Sentences with phrase «generations of believers as»

Religious leaders across practically every belief structure and faith can expound on the woes of trying to reach new generations of believers as the societies we live in change at rapid - fire pace.

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Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

The Anglican church stands squarely in the Reformed tradition, yet embraces Church tradition as that which connects all generations of believers together and gives us a starting point for our interpretation of Scripture.

When Jesus said that to the disciples of his day of this generation he was talking figuratively i believe of born again believers born of the spirit not a physical generation.Because the holy spirit was prophetic of the spirit coming upon the nation or nations as spoken in Joel that occured at pentecost and that established the kingdom of God on the earth through believers so we have always been the last generation because we never know when the Lord will return but we live as if it was tomorrow.brentnz

One of the functions of the Church is to protect the Christian story so as to ensure its faithful and undiluted transmission to the next generation of believers.

And every generation has been wrong — yet this does not, for some reason, compute for the believers of our generation — just as it did not compute for the believers of previous generations.

Such imitation, however, is not nearly so simple as it might seem, for what Cobb asks of the individual believer in our own generation is to relate effectively to the example of one from whom we are distanced in virtually countless ways.

The what of Christian belief is an attempt to state all that is implied in the whom of Christian belief; and the history of the Christian Church may be read, at least in part, as the constant effort of succeeding generations of believers in Christ to think out and think through the full implications of the new relationship to God established in Christ and enjoyed in the fellowship of Christian believers in Him.

Even before important Christian beliefs such as the canon of Scripture (list of books in the Bible) and the Trinity had been carefully articulated, the mainstream of Christian believers and leaders had a sense of the essential truths that had been handed down from the apostles and the prophets, and passed along to each generation of Christians through Scripture, sermons, and baptismal creeds.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

Not only was this myth meaningful within Israel and the former generations of Christian believers, but also to us living in the new world, three thousand years later, it still speaks powerfully, as it lights up for us our human nature and our human predicament.

Instead, they are known as «new martyrs,» Christians who have suffered for their faith not necessarily as individuals but rather in whole groups, whole communities, whole generations of believers.

About Blog To introduce a new generation to the truth behind what is happening in the world today as preparation for the forthcoming Antichrist rule and the Tribulation, while keeping updated the older generation of believers who followed Barry Smith and other «End Times» prophetic figures.