Sentences with phrase «dependent upon the church»

We also may be said to live after death as church members related to the person of Jesus and dependent upon the church's unity and prayers for our continued existence.

In the case of Christianity, the Gospel moved from the great centres of the Roman Empire such as Antioch or Rome to the places outside of the Roman Empire and Christian communities thus formed were dependent upon the churches in the Roman Empire for their ecclesiastical life.

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If, as the Church had always taught, the Bible contained God's revelation to man, every man (they urged) ought to be able to read it for himself, and not to be dependent upon what might reach him by indirect channels.

Furthermore, translations often reflect the theology of the translator as well, which also is dependent upon a tradition of church beliefs and doctrine.

Consequently he concerns himself with the historical question sufficiently seriously to trace, in one instance, the term «Son of Man» in the Gospels, the continuity between Jesus» message and the Church's witness: although Jesus may never have called himself Son of Man, he did say that acquittal by the Son of Man in the eschatological judgement was dependent upon one's present relation to himself (Mark 8.38 par.).

The Proclamation is dependent upon the being of the Church and, more fundamentally, the Church is dependent upon the Proclamation.

K.S. Latourette observed, «It is just as likely that Nestorians and foreigners were killed indiscriminately in the pursuit of Mongols, and without foreign support a church that became dependent upon it withered away.»

All men were thus dependent upon the heritage of divine revelation which the church preserved from generation to generation.

Church education is a dependent discipline — dependent upon theological underpinnings which both judge and inspire its work.

Robert Funk has observed that in the early Christian church, the apostle's means of exercising power and influence was dependent upon his establishing apostolic parousia in that community.

Church activities depending upon volunteers tend to be spasmodic and often dependent on self - formed leadership, so that parishes are increasingly seeking to appoint people to full - time pastoral roles to coordinate catechetical and evangelising initiatives and to form volunteer leaders and teams.

In regard to the actual formulation of the criterion we have attempted, it should be noted that we are still insisting on the importance of establishing a history of the tradition and of restricting ourselves to the earliest stratum of that tradition; in our view, material dependent upon other material already present in the tradition is necessarily a product of the Church.

The church's declaration of independence can begin only with the self - evident truth that it and all life are dependent upon God, that loyalty to him is the condition of life and that to him belong the kingdom and the power and the glory.

Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.

The laymen's preparation for the church's preaching is also dependent upon their use of other resources.

They are dependent upon the word of God and on the Church as the proclaimer of that word.

This results in foreign churches that are dependent upon American churches and missionaries for most of the things related to Christian life and practice.

Since sacraments are the way in which the presence of Jesus is maintained in the Church as a whole, the Church's future is dependent upon the way they are performed.

Reduced income and loss of tax - exempt status makes the church less dependent upon the government and has the potential of helping the church to focus on Jesus and people instead of on buildings, staff, programs and so on.

When one considers the actual conditions that prevailed in the local congregations at the time of the Reformation and is mindful of the fact that the people themselves for many reasons lacked initiative so that, as objects rather than as subjects of action, they were dependent upon the leadership of the princes, magistrates, and church governments, one can understand why the actual calling of the ministers was in fact rarely the result of their decision.

Meanwhile, the minister was likely to be completely isolated from the sustaining power and status - giving context of his church, and, thrown into intimate face - to - face contact with his lay people, made dependent upon his own character and something as intangible to most colonists as «the Spirit» for whatever of prestige he could gain and leadership he could give.