Sentences with phrase «individual believers»

According to the context this is not a dissertation on individual believers.

Many look upon the confusion in baptismal practice and theology, the relatively low place which baptism now occupies in the life of the church and the lives of individual believers, and come to the conclusion that baptism is about as effective in making Christians as a cincture on an alb is in ensuring celibacy; and that a massive educational effort is needed to resuscitate the sacrament before it becomes extinct.

This culture of openness and honesty is healthy — both for individual believers and for the Church as a whole — and healthiness honors God.

While Catholics and Evangelicals have not been able to reconcile these different views of the Church, with both communities finding serious aberrations in the ecclesial understanding of the other, as individual believers we do recognize in one another, when and where God so permits it, the evident reality of God's grace expressed by our trust in Jesus himself as Master and divine Savior.

As long as the relationship between individual believers and communities and the wider social order was contested, Protestants took their direction from Scripture.

Thus, aside from damage to the church and individual believers who have believed Camping (a small number), I see little effect from all the furor.

What I meant by cognitive dissonance, though, is that whole thing about the «institutional» church, throwing a whole tradition, a whole world - wide confession, millions of individual believers into some sort of barrel.

But, just as your cartoons spark all sorts of reactions inside individual believers, so too I am sure they do so for those who are A-theistic.

They taught that the same God who had inspired the scriptures now directly inspired 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.

I think the «marriage» commitment is to Christ and to the body of Christ at large (other individual believers)-- but not to an institutional church.

Ok, for me, I happen to do Church in all kinds of ways — I go to the «great assembly» (Church on Sundays), I go to midweek meeting, I meet individual believers during the week, my family do Communion at the dinner table, and I'm here chatting with you and Jeremy about Jesus and the things of God — we're doing Church right now.

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.

Within a covenantal community called into being through God's word and spirit, relationships between believers and God and between individual believers are based upon faithful promises made to each other which promote God's spiritual and temporal purposes for humanity.

Only if individual believers have reason to believe that the magisterium receives divine assistance — over and above the inner guidance that God gives to each and every believer — can it be rational for believers to submit to the judgments of the magisterium.

And the servants are not individual believers.

Yes, it does get sad, especially when it start causing fear and strife within the church body, and even within the minds and hearts of individual believers.

He taught that the individual believer has a vocation to serve God in the world» in every sphere of human existence» lending a new dignity and meaning to ordinary work.

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.

The Reformers themselves were liberal in their emphasis on the individual believer and individual conscience.

Separated, individual believers will not be able to make any headway against the present storm.

Again, our responses to these kinds of media will depend partially on the works themselves and partially on who we are as individual believers — on whether we can separate harmful content from valuable content.

Both stressed the conscience of the individual believer and the consequent inability of the magistrate to control the soul of man.

Paul almost always writes to the church as a whole, not to individual believers.

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.

The modern Catholic Church has no official position on evolution whatsoever (despite what fringe members of either the left or the right tell you), and individual believers are perfectly free to have whatever beliefs they want concerning the origin of the universe.

There are as many different callings in this room as there are individual believers.

I think that your idea of teaching, with interaction between the one teaching and the people being taught is better suited towards emphasizing that fact than preaching, because the teacher can then work with the listeners regarding how God can use the truths being taught in each individual believers life.

TM's essential device is the act of meditation (in a relaxed, position, eyes closed, two 20 - minute periods a day), upon a mantra — a Sanskrit word specially chosen for the individual believer which he recites over and over.

It is about a heart - and - soul connection between the individual believer and God — the sort of love that sets your whole being into dance.

Faith does not originate in the individual believer's own efforts, but is rather a gift of grace to the believer, usually received in baptism, as one means among many of participating in God's own life.

Church, I.e ekklesia, are individual believers, that meet at a local fellowship (which is corporate).

Only God can determine if a church is successful in His eyes, just as only He can deem whether an individual believer's heart is turned toward Him.

According to Congar, 8 the method of reception practiced by the early Church was «dangerous» to preconciliar ecclesiology, since in the early Church the adoption of papal and conciliar decisions by the local churches or individual believers was not simply the fruit of obedience but rather that of the recipient's own judgment regarding the truth or expediency of such decisions.

Josiah Royce with a quite different philosophical orientation from Ritschl expressed the same truth when he described the Church as the community which is sustained by its memory of the atoning deed of Jesus.21 What is supremely important here is that knowledge of God's forgiveness does not depend upon a private and subjective illumination of the individual believer alone.

Part of this is the individual believers» fault (learning and applying truth is hard work) and part is that there aren't many pastors who are feeding the Lord's sheep.

The literal meaning is allowed to stand and is dispensed with only for the individual believer, who can escape into the realm of the soul.