Sentences with phrase «important teaching of your faith»

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But Catholic teaching typically explains a hierarchy of public issues, prioritizing marriage and sanctity of life, for example, which are intrinsic to Christian faith, over important but less theologically binding issues of prudential judgment, such as federal entitlement programs or immigration.

Modern study of the Pauline letters has shed important light on the specific circumstances of his teaching on the law, faith, and justification.

It is an important issue and if you look around, the fanatics are the ones who put their faith in theories like evolution and they are forcing themselves on every aspect of life and Bill said it himself, he wants your child taught evolution and the evolutionist will fight to indoctinate every child.

Truth is, the only reason you've been taught faith is so important is that the creators of your religion know there is no evidence to support anything they want you to believe.

The responses of laity to preaching and teaching and other pastoral leadership activities are extremely important; pastors referred to «feeling that preaching and teaching are falling on enthusiastic ears,» «the recommitment of the faith by members who had fallen away,» or «helping the laity to use their gifts.»

Indeed, the history of the faith, and the teachings of Scripture itself, show that Tim Challies is dead wrong on one very important point:

Indeed, he believes that when the Catholic Church formally responded to the teaching of the Reformation at the Council of Trent in the mid-1500s (known as the Counter-Reformation), it denied the most important truth that scripture gives us: that we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.

More important and more difficult to deal with than such differences in teaching on will and freedom, however, is a wall known only too well by those of us who have worked with Omega to help it make its Point: the wall of what Catholics are tempted pridefully to call pietistic faith and what Protestants are tempted cynically to call superstition.

An important part of this attack may consist in distinguishing the faith itself from the teaching and the practice of the empirical church, both of which may be justifiably subject to criticism.

Whereas «human reason and knowledge» was called very important by 96 percent of UU congregational leaders who took part in the multi-denominational Faith Communities Today (FACT) survey released early this year, the Bible was termed only «somewhat important» by 50 percent and had little or no importance to 48 percent as a source for worship and teaching.

If we had access to all that they had been taught by Jesus, we would perhaps find there some very important clues which could help to explain the rise of the Easter faith.

The massive shift in the ecology of education in the 20th century has made it more important than ever for congregations to teach their members the basic theological and ethical concepts of the Christian faith.

But what chiefly I wish to suggest is that while I for one welcome the disappearance or «muting» of the traditional teaching about the last things, I also think that they did point to important truths about human life as well as about Christian faith.

Finally, it would also be important to mention one of the main things that separates us from all other religions and cults, which is the foundational Christian teaching that eternal life is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone, apart from works.

In doing so, they are removing the important aspects of the Christian faith which can only be communicated through an interactive, person - to - person community: personal challenge to change within a supportive community, individualized teaching, and personal - care functions such as counseling, support, and continuity of relationship.

This can get a little tricky, as Christians seem to have a variety of opinions about what aspects of Jesus» nature, life, and teachings must be accepted and confessed in order for one's faith to be considered orthodox... and what aspects of Jesus» nature, life, and teachings are not as important.

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They were tuition - free, and like great faith - based schools, they often focused on important non-cognitive skills like discipline and grit and taught a similar moral code of conduct — though a secularized version.

The key concept that is taught to the children is to understand the way of life of Siddartha Gautama by identifying the four truths, relating the four truths to the way of life of Buddhists and explaining why the Buddha was important to the Buddhist faith.

Most included a definition of bullying and statements about improving school climate but many schools did not mention other important aspects, and there was low coverage of cyberbullying, homophobic bullying, bullying based on disabilities, or faith; teacher - pupil bullying; responsibilities beyond those of teaching staff; following up of incidents; and specific preventative measures such as playground work, peer support, inclusiveness issues, and bullying to and from school.