Sentences with phrase «covenantal faith»

So too, whereas the legal model was focused on belief and therefore didn't involve our character transformation as a central consideration, the covenant model is all about character, for its anchored in faith, and as I've said, covenantal faith is about our willingness to trust another and to live in a trustworthy way in relation to another.

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The faith of the West too easily devolves into philosophical rationalization about divine Justice, rather than faith in the covenantal relationship with a just and loving God.

The Sabbath, like all else in the Christian faith, has a covenantal reference.

The relationship between the search for unity in faith and the engagement in the human struggle lies through an insight as old as Isaiah 42:6 — that God's people are called to be in the world as a covenantal sign of the yet - to - come unity and fulfillment of humankind.

Even though Christians must reject the Modern idea that we human beings are the «makers» of history, the covenantal basis of our faith places upon humankind a participatory responsibility for the unfolding of God's purposes.

Baptism and the Lord's Supper are described as «signs and seals of God's grace, expressions of individual faith and bonds of the church's covenantal unity in Christ.»