Sentences with phrase «form of servant»

Bonhoeffer says «The Church is... Christ himself who has taken form among us».14 So the form of the Servant in a real way characterises the life and witness of the Church.

In God's sight, the Church is pure, holy, unspotted - the Dove of God - but in the eyes of the world it bears the form of a servant.

For without a bodyguard, without servants who might prepare His way and make men attentive to who it was that came, Christ walked here upon earth in the lowly form of a servant.

This precisely is the sorrow in Christ: «He can do no other»; He can humble Himself, take the form of a servant, suffer and die for man, invite all to come unto Him, sacrifice every day of His life and every hour of the day, and sacrifice His life — but the possibility of the offense He can not take away.

For the Davidic kingship was permitted in the form of Servant King to Yaheweh, not in the image of the despotic and imperial powers, which were by definition rebellious against the Rule of Yahweh.

Instead, he emptied himself by taking on the form of a servant, by becoming like other humans, by having a human appearance»

In Young's translation Phillipians 2:6 - 7 says: who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God, but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made - & so there was a voluntary knosis (emptying) of himself.

He «emptied himself, taking the form of a servant... he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross» (Phil.

In his Treatise on Christian Liberty Luther interprets the Christological passage in Paul's letter to the Philippians, the great hymn of the incarnation, as the movement which takes place away from the equality with God which belonged rightly to Christ to the form of the Servant:

Hence it is a hidden new life, just as the glory of God and the reign of God in Jesus Christ were concealed under the humiliation of a Cross and the form of a servant.

God laid aside His religiousness and divine attributes, and took upon Himself the form of a servant.

With the Apostle Paul and all Christian churches, we confess Christ Jesus, «who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

As Paul put it, he «did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» (Phil.

He «emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» (Philippians 2:7).

Even in order to create heaven and earth, God emptied himself of all his all - plenishing omnipotence, and as Creator took upon himself the form of a servant.

7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Therefore Jesus took the form of the servant, as it is expressed in Phil.

In the words of the New Testament, God had «emptied himself, taking the form of a servant.»

The familiar phrases «he emptied himself [heauton ekenosen], taking the form of a servant,» and «though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor» have come to seem commonplace.

The Form of a Servant (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1963); Lucien I. Richard, O.M.I., A Kenotic Christology (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

Some of the evidence here lies in what the themes of the Incarnation, the Cross, and the Resurrection of the Christ who took upon himself the form of a servant have done to release cultural energies in Western civilization.

In Philippians 2:5 - 7, however, he says of Jesus that «though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of man».

That is, Hebrews tells us that Jesus is «like us in all respects» (Heb 4.15) and «shares in our weaknesses» (Heb 5.2), and Philippians that he «emptied himself taking the form of a servant» (Phil.

His passion and death confirm that he «did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» (Phil.

Paul described Christ as one who «emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

The spirit has taken the form of a Servant in the incarnation, and the Servant has met humanity in the depths of its separation from God.

Paul's statement that Christ «emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» meant that God graciously chose to reveal his deity in the form of one who humbly serves others.

I 6 Who being in the form of God Did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped 7 But emptied himseW Taking the form of a servant.

To explain how, he turned to the second chapter of Paul's Letter to the Philippians where the apostle speaks of the self - emptying or kenosis of God: «Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant... [and] humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.»

Phillipians 2:5 - 11 — Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

The Son of God assumed the form of a servant to seek and save the lost and theology must do likewise, incarnating itself in the cultural forms of its time without ever losing its identity as Christian theology.

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

And when the God in the form of a servant stretches forth the hand of omnipotence, let no astonished and open - mouthed beholder imagine that he is a disciple because he is astonished, and because he can gather others about him who in their turn are astonished over his story.

We can sum up by saying that the ethical impulse in the spirit of love as released in the Gospel takes new forms and fulfils old demands because the spirit has become incarnate in the form of the Servant.

The God has thus made his appearance as Teacher (for we now resume our story), and has assumed the form of a servant.

It has been explicitly set forth by another British theologian, L. S. Thornton, in his trilogy on The Form of the Servant 29in which he virtually equates the terms «emergence» and «revelation.»

«Have this mind in you which was in Christ Jesus,» Paul says, as he adapts the kenotic hymn in which Christ who is equal to God humbles himself, takes the form of a servant, and becomes obedient unto death (Philippians 2: 5).

But the God did not assume the form of a servant to make a mockery of men; hence it can not be his intention to pass through the world in such manner that no single human being becomes aware of his presence.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

He humbled himself and took upon him the form of a servant, but he did not come to spend his life as a servant in some private employment, attending to his tasks without in any manner making himself known, either to his master or to his fellow servants — such a measure of wrath we dare not ascribe to the God.

God's presence in human form, in the humble form of a servant, is itself the teaching.

Philippians 2 describes it beautifully: Christ, although he was «in the form of God... but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men.

On the one hand we hear that «he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man...» (Phil.

In that sense, Francis of Assisi's life as a mendicant embodied in evangelical witness the truth of the Christological hymn in Philippians and its celebration of «Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Is it the true and unalterable one which bears his essential characteristics, or the one which he took up for our sakes when he assumed the form of a servant?»

The servant image was never more clear than in the hymn to Christ in Philippians, where it is said of Jesus that he, «though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» (Phil.

He is the one of whom the apostle Paul wrote, «Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Scripture tells us that Jesus chose to empty himself, take on the form of a servant, and dwell among us.

Not exact matches

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.