Sentences with phrase «fellowship of»

Christ could, of course, be known in individual personal fellowship, but only when this knowledge was mediated by the fellowship of believers.

Finally, the congregation is a fellowship of prayer.

First of all, the congregation is the fellowship of love where mutual concern and interest are expressions of love of the brethren.

And for those of us who don't have great voices, it can even be a little embarrassing to sing loudly and proudly with the fellowship of God's people.

It has been justifiably emphasized — that by using this means of selection, Jesus promoted a principle of selection in which the choice was not based on personal worth but in which a fellowship of destiny predominated.

Anton Boisen, father of the clinical pastoral training movement, points to a «wise observer» who has said in effect that a weakness of psycho - analysis inheres in the fact that it lacks a church — a fellowship of the faithful to help him carry on.

Second, the congregation is a fellowship of worship.

«Historical knowledge» of Jesus of Nazareth might be held to Include the fact that he accepted his death as the necessary consequence of his proclamation of the Kingdom, and of his «table - fellowship of the Kingdom» with «tax collectors and sinners», and that he went to the cross with a sure confidence that it would ultimately serve, and not hinder, the purpose of God.

This begins with a historical statement, namely (to use our words), that the starting - point of the message of Jesus in the synoptic gospels is the authority of Jesus to proclaim the Kingdom and to gather together Jew and «Jew who had made himself as Gentile» into the table - fellowship of that Kingdom.

As a parent, you might even decide to get connected with an online or offline fellowship of gay Christians yourself, just to better understand the community; this would surely get your son's attention!

Third, it is a fellowship of reconciliation.

They gather together in the table - fellowship of the Kingdom; they are reminded that this is an anticipation of the table - fellowship in the Kingdom.

He became disillusioned with a church which was a bureaucratic apparatus of power and finance and become enamored with the ideal of a church as a humble fellowship of believers.

On the other hand, it could be a saying of Jesus addressed to the table - fellowship of the Kingdom that was a feature of his ministry, and celebrating the coming of the «Jews who had made themselves as Gentiles» into that fellowship.

Arising directly out of the table - fellowship of the Kingdom in the ministry of Jesus, it directs attention towards a moment in the future when that fellowship will be consummated.

But it is imagery that suggests the joy of God's presence in a great fellowship of which both we and our loved ones may constitute a part.

Heaven is the perfect companionship of the believer with Christ, and death is but a transition into the deeper fellowship of His nearer presence.

But if there is a fellowship of persons, God will give us tasks for their enrichment.

It is important to recognize that Younghusband's conception of a fellowship of faiths sprang from a mystical sense of the unity of all people.

I do believe in the fellowship of humans as a species, that I believe are worth continuing in existence.

As we contemplate the work which Christ has laid upon his church, we who are met here on the Mount of Olives, in sight of Calvary, would take up for ourselves and summon those from whom we come, and to whom we return, to take up with us the cross of Christ, and all that for which it stands, and to go forth into the world to live in the fellowship of his sufferings and by the power of his resurrection.

Heaven is the perfect conpanionship of the believer with Christ, and death is but a transition into the deeper fellowship of His nearer presence.

Jones hints that living in the mystery of the Triune God engenders an ability to tolerate complexity, a taste for «polyphonic dialogue,» critical reflective thought, and a willingness to submit one's judgments to the fellowship of believers.

Here the mission is primarily that of the theologically informed laity supported by the fellowship of the whole church.

As a pastor, I constantly ask the question: «Is there a way we can just be a fellowship of believers, and put away our dreams and visions, which really are expectations, which quickly translates into coercion?

Our fear of eternity might be overcome if we were capable of envisioning it as a fellowship of this kind.

The message has been that Jesus the Son of God was crucified for the sins of the humanity and that Jesus raised from the dead by God brings Divine Forgiveness and Salvation understood as access to God; as free gifts to all who repent and accept Him as Saviour and join the fellowship of the Church of Christ.

There are men who believe that Christianity is essentially a mystic fellowship of the soul with God.

That we are baptized unto forgiveness of our sins and thereby made members of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church, to be nourished in the life of Christ given in Holy Communion and to share in the fellowship of the faithful in heaven and in earth;

We're pastors in the same fellowship of churches (Grace Brethren) and his latest, which...

As well as polemics Luther was writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a text on The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoods.

Erich Frank, Philosophical Language and Religious Truth, 1945, pp. 44, 161 - 4, 179, etc.) for it assumes an analogy between the activity of God and that of man and between the fellowship of God and man and that of man with man.

Madras defined evangelism thus: «By evangelism, therefore, we understand that the Church Universal, in all its branches and through the service of all its members, must so present Christ Jesus to the world in the power of the Holy Spirit that men shall come to put their trust in God through Him, accept Him as the saviour and serve Him as Lord in the fellowship of His Church».46

In view of the ambiguity of the meaning of baptism in the Indian inter-religious and political context referred above, the question of giving to the unbaptised Christ - bhakts in other religious communities a sense of full belonging to the spiritual fellowship of the church including participation in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper needs exploration.

Evangelical Protestants have often thought of the church as a spiritual fellowship of all believers, rather than as an organized institution.

The Council is a «fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior».

James is quite certain that there are no distinguished visitors and no very important persons within the fellowship of the Church.

Closely bound up with love are the freedom, justice, liberation and fellowship of all humankind, truth and the harmony and fullness of human life.

He told me that they have a Christian fellowship of Unitarian Universalists at Harvard Divinity School.

The question is, what is the nature of the fellowship of those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as in some sense central to and decisive in mediating God to human persons?

To it is given the solemn privilege of entering into the fellowship of the suffering of Christ.

The communion / community is symbolized sacramentally by the fellowship of the Church of Christ at the Lord's Table.

Many evangelists seriously hesitate to expose their new converts to the disappointing life of the organized church... Baptism has always been into the fellowship of the church.

And false teachings do bring division and splits to the Body of Christ and the fellowship of believers.

We are living in the communion, the fellowship of the Church universal and historical.

The power that sustains us is the fellowship of other people, who are with us in this fellowship of struggle for the building of a new society.

If baptism is the mark of leaving one's religious community to join the Christian religious community, can not those persons who refuse to take that step for reasons of conscience be permitted to join the fellowship of the Lord's Table.

Yet the experience of the Eucharist is primarily within the fellowship of the church.

The church as body is the fellowship of those who together are coming to consciousness of being blessed by the Spirit.

Bonhoeffer's central idea is that the church as the fellowship of Christ centers on Christ rather than being a mere association of people with a common purpose.