Sentences with phrase «concrete acts»

Faith grows and deepens through concrete acts of charity, she explained.

When this is combined with what I have called an «ontological» grounding — that such love in concrete act is precisely what God always is and how God always acts — we have a picture that is so overwhelmingly real, so profoundly effectual, that it makes things different.

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And since repentance involves concrete acts of turning away from the old and toward the new, we are to behave like family, the family that God created through baptism.

Congregational pastoral care occurs when members reach out through very concrete acts such as sitting by the bedside of someone who's ill, listening as parents describe their fears and grief when a teenager leaves home, offering hope to someone in despair, or praying for those who suffer on the margins of the church and society.

Hospitality can refer to a number of different actions — from the more concrete act of hosting someone in your home for a meal, to the more abstract act of welcoming another person into your heart.

That is why we can not learn to be a sinner separate from concrete acts of confession.

If this first step in human knowledge is fundamentally called into question then the scientist undermines the process of scientific enquiry and the theologian empties the significance of the Incarnation and the objectivity of all other concrete acts of God in history.

So there's a balance involved in most online outreach, between the short - term need to get people to take a single concrete act and the long - term need to expand the support base.

It is God's own odd way of going about loving us, God's concrete act of loving us in the midst of the most terrible circumstances we can go through.

In sum, then, the penalty for neglecting to allow for a divine temporal freedom beyond that of God's primordial nature is to be required to grant, in effect, that the timeless and the abstract adequately describe the temporal and the concrete, even the concrete acts of divine love for individuals.2 Such a view does not agree with the deliverance of religious experience.

A secret is dehumanizing and deceitful only when it is used to cover up a concrete act of violation, when it is used to justify dehumanization.

Apocalyptic is only a step from, and points toward, forms of perception in which the indefinite infinite swallows up the concrete act or person.

Authors increasingly stress not the carnal sign («fat») but the concrete act or practice of excessive overeating.

When they wash each other's feet, Christians embody the ministry of Christ in a concrete act of humble service.

At the opposite extreme is a view of sin which regards it as state of being, rather than as a set of concrete acts, and as a state of being in rebellion against God.

It is only God's concrete act of loving them in the midst of the most appalling situations that makes their lives worth living.

The answer to your set of what ifs is that having lost a biblical understanding of ritual and the importance of concrete acts and relationships, we become preoccupied with ideas, which is to say, we become gnostics — which is to say, we become what the (conservative Protestant) American church largely is today.

It is Interesting and worth noting that we don't find in the Bible general definitions of peace and justice but rather an endless number of concrete acts and events in which God and human beings «act justly» or «unjustly», thus, for instance,

Fundraising is often abstract; selling a book you wrote is a concrete act where you're putting a physical item with a cost attached into somebody's hand, but setting up a Patreon so donors can support you while you write the book is a totally different relationship.