Sentences with phrase «confessed it to the church»

Later, much to the horror of his wife, who enjoys the prestige of her husband's profession, he confesses to his church session that he is no longer able to preach and must leave his assignment «at the corner of Straight Street and Broadway» (just one of many references to the conflict between God and Mammon).

The parishioner's wife had committed adultery and had confessed it to the church.

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@Steve: Have you talked to your pastor yet to confess your sin of constantly flaunting your blessedly perfect church in front of groups of people — mostly strangers to you — who've been hurt by their experiences in deceitful, toxic, dysfunctional, and / or spiritually - abusive churches?

I visited churches filled with new believers, many who came out of animist or Buddhist upbringings, often alone in their families, to confess faith in the risen Christ.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

If the past few years are anything to go by, this growing interest in strong relationships between the LCMS and other confessing Christian churches is likely to continue into President Harrison's second term.

he joined with others in launching a «confessing church» that bore uncompromising testimony to the lordship of Jesus Christ and against the false gods of Blood, Soil, and Volk.

Substantially, Gahl says: In the moment in which the penitent confesses a behavior that constitutes gravely sinful matter, committed without full consciousness and deliberate consent, the confessor will explain to him the doctrine of the Church regarding his particular problem and will refuse to impart absolution if the penitent will not commit himself in the future to avoid that behavior.

When we look back at our history, the Church has a lot to confess.

for the drudgery of it) giving up whipped cream for lent fulfills a Godly obligation going to church and dopnating on first Saturday make the Lady of Fatima powerful confessing venial sins is necessary (like you broke wind during communion) That saying the Lords Prayer five times is a virtue?

A very odd, very sad incident at the Miracle Faith World Outreach Church in Bridgeport, Conn. has left a congregation grieving the loss of their pastor Bishop Bobby Davis, who confessed to an affair from the pulpit and fell dead immediately thereafter.

The Catholic Church says that you must confess The Pope as speaking with the Voice of God to be saved.

After the forced closing of Finkenwalde, Bonhoeffer continued to illegally train students to serve in the Confessing Church through underground pastorates and through the system of supporting ordinands in «collective pastorates» in eastern Pomerania.

At the deathbed of a homosexual, the church has its own sins silently to confess and repent.

Bonhoeffer's early and consistent resistance to the intrusion of Nazi ecclesial, political and military machinations is well known: his bold involvement in the Confessing Church, his directorship of the underground seminary community at Finkenwalde (from which time we have his book Life Together), his summons to costly discipleship, the increasing repression of the mid-1930s and his decision to return to Germany in 1939 (although he had the opportunity to become an exile in the United States).

This was the preoccupation, even among Confessing Christians, that ultimately disenchanted Bonhoeffer and led to his visionary anticipation of an outcast church on the margins of society.

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His point has nothing to do with church discipline, and therefore with the possibility that some people at a given place who confess «the lordship of Christ» might be excluded from partaking of the Eucharist.

It has emerged a Christian charity said a Pakistani medical student who confessed to planning to take part in a suicide attack at a church during Easter was pardoned last week.

Ralph Wood pointed out that in the great Barmen Declaration of the Confessing Church in Germany, every credimus, «We believe...,» is followed by a damnatis, «We reject...» Alas, when it came time for the rest of the German church to say «Nein!&Church in Germany, every credimus, «We believe...,» is followed by a damnatis, «We reject...» Alas, when it came time for the rest of the German church to say «Nein!&church to say «Nein!»

After being detained since January, the pastor of one of Canada's largest churches has allegedly confessed to a «subversive plot» to overthrow the North Korean government and to set up a new «religious state,» reportsThe New York Times.

Hyeon - Soo Lim, leader of 3,000 - member Light Korean Presbyterian Church in suburban Toronto, has been held by North Korea since January, and allegedly confessed in August to conspiring against the government of Kim Jong - Un.

Last summer Tchividjian stepped down as pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church after he confessed to an extramarital affair.

