Sentences with phrase «failures of christian»

Similarly, A. W. Tozer said that much of the failures of our Christian experience can be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of the kingdom like children through a marketplace, chattering about everything, but pausing to learn the value of nothing.

Silence is one of the most common failures of the Christian community in preventing child abuse.

Then we could be redeemed from our grim failures of Christian instruction in sin and humility — from an excess or lack of humility that makes us illusion - prone disciples.

Secularized Jews, having already divested themselves of just about everything that made them singularly Jewish, puzzled over the failure of Christians to do the same.

In large part the fault lies in the failure of us Christian theologians to deal adequately with the intellectual and cultural issues of our time.

Indeed, it is not, and the failure of Christians to think seriously about the options is an abrogation of our responsibility to the poor.

Surveying the desert of modernity, we would be, I think, morally derelict not to acknowledge that Nietzsche was right in holding Christianity responsible for the catastrophe around us (even if he misunderstood why); we should confess that the failure of Christian culture to live up to its victory over the old gods has allowed the dark power that once hid behind them to step forward in propria persona.

Many Christians in North America and Europe feel alienated from the Third World ideology that seems to dominate WCC thinking, although perhaps this reflects the failure of those Christians to acknowledge the economic exploitation and racism of Europe and North America.

When I read the illustration of the failure of the Christian Arab in the face of ISIS, I thought how we read in the NT that the disciple Peter denied Jesus three times, out of fear.

The Merchant of Venice sets a concept of justice tempered with mercy over against unbending legalism and self - righteousness, but it reminds us» in the troubling figure of Shylock as well as in the failure of the Christian characters to integrate him into the comic conclusion» that even expressions of mercy can be tainted with self - righteousness.

In this, and not in the so - called Wars of Religion, lies the most pressing failure of Christian love.

But to do so would be a failure of Christian and other humane ironic visions, which intend only to bring perspective.

Not once in his genealogy of modern decay does he consider that the core failure of Christian moral witness might be a significant factor in muting the creative role of religious faith in public life.

Europe's spiritual dissolution came from the failure of Christians to figure out how to resolve conflicts among themselves in ways that gave life rather than truncated it.

Failure of Christians to participate in politics, Makinde warned, would continue to make them victims of irresponsible governance, which they would have no control over.

Not exact matches

The Wall Streeet Journal's MarketWatch picks up on Canada's missing digital economy strategy, using the Penske File framing to discuss the failure of Industry Minister Christian Paradis to lead on the file.

My parents are of different Christian denominations and when they wanted to get married, neither of the churches would perform the ceremony as inter-denominational marriages were considered to be «doomed to failure» — especially as neither of them would agree to raise their children in one or the other's church.

I became a Christian at the age of nine and always felt a failure at it.

America is too tough and racist to be living as an eastern christian now a days.You have to be white to be living as a Christian in US, in a bid to accomodate all the religions of the world, America has been a failure of its assimilation of Eastern Orthodox Christians in this country who are faced daily with intense bigotry, racism and total denial of their own echristian now a days.You have to be white to be living as a Christian in US, in a bid to accomodate all the religions of the world, America has been a failure of its assimilation of Eastern Orthodox Christians in this country who are faced daily with intense bigotry, racism and total denial of their own eChristian in US, in a bid to accomodate all the religions of the world, America has been a failure of its assimilation of Eastern Orthodox Christians in this country who are faced daily with intense bigotry, racism and total denial of their own existance.

But the preoccupation with that question has contributed to a failure to do justice to the cosmic dimensions of the Christian message.

Coptic Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of Egypt's Coptic Christians for nearly four decades, died last month of renal failure.

The failure of your worldview, Anthony, is that you believe there are believers in God (who you think are all Christian) and non-believers (who you think are all Atheists).

The feminist reformist recognizes that that ideal is not fully achieved, and that there were times when male Christians refused to accept the full humanity of women, but they consider those failures as expressions of inadequacy and human perversion of the gospel.

Most of my childhood and teenage years as a neo-charismatic Christian in western Canada can be characterized by an almost identical exercise: a big American name comes to Canada to Reach Canada for Christ ™, plant a church, and then in rather short order, heads back over the border, usually while blaming us for the failure.

