Sentences with phrase «faith community experiences»

For divorce attorneys who need help coaching a client through the divorce process, businesses addressing employee issues, or faith communities experiencing relational crises — we can help.

Not exact matches

Institutions offering separate women - only swim hours demonstrate that they seek to include in their community people from many different cultures, faiths, and traditions, representing a range of values, beliefs, and experiences.

To the degree that we emphasize grace and faith in our lives and in our community is the same degree to which we experience peace, joy, delight, and unity with God and with one another.

Second, we also have to consciously locate our reading of Scripture in the context of our faith community, submitting whatever the Bible would say to me as an individual or my personal experiences to the more primary setting of God speaking to the community.

The experience led Rachel — a therapist from St. Paul, Minnesota — to research how other queer women from non-affirming Christian communities have related to the church and how they've maintained their faith.

Personal spiritual experience should be balanced by reference to a community of faith and its traditions and to scripture.

Nonetheless, according to Paul, Abraham wrestled with his doubts, discounted his own experience, rejected skepticism, and clung to the promise of God: «No apistia, no suspicion, made him waver Thus, Abraham becomes the prototype of the community of faith, which interprets all human experience through trust in God's word.

But those who in faith participate in the community established by the atoning action of Jesus experience the Spirit creating a new body for its expression in the world.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

The second question is that of systematic theology proper: What systematic model, informed by the criteria determined for fundamental theological discourse, will allow a specific historical community of faith to articulate its particular vision of reality in a manner that makes it available for the wider community without being wrenched from its own historical experience?

For the Christian community, the cross is the supreme symbol, for in his self - sacrifice Christ pointed beyond himself and surrendered the particular to the ultimate; the cross was the manifestation of God's participation in man's existence, universally present but not universally recognized.31 Tillich's own background in the Lutheran Church and his sensitivity to Luther's experience of guilt, forgiveness, personal faith and divine grace, are reflected at many points in his writings, especially in his sermons.32

One of the reasons why the community of faith has long been known as catholic or universal, is that it must hold together in love and mutual respect all the diversity that our individuality brings to the experience of faith.

Only as we rethink the radical nature of Christian community and reform our institutions so that they might faithfully strive to transmit their cumulative tradition through ritual and life, to nurture and convert persons to Christian faith through common experience and interaction, and to prepare and motivate persons for individual and corporate action in society can true Christian education emerge.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

The Bible is an important part of Christian experience since it testifies to the heritage of the community of faith.

The successful experience of the State of New York with such a law in which hundreds of cases have been adjusted satisfactorily even without recourse to the courts encourages us to believe that the difficulties are not nearly so great as some feared or wanted us to believe.42 It is true that one can easily put too much faith in sheer legislation which may be rendered futile if it is not supported in the community consciousness.

Having experienced, first hand, the devastating effects of rejection and judgment, Jennifer knows full well the challenges of being «out» in certain faith communities.

Moreover, in the life of an individual or a community the experience of faith may be found to ebb and flow according to changing circumstances.

• An educational process that applies faith to current issues, examines life experiences, creates community, recognizes individuality and encourages independent thinking and questioning.

And so adequate a transcript of the event itself is this «remembering» community that the Resurrection of Jesus is not a datum of faith but a postulate of the community's experience, and the apostolic narratives of resurrection are superfluous, from the point of men of faith.

The resurrection faith rested upon something given within the community's experience.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

The revelation of God is experienced in connection with significant historical events that take place in the life of the faith community.

Worship, we have seen, is an indestructible element in human experience; and in the Christian tradition it is inextricably associated with the faith and the moral life of the believers in the community that responds to the action of the living God in Christ.

The faith which arises in encounter with the self - revealing God feels the need to formulate true statements of faith both within the community of those who share this experience and also for outsiders.

Each generation of Israelites grew the vision of the Messiah through the promptings of a newer and nobler vision by God in the heart of priest and prophet, and in the experienced faith and worship of the whole Jewish community.

