Sentences with phrase «communities accept us as we are»

Finally, healthy communities accept us as we are but also call us into the fullness of Christ (Philippians 2:1 — 18).

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Therefore, the key is not necessarily to immediately force people to act as if they're happy when they're devastated, but rather promote an overall culture and community that accepts failure as a means to self - improvement.

The Dogecoin community is known for its philanthropic campaigns; some of the world's largest charities have started accepting Bitcoin donations as well.

In light of this, it is not enough for government bodies and policies to be more accepting of Chinese capital and immigration; a discussion needs to be had at the public level between local communities and newly - immigrated Chinese - Canadians as well in order to facilitate the acceptance and integration of new - comers into our diverse Canadian culture.

A Muslim community that feels accepted as true Americans and is encouraged to enter the mainstream will be the best OFFENSE FOR homegrown terrorism.

I stand opposed to prostituion because it's also not an ethic 95 % — 98 % of the world accept as legal (or good / productive for their societies / communities).

In 1864, Louis Pasteur proved that point in one case, showing that spontaneous generation (that life could originate from nonliving matter, also called abiogenesis), though accepted by some in the scientific community (such as Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont about 200 years earlier, who also believed that the basic elements of the universe was just air and water), was untrue.

You continually dodge the fact that your quotes are out of context, that you jump to invalid conclusions, and that the scientific community accept, no embrace, evolution as fact.

Thus, metaphors and models of God are understood to be discovered as well as created, to relate to God's reality not in the sense of being literally in correspondence with it, but as versions or hypotheses of it that the community (in this case, the church) accepts as relatively adequate.16 Hence, models of God are not simply heuristic fictions; the critical realist does not accept the Feuerbachian critique that language about God is nothing but human projection.

There are communities where you don't have to live under fear of being discovered, where you are accepted and embraced as you are, where you don't have to constantly hide or deny your identity...

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.

For me, better still is to find the peace that passes all understanding in communities that live by counter-imperial values, where one is accepted and loved regardless of one's usefulness or even moral standing, and where one is freed to love others as well.

In view of the central importance of this doctrine it matters less whether it is readily accepted by our contemporaries, provided that its message is not interpreted in a narrow, selfishly individualistic sense, but that the gracious divine act which opens man to God is from the beginning understood also as creating authentic community among men.

The Church is the community of truth and love, and it is the same as in any other loving community of finite human beings: we must always love and accept one another also as men who are strangers to each other and who do not quite understand one another.

In the end, and perhaps inevitably, the community's quest for pleasure triumphed over its theological scruples in firmly demanding that the mythical lovers be accepted as unambiguously adulterous.

Just as family violence was tacitly accepted during former times, so was violation of community sexual standards — especially by men.

Eliot did not insist that all members of such a community be Christian believers, only that the rulers accept the Christian faith as the system under which they were to govern.

That is, they have set aside the traditional understanding of God as a unique spiritual substance in which all three persons somehow share and have moved to a more contemporary understanding of God as an interpersonal process or a community of three coequal persons.1 In effect, they have abandoned the Aristotelian world view in which individual substance was the first category of being and have accepted (even for the doctrine of God) a process understanding of reality.

As a result of this intense scrutiny It has been honed and modified and become one of most widely supported and accepted theories in the scientific community.

not only do so - called «leaders» have to just become a part, but the other members of the community (whatever kind of community it is) need to accept the so - called «leader» as a part.

If you accept the carbon 14 dating method as accruate as the entire scientific community does, than that woudl be «proof» that dinosaurs and vegitation fossils are as old as estimated.

The British who colonized India had accepted the European concept of nationhood as constituted by unity in blood and language, «ethnic purity and a single language»; therefore, they said, that «India is not and can never be a nation... India is a collection of religious communities... But the unfortunate tragic element was that this British interpretation of Indian history was also accepted by many of our national leaders... So British interpretation plus the shortsightedness of our own leaders, not excluding the Mahatma, together resulted in this dreadful phenomenon of communalism».

