Sentences with phrase «faith community where»

It is faith community where diverse hearts and minds come together to worship God and demonstrate Christ's love by becoming Biblically informed, socially responsible, and artistically alive.

«God calls Central Christian Church to be a welcoming and open faith community where Christian love, action, and discipleship unite.»

Not exact matches

Our son's family are members of a community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached on putting faith into practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.

I am passionate about providing a place where people are free to explore their own faith, discover their own spiritual path, and to do that with the benefit of community without fear of judgment, both locally and online.

This is part of a series called concrete liturgies by a Christian community, Vaux, where they're exploring what it means to express faith and worship in the language of the city.

PM: Christians and other faiths have freedom of worship in Israel which is the only place in the ME where the Christian community is growing

Heather Tomlinson travelled to Birmingham to profile the pioneering work of Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community where people are finding healing from addiction through faith in Jesus

Negatively, it will have to address itself to the ideological appropriation of Christian faith, which is inevitably the case where theology is claimed by a particular human community alleging privileged access.

«There is much to be admired about them, including their commitments to their faith, marriage, family and community,» Austin wrote, but added that the Gaineses «did not get where they are by putting their family first.»

This isn't information where we can simply say «I believe this way, and here is my evidence for it, and Bill believes that way, and here is his evidence...» These are claims that Bill makes to undermine the faith while citing data that is fabricated overtly or else is rejected by the scholarly community.

But the only way in which one can be a participant in that great tradition is through a willing sharing in the small cell of the Body in the place where one happens to live — and such willing sharing will have the double effect of strengthening both one's own faith and the community of faith.

Were there absolutely no faith present among men, there would be no community, and where a once strong community faith grows weak, civilization and culture give way to disorder and decay.

First, the community is the place where the faith of the individual can be tested against the faith of the community.

Fourth, the community contributes to the life of faith by being the place where faith can be celebrated and embodied.

It must play a second and opposite role, as the place where the faith of the community can be tested against the faith of the individual.

Finally, the community contributes to the life of faith by being the place where faith is energized to turn outward.

The community is a place where the faith can be celebrated and embodied, where its members may draw assurance that their faith is a future possibility for all because it is a present reality for a few.

What these rising communities really signal, Jenkins believes, is a deep spiritual hunger in the developing world and the wide appeal of the Christian God and the Christian story even where local religious faith is strong — perhaps especially there.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

One must attack (or defend) Christian faith where it may actually be found, not in the mind as an idea but as a form of life realized in the historical community established by Jesus Christ.

Churches, synagogues, mosques or other faith communities will find more fertile ground on college campuses than in the suburban neighborhoods where they routinely sow mass mailings.

But the truly astonishing thing about the Bible is that it also includes stories from outside the fold, where God seems determined to work through those whom the community of faith has cast out.

The truly astonishing thing about the Bible is that it includes stories from outside the fold, where God seems determined to work through those whom the community of faith has cast out.

Another limit comes at that point where critical thinking leads someone to cease to identify with the community of faith.

My new online friend Gurdur (he's been commenting lately on nakedpastor), has started an outreach blogfest, an attempt to provide a place of cooperation and community where we can celebrate our common humanity, whether we belong to a faith group or not.

In a world where other nations constructed the machinery of war in an attempt to achieve their own security, it was Israel's trust in Yahweh as warrior that freed the community of faith from taking part in arms races and saber - rattling.

But if we are tired of living in a world where one is either dominating others or dominated by others we have no choice but step out in faith towards another way of living and relating to other people and communities.

Today, for many local people community outreach and social witness, often crossing church or faith lines, is where the action is.

Our faith communities will be places where we can be fully and wholly human.

While joining people where they're already gathered is essential, the formation of believing communities is a natural response to faith in Christ.

Congregations must become, to use James Gustafson's expression, «communities of moral discourse» where congregants debate in a spirit of civility and openness social issues of the day in light of their faith.

When Brian was in seminary, we were introduced to the phrase «theology of place» — meaning that our faith, our Christianity, our life on The Way, is embodied in the neighbourhood and the community where we live.

Given my more liberal leanings, some friends have suggested I'd be happier living up North, where I wouldn't have to worry about getting shot at for boasting an Obama 08 bumper sticker, and where I'd perhaps enjoy a broader selection of diverse faith communities.

Gill Sewell added: «There are over 150 events that have been happening this week where Quaker meetings have opened up their meeting houses to their local communities, encouraging people to come in and find out about the Quaker away of faith.»

I am looking for a church where His presence is honored, and we love and respect Him and each other, and we live our faith daily in the community as well.

That is, the overarching goal must always be constructive, the development of a community of faith where genuine concern (or love) is the norm (I Corinthians 13).

thanks for the provoking thoughts... i love the journey to maturity undergirding our journey of faith... and the maturity of «other - centeredness»... it makes me wonder where my faith community is...

And I believe we will if we become more familiar with the excellent programs available and transform our parishes in dynamic communities where the parishioners know and serve each other, and come to love sharing their faith and lives with each other and the wider community.

Don S. Browning, The Moral Context of Pastoral Care (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976); Thomas Downs, The Parish as Learning Community: Modeling for Parish and Adult Growth (New York: Paulist Press, 1979); Thomas H. Groome, Christian Religious Education: Sharing Our Story and Our Vision (New York: Harper & Row, 1980); C. Ellis Nelson, Where Faith Begins (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1967); John H. Westerhoff, Will Our Children Have Faith?

By an opaque concept of revelation, 1 mean that familiar amalgamation of three levels of language in one form of traditional teaching about revelation: first, the level of the confession of faith where the lex credendi is not separated from the lex orandi; second, the level of ecclesial dogma where a historic community interprets for itself and for others the understanding of faith specific to its tradition; and third, the body of doctrines imposed by the magisterium as the rule of orthodoxy.

To their concerns for autonomy, for the solitary journey of faith, for a vision of the transcendent not captured in human institutions, most laity add their awareness that they want a loving community where they can find help for their task of making meaning.

We all deserve to worship Jesus in a community where we're allowed to wrestle with the big issues of faith.

I think there's a very easy - to - find line between faith and reason, where one can take the community interaction, positive messages and good moral lessons of religion and mix them with a non-theistic tradition of self - improvement, free thought and ever - striving.

It admits that while faith - based activities in the community can be hugely beneficial for children, it also recognises that in some cases it can also be an environment where abuse can take place.

And in an Indian situation where baptism is the legal mark of change of one religious community to another, each with its own civil codes recognized by the Courts, communalisation of church life is imposed by Law and perverts the meaning of baptism as sacrament of faith.

There is a Catholic chaplaincy and daily Mass, and a house — named in honour of Benedict XVI — where students can live for a year in community sharing daily prayer and forming a core of faith commitment.

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 problem is that in the context of American evangelicalism, where religious images are often absent, pop - culture representations of the faith can become the formative symbols and images that a faith community encounters.

For now our responsibility to our human community calls us to courage and faith; another time another community, the communion of saints, will call us, and bid us into mystery, eternity, heaven or, as Christians sometimes call it, home, that place where indeed the heart is.

Moltmann feels that the future of the Protestant church in Europe lies not with the large state church, but with small communities of faith, where the charismatic gifts of all can be recognized, and where Christians can live out a radical discipleship.