Now that we know something of these other religious communities and their quality of the lives they engender, we can not suppose that a gracious God would punish their saints for failure to join the Christian church.

But I also want to apologize that this thread represents a failure of the entire Christian Church... we have done a terrible job of tending to, and bringing Christ's love and healing to our brothers and sisters in Christ who have been wounded.

But to maintain an ethnically homogeneous church in a context in which there are Christians of many ethnicities impresses many as a failure to display the unity in Christ that was certainly a deep concern of Wesley.

Finally, the point at which we Christians have recognized our failure most clearly is in our long ignoring of what we now call «the integrity of creation.»

We're not shocked at each other's inability to live up to a Christian standard and we don't reinforce that failure diminishes God's acceptance of us.

Since the fall of Mosul to Sunni militants in June, the world has struggled to accept the failure of the American project in Iraq, the rise of «political Islam» and the marking of Iraqi Christians and other minorities for death or expropriation.

Through a failure to grasp the exact nature of this power newly bestowed on all who put their confidence in God — a failure due either to a hesitation in face of what seems to us so unlikely or to a fear of falling into illuminism — many Christians neglect this earthly aspect of the promises of the Master, or at least do not give themselves to it with that complete hardihood which he nevertheless never tires of asking of us, if only we have ears to hear him.

Berry also believed that there had been a failure in religious imagination in Christian thought over several centuries, and wished to marry it to our scientific understanding of the universe.

But the consequences of success or failure are huge for the church universal, the world's 2.1 billion Christians of every denomination.

The very decline of the influence of the Christian Church, itself partly due to failure to find a new synthesis of faith and reason, and then to live it in fervour of spirit, has thrown increased formative responsibility upon the State.

Many particular things, but the overarching problem was the failure of grace toward those outside Christian (or «Judeo - Christian») identity.

Philosophers may reach quite different conclusions, some of which do not introduce these particular tensions into the relation between philosophy and Christian theology.3 The modern theological discussion of natural theology has been seriously clouded by the failure to distinguish the formal question from the substantive one.

The failure to see that the understanding of love in Christian faith is given in the Father - Son relationship in God himself has vitiated many Christian theologies of love.

society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

But a Christian reading of process - philosophy could very well make its own the words of the Psalmist, «God maketh even the wrath of man» — and the maladjustment and failure in nature too, we might add — «to turn to his praise» — which is to say, to be mysteriously transmuted into opportunities and occasions for the realization of possible goods.

It the removal of the Ten Commandments from schools is causing our morals to collapse, that just shows what a failure our churches and Christians have been in their own indoctrination.

It was done with the best of motives, a desire to make the gospel meaningful to the modem person but it resulted in a systematic revision of an Christian categories and, ironically, an almost total failure to reach the secular person for Christ.

When liberal Christians or socially conscious evangelicals challenge the failure of this view's adherents to articulate social and cultural concerns, the reply is that such concerns are not part of the church's proclamation, but that individual evangelicals have always been motivated to reform and renew society, almost automatically.

The Tie That Binds Whatever were the problems with «theologizing» the American experiment, the near disappearance of that tradition may reflect a failure of nerve and imagination, a loss of confidence in providential purpose, a refusal to accept the responsibility that attends the reality of Christian America.

Miseducation, poor self - esteem and the failure of black Christians to understand and appreciate their own history and culture is a real problem in black churches.

Unless we extend our idea of authenticity to include not just our fears and failures but also the vital and real changes that God orchestrates in our lives, we miss out on the complexity of the Christian walk.

The 1974 annual convention of the Christian Holiness Association became the largest body to adopt the «Chicago Declaration» as a resolution — despite some concern that such action would admit too much complicity in recent evangelical failures in this area.

Some believe Christianity is a false religion that prays to a false God so they highlight Christian failures and fumbles, just as the Christians do of Muslims and atheists on these same boards.

I do not find that Cobb has met Christian's objections at all adequately, and I count this failure my first point against the Hartshorne - Cobb assumption that there can be a sharing of standpoints.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

Just such a failure has marked a good deal of Christian history and theology.