Sentences with phrase «hand of fellowship so»

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Man, the creation story says, has capacities and powers which raise him far above the rest of creation and make him capable of fellowship and of conscious cooperation with his Creator; but, says the story of the fall, not only is he actually falling short of the glory of God for which he was created, but his very spiritual capacities have been corrupted and perverted, so that whereas on the one hand he is infinitely above the beasts, on the other he is infinitely beneath them.

As in Galatians, that pastor is called to the Jews, and I am called to the Gentiles... and [in my case] to the barbarians, at that... but somehow, I failed to obviously extend to that pastor «the right hand of fellowship» and so, now I must work to heal his wound.