

The relation to the poor inside the church, outside the church, nearby and far away, is the criterion to judge the authenticity and credibility of the church's missionary engagement.38 In this affirmation, the Conference had been greatly influenced by Latin American Liberation Theology, especially the pronouncement of the Roman Catholic Bishops» Conference in Pueblo (Mexico), on the preferential option for the poor.

The «Christ transforming culture» model, which does allow for both affirmation and dissent, assumes that the real arena of God's action is in the surrounding culture, not in and through the church.

I left my church after eleven years because it no longer felt right to endorse a church infrastructure designed to lend support to the staff's need for praise and affirmation more than it lent support to the community.