Sentences with phrase «continuing call to repentance»

The call to holiness entails a continuing call to repentance and transformation of life.

In other words, the silencing stirs the other to continue the call to repentance in preparation for God's approaching reign.

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If, on the other hand, there is some common court of appeal or superior criterion, then the continuing dialogue about their difference can hold some promise of change which may be called «education,» «repentance,» reconcihation,» or «training,» depending on the perspective in which we want to look at it.

If, on the other hand, being Christian continues to mean little more than being predictable middle - class liberals with a tinge of something called spirituality, then the few exceptional things that congregations occasionally manage to perform ethically will lack any foundation in repentance and faith.

The call to repentance continues throughout the Synoptics, drops out in John, and reappears in full force in Acts and the Letters.

The group called on the general assembly to confess «our continued sins of racism and failure to love brothers and sisters from minority cultures» and to recommit itself «to bear fruit in keeping with our repentance.»