Sentences with phrase «disciples by the nations»

Thus, the criterion of judgment is the treatment of disciples by the nations rather than treatment of human kind in general.

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From an Evangelical Catholic perspective, every Catholic is a missionary, an evangelist, a disciple, commissioned by the Lord to take the gospel to every nation, calling all to be baptized in the name of the Most Holy Trinity.

On the night before his violent death, Jesus said, «By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another» Could the disciples have known on Thursday night of Passover week that on another day, «one another» would include followers of Jesus in every nation on earth?

By «missions» I mean anything that is helping you accomplish the mission of the church, which is to make disciples of all nations.

He has just heard afresh Christ's call to make disciples of all nations, and has been seized by a new conviction that the church must be an evangelistic fellowship.

This is implied by the fact that the disciples are twelve in number, a figure that equates them with the twelve tribes of which the nation originally consisted.

By turning to the Dominicans, I thought, critics could embrace all the salutary points Dreher had made about the need to withdraw from the world in order to form Christian communities, while also giving greater emphasis to the dominical command to make missionary disciples of all nations.

In my opinion (inspired by HS or not), with the new (or renewed) covenant under Christ, God's command to be fruitful, multiply and rule the earth (Gen 1:28) is renewed and transformned as Yeshua's command to go out and make disciples of all nations.

«MAKING DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS»: BAPTISING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT» MEANT TO BRING CHANGE IN THEM BY IMMERSING THEM INTO BELIEF AND VOLUNTARY OBEDIENCE TO THE TRIUNE GOD.

Jesus himself was baptized by John (Mark 1:9) and the church claimed that the Risen Christ had commanded the apostles «to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit» (Malt.

And all the prophets, kings and disciples in the Bible prayed publicly a lot according to the will of God and the nations got blessed by them.

«Remnant» unmistakably implies divine judgment upon the nation and, at least as interpreted by Isaiah's disciples, catastrophic judgment falling upon the whole nation, Jerusalem included.

The Church is by nature and commandment an apostolic community which exists for the sake of announcing the Gospel to all nations and of making them disciples of Christ.

Baptism has always also been an essential part of the Great Commission, given by Christ to his disciples: «Go forth, teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit» (Mt 28:20).

By pushing at, dismantling and crossing over the boundaries that the disciples might themselves put on «all nations,» Jesus foreshadows his intention to declare the boundaries of the great commission to be limitless.

The Great Commission ensures that Christ Himself foresaw and blessed this unity by telling His apostles to go unto all nations to make disciples.

Spirit - filled Pastor with a heart that resonates with cultivating and developing the ministry's vision, and to glorify God by making disciples of all nations.