Sentences with phrase «importance as churches»

Different parts of the biblical record take on relevance and importance as the church faces different situations.

Not exact matches

Some of my colleagues refer to the problem as «Christless religion»... and I think David's cartoons really magnify the importance of this, often setting off Jesus or the Trinity against the religious establishment or church - as - status - quo.

As it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's goodAs it is, most churches plays some institutional game that is about rules and worship — and does not imply the importance of community and the focus of love in their community (as long as they do the Christian things that's goodas long as they do the Christian things that's goodas they do the Christian things that's good).

Ya know, as much of an idiot as Obama has proven himself to be over the last four years, a Republican with a good head on their shoulders could easily take the office next year... that being said... these Republican idiots that are currently throwing their hat in the ring for the presidency have forgoten the importance of separation of church and state.

As a friend observed, perhaps the greatest importance of the feminist movement to the church is that it makes the church ask itself questions it ought to have been asking all along.

Our praying, whether in word or thought, whether in church or at home, whether at ordinary services in church or at the Lord's Supper, should be grounded in two matters of supreme importance: the reality of God as Love and the concrete place where we happen to be as human beings.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

One of the themes of my book is the importance of shedding away false fundamentals — as individuals and as a Church — so that our faith can survive changing environments.

His controversial utterance, «Whoever knowingly separates himself from the Confessing Church in Germany separates himself from salvation,» stressed both the importance of doctrine as well as the idea that separation from the church is equal to cutting oneself off from Christ who exists in the cChurch in Germany separates himself from salvation,» stressed both the importance of doctrine as well as the idea that separation from the church is equal to cutting oneself off from Christ who exists in the cchurch is equal to cutting oneself off from Christ who exists in the churchchurch.

Just as earlier the official Church could not and would not give any authoritative answer to someone about their choice of a profession, even though it could be a moral question of importance for salvation, so today and tomorrow the Church in many questions, even those of public interest and far - reaching importance, will not, even ratione peccati, be able to give a specific answer officially and directly.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

In the past the Church has appeared to many Catholics as an absolutely monolithic structure, a system of doctrine and life which had to be either accepted or rejected as a whole, without degrees or nuances of importance in its various components.

So the actual situation of personal faith may be the same in the Catholic Church as in Protestantism, though it is hidden behind the facade of the official doctrine (though we do not dispute that this is also of theological importance).

(14) There are echoes here of the apostle Paul's recognition, reflected in several of his letters, of the importance of general social trust and respect of church leaders and members as a necessary framework for communication of the gospel.

Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and it is one of enormous social and political importance as well.

The idea of church as storyteller may seem to diminish its importance, but this function has utmost significance.

Those are different questions, questions whose importance some church leaders minimize or even fail to recognize — as I did earlier in my theological life.

While most of these can be described as splinter groups of small membership and minimal importance, there are presently two major exceptions, the new Mormon fundamentalists and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

As many of the other functions of the church erode, the memory - preserving function may gain in relative importance.

McCormick discusses areas in which his thoughts have shifted: The nature of the church; the church as the people of God; the church as servant; the church as collegial; the church as ecumenical; the ecclesiological nature of the church; importance of lay witness; the teaching competence of the episcopal and papal branch; the church and moral truth; the place of dissent; birth regulation; ecclesial honesty; the dynamic nature of faith.

Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

The emphasis of Vatican II is on the Church as sacrament, which, he says, is of «foundational importance» to the ecclesiology of the council, appearing four times in Lumen Gentium and six times in other documents of the council.

Recently as I was sitting in church listening to a rather good sermon on the importance of «working for justice and peace.»

Many of us have been giving considerable attention in recent decades to the importance of cultural context: you can't preach exactly the same sermon in a suburban Omaha church as you would to a congregation in rural Thailand.

And he pushed back against what he sees as increasing secularism in the world, saying, «I consider that the dedication of this church of the Sagrada Familia is an event of great importance, at a time in which man claims to be able to build his life without God, as if God had nothing to say to him.»

Royce's doctrine gives especial importance to the Church as the community which remembers Jesus.

(2) Following a wave of persecution a number of Christian missionaries then carried the gospel farther afield, notably to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts 11:19); at Antioch, the capital of Syria and a city which ranked with Alexandria as second only to Rome in size and importance, Gentiles were for the, first time admitted into the Church in large numbers, apparently without becoming Jewish proselytes in any full sense.

As such, the Church exists to make present in the contemporary world the event upon which it is built — the event of Jesus Christ, taken as of quite special importance in the affairs of the worlAs such, the Church exists to make present in the contemporary world the event upon which it is built — the event of Jesus Christ, taken as of quite special importance in the affairs of the worlas of quite special importance in the affairs of the world.

