Sentences with phrase «communities of faith who»

If you look at the landscape of church culture there seems to be a growing movement of communities of faith who are known for emphasizing one aspect of the Trinity...

Our task as readers is to remember and serve the intentions of those communities of faith who preserved these documents, to nourish the conviction that they are authoritative in our lives today, and most important, to communicate their worth as resources for our lives.

Paul was writing to communities of faith who already knew about the words and deeds of Jesus through oral traditions.

Furthermore, many of the members of the community of faith who engage in such thinking consciously or unconsciously turn away from the convictions nurtured in them by the community while they pursue this thinking.

Not exact matches

It's obvious who the «power brokers» are here in my local faith community and obvious they have no intention of relinquishing any hold.

There WAS a successful grassroots effort on the part of private citizens who happen to be of the LDS (MORMON) faith who fanned out in their communities all over California in an effort to Pass Prop 8.

They go on to state that there were many anti-Christs, who were present at the time of the writing of their epistle; and they state plainly that these anti-Christs were once among us (were members of their community of faith), but they departed from among them.

David Barclay, the Faith and Public Life Officer at the Centre for Theology and Community, has led the Church of England's work promoting and creating credit unions and ensuring payday lenders do not exploit people who can not repay their loans.

4, Is it possible for a community to be composed of people of all kinds of levels of faith and even of no faith at all, or for those who hold a vastly differing views of scripture to keep fellowship?

From Agnostic to Islam and I have seen examples in the past... so my humble request to you is not to stop... keep learning or studying the new stuffs... an advice to you when you decide to study or learn about Islam — do not point to the people who does wrong things as wrong doing people are there in everywhere regardless of faith, but look into the scripture and go to someone who has knowledge if you have any question that bothers you but make sure that person is well educated to his community... i ask The Almighty God to open your heart...

Imagine this: you're witnessing to someone in the community who is on the verge of accepting and professing faith in Christ.

I am recalling dozens of coffees, lunch dates among a faith community who's invested in one another just to say, «I'm worried about what I feel and I'm worried about how your heart is.

Andy Carter, one of Lewisham borough's chief inspectors, tells me he'd like to see more joint projects between the police and faith communities: «I would say that a key player in helping us are churches because there is a huge amount of good will, support and people who genuinely want to help out.»

When we release our grip of unforgiveness on those who have failed us, we are free to let God meet those needs in new and healthy ways — through our relationship with Him, through friendships and through our own communities of faith.

Non-Muslims who live in the community in cooperation and peace are looked upon by Islam as equal to Muslims, each of them holding to his faith and preaching its aims with wisdom and friendly argument without bringing pressure to bear on anyone or encroaching on each other's rights.

Becca Folkes, Faith Child, CalledOut Music and renowned London Community Gospel Choir lead by Bazil Meade performed to the delight of the audience, which included MOBO Award winner Guvna B and African gospel artist Sammie Okposo who flew in specially from the USA for the award show.

We are saved by faith and baptism into God's holy eschatological community that will be vindicated at the End as those who have fulfilled Torah to the glory of God.

We who proclaim Christ ought to have enough faith that our Lord is what we claim him to be, to permit such men and women to have, if not full then some limited, participation in Christian life in the community of faith; for we are confident, or we should be confident if we really believe what we say about Jesus, that such fellowship with him in the company of his people will lead them more and more deeply into the true significance of his person.

In these practices, communities of faith attempt to respond faithfully to the God who has been graciously faithful to the world.

The profession of this faith is necessary as an appeal to the conscience of the individual, who obeys because he is free in the greater community of the Church of truth, hope and love.

If this principle is applied also to those who do not practice their faith, hence have no real relation to the community Church of faith, then the actual number of priests must, indeed, give the impression of a shortage, for there are not even enough priests for all the established parishes and Mass centres.

With this act, we were trying to illustrate that it is the people of our faith community who are the church and not the building.

Unlike others before and after him who assimilate church history to secular history, Williams defined his own vocation as that of one standing committedly within the historic community of faith, charged with telling and interpreting the story of that community against the background of ultimate meanings.

The letter from the Council (which consists of forty representatives of the region's Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Jewish communities) warned that the SBC's efforts, «however well - intentioned,» might well «disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith - based prejudice.»

