Sentences with phrase «community of faith out»

And if the characterization is in part shaped by faith, what is its message back to the community of faith out of which it grew and in which it was cherished?

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The Christian faith and the other faiths that believe in a loving, peaceful God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching God's love by example.

Our son's family are members of a community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached on putting faith into practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.

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.

Getting to know someone for whom faith looks differently helps us take the first step out of the comfort zones of the faith communities and the traditions we know and cherish.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

But we're doing more than meeting needs: we're equipping and empowering the persecuted church to be the church, reaching out in love and compassion within their communities — whether those communities are comprised of other Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Yazidis, or those belonging to another faith or no faith at all.

Yet, out of such a beautiful, farcical facade, faith and community can be created, like gold from straw.

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.»

Rachel Murr was passionate about her faith and active in her church when «after nine years of trying not to be gay,» she finally came out to her community.

The philosopher does not set out to show how the world appears from the perspective of a community of faith, and to some degree, he can free himself from such perspectives.

And if this theology persists in your community of faith, get out; it's not healthy.

I am Rev.D.Samuel, founder / Managing trustee of India Rural Gospel Mission Trust, which in involving in out - reach, Evangelism, church planting / growth, and children's home and community social service run by faith.

The New Testament is concerned with that part of this endless story which deals with the earthly life of Jesus and the coming of his Spirit to establish the Christian community and sent his followers out as flaming witnesses of their faith.

It seems to have been precisely later when many colleges, unmoored from their sponsoring communities of faith, began to drift out into ever swifter currents of learned disdain for faith, that their officers began to assert volubly as never before that they were Christian.

But the truly astonishing thing about the Bible is that it also includes stories from outside the fold, where God seems determined to work through those whom the community of faith has cast out.

It is not impossible that a faith community's enthusiastic, internal story of its own recovery of vision has the capacity to retrieve aspects of salvific occurrences that a more scientific account will leave out.

The truly astonishing thing about the Bible is that it includes stories from outside the fold, where God seems determined to work through those whom the community of faith has cast out.

I've missed out on seeing the normal rhythms of church life and watching a faith community evolve over time.

The Christian community is diverse, and so there will always be tension, but I'm beginning to think that maybe I'm not as out of step with my faith community as I once thought; maybe there's still hope that things will change.]

But if we are tired of living in a world where one is either dominating others or dominated by others we have no choice but step out in faith towards another way of living and relating to other people and communities.

I mean no moral judgment here when I say that, sociologically speaking, these are oddball faith communities: small, distinctive minorities, with decidedly out - of - the - mainstream religious beliefs.

For what it's worth, I think the marketplace is only an economic reflection of what has been playing out in our faith community for decades.

He maintained that there was no other remedy than exclusion to preserve the faith of the community, «When they are vomited out, then the body finds relief; likewise, when the wicked leave, then the Church finds relief.»

The faith in God is supremely acted out in worship; and for a Christian loyal to the Christian community that worship is of «God the Father,» manifested in what through the Self - Expression (and for us supremely in the event of Jesus Christ) God has done, is doing, and will do in the creation, and given response through the working of the Holy Spirit, enabling the world and humans within it to say their Amen to God's initiating activity.

Having experienced, first hand, the devastating effects of rejection and judgment, Jennifer knows full well the challenges of being «out» in certain faith communities.

There is a story out of Iowa - a story about a faith community that has matured beyond voting for the «most evangelical» candidate as a «statement» and takes seriously the responsibility of electing someone to occupy the Oval Office at a time of great national testing.

Gill Sewell added: «There are over 150 events that have been happening this week where Quaker meetings have opened up their meeting houses to their local communities, encouraging people to come in and find out about the Quaker away of faith.»

That is why the religious community must do its own research and imagining and forming because it necessarily grows out of the context of encounter of faith.

Practical theology, emerging out of life in a faith community, is a doxological mode of reflection that, by placing itself within the context of the church's service to God, attempts to facilitate the goal of a faithful life in the present on behalf of God's future.

In our thinking, in our prejudices, and in our church communities we need to examine ourselves and ask, «How do we use our faith to bring the love of Christ into the world, and in what ways do we use our religion to keep the world out?»

We have to break out of privatized modes of belief by cultivating imagery for the faith community.

Faith communities make one kind of contribution when they do good as organizations; they make a different, and even more important, contribution when they nurture virtuous, committed people who live out their values in many different kinds of organizations.

(65) Or, in the formulation cited earlier: «The tradition of faith received from the Apostles and lived out in the community of believers gathered around the Bishop, their legitimate Pastor.»

Both authors see the locus of Christian social involvement not in individual action in the structures of society, but as action, both corporate and individual, which emerges out of the community of faith.

Your comments are kind of funny... my whole point is that I am not the only person who knows the truth about how women are treated in the faith community — ask thousands of people and you will find out.

I think communities need to address the huge problem in out faith of divisivness — which is an idea so prevelant in our theologies we even see it on blog - spaces and over the pulpits.

«But it also points outwards and speaks to the importance of living out our faith and showing love and kindness to our communities.»

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

Much also depends on whether that person seeks out a community of people who reinforce the newfound faith.

Are the reachings out for spiritual community with sincere believers of other faiths to be one - sided, in that the insights of Western Christianity alone are to be held true and sufficient, and the insights of Hinduism and Buddhism and Islam (and Judaism, for that matter) simply yearnings toward fulfillment in Christianity, as has been held for so many years?

I'd hate to summarize anything as beautiful as what you've written by throwing out cliches like true church vs. false church, or buildings vs. community of faith, so I'll just say this.

The faith community is gathered together all right, but while Moses and Yahweh are hammering out the last details of the Ten Commandments, the flock gets restless, insecure and seems ready to worship anything.

I'm discovering in our little community of faith that this issue still lingers and we're all struggling to figure out what is more important.

None the less, if it should turn out that one can be a Christian without holding firmly to personal persistence beyond death, this is significant; and since, as I have just been saying, I think that such is indeed the case, I believe that nobody ought to require acceptance of some variety of personal persistence as a pre-requisite for a welcome into the Christian community which is grounded on that faith in God in Jesus Christ which the community exists to make available to men and women in every age.

It is a worthwhile question though, and one to ask of any faith system which takes us out of the recognised communities.

The recovery of the church as the community of faith will not come out of the blue, but out of the existing, fragmented and outwardly dying ecclesiastical institutions of Christendom.

Pastor Michael Hidalgo of Denver Community Church says this is not only about saving lives, it's about living out an active faith:

Moltmann feels that the future of the Protestant church in Europe lies not with the large state church, but with small communities of faith, where the charismatic gifts of all can be recognized, and where Christians can live out a radical discipleship.

The Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, grew out of a living faith community and are owned by that community.