Let us openly confess that there is no possibility of our returning to a primitive Christian faith, and that the Christ who can become contemporary to us is neither the original historical Jesus nor the Lord of the Church's earliest proclamation.

So I confessed my thoughts to others at church and asked for their prayers.

It seems to me, as I wrote, that confessing the Church's faith as explicitly one's own increases both the drama of the statement and the investment with which one makes it» and that such submission to the whole Church's creed offers a symbolic movement away from, not toward, individualism.

And Bonhoeffer's insights into a nation's need to deal with its past through confessing its guilt are appropriate for the role of the church in relation to the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

A society and churches that have stopped forcing people to confess to one of the two gender groups.

The Church is not the community of those who possess God's grace as opposed to those who lack it, but the community of those who can confess explicitly what they and the others hope to be.

Only the notion of specifically Christian maturing and the special means appropriate to that end are finally of use to ministers as prophetic guides to maturing in the Christian life, since it is part of the confessing consciousness of the churches they lead that Christian faith and life are not the same as in any other religion.

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What would it look like for the church to lament both the abortion industrial complex and systematic racial injustice, to confess the sins of abortion and racism, and to offer, for recovering racists and post-abortive women the freedom offered only in the cross of Christ?

As one example, a man named Jacques Gruet was arrested and, under torture, confessed to writing an anonymous letter in opposition to the church leaders.

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Bonhoeffer led futile protests against the Confessing Church's 1938 decision to allow pastors to swear an oath of loyalty to the Fürhrer and the wartime «legalization» of Confessing pastors (in which they made some concessions to the official church in return for financial and career secuChurch's 1938 decision to allow pastors to swear an oath of loyalty to the Fürhrer and the wartime «legalization» of Confessing pastors (in which they made some concessions to the official church in return for financial and career secuchurch in return for financial and career security).

While not neglecting his duties to his day as a professor or citizen (he supported the anti-Nazi Confessing Church and welcomed the Americans in 1945), he felt called to essentially one work as a preacher.

The reason that the «Jewish question» was enormously divisive in the Confessing Church was that it went to the heart of this issue.

Hitler hid behind it to pacify his agenda, actually the Confessing Church fought it, and many were executed.

Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers, they believe in the majic underware, Seventh day adventists go to church on saturday, Catholics believe in praying to saints and confessing your sins to a priest, evangelicals believe in people that speak in tongues and catching the Holy Ghost.

I had men in the church (all of whom confessed to having the same freaking «sin» in their lives) pray for me.

It was largely in reaction to the excesses of the «German Christians» that another group, called the Bekenntnis Kirche (the Confessing Church), was formed, chiefly out of the Lutheran and Reformed churches.

The Catholic Church also uses John 20:23 to defend the practice of confessing sins to priests.

The context of James 5:16 talks about how a person who is sick should call the elders of the church to pray over him, and if this person has committed sin, he should confess it.

The indigenously led churches do not require foreign workers in administration, and the absence of any confessed strategy of witness and evangelism to the overwhelming Muslim majority would seem to minimize opportunities for foreigners to be useful.

While many Christians in the past have acted directly contrary to those very clear biblical teachings (i.e., the Crusades, etc.), others have actually appealed to those very teachings in fighting the tide of a culture that would demean humanity (i.e., MLK, William Wilberforce, the Confessing Church's stand against the Nazis, etc.).

I.e. the Didache (70 ~ 150 AD) when it states «Confess your sins in church, and to not go up to prayer with an evil conscience.

There is no perfect church or human being but if you have sinned and confessed to christ and believe god is a forgiven god.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

On most of these points the oldline churches have confessed their guilt and have undertaken to repent.

In his book, So - Called Christian, Jim Turner confesses to his own sins of pride, jealousy, and discord, and explain how he came to see that such behavior is not only damaging to himself and his relationships, but also to the church at large and the church's witness to the world.