Predictably, she has been savaged by those in the GLBT community who rely on the «born gay» argument, supposedly supported by science, to justify sexual orientation being analogous to race and thus to be accepted and celebrated as a «given» of the human condition.

H. Staffner has brought forward the proposal which the late E.D. Devadason mooted, namely that the Christian community should accept the recodified Hindu law as their own civil law in the place of the present quite outdated Indian Christian Law which, as already stated, was an imposition of an English law on Christian converts in India.

In Girard's words: «The metamorphosis from peaceable citizens into raging beasts is too terrifying and too transitory for the community to accept it as issuing from within itself.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

The novel is about men imprisoned, men who live together yet apart, who must learn the lessons women seem to know already because they are lessons about living in community, about nurturing and about accepting pain and humiliation as part of life.

There are possibilities to build new communities provided we are willing to accept others as others.

We are told that members of a community can disagree about some rather fundamental issues; nineteenth - century chemists did not all have to accept atomism as long as they all accepted the laws of combining proportions.

The grandparents of today who accepted this consent with relief became in some cases the «condoning generation» with regard to abortion in difficult cases with the result that many mothers today, even within our own community, carry the burden of a decision that was sold to them as a solution to their problem pregnancy.

Some charities may think the government link a great deal, but Ms. Arrison suggests they think again: «By accepting responsibility for a program dictated by government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil society.

Also modern is the combination of an intense individualism» Jesus is accepted as «personal lord and savior»» supported by a strong community of fellow believers.

Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.

Not recognizing that, not keeping that central, risks imbalance just as bad in the opposite direction: accepting people where they are but not calling them to move closer to Christ; distorting Christ from Redeemer to mere community activist and organizer.

Ritual is necessary because only in ordered and commonly accepted symbols can a community identify itself as a community.

The attacks have been condemned by the Islamic community repeatedly and if we are to move forward as a community we must learn from each other and accept differences, not be afraid of them.

True, a man could accept insult in this spirit — so long as he was living in a community which recognized the dignity of the individual and therefore could be touched by the spirit of the act.

In faith we judge for ourselves as a community of Christians, even if the truth we come to know is not the currently accepted «truth» of a particular congregation, denomination, or culture.10

Its catechism states that «one can not charge with the sin of separation those who at present are born into these communities [that resulted from separation] and in them are brought up in the faith of Christ, and the Catholic Church accepts them with respect and affection as brothers.»

The Church is not the only group in which man is moved by agape and seeks its leading; but it is the one community which in accepting agape as the meaning of its existence places itself squarely under the judgment of the love which seeks one redeemed humanity in the Kingdom of God.

Working to help open local hospitals to accept alcoholics as any other sick person is an important form of community outreach.

«As a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.&raquAs a pastor, the Word of God tells me in James that the true religion that God our Father accepts is to speak forth and to stand and to fight for the orphans and the widows,» he told CT. «And that gives me a mandate as a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.&raquas a pastor, to challenge corruption, injustice, and poverty within my community.»

Community clergy are also being contacted when their parishioners are accepted as clients.

Only as increasing numbers of us catch this vision and accept this challenge — to be where the action is in the church — can our congregations become redemptive communities, centers of help and healing.

The church is, first of all, a community which affirms a Creator and Redeemer who accepts us and loves us as we are with all our moral weakness.

Conversion is... not the joining of a community in order to procure «eternal salvation»; it is rather, a change in alliance in which Christ is accepted as Lord and centre of one's life.

As we have seen, the Greek view of justice is the proper and harmonious functioning of humans in the larger whole of the political community, each fulfilling the function innate to one's being, fully cognizant and accepting ones limits.

most Christian Dalits were deeply aware that much of their plight as people of «untouchable» origin has continued inspite of accepting the Christian faith and much of their expectations in new community (church) have remained unfulfilled.

In the widest sense, then, we may say that liturgical worship is any worship in which, through the use of established and accepted forms, the Christian community as a whole engages in the adoration of God.