For the church in which we believe, on which we count as the supporting, interpreting community of faith, is actual, interpersonal reality, not a form, but an action, trust and loyalty experienced over and over again...

A hermeneutic of revelation must give priority to those modalities of discourse that are most originary within the language of a community of faith; consequently, those expressions by means of which the members of that community first interpret their experience for themselves and for others.

Only those that we have experienced in our own community of faith and those presented to us by our predecessors as they reflected on their experience in the community.

It involves building connections between the traditions of Christian faith and the aspirations and values that emerge as many traditions and philosophies test the limits of humanity and community in contemporary experience.

On the other hand, to celebrate the integrity of the tradition, its documents and declarations, to give impetus to the continued reflection of the church on issues of contemporary meaning and value, is to experience the renewing power of being a part of a community of faith, of having an identity which transcends the anomic character of «doing your own thing» and going it alone.

In discussing experience, the Bible, and the church as candidates for authority in the Christian faith we know at the outset that Christian experience can not be communicated except by being shared, that the law of the Bible is not of the letter but of the Spirit, and that the church can not be an institution that compels, but a community that frees.

The class is not a faith community with a shared experience that would lead to prayer.

If you are feeling lost, disillusioned or hurt as a result of a shift in your faith or by a negative church (or other faith community) experience, Walking Wounded just might be the class for you.

The more faith becomes a present experience, the more we are willing to let the outward forms of past generations die, that the living church may show itself for what it is — the community of faith.

If you are feeling lost, disillusioned or hurt as a result of a shift in your faith or by a negative church (or other faith community) experience, this just might be the class for you.

But God's success increases as we study, practice and persevere with all the tools of our faith: from the Bible and our own experience to the written reflection and experience of others to communities committed to bringing God's Kingdom to earth.

In any case I doubt if a sense of the world's general aim toward value can be deeply felt by those who have not experienced the urge to participate in a community of faith, where faith is understood as an adventurous openness and exploratory hope.

The big problem is: if this is your first or only experience of church, how quickly you can lose faith in the the church community and Christianity as a whole.

Can we see reasons from experiences in his early faith community?

(3) The preacher who undertakes reflective and critical self - analysis may well be on the way to the greatest freedom he or she has ever experienced: freedom to preach; freedom to challenge theologies that would claim God's love is limited to the rich and the powerful while excluding the poor and the powerless; freedom to act tout a commitment to social justice; freedom to envision new faith communities and new ways of being faithful to God, to God's people, and to self.

If God did in fact make a unique and supreme revelation of himself in that event; if God was actually in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; if something of decisive importance for humanity really happened in connection with the life and death of Jesus, however different may be the theological terms in which we attempt to express that meaning — if this is our faith, the church becomes immeasurably the most significant of human communities, for it was within its experience that the revealing event first occurred and it is in its experience that the meaning of that event has been conveyed from one generation to another.

Other faith communities and experiences have contributed to my socialization as revealed in this sermon.

Since he joined the online Christian community more than two decades ago, Chris has dedicated himself to serving singles in search of a faith - based dating experience.

The niche dating site was created by a Catholic single who experienced the challenges of faith - based dating and felt inspired to build a close - knit online community of Catholics as a solution.

Commenting on the redesign, Spark Networks CEO Michael Egan said: «As one of the world's first online communities for Christian dating, we care about providing our users with an experience focused on shared faith and values — this is what differentiates us from other online dating sites.

She is currently leading the church through a revitalization process that involves aligning the church's purpose and vision with its worship experiences, faith formation programs, community outreach and mission.

Mission Statement: Through the power of the Holy Spirit and the witness of Scripture, Tradition, Experience, and Reason we, the faith community at Genesis United Methodist Church, believe that all people are sacred children of God.

UC believes enrolling students from many different faiths and backgrounds enriches the university's community and the learning experience of our students.

My own experience is that it is Free Schools which tend to REDUCE community cohesion by being promoted by faith groups.