Sentences with phrase «for a faith community»

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

From Kris Anne: I am drawn to the idea of a service conducted mostly in silence, with a few people standing to share a word, given to them for the faith community....

We have to break out of privatized modes of belief by cultivating imagery for the faith community.

The interpretative process is a life or death matter for the faith community.

Why is it necessary for the faith community to fill the roles of family?

Because I am insecure about my writing and about my search for a faith community.

«It is entirely appropriate for faith communities to be given access to our parks,» Stringer wrote in a Sept. 21 letter to Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, «so long as our public spaces afford every faith community an equal opportunity to practice religious observance and such activities have no detrimental impacts on the parks.»

Would a Care More, Car Less Sunday be a perfect fit for your faith community?

Any group interested in developing a faith - based legal project may contact the Pro Bono Coordinator for help in developing a plan and resources for their faith communities.

Not exact matches

«I very much appreciate that, for so many of you, the inspiration to do such amazing acts of service in your communities comes directly from your Christian faith.»

So, I have begun praying for my family, my closest friends and our faith community, and give thanks for all I have been given.

Mr Goudie also founded a special faith - based community for people to reach their full potential in the creative arts called New Generation Music.

Then the canon, the listed set of writings making up the Bible, is recognized by the community of faith as the written word of God, possessing final authority for faith and life.

Leaders of the Christian community saw this as an extremely grave threat to the faith; and, for this reason they fled the comforts of society and chose to live in solitude and want in remote parts of the world (such as Syria and northern Africa).

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

We envy our Evangelical friends for the vibrancy of faith in their communities.

This new mutuality is one that allows each community to maintain its own faith integrity in relationship with God, with the members of its own covenant, with the members of the most proximate religion (which I hold is, for Jews, Christianity), and with the world beyond.

«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

David Barclay, the Faith and Public Life Officer at the Centre for Theology and Community, has led the Church of England's work promoting and creating credit unions and ensuring payday lenders do not exploit people who can not repay their loans.

Christian and other faith communities around the world are hosting 120 events in 35 countries, all calling for governments, businesses and individuals to do more to reduce global warming.

We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

It is precisely in the community gathered for worship, and most expressly in the Eucharist, that the Church «puts its faith into action,» «focuses on Christ's teaching,» including the command to «do this» in remembrance of him, and offers its chief service (Greek: leitourgia) to God and to the world.

Any faith community can sign up to become a sponsor with a commitment to help with for housing, English language tuition and employment support as well as practical needs.

Community is vital to a healthy and vital Christian faith, for only in the presence of others do we learn, grow, change and bloom.

4, Is it possible for a community to be composed of people of all kinds of levels of faith and even of no faith at all, or for those who hold a vastly differing views of scripture to keep fellowship?

For that I can not apologize (although I wish I could)-- all I can do is sympathize and continue to learn from your teachers also as well as those in my faith community.

The better way is for people to be connected on a personal level to a community of faith.

This perspective has ramifications for the counseling ministry of the church, for sermons and Christian education and for the life of Christians in communities of faith.

But I would encourage church leaders eager to win millennials back to sit down and really talk with them about what they're looking for and what they would like to contribute to a faith community.

It has become so settled in the mind of the denominational community that «Asking Jesus into the heart» has become the defacto method for becoming a Christian, fearing baptizing converts immediately upon profession of faith will cause them to be «saved by works».

On top of testing their faith, the plant has also been a steep learning curve for the couple — settling their young children into a new city, forming a fledgling church community and learning how to lead together.

For many faiths, the home is central to our understanding of community, and the wider community derives its strength from the family.

I deeply believe that we will not get to the best outcome for children in poor communities without faith communities taking a stand.

Getting to know someone for whom faith looks differently helps us take the first step out of the comfort zones of the faith communities and the traditions we know and cherish.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

«I came to realize that without a vessel for beliefs, without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith,» he wrote later, «I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart.»

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

Faith and community initiative grant monies should also be cancelled and there should also be no tax deductions for contributions made to charities and non-profits.

I'm convinced that one thing folks from my generation long for is the chance to talk openly and honestly about our faith, our doubts, our questions, our ideas, our struggles, our joys, etc. in the context of a faith community.

For the community of faith, Jesus Christ is appointed priest forever, like Melchizedek, without beginning or end (Hebrews 7:1 - 10).

Such theological thinking will be grounded firmly in a Christian context and in the language of commitment particular to the Christian tradition, interpreting the dimensions of our faith for the Christian community.

Contemplative communities, during the Year of Faith, should pray specifically for the renewal of the faith among the People of God and for a new impulse for its transmission to the yFaith, should pray specifically for the renewal of the faith among the People of God and for a new impulse for its transmission to the yfaith among the People of God and for a new impulse for its transmission to the young.

«Quite to the contrary, this request is seen by our community as standard operating procedure for people of faith.»

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

Dan and I struggled to find a faith community in which we could be honest about our ideas, and while my online connections flourished, it took a long time for me to feel safe opening up to my new friends in Dayton.

It is the relationship to a community of faith which may make it difficult for a person of one faith to treat scriptures of another faith with the same authority as he or she accords to the scriptures of the faith community to which she or he belongs.

For the most fanatical of Christians, the really conservative, big «C» ones, there is no real ecu.menical outreach to other faith communities.

Magic, play, and utopian dreams are the foundation for his future community of faith.64