Well, it's a slightly polemical remark, directed at those Christians who think Christianity is simply a matter of the community of faith telling its own story, and who don't even want to discuss issues of the historical Jesus because they think the Bible and the tradition have told us all we need to know.

And the vitality of Christian faith has passed from the European and North American world to peoples in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, to the women's movement most everywhere, and to the communities in our own midst who are most in touch with these.

Field said: «I think it's really important that faith is better understood and that people who are working to tackle extremism have a better understanding of this and engage with faith communities, because only together we're able to achieve that.»

Ninth, it has been active Christians, not hostile secularists, who were most effective in alienating the colleges and universities from their communities of faith.

I would be glad if you could consider the substance of this lecture a kind of commentary on the first paragraph of your own «Call to Covenant Community,» which reads: «We affirm faith in Jesus Christ who proclaimed the reign of God by preaching good news to the poor, binding up the broken - hearted and calling all to repent and believe the good news.

The traditional reply to this has been to make a distinction between the visible Church (the Church as a social institution) and the invisible Church (the community of those who have been restored to new life by faith in Jesus as Christ, whether they belong to the visible institution or not).

But those who in faith participate in the community established by the atoning action of Jesus experience the Spirit creating a new body for its expression in the world.

Recently there was a Court judgment in Madras which granted the contention of a person who affirmed that he was a Christian by faith without change of community by conversion and therefore entitled to benefits ofthe scheduled castes of the Hindu community.

As a Protestant who believes that this process of self - criticism, both personal and corporate, is an expression of faith and that every attempt to absolutize any given form of the tradition is idolatrous, one question I ask of other religious communities is whether they encourage this questioning and critical spirit.

To be free is to be released from certain constraints and restraints inevitably associated with a community of faith, as with any person who gives leadership to any organization.

What gives him confidence in his conviction is not any esoteric knowledge of the mysterious God which has been revealed to him, but the testimony of the Bible and of the community of faith to the great company of people who in their own day believed they heard the Word of the same God and sought to obey.

Religion as the means of well - being for a community and thus for each individual, who has a role in that community, requires a common understanding between like - minded involving faith in a creed, obedience to a moral code set down in sacred Scriptures or participation in a cult.

I often hear from women who feel called to preach but can not seem to find support or resources within their churches or communities of faith or traditions.

It is noteworthy that the writer of Ephesians later speaks of the church as the «fullness of him who fills all and all,» suggesting not only that all things have a share in Christ, but also that the community of faith, if not the whole world, contributes something to his fullness.30 In this respect, the last thing to be fully known and understood is Christ, for knowing Christ involves knowing the world.

The author clearly hopes that the ideal of male and female religious who move beyond gender roles to form small faith communities liberated from a centrally organized clergy is something we can finally realize.

And it includes the new life of the Christian as the enactment of the way of love in a community of those who live in this faith.

But the office's closure was protested by a variety of faith groups, including representatives from the Jewish, Sikh, and Muslim communities, who called its work valuable.

Rousseau says, more or less, that the genuinely unfashionable or thoughtful professor today takes the side of the Republicans, the home - schoolers, orthodox communities of faith, and the honorable, violent, and deeply Christian and charitable Southerner who tears up when he hears Lee Greenwood sing.

As a strong Catholic who is of service to the community on a regular basis, loves the faith, respects other's rights to have their faiths as well, and — yes — has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I would love to see CNN's belief blog write a story about the positive of the Catholic faith, instead of always reading about the people that have left and the problems people have with the Church.

The implications touch the daily lives of both individuals and communities They will affect anyone who want to form and sustain lives that integrate faith and everyday life

«Let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith,» would seem to imply that such a household — a community — exists.

Modern evangelicals do need to «bridge the gap» and speak more plainly about their faith in terms that everyone can understand rather than assume that what they understand among themselves will be automatically understood by those who are not of their community when they speak to others about their faith.

The faith by which the church lives is centered in God who brings human beings to fulfillment through the fellowship of persons in a community of justice and reconciliation.

We are trying to illustrate that it is the people of our faith community who are the church and not the building.

And while our sisters around the world continue to suffer from trafficking, exploitation, violence, neglect, maternal mortality, and discrimination, those of us who are perhaps most equipped to respond with prophetic words and actions — women of faith — are being systematically silenced by our own faith communities.

Dan and I are still in search of a faith community that feels like home, but at the risk of sounding cliché, «not all who wander are lost.»