Sentences with phrase «conviction of sin»

Telling seekers that they are right with God without the evidence of conviction of sin (the work of the Holy Spirit) that results in the desire for a changed heart, life, lifestyle, mind and character, is like picking green fruit, and after a bite or two wondering why it doesn't taste like it should.

If it's time to bring awareness to their hearts through a gentle, probing question, then remaining in acceptance without conviction of sin only blocks them from encountering the Good News.

A monumental conviction of sin (es esse: essence, being).

There are many other ways in which this kind of judgment of self, with the resulting conviction of sin, unhealth, may come home to us.

Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God.

A full «conviction of sin» (esse: essence, being) comes by, I can only say, immaculate conception & amazing grace: a feeling I could never construct out of my own imagination or experience.

Very good to hear prayerpunks experiential point of view.Acknowledging the conviction of sin is always a great thing.

I wonder if such a person can possibly be a Christian as they have no conviction of sin.

1) Conviction of sin is the job of the Holy Spirit.

Christianity requires a conviction of sin.

Now I stand firm on this conviction that yes... an homosexual man or women can come to faith and be saved by Jesus Christ and have their sins forgiven through the blood of Jesus Christ but through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit they would not carry on committing the act of homosexuality because they would be «convicted» — now where there is no conviction of sin then where is the fruit of the Holy Spirit in that man or women?

In the individual, conviction of sin is the discovery that he has sinned....

I'm talking about operating in the conviction of sin, a humble heart and a joy found in knowing there is grace.

Those who were under the conviction of sin but had not yet experienced the release of forgiveness were urged to attend special meetings or to sit in a special place during the service.

Damaged and damaging if we do or don't do is my «conviction of sin» — walk on water (wow) or walk on eggs (woe) we are all involved in something like an ongoing mission impossible: with suits of armor or loin cloth it makes no never mind.

The rise of Trump brought for me conviction of sin: I did not have ears to hear and take seriously the suffering and frustration of impoverished whites in what one reporter has called «the vast open reaches of the country.»

John Woolman traveled from meeting to meeting among the Quakers to lay on their hearts the conviction of the sin of slaveholding.

This may well leave you feeling better about your beliefs, but it doesn't change God's words on the subject, nor will it stop the Holy Spirit's conviction of sin.

A conviction of sin, some fundamentalists call it.