Sentences with phrase «entire life of the church»

Spiritual discernment emerges in active faithfulness to Christ and the church, which requires that one enter into the entire life of the church not simply attend mass or a Sunday service.

Not exact matches

For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Now ensconced in a rather «old» form of monasticism based on the Rule of St. Benedict, Bonhoeffer reflected on the inherent value of monastic life for the entire church: «It would certainly be a loss (and was indeed a loss in the Reformation!)

Thanks to votes by the Sanctity of Life legislative subcommittee, the Church and Society II legislative committee, and the entire conference, General Conference 2008 edited the paragraph adopted by General Conference 2004 in the following way:

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.

He failed to acknowledge that the entire purpose of the Church's principles on issues such as the end of life is to create a standard of conduct clear enough to guide believers through their most trying challenges.

i was «in» the church for almost my entire life and an ordained minister for 25 of those.

(To those who don't know, the Catholic Church has made up all sorts of stuff that isn't in the Bible so they can worship Mary as a separate deity - nowhere in the Bible does it say that Mary's mother had an immaculate conception, nor does it say that Mary remained a virgin her entire life.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prayer.

I have been in church my entire life and I have never witnessed anything like this, but am very sorry that you did and have had to live with this kind of abuse.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Twelve basic affirmations of our Christian faith as each relates to modern man are discussed: What we believe about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, Man, Sin, Experience, Perfection, the Church, the Kingdom of God, Divine Judgment and Eternal Life.

After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.

St Benedict dedicated the entire seventh chapter of his Rule to the concept of humility and it has a great deal to teach us when considering the idea of mission and living the faith of the church.

Speaking to the massive congregation packed into the Atlanta - area New Birth Missionary Baptist Church for an 8 a.m. service, Long said that «this is probably the most difficult time» of his entire life, but he intends to fight the allegations against him.

According to the statement, there is no consensus on justification through the word of God and «by faith alone,» no consensus on the certitude of faith concerning our salvation, no consensus on the continuing sinfulness of the justified, nor on the importance of good works for our salvation, nor on the function of the doctrine of justification as criterion of the entire life and doctrine of the church.

My position is that genuine openness to this perception enables us to peel back the layers of misinterpretation that resulted from the church's turning away from this central thesis and to recapture the vital message of a living, interactive, supremely relational deity to whom Jesus consistently pointed, a God who wills to be intimately interconnected with God's people and God's world, i.e., the entire cosmos.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Supported by intensive research, Dr. Niebuhr reevaluates the role of the church in American life and its relationship to the seminary.

I don't think I would put them to the average layperson in a small group setting, but to a pastor or deacon, a question or two at a time... for the record, I am a high school grad, have had three jobs in my entire life (church custodian, newspaper pasteup [pre-computer pagination], and grocery deli clerk), am on SSDI for complications of Marfan's Syndrome, and a Medicare beneficiary, no secondary insurance because I am about $ 20 over the income limit for Medicaid.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

Debate, polarization, defection, daring bold action, and mistakes marked the life of the organized church; but through it all the church once again laid claim to the entire world as its legitimate domain.

In his more important argument Altizer says that God's dying to himself so as to become fully one with all men can have a ground in the very life of the Catholic Church in that the Church is not only not bound to any past images of herself, but her very goal and mission is to open up to and be incorporated into the entire world.

Or maybe the church should butt it's nose out, and couples should be required to live together for a period of time prior to committing to spend their entire lives together, so that they can get a realistic understanding of what it is like to live with someone 24/7.

This movement, at its best, has represented an attempt within the life of the Christian community to find the bedrock of its faith and action in order that the entire Church might be one and thus more faithfully fulfill its mission and responsibility to the world.

few know that the bible teaches the «oneness» of the church and few know it teaches if we bring a lost soul back to God we hide a multitude of our own sins... we are to be worker bees for God... we are to give God all our attention... we must trust God never man... our entire lives should be bible ran... to try and rationalize less bible study is why America is not a Christian nation.....

He was released from jail, but the church put him on house arrest for the rest of his entire life.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

And from that reality flows the entire sacramental life of the Church.

Instead it has deepened, spreading a peculiar kind of confusion into our public discourse, political institutions, popular culture, the lives of religious believers, and entire communities of faith — including, at times, the Church herself.

I've been in the church my entire life and all kinds of Bible studies and never heard such stuff.

The second largest of aca - de-mic field only next to the study in the vital life - saving con - tri-bution of the Christian Church in the entire world.

More than anything else, Jim needs someone and some church community to guide him to that sacrament of our Lord's forgiveness in particular, and to the entire sacramental life in general.

Coming from the church background of ultra conservative, fundamental, evangelistic, etc, etc, etc, I have been schooled my entire life on EXACTLY what «faith» means.

So whose opinion should I trust, the man who has spent his entire life in the church and fully immersed in the church and its teachings (The Pope), or Joe Blowhard who has a light if any faint idea of what the church teachings are (most of us)?

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

Therefore, Communion, with its eschatological announcement and pre-enactment, is a reminder to the church that we have a particular vantage point as we look at the entire context of our preaching and our life.

Even though the daughter was a dependent child living at home, it was a mandatory church edict that the entire family shun aspects of their relationship with her.