Sentences with phrase «giving individual believers»

Differences of dogma in an essentially Christian society mostly call for giving individual believers the room for distinctions of belief while allowing genuinely distinct (and inevitably very small) religious minorities broader latitude.

Not exact matches

I know even some believers are offended by some of the things I write, but to them I'll simply say this: the Word of God is the most powerful thing that exists - both the written word and the Living word; and it's time to start believing God and to take hold of the ident.ity that He has given you and live and use that ident.ity Lance Wallnau calls it the «believers edge» which unfortunately only 8 % of the body of Christ ever gets into - that rare realm that individuals mature to the place where they have the power to co-create with God and bring the future into the present.

I think when God gives us (as individual believers) a clear vision of His kingdom — with an understanding that He, being outside of time, wants it to prosper both NOW and LATER — we will find exactly the opposite of security, pleasure, and power.

Given a Reformed ecclesiology, an individual believer seems to have no reason to accept a particular ecclesial body as part of the «true Church,» unless its interpretation of the Gospel matches the believer's own.

Moreover, God, who alone sees all things and what is necessary, treats us as the unique individuals He created us to be; not a «one size fits all» approach, and He answers prayers and gives gifts on that basis, not simply on whether or not they are a believer.

None of these are given the authority to interpose anything whatsoever between the individual believer and God concerning any matter of faith».

This, however, should not obscure the personal strength and encouragement that the individual believer finds in following Christ Discipleship is costly but the new life, which has the quality of eternity, gives meaning and inner peace to daily life.

It is the Biblical notion that miracles have ceased to be normal... This is not to say that God has stopped performing miracles, or that the Holy Spirit has stopped working, but only that the Apostolic miracles such as speaking in tongues, prophecy / revelation, and healings have ceased as a normative gift to individual believers: 1) The Holy Spirit's purpose in imparting the «sign gifts,» has expired 2) The sign gifts were given exclusively to the original Twelve Apostles, so that the sign gifts and Apostleship are inextricably linked 3) The gift of Apostleship no longer exists

I'm a believer that giving that person an individual program based on what they need to be good at that endurance sport.

He is a strong believer in an individual's capability to achieve success given the appropriate tools and a «chance».