Sentences with phrase «faith experience»

Such a method is bound to abstract considerably from what lies in the depths of faith experience.

Follow up on the influential figures to find out if they ever shared their own faith experiences.

There is historic basis for the attempt to combine faith experience and parish involvement with theological reflection.

My actual faith experience has been onion layers rather than one specific story.

In Jesus this resurrection was uniquely striking, because it was experienced by his followers immediately after his death, and it has continued to be a part of the Christian faith experience ever since.

And now I write about my ever - evolving faith experience as a follower of Jesus Christ.

It's important to keep in mind that negative encounters with «the Church» are, in reality, negative encounters with certain people in the Church, and that there are many wonderful, compassionate, God - honoring people eager to share positive stories about why church is a such a critical part of our collective faith experience.

It is only when the child has already been involved in a good deal of basic faith experience that he steadily attains more self - awareness, and his developing mind recognizes that the context of his human existence is one in which the horizons are being pushed ever farther back.

Eternal security (the belief that a person can not lose his or her salvation) is rejected, since Mormon salvation is based in large part on acts of obedience after an initial faith experience.

A great way to get through discouraging moments is to be reminded of past breakthrough faith experiences.

When broken down by religious tradition, certain faiths experienced far more defection than others.

With this framework, the research team, together with theologians and denominational leaders, developed a 38 question survey focusing on two themes, summed up in the report as follows: «A person of mature faith experiences both a life - transforming relationship to a loving God — the vertical theme — and a consistent devotion to others — the» horizontal theme.»

Give a (brave) listen to his album «Curse Your Branches» — the narrative inherent in the songs is hard, and then liberating, as he wrestles with the «coming out» journey from a wounded / wounding faith experience.

7 — Each individual potentially understands their need for a Savior and decides whether to accept His grace (through their sincere FAITH in Christ; being born again)» 8 — Individual with sincere faith experiences relationship / communion with God, thereby growing in faith and love in their Creator and Savior, and growing more holy as God works within the person (sanctification).

The story of Saul's conversion is not told as the normative faith experience — it is the extraordinary one.

His seminary education (where «I could concentrate on critical biblical scholarship because I already knew the biblical content and narratives so well») and his later faith experiences and human encounters made it possible for him to analyze and interpret his own history in a way that has freed him to preach from the totality of that experience to the totality of human experience, encompassing as it does suffering and celebration, alienation and reconciliation, sin and redemption.

And, Pilgrim, let me ask you this... if all christians faith experiences must happen in their earthly life... what about those people who have never had the oppertunity to learn about Jesus Christ... because no one was there to teach them, to introduce it to them.

Having just finished writing over 50,000 words about my own faith experience, (much of which does not fit the Baptist mold), I can't help but wonder if I'll earn the «Read With Discernment» sticker myself.

Yet, at the same time, I knew that this is one of the many ways that Mosaic is distinct from so many other faith experiences.

The thing I love about this book, (and all of Sarah's writing), is that she really gets the evolving faith experience and how it's not just an intellectual exercise, but rather a deeply personal and consuming rearrangement of the self that affects body, soul, relationships, and identity.

The observation that you are reactive when others do not agree with your beliefs or share their faith experiences using traditional terminology WAS about you.

Furthermore, learning that a college student is sexually active does not somehow discredit his or her faith experience.

The great challenge, the one that took me a book to articulate and which I suspect will take me a lifetime to work out, is to hold every piece of my faith experience in love, even the broken bits, even the parts that still cut my hands and make them bleed.

In your faith experience, is it possible to harmonize Scripture, reason, experience, and tradition or must there be a hierarchy?

Readiness for evangelism: i.e., clarity about the story of one's own beginning and progress in the Christian life, and the ability to tell it so that it connects with the life and faith experience of the listener.

And it is time for large churches to open their pulpits to those women, whose new and dynamic styles of leadership can enhance the faith experiences of Christians.

People of every faith experience this.

Is it possible to have a faith where, due to existential honesty, psychic pain and anxiety are regular features of the faith experience?

This is a faith experience that wants to confront and maximize evil.

The whole point is that the faith experience needs to be deeper than gimmicky technology in megachurches or online.

I left the church because there are days when I'm not sure I believe in God, and no one told me that «dark nights of the soul» can be part of the faith experience.

Despite the differences between formal dialogue and discussion, Soloveitchik's reasoning about the former — particularly his emphasis on the privacy and intimacy of the faith experience — deepens our appreciation of the latter.

They sum up my faith experience / struggle so perfectly.

I just couldn't bring myself to abbreviate my faith experience into a resolved representation of what Christianity was supposed to look like.

«Part of my job in this campaign,» he said, «was to make sure I was showing up and reaching out and sharing my faith experience.»

As we continue our discussion of Peter Rollins» How (Not) to Speak of God, I'd like to explore the role that doubt plays in the faith experience.

She's working on a book about her faith experience that will probably be a bestseller someday.

The second commandment becomes an arbitrary requirement that contradicts our faith experience.

The above scenario presupposes preaching as a thorough - going societal event, merging the faith experience of an ancient biblical community with the life of a body of believers today.

Calvin understood that doubt was a part of the faith experience, because human nature itself finds ideas about God and His goodness so outside of what we can understand: «For unbelief is so deeply rooted in our hearts, and we are so inclined to it, that not without hard struggle is each one able to persuade himself of what all confess with the mouth: namely, that God is faithful.»

What do you wish they knew about you and your faith experience?

Did they finally have a presidential candidate who shared their faith experience and their conservative values, and — importantly — who could win in November?