Sentences with phrase «do justice and peace»

One sign that radicals are biblically faithful rather than ideologically captive will be their readiness to champion religious and political liberty as vigorously as they do justice and peace.

Not exact matches

The movement with which I was identified had to do with racial justice and peace.

Certainly every opportunity for dialogue is to be nurtured, but dialogue that makes for peace is dialogue in truth that does not indulge sentimentality and wishful thinking at the expense of honesty and justice.

The easiest explanation is that such critics do not care about peace, justice, the empowerment of the poor, and other self - evidently good things.

The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my book to this beautiful idea).

Does theology deepen our commitment to a new global solidarity based on justice and peace?

Many Christians do not speculate about the future, but are sufficiently occupied struggling for peace and justice, for which the kingdom of God is a symbol, amidst the conflicts of the day.

That means leave your desputes behind and chase the race for the Holy Goal of ending corruption, mischief, bringing back justice and peace, end poverty and starvations, ending monopoly and unlimited greeds of men... But are doing that or not?

Where the church is identified with the poor, and is active m the struggle for peace and justice, it does not have to worry about questions of relevance.

They did not, however, see a need to absolutize anything in the Bible as a final standard of judgement, even what Sölle calls the gospel's «nonderivable promise and the demand for peace, freedom, and justice for all people».5 The test of our present judgements is not their conformation to any Christian absolute but rather whether they have developed responsibly through Christian history.

To distinguish, as Christians must, eternal peace from earthly peace, eternal salvation from this - worldly liberation, social justice from the righteousness of faith does not diminish or discredit the temporal social - historical dimensions of what is true and good and beautiful.

This suggests that the first 6,000 years of the world's existence have been given to mankind, to do as he pleases, and following this there will be 1,000 years when Jesus Christ will rule, and instead of the chaos and injustice of man's rule there will be justice and peace.

«The Vision and Strategy for Peace - making» and «The Kingdom of Peace and Ministry of The Church» in Make Peace, Do Justice, Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), Manila and Hong Kong, 1991.

In a country in which only half of the people who can vote do vote, this general amplification is excellent for democracy and for peace and for justice.

Echoing these sentiments, the Peace and Justice Committee of the Mennonite Church USA proclaimed that, instead of bombing and other forms of violence, «God calls us to give bread to our enemies,» to do the «unexpected [in order] to stop the cycle of revenge.»

5) Does our life together honor Jesus, those who have gone before us, and those among us who are: Renouncing assumed privilege, conscientiously resisting evil, striving for justice and peace, bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers?

We pray for peace and justice; we do not work for it.

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

«Do you promise, with the help of God's grace, to be Christ's disciple, to follow in the way of Jesus, to resist oppression, to work for justice and peace, and to witness to the compassionate love of God as best you are able?»

What, to get down to cases, does it teach us about the proportionate and discriminate use of armed force in the pursuit of the peace of order, justice, and freedom?

The Archdiocese of Liverpool's Justice and Peace Commission does «conscientisation training» but that does not include abortion.

The church does not let the world set its agenda... but a church of peace and justice must set its own agenda.

Yet of two things the Christian can be confident: that the way of brotherhood and mutual understanding is God's way, which if followed leads to justice, security, and peace; and that if man does end his collective life upon earth, God will still reign in his eternal Kingdom.

To serve the God of love means to do what needs to be done to clear the way for that society of justice, peace, and growing brotherhood which God wills.

«We will cooperate with the authorities in their investigation and encourage anyone with information to do the same, and we are praying that peace and justice prevail,» said Julius H. McAllister, president of the AME Council of Bishops, and John R. Bryant, senior AME bishop, in a statement.

We who have met under this theme of justice, peace and the integrity of creation have done so as part of our commitment to stand together and to work.

Jesus did not preach the Church but rather the Kingdom of God that included liberation for the poor, comfort for those who cry, justice, peace, forgiveness, and love... he did not call others to be rulers but to be submissive, humble, and loyal.

No other religion could do as much as Christianity to promote justice and peace.

For a long time it has been recognized that the phrase «the kingdom of God» (or, as Matthew always renders it, «the kingdom of heaven») on Jesus» lips designated, not heaven, nor yet the church of history, but the coming reign of righteousness and peace among men, to which the prophets had looked forward: the time when God's will should be done on earth as it is done in heaven, when justice and love should hold universal sway in a redeemed humanity, when peace and freedom should cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

Here is a preacher telling the congregation what to do, to work for peace and justice, but the message is lost in the sea of words.

Whites and blacks inhabit a common planet, and the possibility of doing so in peace and with justice begins with soccer on the sandlot.

«Apart from the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth,» they explain, the Church «really does not know» the meaning of abstractions like peace and justice.

Who is crying out for justice and peace from the margins, and what will I do to heed their calls?

[If a foreign government is your opponent, then you should first offer justice and peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force against force...] And in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of warand peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force against force...] And in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of warAnd in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of warand an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of warand pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of warand to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of war.13

In four of the six dioceses clergy can both solemnize and bless a civil marriage and in one of them clergy can bless but not solemnize (a judge or justice of the peace has to do the civil marriage part).

There is general agreement, however, that when the Messiah or Messianic age does come, the evils that beset humankind will vanish and men will live together in peace, justice, and joy under the reign of God.

We don't get a vote in the work that's set for us each day, the work of witness, compassion and justice — healing the sick, working for peace, welcoming a stranger, having babies, burying the dead.

All throughout the Scriptures, we are told to take part in the workings of justice and peace — Micah 6:8, what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

He will inherit the boy - king David's throne, do battle with evil and bring a realm of justice and peace.

In the face of a threat to public order, those with public power and the responsibility for maintaining peace, even if they care about justice, as Pilate did, are sometimes under pressure to sacrifice justice — and with it, all pretense of determining whose views are correct when it comes to life's big questions.

Though a so - called Christian working for justice, peace, and order in the created world, MacArthur did so from a consciousness informed by the hegemonic ideologies of the first world, ideologies that sought to divide existing communities.

It is Interesting and worth noting that we don't find in the Bible general definitions of peace and justice but rather an endless number of concrete acts and events in which God and human beings «act justly» or «unjustly», thus, for instance,

We do not need to believe in utopia in order to work for justice and peace today.

The USCCB website invites us a little coyly to «Dive in deep into the Church's teachings»: this can be done by going to one of the site's most valuable pages, which gives links to statements on marriage by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Whereas the faith journey fixes its eyes firmly on the celestial horizon, it does not remain indifferent to the urgency of fashioning here and now, even, a dwelling in which all God's creatures might encounter his justice and peace.

I will continue to work for peace and justice here, as I did in the U.S., but it will be work among Jews and Arabs, and among Jews who are divided by theological or ethnic origins, or by attitudes toward women.

Neither does the church need to turn over all peace and justice and social welfare concerns to the state.

Until recently, the dominant Catholic Church did little to condemn the greed of the ruling class; it opted for the peace and order of the status quo rather than for the justice and turmoil of social change.

We know that it does not take «everyone on Earth» to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

When gospel - related themes about justice, peace, and equality are raised in the various elements of culture, the church may suspect that these issues did not rise solely out of the hearts and minds of unregenerate people, but were created by the gentle breezes of the Spirit upon all people in our society.