Sentences with phrase «for upbuilding»

Let that Letter be a fitting epitaph for the apostle to the Gentiles, in whose tradition we stand and who has inspired Pope Benedict to declare this special Pauline Year for the upbuilding and good of all the faithful:

Concern for fairness and for upbuilding community is not viewed as rational within the system.

There we have an example of congregational care and discipline that joins together for the upbuilding of the Christian community.

Our inquiry in this chapter will aim to make some assessment of three dominant types of American church life in terms of their success in inculcating personal religion and communicating the gospel for the upbuilding of vital Christian experience.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening.

Not exact matches

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

These highly self - conscious groups have deliberately, and on the basis of well - articulated evangelical mandates, provided the means for motivational and educational upbuilding.

First, it is to fail to see that the creatures, including you and me and whatever else is not God, have their own degree of freedom and their own capacity for choices that may be good or bad, upbuilding or destructive.

No, it was rather an «upbuilding» that called for a costly abandonment of the security of the old under walls.

«I have felt that Vanderbilt University was Methodist, not in the sense that Methodists made it, but in the sense that it was a great trust committed to the Methodist Church to be carried out, not for selfish ends, but for the good of society and the upbuilding of Christ's kingdom.»

He had praise for Luther's role in providing inspiration for creative and meaningful activity in socialist Germany — an impetus for Christians and non-Christians alike in the upbuilding of a socialist state.

Thus all that is upbuilding, expressive of love and tenderness, eager for the right, concerned for justice, informed by courage, able to establish sound relationships and sound dealings — all that manifests beauty and that speaks of truth — all this is the working of God, who moves in the world by the Word and from that world receives the Amen of responsive conformity through the Holy Spirit active in the creation.

First, as just indicated, the layman is the «ultimate consumer» for whom the church exists, and there can be no «upbuilding of the Body of Christ» unless laymen are being built up in the power of the gospel.

«60 He makes clear that its ultimate function is not upbuilding for its own sake.