The question of the appropriate relation of the church to homosexuals and homosexuality has emerged as one of major importance in the deliberations of denominational bodies.

Lyle Schaller writes about the importance of recognizing certain ministerial tasks as «winners» and others as «losers» in The Multiple Staff and the Larger Church, «Winners» are the tasks that lead people to sign up for ordained ministry: preaching, presiding over sacraments, being present at key life transitions such as weddings and funerals — in other words, the prominent, visible and generally rewarding parts of ministry.

In his election to the seat of St Peter, Pope John Paul II asked this question about Vatican II: «Indeed, is not that Universal Council a kind of milestone as it were, an event of the utmost importance in the almost two - thousand - year history of the Church, and consequently in the religious and cultural history of the world?»

Jennie Chinembiri, Africa and Caribbean secretary of the world mission council of the Church of Scotland, said: «It is wonderful that all these important letters, certificates and photographs have come to light after so many years as they hold such an historic importance for both Scotland and Kenya.»

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

The blog goes on to say that in the Church's schools, the subject will be «rooted in the teachings of the Church», including «the importance of trust, loyalty, fidelity and the Christian understanding of marriage as the context for sexual relationships, as well as the understanding of abstinence and celibacy as positive life choices».

Though the journal in these years, and for considerable decades to come, was thoroughly Protestant in its ecumenism, and a particular type of Protestant as well, it regularly addressed the importance of unity for the life of the church.

According to the statement, there is no consensus on justification through the word of God and «by faith alone,» no consensus on the certitude of faith concerning our salvation, no consensus on the continuing sinfulness of the justified, nor on the importance of good works for our salvation, nor on the function of the doctrine of justification as criterion of the entire life and doctrine of the church.

But the church is not consistent — that is, not with this one - sided presentation of Jesus» message — and it recognizes the importance of such «worldly» matters as education, hygiene, social justice, wages, freedom, and the common welfare.

Given the theological and church issues that could have divided any one of the early Christian congregations, the importance of the Lord's Prayer as a guide to all aspects of daily life becomes apparent.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

Instead, the book includes discussions of theological topics that are pertinent in most church settings, such as the authority of Scripture, the primacy of grace, how to be a disciple, the importance of service, and life in the Kingdom of God.

and all the accounts of his teaching in the Synoptic Gospels are so filled with the phrase that we can not question its importance for Jesus — the more so as the infrequency of its appearance in the Epistles would indicate that it was not used especially often in the early church.

By the fundamentalist Protestant type we mean those churches which hold to the verbal inspiration and hence the literal inerrancy of the Bible, and which defend as of vital importance certain creedal dogmas, notably the virgin birth, the blood atonement, the physical resurrection of Christ, and his visible second coming.

It may well be, as the study puts it, that «for matters of religious importance, experience, participation and dollars, the churches» principal competition is not the television ministry but general television» (p. 12).

«When the church is perceived through this systems approach, it is seen as a place where the importance of fulfilling lives is probably more important than any program the church may produce or any building it may construct» («Organization Development: A Framework for Understanding and Helping the Church,» in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry,church is perceived through this systems approach, it is seen as a place where the importance of fulfilling lives is probably more important than any program the church may produce or any building it may construct» («Organization Development: A Framework for Understanding and Helping the Church,» in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry,church may produce or any building it may construct» («Organization Development: A Framework for Understanding and Helping the Church,» in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry,Church,» in Dudley, Building Effective Ministry, 179).

I suppose this is a step in the right direction, but I think that in general, the idea of «small groups» as a program or ministry of the church (whether it is of first or secondary importance) falls far short of the the radical change that is needed to truly be the church in the world.

His language on this echoes that of the most famous of his recent predecessors, Joseph Ratzinger, in its emphasis on the importance of truth and of teaching it, rather than of seeing the Church as essentially resting on rules.

So this is a book which should appeal both to Catholics and Evangelical Christians equally, at the same time leaving no doubt as to the importance of the Church's dogmaticteaching.

This is the part of the blog post where I should probably come up with some beautiful summary of the importance of Scripture in American culture or perhaps some indication that Inauguration Day has resonances with church history as well as American history.

These people understood the importance of Church history as the portion of the historical - redemptive narrative located between Redemption and Consummation, not just blank pages between the end of Revelation and the return of Christ in space and time.

It may well be, as the study puts it, that «for matters of religious importance, experience, participation and dollars, the churches «principal competition is not the television ministry but general television.