Sentences with phrase «for communities of all faiths»

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

The elemental notion of god - bearing individuals may be spoken of in an ontological sense when one perceives a sense in which the individual's personality appears to alter or fuse in those «abnormal» «eccentric» phases to effect specific outcomes for «the individual in a community of faith» or for the community of faith extraneous to the individual.15 When the fusion of the individual's personality with the alleged divine being is complete and permanent, such an individual may be said to have actualized the ideal state of union with the divine, which may be reversible or irreversible state of being.

13:16), but perhaps the clearest statement of the continuing need for the community of faith to identify itself with the poor, even as has God, is to be found in James 2:1 - 7.

With television bringing the hollow faces of starving children into our living rooms, it has become impossible for the community of faith to remain silent or unresponsive.

This debate was crucial in distinguishing and relating scientifically objective history and the mythical interpretations of it expressing the divine and subjective meaning of the same for the community of faith.

Singles need to serve others, grow in Christlikeness, and lead as their gifts provide opportunity for the community of faith and for the mission of God in the world.

It is another for a community of faith to become also a community of social thought at a revolutionary time.»

That is, it became the basic authority for a community of faith, the Church, and through it for the culture as a whole.

Most of the people I've encountered are looking not for a religion to answer all their questions but for a community of faith in which they can feel safe asking them.

North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light recognizes the important and hopeful role solar panel installations play for communities of all faiths.

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.»

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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

Hall said political leaders have been «in terror of the gun lobby,» but now they need to know that faith communities such as his are willing to stand behind efforts to push for gun control.

«We, along with our entire body of faith, pray for them and stand ready to do anything that we can to help that church and that community.»

The Courage to Be will be enjoyed by many for its spiritual and rhetorical excitements but, divorced from the truth claims, worship, and life of the continuing community of faith, such excitements are but another option on offer in the marketplace of modern spiritualities.

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

This means that InterVarsity seeks to foster close - knit communities, tied together by a common faith and a common vision of what that faith ultimately means for one another.

Earlier we had occasion to note the relationship between Jewish faith as portrayed for us in the Old Testament and the Christian event which is the subject matter of the New Testament; and how it was indeed inevitable and right that the primitive Christian community should see their Lord and apprehend his significance for men, against the background of the whole history of the people into whom humanly speaking he was born.

Becca Folkes, Faith Child, CalledOut Music and renowned London Community Gospel Choir lead by Bazil Meade performed to the delight of the audience, which included MOBO Award winner Guvna B and African gospel artist Sammie Okposo who flew in specially from the USA for the award show.

The test of the authenticity of faith is the caring and loving quality of the life of the community, its service to others and its commitment to the struggle for justice and integrity of the whole creation.