Sentences with phrase «in life of the church»

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

However... what happens when Christine wishes to teach Sunday School or become more and more involved in the life of the church in a leadership position?

To read it properly, to ascertain even its literal sense, required that one be a loyal son of the Church, humbly disposed toward the sacred page, and attuned spiritually to the «overarching sacred sense» as witnessed in the life of the Church.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

When it becomes so easy for us to literally tune in and tune out of our weekly church service — like we would our favorite TV show — we run the risk of forgetting that we have a role to play in the life of the Church.

The first phase of the Reformation focused on issues relating to personal salvation and the need for reform in the life of the church.

It calls for the identification and development of resources «which will enable all families to be ministered to creatively and all persons, regardless of their family patterns, to be affirmed and supported in the life of the Church...» Behind such statements lies an emphasis articulated already in 1978 by G. William Sheek, then Director of Family Ministries and Human Sexuality of the National Council of Churches.

So the presence and ministry of Christ as God on earth extends and continues as a fact of history in the life of Church.

So why is it so rarely practiced in the life of the church?

However, it is difficult to make time and provide room for people who spend a fraction of their week at the church to have a say in most of what occurs in the life of the church.

«[I am] sorry for the pain you all have had to endure under my leadership and watch... but hopefully, that season in the life of our church is in the past,» said Kong, according to CHC.

One wonders why Niebuhr did not see the dialectic preserved through ongoing renewal in the life of the Church.

On a pilgrimage to Fatima, Pope Benedict XVI spoke movingly about the continuing role of suffering in the life of the Church and thus of the Pope.

Although this vocation is at heart profoundly personal and interior, it is at the same time completely rooted in the life of the Church.

What is the role of such a theology of nature in the life of the church?

These past few weeks have been momentous in the life of the Church.

We noted the confusion that arose from them in the life of the Church regarding the role of Mary.

There seems to be a prevailing sense that this moment is something of a kairos for American Christianity, a moment of deep change in the public significance of Christianity and a moment of decision in the life of the Church.

This may be why belief in God remains high whilst active participation in the life of the church declines.

The task of the theologian can be fulfilled only to the degree that he participates actually in the life of the church.

It has the capacity to inspire a renewal in the life of the Church.

Paul understands that the essential prophetic function continues in the life of the church (see I Cor.

The Bible becomes a vast field of interrelated words, all speaking about the same reality: the one God revealed in Christ, whose work was confirmed by the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church.

It can exhibit the «old» dogma from quite a different angle, and profoundly alter the concrete form in which it appears in the thought and especially in the life of the Church.

The Bishop of Norwich, Rt Rev Graham James said: «The Church of England welcomes transgender people and wholeheartedly wishes for them to be included in the life of the Church.

He added: «As a result, he remained a priest and he was perfectly entitled to remain a member of the Church, to continue to participate in the life of the Church, and indeed to continue to argue for a change in the Church's position on same - sex marriage.

In many respects it was only possible to speak with full theological accuracy about the Constantinian turning - point, the feudal State of the Middle Ages and innumerable other events in the life of the Church, when these events already belonged to the past.

This indicated a real vitality in the life of the Churches.

However, when an Evangelist is properly functioning in the life of a church they are helping to identify and train other evangelists that will be connected to that body of believers and providing daily encouragement and help in equipping God's people.

The Nicene Creed and the Chalcedonian Definition are statements of extraordinary clarity and have been of immeasurable benefit in the life of the church.

For Calvin, though the word of God is the only reliable source of knowledge of God, its authority is realized in the reciprocal relation between the word and the spirit as these are active in the life of the church.

Reducing communication to being an instrument at the service of the advancement of the churches has blurred the very meaning of communication and its relationship with mission, and has allowed the development of a mistaken theological concept about its place in the life of the church and the world.

Three major themes are rooted in Judaism without which Christianity, especially at this moment in the life of the church, would be adversely, perhaps fatally, affected: the Jewish sense of history as God's arena, the Jewish passion against idolatry, and the Jewish background which illumines the New Testament.

No necessary function in the life of the church is foreign to him or beneath him, under special circumstances.

Jesus» ministry of inaugurating the holy city of God within the conditions of the human city continues in the life of the Church, and stands at the very heart of what the Church must do in history.

What is theology called to do in the life of the Church?

One misses also an adequate emphasis on the critical function of Scripture and of the proclamation of the word in the life of the Church.

That is the promise of the gospel which is anticipated in the life of the Church and is finally achieved in the final advent of the Kingdom.

But, for all those problems, it was a beautiful chapter in the life of the Church, filled with simple faith, devotion, and sacrifice.

Meanwhile, I heard people saying that they looked forward to stewardship season because at that time members offered short reflections, called «giving moments,» about their walk with God in the life of our church.

in the life of the churches does not require such rethinking.

Though many married couples who use artificial contraception, along with divorced and remarried Catholics and gays, continue to participate in the life of the church, the great discrepancy between Catholic teaching and Catholic practice has called into question the credibility of the hierarchical teaching office.

If the biblical imperatives concerning the poor and the hungry are clear, it has been less clear how those imperatives are to be acted upon in the life of the church.

Again, in the farewell discourse Jesus is made to promise that He will «come again,» but it is made clear that this promise of a second coming is realized in the presence of the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, in the life of the Church (xiv.

We talked with Bell about the importance of congregational singing and the place of song and music in the life of the church.

Holiness is also participation in the life of the Church, which is the holy people called into being by God's saving work in Christ.

It is important to reaffirm the importance of the priesthood of Jesus Christ and its central place in the life of our church.»

Such a theological program has been a constant process in the life of the church through the ages.

And our participation in the life of the Church provides a special (though not exclusive) access to revelation.

In the life of the Church, the notion of revelation has come to be closely associated, though not identified, with that of the inspiration of Scripture.