Sentences with phrase «describing baptism»

In describing the baptism of Jesus, John the Baptist defines the dove that descends from heaven as the Holy Spirit.

This is how Luke describes the baptism of Jesus.

Scripture repeatedly describes baptism as occurring in conjunction with repentance, and I see absolutely no evidence that Jesus, the apostles, or members of the early church engaged in infant baptism.

Matthew tells of Jesus explaining the baptism as a «fulfilling of all righteousness,» and Luke describes the baptism as an occasion of Jesus» solidarity with others and his devotion to God.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier makes us reflect, and, as pastors, we are worried about the fact that many people who contract marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not practicing the Christian faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.

This painting is what baptism feels like, and I think the image describes it much better than my words ever will.

When all the data is considered, the Bible describes several different kinds of baptisms, and only two of them involve water.

At sacramental baptism your faith gets confirmed by God in a way, which can not be described by human words.

On several occasions she described this and other views to priests with a view to baptism, but either she was dissatisfied with their responses or baptism was refused.

A typical baptism is described by Hawkesworth as follows:

In fact there seems to be a few things that the bible says we have been saved by... Jesus (Romans 5:9), grace and faith, (Ephesians 2:8) believing (mark 16:16), confessing that Jesus is Lord and believing Jesus was raised from the dead by God (Romans 10:9), Love God and your Neighbor (Luke 10:25 - 28), repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10), baptism (1 Peter 3:21), Endurance (Matthew 24:13), works (which is best described as actions and not good deeds)(James 2:24) and obeying (Matthew 7:21).

Luke tells of people coming to John for baptism, then describes (verses 18 - 20) the arrest of John.

In verse 13 Paul says by the same Spirit (that is manifested to men as he described in the previous verses) Jews and Gentiles, bond or free are all baptized with the same baptism and receive the same manifestation of the Spirit as well.

On Easter Sunday 1960, Dennis Bennett, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal in Van Nuys, CA revealed to his parish that he had experienced what he described as a second baptism of the Spirit, accompanied by speaking in tongues.

(Baptism can thus be described as an initiation «into Christ.»

The Service of Holy Baptism, in the Book of Common Prayer, states this admirably when it requires that the sponsors in Baptism promise, on behalf of the child, that the newly baptized Christian shall «learn the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments,» and describes these, among other things, as being that which «a Christian ought to know and believe to his soul's health.»

In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.

Any of these names makes sense in terms of the church's emphasis on the «fire» of God's presence and baptism in the Holy Spirit, a fire that is burning away the dead underbrush of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.

In other words: The biological body of the Christian doesn't get delivered by baptism, it remains sinful (see Romans 7, where St. Paul describes his sinful past made of flesh and blood, his body).

The Donation of Constantine professed to describe that Emperor's conversion, baptism, and healing from leprosy through Pope Sylvester I, and said that out of gratitude Constantine was handing over to the Pope and his successors the imperial palace in Rome and «the city of Rome and all the provinces, districts, and cities of the Western regions.»

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.»

A more widespread response might be that genuine catholicity is best promoted by the approach that Hauerwas describes, in which one refuses to despair over the church of one's baptism, believing that the Spirit can always renew the church.

Both describe speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, as the key manifestation of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

To describe it as a difficult session would be an understatement, but we all survived and with joint reflection I can see that this kind of baptism of fire can only serve me well when I begin my practice unaccompanied.